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  • Grant’s Tomb – from Akbar

    45ish and wet as all get out, a slight modification was needed for this gloom. YHC can handle wet or cold, but not both. So instead of sloshing at the Shaft, we headed to Noah’s Ark for Grant’s Tomb. Ulysses S. Grant’s mug adorns our $50 bill, so we moseyed around doing 50 reps with moseys in between – 25 reps on one side, 25 reps on the other.

    Warm Up: SSH, Grass Grabbers, Toe Touches, Mummy Kicks, Self-Love, Arm Circles, High Knees, Butt Kicks x 15IC

    Thang

    Noah’s Ark – 25 reps at the wall, mosey/run @ 50 yards, 25 reps on the other side.

    George Thorogood’s, Bear Crawl/run, Tuck Jumps
    Freak Nasty, run, Superman
    Renegade Row, Crab Walk/run, Donkey Kicks
    Stone Mountain, run, Merkins
    Step Ups, High Knees/run, Shoulder Claps
    Dirkins, Karaoke, Good Mornings
    Irkin, Karaoke, Apollo Ohno

    Rips – 25 reps on the sidewalk, run across the street and up the stairs, 15 calf raises at the top, descend stairs and run back to the sidewalk for another 25 reps

    Flutter Kick, Mountain Climbers
    Leg Raises, J Lo’s
    Crunchy Frogs, Jane Fonda’s

    At this point, Jose10k mentioned that YHC would never remember all of this, which is partially correct. Especially when the mumblechatter moved to math and quadrilateral mumbo jumbo.

    We may have finished with Parker Peters and something else and moseyed back to the flag for 15 Merkins IC.

    Count, Name, and Shooter prayed us out.

    Announcements:

    January 21- Nightmare after Christmas, 1pm Lakefront. Bring a light rucksack, F2 afterward

    January 27 – Whacker camping at Kokomo. Come and go as you please, bring your 2.0’s, see slack for address

    Run Cajun Run – sign up by Jan 18th, put your teams together. Link is on mumblechatter.

    Krazy Ivan will fall into February this year, dates coming soon.

    Appreciate the post and F2 at coffee.

    SYITG – Akbar

  • Let’s try this again!! Both sidewalks and BB!! – from Shooter

    Well, my first BB was pretty good, then I got to the end to submit and it simply disappeared..
    So, for the condensed version, which will not give the first its due..
    Variation of cadence counts Mummy kicks, SSH, Abe Vogodas, Good mornings, Seal jacks, Toe Touches and Ring of Fire 🔥 Al Gore hold with 2 rounds of each PAX completing 2 jump squats.

    A little over 4 miles and returned right on time..

    Count, announce/intensions, and appreciate the respected Akbar for the close in prayer..

    Until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • New Years Day – from Akbar

    Chilly start to the new year, 6 HIM showed to get right this New Years Day gloom.

    Speedy went on a run while the rest of us got started with SSH, Hillbillies, IW, Self Love, Grass Grabbers, and some other stuff.

    Thang(s)

    Started out with a quarter Murph at the playground, then headed down to the Lakefront stopping at every other intersection for some exercises to get warmed up.

    Wall: Dirkins, Freak Nasties, Bulgarian Split Squats IC x 10

    Lunge Walk to Rips

    7’s of Rocky Balboa’s and Calf Raises running Rips stairs

    Head back to the Flag with Red Barchetta to each intersection. Sprint/100 SSH. Sprint 75 Mountain Climbers. Run – yes, sprinting got old – 50 Squats. Run 25 Merkins

    Mary – 45 seconds of LBC’s

    Count, Name, and YHC prayed us out and headed to Waffle House where Grundy joined us for F2

    Announcements: Run Cajun Run sign up is live, get your teams together. Nightmare After Christmas tentative 3rd week of January – check Slack. Krazy Ivan in January, and Bushwhackers camping trip Jan 27th?

    Pleasure to start my year our right with you guys. Here’s to a productive New Year

    SYITG,

    Akbar

  • Dirty Santa on the 6th day of Christmas – from Russo

    Good weather, maybe a little “brisk” at upper 30s, since YHC will never call it cold. Pax of 11 for some outstanding fellowship and putting in work (or paying the rent as I believe the Millenials like JV call it).

    Warmup (10x – 20x IC)
    – SSHs
    – Self love
    – Imperial walkers
    – Arm circles
    – Toe touches
    – High knees
    – Hillbillies

    Thang
    A replay of Granny’s 12 days of Christmas – themed beatdown. We moseyed down to the lake and back, stopping each block to honor one of the days of Christmas, starting at 12, stopping at the trailhead for Dirty Santa, and making it back down to 1.

    As for the days (it helps if you sing it):
    On the twefth day of Christmas, F3 gave to me:
    – 12 knuckle merkins
    – 11 Peter Parker’s
    – 10 Legs a lunging
    – 9 Americans hammering
    – 8 count body builders (8)
    – 7 jumpers squatting
    – 6 monkeys jumping
    – 5 Don-key kiiiiiiiiicccks
    – 4 frogs a crunching
    – 3 T merkins
    – 2 stars a jumping
    – And a burpee for both you and for meeeeeee

    Dirty Santa – relatively simple
    (1) Each HIM picks a number.
    (2) Number 1 picks a random gift/exercise from the bag and performs said exercise while the other HIM perform the standard (e.g. 10 merkins)
    (3) Number 2 has a choice: Number 1’s chosen exercise, the standard, or a new “gift”. If he chooses either of the first two options, the one who had their “gift” stolen can steal or select another mystery “gift”.
    (4) Around and around we go, until all HIM have a chance to select.

    The “gifts” included one cherry picker, slaloming the columns, trip up and down the pilot house, 20 monkey humpers, donkey kicks, arm circles, etc. Two separate rounds that had Bird intensifying, SOGO hating me, JV doing too many freak nastys, YHC taking notes to never include absolution again, and Jose being the beneficiary of limited cherry pickers this year, a complete 180 from when he got stuck with multiple last year or the year before.

    Back at the lake, we did a quick 12 days, with freak nastys, box jumps, BSSs, step ups, urkins, durkins, wife pleasers, penguins, big boys, Freddie Mercury’s, hello Dollie’s, and one cherry picker.

    COT
    Count, NOR, announcements, and prayer closed us out, where we continued to lift up Freon and his family, as well as the Brady family.

    Wrapping up the year, getting started with a new year on Monday with either an Akbar Marsh beatdown and Waffle House trip, the Franco’s Dip and Dash, or maybe both!

    I look forward to more beatdowns in 2024 and a continuation of the fellowship that makes getting up before 6AM on a cold Saturday morning worth it.

    SYITG

  • Splashing Merlot – from Waterpik

    I guess the man was sick but it would considered very uncommon for a grizzled F3 veteran like Jose 10k to vomit during a beatdown, but vomit he did! In his defense he said he was ill. I’ll take his word for it.

    Now to the workout:
    The pax ran 4.0, 4.2, 4.4 miles today. It depended on who you asked. Everyone’s watch or phone was different.

  • 1st Annual Norwegian Speed Skater Workout – from Einstein

    Perfect weather today for dry land speed skater drills ~ 45 degrees

    A quick warmup: toe touch, windmills, parker peters

    The main event: 2 sets of 10 exercises, one minute of exercise followed by one minute of rest.
    All done in speed skater form: bent low – chest at thigh level, eyes forward, same leg same arm extend at the same time (left arm out left leg back, then right arm out right leg back).
    1: UP DOWNS
    2: ALTERNATING SINGLE LEG UP DOWNS
    3: SKATER JUMP WITH UP DOWN
    4: PUSH RECOVERY
    5: UP DOWNS FIVE TIMES FOLLWED BY A JUMP
    6: SIDE TO SIDES
    7: DRY SKATE
    8: SKATER JUMPS
    9: LOW WALK FORWARD, THEN BACKWARD
    10:ONE MINUTE BASIC POSTION HOLD

    See YouTube “FULL LENGTH Speed Skating Dryland workout” for proper technique,

    All (except for Jose10K) enjoyed the Norwegian techno music playing in the background.

    After two set of the above, that was a wrap.
    Miles Davis from F3 Jackson, MS prayed us and took a group photo.

  • Die Hard is a Christmas Movie – from Jose10k

    YHC arrived early, a little extra time to stretch. Akbar must have been thinking the same, so I had someone to chit chat with this morning. During the conversation, 4 Covington PD came in hot on the top of the A1C, just to “check things out” according to the officer. We were blessed by an out of town brother, Webelow, joining us from Jackson County (I apologize if I spelled it wrong)
    Warm-up:ssh, grassgrabbers, torso twists, imperial walkers, self love (all to Christmas Time in Hollis Queens). Where the first trivia question, who was John McClain’s limo driver? Russo didn’t know the answer to this question(which was the theme of the beatdown). Argyle was the answer.
    The next question was what was John McClain’s wifes name: russo was wrong yet again. Holly Generro
    The thang: After the warmups, the PAX moseyed to the courthouse. The tragedy at Nakatomi plaza occurred on Christmas Eve, and we gathered today to honor the hero of Nakatomi: John McClain. The event occurred on the 30th floor, so that’s where we started. 30 merkins, 30 squats, 30 big boy sit-ups, 30 leg lifts. In between each exercise ran the length of the courthouse leading up to the stairs, up the stairs and then back down. Once the pax was finished we ran 1 lap around the entire courthouse.
    12 Terrorists entered Nakatomi: 12 burpees
    We now stopped on the side of the courthouse.
    ‘‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring,except for the four assholes coming in the rear in standard two-by-two formation.
    Paired up. Partner one : side lunges the entire grass section to the concrete and back, partner 2= holds an al gore thoroughgood. Repeat.

    The terrorists planned to use C4 to blow up Nakatomi Tower. The PAX completed in cadence 30 reps of these 4 “c”ore exercises: little Manny crunches, flutter kicks, Freddy Mercury’s, and penguins

    Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs.
    Famous line from the air ducts: time to do some ac duct crawling, while partner 2 does squats. Mosey back to the second floor to do a Hans Gruber pull-up: the pax hung from the raptors for 10 count, then did 30 Superman’s (he did fall 30 stories) .back to the stairwell to do 5 calve raises each to the top. And time was up.
    Trivia Question: What type of watch was Holly wearing that Hans hand was caught on? Russo was incorrect with Seiko. Pelican for the win with Rolex. Given to Holly from Ellis. More quotes from Hammer.
    5 Calf raises on each step on the way back up. Circled up for the first thing McClain did after going to the ER: Wife Pleasers in cadence for a 60 count. That’s when we were joined by Moby and turbodog. A few more core exercises.And to further celebrate the heroics of John McClain, a yell of Yippee Ki-yay Motherfu**er. The Trivia Question that Russo finally got correct. Thanks for letting me lead gentleman. COT and Hammer prayed us out. Thanks for the SplashPad joining us, thank you for Hammer to help create peace between battling AOs.
    Thought for the Season: Is Lethal Weapon a Christmas Movie? The answer is yes, and possibly the theme for the next beatdown.

  • Ladders – from Akbar

    YHC arrived this brisk gloom as Waterpik and Hammer were already at center court solving the worlds problems in deep conversation. Moby arrived just in time for the warm up. Today we did ladders.

    Warm up: the usual with a focus on YHC’s shoulders after digging up fence posts yesterday.

    Mosey to the playground for Ladder 1: Pull ups, hanging knee raises, Swerkins (Merkins on swing with a knee tuck), and Freak Nasties. 3 rounds x 5, 10, 15

    4 corners ladder: Sister Mary Catherine, Stone Mountain, Scuba Steve, Peter Parker at each intersection with a jog in between. 5 reps, adding 5 at each corner.

    Court – 4 corners starting at 5 to 20 again: Jane Fonda, LBC, Hello Dolly, and something else.

    Count, Name, and YHC prayed us out.

    Announcements: Nightmare After Christmas coming soon, Whacker camping trip in January, Run Cajun Run coming up

    Thanks for the post gentlemen!

    Akbar

  • Block Time at The Gipper – from Einstein

    Cool temps this morning ~ 38 degrees. Shooter and Akbar not deterred by the cold, still wearing shorts

    warm-up: toe touch, side straddle hops, arm circles, imperial walkers, neck rolls, shoulder rolls, side stretch, shoulder thrust, smurf jacks, etc.

    thang: 3 sets of block work, each separated by a run around the block.

    mary: world’s greatest stretch, BBQ’s hip flexor stretch

    prayer: Akbar did the honors

  • The Pacer – from Akbar

    Beautiful, crisp morning at the Scramble, where 4 HIM showed up to get better.

    Warm up: SSH, High Knees, Butt Kicks, Windmills, Scorpion Kicks, Leg Swings.

    YHC forgot the ruck today, so 4 went out on the regular route with an extra loop in Hermitage.

    No ruckers, no Pik, no Hammer, and Zoolander showed up.

    Done with 10 minutes to spare, we headed to the playground equipment for 10 reps each for pull ups, triceps, abs, and Merkins.

    Mary – LBC’s, Hello Dolly, Rosalitas x 10 IC. 8 ct Peter Parker Merkins x8 IC

    Count, Name-o-rama

    Announcements: Nightmare before Christmas Dec 17th

    YHC prayed us out with thanks for all 3 F’s, suicide victim at SLU yesterday, Freon’s M, and the opportunity to lead our concentrica today.

    SYITG,

    Akbar