F3 New Orleans

Category: Backblasts

  • Heatwave at the Goldmine – from Charmin

    So YHC received a call from his AC guy who YHc lightly EH’ed when he last came over saying he would be coming out to post in the gloom at the Goldmine (he didn’t use those terms exactly, but the reader will indulge)

    After knowing that Rev Socks is back on the IR list (IR standing for Injured Rev) from last week and that Kenna Brah had to soak his bunions, I had a feeling this would be a two man workout.

    Walking out into the gloom this morning, YHC’s suspicions were confirmed.

    So when 5:30 came YHC started with the standard disclaimer and began explaining how to count in cadence and all the names. We started with 10 Side Straddle Hops, followed by 10 forward arm circles, 10 reverse arm circles, 10 T Claps and 10 Moroccan Night Clubs, which the FNG really got into.

    The Thang:

    We moseyed out to the workout pad in the back doing a two count lunge at each light and three squats at each bench with only a few gassers along the way. Once we reached the workout pad we worked our way through half the workout equipment with the other person doing Big Boi Sit-ups.

    Realizing the time we headed back to the start by finishing the lap with three squats at each light and a two count lunge at each bench.

    Reaching the “shovel flag” we ended with a brief name-o-rama and naming of the FNG. Since he is an AC repair man, YHC figured that Heatwave would be an appropriate F3 name for him

  • The Future’s So Bright: I gotta wear shades – from Jose10k

    3 Brave souls braved the cool morning air to gather at the top of the parking garage. Moby and myself were engaged in mild conversation when loud music came blaring up the ramp. It was none other than BBQ, rocking an old classic. Fifty thou a year’ll buy a lot of beer
    Things are going great, and they’re only getting better
    I’m doing alright, getting good grades
    The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades
    I gotta wear shades.
    The beatdown was simple: Tabata: Round Robin Style. 45 seconds of an exercise of that person choice, 15 seconds break.
    COT, Moby prayed us out. Short, sweet, and to the point gentlemen

  • Burpeepalooza – from Bolt

    An empty Q sheet required the site AO to take charge and ensure the PAX got their promised burpee count on this brisk Friday. Disclaimer given and mosey to the field for warmorama, Rapper’s Delight edition. The concept would be simple: musically driven burpees with various exercises between the chorus followed by various modes of movement. The execution, however, was severely hindered by War Eagle incessantly working only his jaw and Bogey—well, being Bogey. Despite the PAX’s best efforts, my iWatch said the beatdown was satisfactory and SOME of us completed 137 burpees.
    Mosey to flag and circle up for “cool down” which according to SOME people was NOT: Al Gore long enough for Bogey to bitch about it followed by one minute of dying cockroaches and finish with a plank for less than a minute because War Eagle “claimed” time was up.
    Proud to b part of this group and appreciate you men!
    “Roxanne” by The Police–“Roxanne”/Imperial Walkers
    Bear crawl 10 yards
    “Red Solo Cup” by Toby Keith–“Cup” and “Up”/Alternating Reverse Lunge
    Crab walk 10 yards
    “This is Who I Am” by Third Day–“This is who I am”/Bunny Hops
    “Black Betty” by Ram Jam–every “Black Betty”/Toy Soldiers
    Bunny hop yards
    “Peaches” by The Presidents of the USA–“Peaches”/Squats
    Broad jump 10 yards
    Flower” by Moby–burpees on every “Down”/SSH

  • Smack talking at the Scramble!!! – from Shooter

    5 PAX embraced the chill of a 2nd morning in the low 50s, however the hot air coming from the chatter quickly had to be put in pause, so YHC could get things started… This morning would consist of two groups. Cowbell and Waterpik ad the runners and JV, Russo and self were the Ruckers… If the conversation between Waterpik (TIGAS) and Cowbell (Hiddy Tiddy) was half as entertaining as Russo (TIGA) and JV (Fighting ☘️) then I would say Steve missed out on an opportunity to come out and create a possible Netflix series… The name that comes to mind would be “Fan Fair” and it would run along side the college football season… Appreciate the entertainment and chatter gentlemen.

    Warmup 15IC SSH, Grass grabbers, Toe Touches, Hillbillies and Butt kicks.
    Runners did standard route as the Ruckers went out 18 min and doubled back.
    Returned for some Mary Left and Right Elbow to knee, bridges, hello dollies, Rosalitas and Crawl 3-4 arm lengths out and return to plank.

    Appreciate Waterpik praying us out with intentions for Zoolander and thoughts for Steve’s grandmother…

    Till the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • Up and down with the deck of cards – from BBQ

    A strong 5 arrived. Multiple and usual warm ups. Of course I botched the count on a couple. A warm up lap around the top deck. The deck of cards came out. Each suit had an exercise and each card represented the # of exercises, 2 thru 14. The 4 exercises were hand release merkins, copperhead squats, gas pumps and LBC’s. LBC’s were double the card. After each rep we directly stood up from sitting on the pavement to standing up. Using no hands. Or at least we tried. It took some warm up. I do not recall the name of this type of stand up squat. I did them at beat down in St Louis. The one joker was a one star jump every third line across the top deck parking spots. We finished the deck of cards. Nameorama and prayed out. Another great start of the day at the A1C!

  • Dance you Frackers, Dance! – from Fracsac

    Conditions: 50 degrees and dry with a wind chill making it feel like 40. Lots of missing Pax.

    Alarm went off and YHC debated posting due to some lingering soreness. That thought passed and headed to Pontiff arriving 5 minutes early. Curious who the Q was, pulled up the spreadsheet and saw it was…..FracSac?!?!?

    Planted the flag and started talking, apparently not a disclaimer as Rudy quickly pointed out. So disclaimer given and mosey to field for the warmup. Regular warmup stuff with a couple memorable moments. Hand Grenada refuses to dance. Bogey likes to get up close and personal during Peter Parkers.

    What to do when not enough time to plan? Don’t act like you don’t know.

    Mini Dora:

    Assigned partners through count off.
    50 Burpees
    100 ‘mericans
    150 squats

    Partner runs to 50 yard line and back.

    11s
    Burpees and Big Boi Sit-ups
    Bear crawl 15 yards between

    Dance across the field by lunge walking. This really stretches the knees.

    Finish off with Mary, including some wind shield wipers.

    Interestingly enough, there was Mumblechatter during the warmup and then it went quiet until the lunge walks.

    COT

    Thanks for posting with me and for making me a better person.

    SYITG

  • Recovering mosey and FLORA!! – from Shooter

    With our first cold front upon us, YHC looked to the Exicon for a partner containing coupon routine and FLORA showed herself.. After some chatter under the breezeway with Moby, Fletch and Einstien about Hot Springs AR. and the Diamond 💎 explores toward our north…BBQ comes in hot crunching gravel and exiting his vehicle to confirm our last arrival of the gloom.. We started in with an extended warmup of 20IC Seal jacks, Toe Touches, Imperial walkers, Hillbillies, Butt kicks, Cherry Pickers and Grass Grabbers. We Moseyed around the trailhead toward the courthouse and back around Lola’s with fresh smell 👃🏻 of breakfast in the air.. Upon return we selected our coupons from behind the container and after splitting into 2 groups we commenced to starting in on FLORA.. Completed 100,200,300
    with recovery Mosey in between each… The Goblet squat and hold proved most difficult to the Q, as I know this will be felt in the next few days… According to Moby the men of this Gipper morning may be walking with a little swagger in the days to come.. Once complete we closed with Mary consisting of 10 OYO bridges each leg, then alternating toe to heel Jane Fonda’s, half hold Fonda’s and Pulsating Fonda’s all IC 10 count… Wrapped up with 20IC Hello Dollies, Rosalitas and Hands to heels…

    Appreciate all you single, double and triple respected brethren for the post and allowing me to lead!!!

    Until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Battle to the Death, and Burpees Won – from Goose

    It was a unique morning as Tuesdays are currently in a bit of a transition stage. YHC was not looking forward to two mornings in a row of non-beatdown burpee hundos, and Enron was antsy after fartsacking yesterday, so we decided to do a full-scale beatdown at The Stage. It was chilly as we distracted ourselves with conversation waiting for 5:45 to roll around (just in case anyone else might have trickled in). Pope was in attendance for the first time since flag football season started, and he was grateful to get moving since he’s got less natural insulation.

    After a warmup of the usual with the Burptober mountain climbers included and a bumper mosey, The Thang was revealed:

    It would be a three way game of Battle (or “War” if you’re a communist) using the Deck of Death. This, of course, wouldn’t get us to our 100 burpees, so we committed to stopping and doing 5 burpees every time a car passed through the lot.
    At first, each card was as challenging as would be expected, and the car traffic was low. The high cards were often face cards, which meant 25 of most things, which was a good workout. After the upper body was beginning to burn a bit, Enron won a round with the Queen of Burpees, and things began to shift rapidly. At first, there was verbal thanks that this particular card meant it would be less likely that we’d have to finish with a load of burpees to make it to 100. Then, a car passed…and another, which meant 25 burpees was now 35 burpees. Subconsciously, all three of us labeled that as the likely pinnacle of the beatdown and remarked that it was the most burpees each of us had ever done in a row without stopping. Proud and glad it was over, we went back to the deck to continue the game.

    Pride would turn to humility, however, as YHC decided to change the rules so that the lowest card won–I figured we were getting stuck with all the high-rep exercises and may be missing out on some variation. This quickly led to the victory of the 3 of Hearts, the 300 meter sprint, the second worst card in the deck (second only to the 400 meter sprint). Not only that, but it had tied with another 3, which meant two other cards had to be added to break the tie–they were the 200 meter sprint and 16 Bonnie Blairs. Things weren’t looking great for the PAX facing these three cards at the end of what was already a relatively grueling beatdown, and we had already reached our goal of 100 burpees, which meant the legs were pretty shot.
    But, we slowly lined up (to sprint to the bumper and then back around to the Stop sign), and YHC reluctantly coughed out that fateful word: “begin”. The legs were jelly upon arrival at the bumper, and we still had 200 meters to go. Letting go of everything but the present moment, we pushed on to the Stop sign only to be greeted by three cars. 15 burpees later, we lined up for the 200 meter sprint but were greeted by 3 more cars. After another 15, one more car got us to 140 burpees total, and 6:30am on YHC’s watch never looked so good.

    After COT and prayer, Enron decided to add some reps of squatting card pickers, but underestimated the difficulty of that particular exercise and had to let Pope finish the set. (Those suckers are slick.)

    YHC still doesn’t regret the decision to hit The Stage this morning despite being sore from Yankee’s Flora-block-burner yesterday. Tomorrow will be a day of rest (hopefully), and Enron will utilize Thursday to give us one more tune up before our showing at the NOLA convergence on Saturday. YHC is hopeful that the consecutive challenging beatdowns along with a few weeks of 100 burpees a day will give us what we need to make yet another strong statement that F3 Thibodaux is on the map!

  • JCVD has Tunnel Vision – from Russo

    YHC was excited to feel temps in the 50s this morning to celebrate the birthday of my favorite 80s action movie star: the Muscles from Brussels, Jean Claude Van Damme. I’m not sure if Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Lionheart, or Double Impact is my favorite movie of his, but they’re all worthy of the title. Let’s go with Double Impact, because JCVD playing the parts of two estranged twin brothers is double the fun. Oh, and America bought Alaska from Russia on this date as well, but that’s way less impactful.

    It was great to be joined by a retuning Snapper, and YHC hopes to see him post regularly, as well as Granny’s favorite Steve and her other favorite Bird.

    Warmup (All 10-15x IC)
    – Seal jacks
    – Toe touches
    – Grass grabbers
    – Self love
    – Imperial squat walkers
    – Cherry pickers

    Thang
    – Calf raises – 3x each step

    Mosey to bus stop
    – 10 IC freak nasties
    – 10 IC step ups (each leg)
    – 10 urkins
    – 10 durkins

    Mosey to Tunnel, stopping along the way for American Hammers, where it was:
    – 5x merkins, mosey down tunnel, side shuffle through tunnel, back pedal up tunnel, 10x merkins, and back
    – Rinse and repeat with:
    – Gas pumps
    – Plank jacks
    – Hello Dollies
    – Peter Parkers

    Mosey back to home base, stopping along the way for 10x IC lunges and 10x IC side lunges, wrap up with Mary: LMCs, Penguins, Rosalitas.

    COT, count, Name-o-Rama, announcements, and prayer closed us out. Special prayers lifted up for Zoolander and his family and Steve’s grandmother.

    Fantastic hanging out with you gents and let’s do it again soon. SYIT