F3 New Orleans

Category: Backblasts

  • The Figure 8 – from Thighs

    Today’s workout we mosey-ed to the auditorium to run up and down the stairs in an almost figure 8-like pattern with a set of workouts at the top and bottom of each flight of stairs.

    We started the beat down with a warmup:

    Mosey around the block
    15x Jumping Jacks
    7x Self Loves
    10x Sun Gods
    7x Windmills
    7x Cherry Pickers
    7x In Tempo Merkins
    7x Toe Touches
    7x Peter Parkers
    7x Squats
    7x Tempo Squats

    Then we Mosey-ed to the auditorium to do our Figure 8:
    8 Rounds
    8x reverse ab swings
    8x Merkins
    8x Flutter Kicks
    8x Diamond Merkins
    8x Hello Dollies
    8x Hand Release Merkins

    Even though we went really fast thru the Figure 8, it still took most of the time.

    We ended the workout with a AMRAP:
    4 rounds of 60 secs and a 30 sec break
    5x Catcher Burpees
    5x Plank Jacks
    5x Tricep Merkins
    5x Knee Touches

    I still haven’t figured out if all the sweat is from the workout, or just how hot it has become lately.

    We closed out with the usual close out, sending us off with a prayer.

    Looking forward to next time!

  • Mountain of BLIMPS – from Fracsac

    YHC attended a BLIMP themed Q courtesy of Rudy at Okwata and felt it appropriate to share the love at Wisner Mountain.
    Warmup with the regular stuff followed by a People’s Run to the Mountain.

    BLIMPS Ladder

    At the base of the Mountain, run to first light pole and back and do 5 burpees.
    Run to 2nd light pole and back and do 5 burpees and 10 lunges.
    Repeat adding IW, merkins, plank jacks and squats.

    Run up the mountain stopping at each light pole for Pax choice. Included merkins, pistol squats, 8 count Body builders, and more.

    Return to flag for 8 count body builders and a little planking to finish it out.

    CoT

    Thanks for pushing me to be better!

    SYITG

  • Pursuit of Joy VQ by Smooth Operator – from Lil Cuz

    Today I showed up to a couple PAX already standing by Aslan talking amongst themselves as Goose and Kilmer were doing an F3 shirt swap which I didn’t know was a thing until this morning. That’s right, we didn’t scare Kilmer away, so I guess we are doing something right. We had 8 PAX in attendance for my first crack at this Qing thing. So, let’s get started.

    Warm up
    -SSH 12
    -Windmills 12
    -Grass grabbers with the clap 12
    -arm circles forward and reverse 12
    -mountain climbers 12

    Honestly YHC thought that this was the hardest part. Apparently saying a couple phrases and basic arithmetic causes me to struggle, but the PAX coached me up and got me through it. Thanks guys.

    After we finished the dreaded warm ups, we moseyed down to the baseball field outfield fence. From here we discussed the first issue I had been having. A couple weeks ago Paradox talked about the differences between happiness and joy which made me realize there are three categories of happiness. From here we talked about the first category temporarily gratification. A couple examples that were used are, alcohol, drugs, pizza, random hook ups that kind of thing. These are temporary modes of pleasure and should not be something we base our lives around. Which we will get to later.

    Thang 1
    Alright, so the first things I had the PAXs had to do was find a section of 5ft chain link fence that looked suitable for holding their weight because we would be going over this fence. YHC figured that’s when the examples of temporary gratification popped up in his younger years there always seemed to be a fence that had to be jumped to keep from getting in trouble. YHC also figured quite a few of the PAX in attendance had similar experiences. Back to the thang, the Pax would be going up and over the fence and performing 11 Derkins, they would then be going back over the fence and completing 10 more Derkins, this would continue down to 7. 45 total Derkins we’re supposed to be completed but I forgot to mention to stop after 7 so the PAX got a little more shoulder and chest work in. After this we completed the same work out but with squats. From here YHC called it, and we moseyed down to the basketball court.

    Thang 2 was temporarily interrupted by the condition of the basketball court which was littered with trash. The decision was made to take a quick break from the beatdown and be men of action to pick up all the trash in the area. Once this was completed, we had a quick short discussion on what could happen if we get addicted to temporary gratification. From here YHC had 5 suicides on the books for the PAX to complete but due to the cleanup operation. YHC decided to knock it down to 3 suicides which was plenty hard enough.

    Thang 2
    Suicides
    These suicides were performed exactly as YHC remembered them going as a teenager. The PAX would start at one baseline and sprint to the closest free throw line and run back to the initial baseline. From here Pax would run to the half court line and then back to the baseline. After we headed on down to the opposite free throw line and back to the baseline. From here we ran down to the opposite baseline and back. That completed one suicide and we knocked out three.

    After this we moseyed down to the stairs on the front of the civic center. About halfway there, YHC almost got to see his bean and cheese enchiladas that he had for supper the night before. But we pushed on to the towering staircases.

    Once at the stair cases, we jumped straight into the thang instead of discussing a more permanent happiness due to our eagerness for more shared suffering.

    Thang 3
    The work out was rocky balboa’s which involved two PAX standing on the bottom of the staircase with one foot on the bottom step and the other on the concrete. They would alternate feet repeatedly until the next two Pax inline completed their timer exercises, which happened to be 10 burpees. The rest of the PAX would be doing planks at this time. After the timers went off the PAX doing balboas would sprint up the stairs and down the adjacent staircase and would be performing Al Gores until completion.
    Upon completion, YHC had the PAX repeat exercise except the stair work out was box jumps which was both feet on ground then both feet on the stairs jumping back and forth until the timer went off.

    After the completion of the exercise we then had a discussion on a more permanent happiness with examples such as, Listening to good music, traveling, art, finding the right kinda friends. And then we moseyed back to Aslan.

    Once at Aslan, we discussed transcending joy with examples such as, finding a good life partner, bringing kids into the world, finding and maintaining a relationship with the Big Man.

    Thang 4
    Thang 4 required YHC to acquire some tech support from Goose and Kilmer but since my 10 year old Milwaukee job site radio works when it wants. We did the first song a classic Rocket Man by Elton John by just iPhone sound, and it didn’t have the effect YHC was hoping for.

    So we push along through the tech issues and planked during the duration of the song and did half burpees when the words high, long, and man came up in the song. It should have been about 40 half burpees but it was hard to hear with the passing traffic.

    After this Goose and Kilmer got the radio working and we completed the next song workout as YHC intended. The next song was Last dance with Mary Jane by Tom Petty. We did LBC throughout song and big boy sit-ups when ole Tom referred to himself or Mary Jane which should have been around 30 big boy sit ups. The kicker was holding 6” during the instrumental portions. YHC called it at 0600 on the dot. It was quite a sight to see all the sweat prints on the concrete.

    After this we had COT during which Cardinal aka the animal picked Tana to be the next animal due to his quiet Ragnar like abilities to kick this beatdowns butt. Yankee Joe used his eloquent impromptu praying abilities and prayed us out. Thanks to all the PAX for coming out, that was one fun train wreck of a beatdown, and I learned a lot. Hopefully Monday will be even better.
    See y’all in the gloom,
    Smooth Operator

    Side note: Cardinal said it best “don’t settle for fleeting happiness but seek enduring joy”. This animal truly gets it.

  • Parkour-Plan B – from Jose10k

    YHC arrived with a great plan in his head involving coupons. It was intense, it was difficult, it was like Dante’s inferno, but it was not to be. I was quickly informed of the lack of coupons available at the Gipper to preform said workout. Oh well, a secondary workout had to be made, so I called for a plan B. When you’re flying by the seat of your pants, nothing sounds better than a Plan B.
    Warm-ups: SSH, torso twists, grass grabbers, good mornings, arm circles, self love, al gore thorogoods.
    The Thang: Mosey to the courthouse. Time for some Parkour Dora. Partner up: 100 merkins (50 each), 200 squats, 300 lbcs. Partner one climbs up the railing hand over hand up the ramp, alternating which hand leads, while partner 2 completes the exercise.
    Finished it up with 5 burpees. Back to the parking garage for 2 calf raises each step all the way up to the top. Finished up with 9 minutes of Mary. Each participant called out their core exercise in cadence.
    Moby prayed us out with intentions to SoGo’s family and all those intentions not spoken.
    Endurothon next weekend, April 1st Fury.

    Thanks for letting me lead brothers, and welcome to the A1C Sogo and Dark Wing Duck. SYITG

  • P & R show, S1E6, with special guest star – from Russo

    67 degrees this morning for the latest Pelican and Russo show. There’s no guarantee this year’s Fury will feature a Texas death tag team match (in a reinforced steel cage) between the A1C’s Jose10k and Moby and Splashpad’s Pelican and Russo, but if not, what are we waiting for? Get your popcorn ready.

    Warm-up (all 10x IC)
    – Sealjacks
    – High knees
    – Arm circles
    – Self love
    – Toe touches
    – Grass grabbers

    Thang

    (1) Calf raises – start with one on first step, 2 on second, R&R to 15, and then back down until we reach the top.

    (2) Mosey down to begin an extended 11s:

    Shoulder tap plank jacks on one end of the block, Peter Parker merkins on the other.

    (2) Bench work (all 10x IC)
    – Freak Nastys
    – Step ups
    – Urkins
    – Bulgarian split squats

    Mary (with special guest Waterpik, playing the part of Cousin Oliver, dressed in his “casual Friday best” blue scrubs, who was there to meet up with his Bible study)

    20 IC LMCs, Penguins, and Crunchy Frogs

    COT, Name-0-Rama, and Prayer closed us out. Another great Friday at the ‘Pad.

  • Not so Lazy Dora – from Akbar

    8 Strong today, welcoming Grover for a beatdown before he left back to Arkansas. Wicket’s first visit to the Gipper as well. The 20 year old and 7 year old brought the average age down to 49.5. The plan changed when Grover forgot his running shoes, wearing Janowski’s instead. YHC was pleased to oblige in changing the Dora to a Lazy Dora in his honor.

    Warm Up
    20 SSH Hyper Speed, Arm Circles, Grass Grabbers, Toe Touches, Windmills

    Mosey for a stop at the Rock Garden for 20 Curls, 20 Rows OYO

    Courthouse – Lazy DORA – P1 does exercise, P2 does hold, switcheroo after 20 reps
    50 Plank Jacks, Hold Plank
    100 Jump squats, Al Gore
    200 Merkins, Superman hold
    300 LBC, Shawshank Redemption hold – Andy Dufrain would have been proud. All thankful we didn’t have to crawl through a tunnel of crap first.

    Smokehouse speed drills – From benches to the Smokehouse and back
    Full Sprint, jog back
    Backpedal half way, sprint, run back
    Karaoke Left, sprint, run back
    Karaoke Right, sprint, run

    Benches by the Smokehouse –
    100 Bulgarian Split Squats, 100 Freak Nasties – cumulative partner
    P1 Works, P2 runs the Courthouse stairs with 10 calf raises at the top

    Rock Garden
    20 Curls, 20 Rows

    Flag
    20 Jump Squats, Max Hand Release Merkins

    Mary – Crunchy Frogs, Rosalita x 10 IC

    Count, Name, and YHC prayed us out

    Announcements
    Fury FQ 12 – April 1st Convergence on the Lakefront 6am – 6pm
    Endurathon – March 16/17 – Fontainebleau State Park – sign up to run with the F3 Team

    NMM
    Wicket has awesome hair that all of us (except Grover) would love to have now.

    Instructions for the Lazy Dora brough some blank stares due to the lack of directions. It was more of a broken up Lazy Dora – but we got 650 reps out of it.

    BBQ presented Turbo with a plaque and hat for finishing in the top 3 short course race last week. Beast.

  • How To Bear Your Soul – from Yankee Joe

    YHC showed up to the stage for his first Tuesday Tuff Q. The occasion was marked with nine PAX, including Kilmer DR’ing from the exotic land of dying college basketball regimes – Raleigh, NC (though he’s actually from Carey). He definitely brought some much needed and appreciated energy.

    Warm-up
    – Side straddle hops
    – Windmills
    – OG Grassgrabbers
    – Arm circles forward
    – Arm circles backward
    – Cherry pickers
    – Self love
    – High knees
    – Butt kicks
    – Mountain climbers
    – Bumper mosey

    Honestly, YHC had no idea what to do for his first Tuesday Tuff beatdown. By 8:30 pm the night before, while in a meeting, he knew time was up. The pre-blast hype GIF’s had to go out. YHC panicked. He looked around. Nothing. Then he remembered a theme he had been playing around with as his manniversary approached.

    Ok, hold on. Let me back up. F3 is an interesting concept. It’s premise bears special attention. On one hand, you are voluntarily suffering through what seems unbearable. In almost all cases, rookie for veteran, you bearly make it to the end of a particular exercise. The camaraderie is powerful, but the expectations can be overbearing. The real power kicks in when you are convinced you can no longer bear it. To give up would be unbearable. So…you have only one Singletary choice. You bear your teeth and crawl on. There is much to be learned from our forbearers as they bear the torch of humility and forebearance. Your arrogance is left threadbear as fellow PAX come bearfoot, bearfaced, bearchested (embearassing for some), and bearhanded (except for a few hand models). We give each other manly bearhugs and vicious bearberries. In short, we grin and bear it.

    So, as it is now probably obvious, YHC’s theme centered around not eating spicy food the night before a beatdown.

    C’mon…seriously…It’s about bears (so now you know YHC can actually spell…you got it. Good job. Good for you.). Though food choices prior to beatdowns is a serious matter and should be taken up at the F3 Senior Leadership Team level, if not nationally. What Goats and Enron are capable of manifesting in this particular arena is concerning even for a bear.

    So, we did bear crawling for 35 minutes with intermittent merkin and core exercises spread throughout. It was beary beary nasty.

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    The First Thangggg

    Paddington Bear

    As we all know, Paddington was shipped off to England by his Aunt Lucy from “Darkest Peru” with a sign that read, “Please look after this bear. Thank you.” Goose answered that piece of trivia correctly, saving the PAX five burps.

    The Brown Family finds Paddington sitting on a suitcase in a railway station in Paddington, England. They can’t understand his Peruvian name, so they call him Paddington. We can all relate. When I first met Paradox, I had no idea what language was falling out of his mouth. For the first few weeks, I thought his name was Fart Knocks.

    To emulate this enormous literary moment in history, we set out to find Paddington.

    – One PAX lunges to the marker, then the remaining PAX bear crawl to the marker to “find Paddington.” PAX then bring Paddington home, all bear crawling back to start. Paddington, while waiting in the station (marker), is sitting on his suitcase. But since we don’t have a suitcase, Paddington held Al Gore while waiting for the PAX to come get him.

    – Next single PAX lunges to marker while remaining PAX hold plank, then repeat until each Paddington has been found and brought home. In all, each PAX bear crawled 255 yards. Yo, at the age of 60, Kilmer was dominating…it was crazy. He even had enough wind to throw out some chatter about “Damn” Yankee Joe and why it didn’t make sense that the Brown Family would be bear crawling if they weren’t bears. YHC was too winded to retort at the time.

    Also, T-Claps to French Horn, who in just a few weeks, has caught his stride and is hanging with the elites such as Goose, Enron, and Paradox.
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    The Second Thangggg

    Winnie the pooh

    Winnie the Pooh
    Winnie the Pooh
    Tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff
    He’s Winnie the Pooh
    Winnie the Pooh
    Willy nilly silly old bear

    Always getting into the honey pot, Pooh Bear just can’t keep from getting his head stuck. Like Montana in Wing Stop 30 piece wing combo box (lemon pepper of all things), we had to get Pooh’s head unstuck, while also attacking some of that ‘tubby little chubby fluff’.

    – Bear crawl 360 clockwise to marker, 100 LBCs (for the 100-acre wood, of course)
    – Bear crawl 360 counterclockwise back to start, 100 pickle pounders

    Here, Kilmer raised the pickle pounder bar (I dare you, Michael), encouraging the PAX with noises that truly justified the “respect” during nam-o-rama. Smooth Operator, not to be outdone, showed us why he’s the “diamond life, lover boy.”

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    The Third Thangggg

    The Yogi Bear Circuit

    Of course, we can’t have a bear themed beatdown without our ever foraging for a pic-a-nic basket, Yogi. To honor this great historical and significant bear, we utilized the six pic-a-nic tables at The Stage. Each table would increase in increments of 10 with a designated exercise (i.e. 10 Derkins, 20 incline dancing chilcutts, 30 creature merkins, etc.

    But how will we get from table to table? Well, my friends, the Exicon delivers again. Who was Yogi’s best friend? You got it. The Boo Boo Bear Crawl. A bear crawl using only ONE LEG. God, I love this shizz.

    It goes a little something like this…
    – Boo boo bear crawl to first picnic table, 10 derkins
    – Boo boo bear crawl to second picnic table, 20 dancing incline chilcutts 2:1
    – Boo boo bear crawl to third picnic table, 30 creature merkins
    – Boo boo bear crawl to fourth picnic table, 40 leg ups 1:1
    – Boo boo bear crawl to fifth picnic table, 50 freak nasty’s
    – Boo boo bear crawl to sixth picnic table, 60 incline merkins

    Unfortunately, after table 3 (30 creature merkins), YHC had to call an audible based on PAX logistics as well as time. So, instead, we finished with:

    40 yard Boo Boo Bear Crawl, switching legs at each picnic table back to the flag. Once you reach the flag, 100 merkins or fail. This would take the last three minutes of the beatdown. It. Was. AWESOME. Goose was the only PAX to hit 100, but we’re pretty sure Enron did too, but he forgot to count. Imagine that…a financial advisor that forgets to count. I’m sure it gives his PAX clients great confidence considering his F3 name. But what do I know? I’m just a Marketing guy, and we don’t do maff.

    COT and Smooth Operator prayed us out. His prayer was short and powerful.

    “Dear Lord, thank you for letting us be warriors for you today. Amen.” Should be the F3 official prayer, in my opinion.

    Next stop…Manniversary

    SYITG,

    (Damn) Yankee Joe

  • Don’t wait – Let’s Geaux – from Mahatma

    Typically Monday…..Blessed to be up for the start of a new week happy to be headed to the real RC. Pulled up 1 minute to spare walked into the bullpen and saw the look of something missing…..who’s the Q! Snooze but he’s a no show, who’s taking it – all it took was 3 seconds of silent indecision – it’s now 5:31 I’m Mahatma and your Q “Let’s Geaux”! To which there was well what about…..too late we were on the move to the rock pile.

    Circle up – pax community round robin warm up: most was the usual stuff yet one stood out by Kenabrah a combination of Imperial Squat Hillbilly FAILURE yet to his credit you don’t succeed without them. Triple shift had Tenderloin attempting one the warm ups which took him another 3 to get up from. Yet again success through making the effort out of a comfort zone.

    Everyone get a medium rock then mosey to the tree field – line up, everyone Kong to the other side. So many pax just love the idea that the original Kong is similar to “murder bunnies” come on man!!!

    Mosey to the front of the gym – everyone was warmed up now.

    Let’s Geaux
    40 OHP then drop your rock and head to the wall and perform 5 pecker to the wall hand stands
    Lap around the gym
    30 squats – 4 pecker to the wall HS
    Lap around
    20 front raises – 3 P to the wall HS
    Lap around
    10 man makers (Charmin is still trying to figure that out) – 2 P2TWHS
    Lap
    As Pax completed join in for rock mary
    ** while the above took place TripleShift and Kenabrah were inspiring Tenderloin to turn over a new mental leaf

    Pax on the wall 3 rounds of running man to sitting wall air press

    Rtn rocks

    2 – 3 rounds of Mary

    Head to the flag

    COT

  • A Whimsically Wacky Workout – from Bushwacker

    “Ask my wife about that word, ‘whimsical.’ She’ll tell you it’s my favorite word….it’s not.”
    -Russo

    Arriving to see Russo was a given. His pretty mug can be found in the dictionary right next to the word “reliable.” But with two minutes to spare, a scintillatingly sweet, yet brutishly masculine laundry scent wafted past the ol’ schnoz, signalling the arrival of the Fighting Irishman himself, Shooter. Assembled was the perfect group to test out a few new ideas!

    WARMORAMA

    21’s – SSH IC, 1-5 out loud, 6-21 silent. If anyone stopped too soon or a little late, 10 burpees and start again. Excelsior! the PAX were perfect on the initial attempt.

    Alarm Clock – PAX lay flat on the ground and at the Q’s signal get to their feet and did a hop as fast as possible x6-7

    Aussie Snow Angels – IC x 10 In Superman position with feet and hand extended, make the snow angle motion.

    Ballerina Toe Squats – On toes, a la Calf Raise, slow squat with good balance.

    THANG

    Now, from time to time you find the the number of HIM posting can determine whether or not an audible is in order. As it so happens, the gloom at Granny’s was one of those times. But it all worked to the best. With this trio, a little original action was just what the Wacker ordered.

    Follow the Leader Mosey – For 5 minutes a piece, separated by 10 counts, each PAX lead the line wherever he damn well pleased! This meant up and down stairs, along garden borders, down the street – wherever. Also thrown in for good measure, were moves such a Carioca, Box Jumps and Back peddling, OH MY! It was very dynamic, blood-pumping…and WHIMSICAL.

    Bucket Brigade – Starting at the top of the stairs with each man standing 2 steps apart, a 25 lb plate was passed down the stairs and back up again Indian Run- style x2.

    Bruce Lee – 3 sets of IC x10 Hammers, Leg Raises, LBCs, Penguins, Crunchy Frogs, and 100s

    MARY

    Zombie Crunch – Basically, and LBC with knees to one side. Each side x 25

    XYs – IC 1,2 Hello Dolly, 3,4 Flutter Kick x 25

    Slow Freddys – a 4 count per leg x25

    1 minute Plank

    1 minute Superman

    COT

    Count, name, Shooter prayed us out with special intentions for SOGO and his family.

    Endurathon 3/17 – 3/19

    7 Year Convergence “The Fury” 4/1

    Well done gentlemen! Come out and see what YHC has in store at The Scramble this Thursday…