F3 New Orleans

Category: Backblasts

  • St. Paddy’s Day Brick Fest – from Rudy

    The Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/04wIJSMgALwapngjBJXwXP?si=dH03I0VjQ0qMJMSTUS5oqA

    11 PAX joined YHC for a St. Paddy’s morning fest. Humid, and warm. Good to see some old faces (looking at you Amnesty) and new (Sir Purr! Welcome back to workout #2!)

    Lots of green around the horn. Bongo didn’t get the message, but pointed to his light green light on his workout watch as if that counted. Catfish also didn’t get the message, but no PAX had the audacity to call him out for it. Much debate on whether Saban’s yellow-ish highlighter tank was closer to Green than Kuch’s Aqua Athleisure shorts. Thanks to Snooze and Da Parish for CLEARLY wearing their finery. The mom’s of the group (Ya Mom ‘n’ Dem, Mama’s Pride) – B- for effort on the attire front….

    Disclaimer, then open up the Pot o’ Gold (i.e., YHC’s Mini) to grab 2 of the red-colored Bars o’ Gold (i.e., “Bricks”). Head to the track.

    Quick warmup with some stretching, SSH and IW. Then b/c YHC had often wanted to try it – lets do Bat Wings with the bricks. That’s a good challenge. It will make a return appearance.

    The Thang:

    Queue up the Irish Music. We’ll rinse and repeat a tabata-ish workout. 4 Rounds of Exercises (45 seconds on, 15 second rest), then a Lap aruond the track (everything with the bricks).

    + Round 1: Seal Claps, Dying Brick-roaches, Lunges, 8 count body-builders.
    + Round 2: Floyd Mayweathers, Crunchy BrickFrogs, Calf Raises (awkward…), 8 count body-builders.
    + Round 3: Merkins, Irish Twists, Monkey Humpers, 8 count body-builders
    + Round 4: Newston’s Cradle, LBBCs (Little Baby Brick Crunches), Squats, 8 count body builders
    + Round 5: T Merkins, Brick-guins, Side Lunges, 8 count body-builders

    Back to the flag. YHC had grand ambitions of getting lots more 8 counts in. But I greatly underestimated the time it would take us in total to run a mile carrying bricks. So OYO over the course of the day – everyone owes about 300 more 8 counts (to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of the initial 8 count challenge, increasing by 1 per day until “No more covid restrictions for the great state of Louisiana”).

    COT: Countoff, Name-o-Rama (Sir Purr? Surr Pur?), Announcements and closing out with a prayer. YHC especially wants to thank the “75 Soft” group under whose strict tutelage YHC has been driven to keep reading his bible. Specifically, messages over the last few days have emphasized import of Evangelizing. Its not sufficient for us to just hear good works, or even do good works. We need to be inspiring others through our actions. That applies spiritually, professionally, personally. Thanks 75 Soft-ers.

  • Building Blocks – from Shooter

    Knowing that our coupons have never been tampered with at the Gipper, YHC planned a beatdown all around the blocks. Q has been absent on Wednesday the last two weeks, so it felt like the perfect setting to return to strength focus on this mild gloom. T👏🏼 to Barely Legal and Einstein staying committed to the prethang miler and the return of Bubba to the Gip… PAX swelled to 13 before long and 0600 had arrived for us to get started.

    Warmup:
    10IC Arm circles (flapjack), Cherry pickers, Torso twist, Windmills, Grass grabbers and Imperial walkers.

    Thang
    PAX converged at the coupon yard to grab from our selection of mixed weights of blocks. Really didn’t matter if one thought they had escaped the dense 35 pounder as they quickly learned the blocks would soon be mixed in our parking lot around the corner. On this Gloom all parties involved would get a touch of the varying weights not by choice but possibly by default of being the last to select in some cases right BB?
    💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
    First the PAX stacked all the blocks at one end of the lot them formed an assembly line to move the blocks down the line. As each PAX finished with the last block he would flip one of 2 tires placed in the lot earlier 2x and then rotate to the other end of the line to return all the blocks to the original starting block. Once complete we duplicated accept this time keeping the blocks overhead as we passed down the assembly line. R/R with the tire completing 2 rounds of each.

    FLORA 123 was next on the agenda.
    PAX partnered up for 100 (Merkins/Plank holds), 200 (LBCs/6”holds), 300 (Goblet squat/ Goblet hold).
    Example:
    100
    P1 10x Merkin with feet on coupon P2 hold plank with feet on coupon.
    200
    P1 20x LBCs with block on chest, P2 holding block above with 6” leg hold.
    300
    P1 25x Goblet squats, P2 Goblet arm chair hold.

    All about the Benjamin’s up next.
    Split the PAX on opposite ends of the parking lot.
    G1 completed 25 Curls for the girls while G2 25 Lunge walks across.
    Flapjack
    Next
    G1 Overhead press 25 and G2 25 Lunge walks with Block.
    Flapjack

    Returned our coupons to their resting place and finished with setting up for the farmers market.

    Count off, announcements and thoughts and prayers to our brethren Toto and Hogsbreath!!

    YHC prayed out the PAX

    Privileged to lead you men and would build with you anytime..

    Thanks for the post and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!!

  • March On – from Einstein

    Short disclaimer …

    Warmup:
    all 15xIC; side straddle hops, toe touch, imperial walkers, drew brees, knee highs, good mornings

    Mosey:
    to the front of the Taj-Mahal, circle up around the flag-pole, for the MROF (Merkin Ring Of Fire)
    all pax do a merkin then sidecrawl counter-clockwise, then repeat in the clockwise direction, with a set of ten jumps squats in between

    Mosey:
    to the top level of the St. Tammany Parish Courthouse parking garage, line up and at each of the parking stripes, do a burpee (twenty five in total) then follow with a core exercise.
    We repeated this sequence about six times, inserting a different challenge for the stripes

    Mosey:
    back to the Gipper statue as time expires,
    count-o-rama, Bushwacker leads us out with a prayer.

    It’s always fun running around downtown Covington, and thanks guys for letting me lead today.

  • We hid the coupons – from Waterpik

    T Claps to Akbar we now have LOGOED cinder block coupons at the Marsh again. And we didn’t “hide” them behind the restrooms . Who knows? Maybe they won’t disappear this time. And if someone wants them this time around, they’ll have to carry them from their new hiding place near the back of the field to the street. At that point their forearms will be swoll so maybe they’ll want to join F3.

    Mosey down the trace a couple of blocks to Jackson Ave. mandeville doesn’t have many hills but YHC found one there, and made a mental note that it would be a good mew spot to incorporate into a beatdown at the marsh.

    Main thang: Bear crawl up hill, jog back.
    Crawl bear up hill, jog back
    Partner carry up hill, jog back.
    (Shooter was an absolute animal)
    5 sprints up hill, jog back
    Rinse and repeat, then head back to AO

    Thanks to Akbar for praying us out

  • Happy Pi Day – from Fracsac

    5 Pax made a choice to take the DRP on their journey to get right and posted to the Renaissance after springing forward an hour and losing some sleep. With a couple shovel flags planted, disclaimer was given, then:

    Mosey to the steps of NOMA and face the bacon:

    SSH IC x 31
    IW x 15
    Abe Vigodas x 10
    GG x 10
    Bat wings (dancing during Moroccan NC)

    Time to get down to business:

    EMOM 10 Burpees x 5 minutes

    Mosey to tree line for more burpee fun:

    Starting at 1st tree, bear crawl to next tree and complete 5 burpees. Rinse and repeat x 10.

    Note: that’s 100 burpees before 7 am!

    Mosey back to fountain for dips and merks. 1 dip at fountain, run up to steps bunny hopping lower 3 and do 1 merkin at 1st of 8 steps.
    2 dips, 2 merkins on 2nd step
    3 dips, 3 merkins on 3rd step
    Rinse and repeat up to 8th step

    Mosey to back of NOMA for Sunday Mornings! All Pax did at least 6.

    Return to flag for 3 minutes of Mary to finish it out.

    COT

    NMM

    -The Renaissance is a great way to kick off the week!
    -GrowRuck 20 at F3 Alamo is coming up fast April 9 to 11 in San Antonio! Join us to accelerate your journey to success!
    -Coffeteria with great F2

  • Gnats 1 PAX 1 – from TurboTax

    It was a draw. The Gnats mobilized early and mounted a fierce attack, but the PAX persevered and evened the score with a strong showing. It all started with a burpee heavy warmup which, in all honesty, wasn’t much of a warmup at all. It was The Thang from the bell. Burpees were performed with a sprinkling of standard warmup exercises added to the mix and then it was on to the main event…PAX vs sandbag. Dividing up into teams of two and three, we moved back and forth in 10 yard increments carrying our sandbags in various fashions while bear crawling, running, burpee long jumping, etc in between rounds. We then dropped the sand bags and ran a few sprint relays wrapping things up with some Mary after returning to the Shovel Flag. Countorama nameorama and Russo prayed us out. Thanks for letting me lead guys and making us all look good for the little old lady videographer. Hammer, did you remember to give her Bushwacker’s contact info?

  • Margaritas on the Rucks week 1 – from Fracsac

    11 Pax made a choice to take the DRP on their journey to get right and posted to the Mothership. But 7 of those were posting to the Bawbwa Wawa and chose to push themselves with a ruck workout. With a couple shovel flags planted, disclaimer was given, then:

    Ruck up and mosey to the Great Lawn. Dismount rucks for a quick warmup:

    IW x 15
    Abe Vigodas x 10
    GG x 10
    AC x 10 both ways
    SSH IC x 31

    Time to get down to business with the Alamo Margarita on the Rucks “Ruck ‘n Roll”. Sort of like an IPC for Ruckers!

    As many rounds as you can compete in 45 minutes:

    -Ruck Chin ups x 10 with ruck held
    -8 count body builders x 10 wearing ruck
    -Flutter kicks x 10 with ruck held
    -Brickyard x 10 (#Crowdpleaser)
    -It’s squat, curl, thrust up overhead, lunge each leg
    -Squats x 10 wearing ruck
    -100 yard ruck

    With 5 minutes left, completed some Mary with Little Bo Peep and Humpty Dumpty.

    COT with Mothership

    • T-Claps to Catfish for getting 9 and SOGO for getting 8+. Several of us were in the 7+ range

    • Big cleanup with F2 at City Park followed

    • Coffeteria enjoyed by many!

    SYITG

  • Misty Mountain – Merkins and Burpees! – from Almonaster

    A good day to tackle the Mountain!

    PAX:

    – Blowout
    – Erecter Set
    – King Kong
    – Almonaster

    Mosey to Palm Circle.

    Warmup:

    SSH – 10 IC
    Arm Circles -10 IC
    Reverse Arm Circles – 10 IC
    Imperial Walkers – 10 IC
    Grass Grabbers – 10 IC
    Windmills – 10 IC
    Mountain Climbers – 10 IC

    The Thang:

    Mosey to Benches

    Incline Merkins – 10 IC
    Right leg Step-ups – 10 IC
    Dips – 10 IC
    Left leg Step-ups – 10 IC
    Rinse and repeat

    Mosey to the Mountain

    Starting at first level platform to top

    Backpedal each ramp
    Merkins – 30 OYO (Decrease by 5 each level)
    LBC’s – 30 OYO

    Repeat each level to Top of the Mountain

    Top of Mountain

    SSH – 20 IC
    Squats – 10 IC

    Down the Mountain to bottom

    Burpees – 10 OYO (Decrease by 1 each level)
    Hello Dolly’s – 20 IC
    Freddie Mercuries – 20 IC
    Flutter Kicks – 20 IC
    Box Cutters – 10 IC
    Russian Twists (Douille’s) – 20 IC
    Made it to 6 Burpees before time expired.

    Back to Flag
    COT
    Birthdays
    Anniversaries
    Announcements,
    Intentions
    Prayer

    Thanks for the Opportunity to Lead!

  • Who really needs their shoulders? – from Jose10k

    Warm-up: ssh, torso twists, self love, toe touches.
    Mosey off to get a coupon, and moseyed back to the A1c. Time for 11s, 10 merikans using your coupon, left hand on the ground, right hand on the coupon, then flip( 2 is 1), the over head carry your coupon up to the first level for 1 squat thrust, overhead carry back down. Rinse and repeat 9 then two, you get it. Once finished, curls for the girls, return the coupons and cot . Thanks for letting me lead gentlemen.. #hogs breath, #Einstein, #fletch, #twin span

  • Same ole, same ole – from Waterpik

    It was the same ole, same ole this morning at the mandeville city hall scramble. But that’s the beauty of F3, it’s the consistency. Yes, some of the regulars were out, and yes, there have been some AOs where numbers are low, but it’s still good to get out there in the gloom and hit the streets of Old mandeville for our weekly 5K. Here’s to a strong close to the week, men!