F3 New Orleans

Tag: Barely Legal

  • Hot and Sweaty – from Mobydick

    It was Hot. So whats new. YHC picked up the Q minutes before the beat down so improve was the catch word. After a thorough stretching with Torso twists big arm circles grass grabbers windmills side straddle hops neck rolls ankle rolls for about 10 minutes it was off to the coupon pile. The thang was a 1min work 1 min rest tabata. Starting with presses then rows. Next on our sticks for crunchs and chest presses followed by squats and kettles. Time allowed 2 1/2 rounds tgen finished iff with rifle carry coupons back to the pile. Countarama and COT and we are done. Didnt count reps but it felt like a lot.

  • Eight is Enough – from Russo

    83 this morning as YHC pulled up, with a nice breeze to limit the sweat damage early. Great group of 12 for the beatdown.

    Warmup
    All 10x – 16 IC:
    – Seal jacks
    – Self love
    – Toe touches
    – Cherry pickers
    – Good mornings
    – High knees

    Thang

    Mosey around the block, stopping at each corner for:
    8 8-count body builders
    16 shoulder tap plank jacks
    24 merkins
    32 Peter Parker’s (1 is 1)

    Next round:
    8 Imperial squat walkers IC
    16 Hallelujah squats
    24 Apollo Ohnos
    32 Monkey Humpers

    Round 3:
    8 Dr. w’s
    16 Gas pumps
    24 LBCs

    Over to Rip’s, where it was:

    – 4 minutes of 24 rocky balboas followed by a trip up and down their steps (R&R)
    – Two rounds of 24 Rocky Balboas, 16 Urkins, 8 Rocky Balboas, 4 Urkins
    – Two rounds of 24 calf raises, 16 step overs, 8 calf raises, 4 step overs

    Back to the flag for Mary (16x IC)
    – Penguins
    – American hammers
    – LMCs
    – Rosalitas
    – Crunchy Frogs

    COT, Name-o-Rama, Announcements, Prayer, in that order. We lifted up our walking wounded, school starting, those traveling, Steve’s mother in law, and the victims of the Maui wildfire, among others.

    Coffee added a couple Starskys (apparently a thing in the F3 lexicon according to ‘Whacker) in Bird and Cowbell.

    Even though I took us away from the breezes on the lakefront that cooled us off ever so slightly, I appreciate you all joining me on a jaunt around the area, and what you bring to your own corner of the northshore. Fine group of men this morning. Let’s do it again soon (like at the Splashpad!)

    SYITG

  • Farraginous Activities at The Gipper – from Einstein

    Hot and humid at The Gipper.
    No one signed up to queue, so what do you do? Round Robin was the consensus.

    Long Warmup:
    Toe Touch, SSHops, Swimmers, Neck Rolls, Hi Jack Hi Jills, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Merkins, Peter Parkers, etc.

    Then onto the Coupon event; rows, curls, presses, etc. mixed in with a run, and floor exercises
    All in all, it was a good beatdown – even my eyeballs were sweating.

    Circle-up, Count-o-rama, DarkWingDuck leads us out with prayer.

  • Variety Pack at The Gipper – from Einstein

    Summertime at The Gipper, with typical heat and high humidity.
    Humidity should be added to the Exicon as a stand-alone exercise – as it sure is draining.
    And welcome guest pax Dinghy – from the Hillsborough, NC location.

    Long Warmup:
    Toe Touch, SSHops, Swimmers, Neck Rolls, Hi Jack Hi Jills, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Shoulder Slingbacks, Butt Kicks, Smurf Jacks, etc.

    Mosey to the Taj Mahal parking lot for leg swings, font to back, left to right. Then using the stripes for a ladder template do a set of stops and starts forward, reverse, left shuffle, right shuffle. Then trott to the front of the Taj for ring-of-fire: each pax bear crawls into the flag pole and crab crawls back – whilst the rest of the pax holds plank waiting for their turn to crawl in/out.
    Then to the nearby grassy knoll for 10 OYO sprawls(kind-of-a burpee without the push-up).

    Mosey down the street to the Justice Center Parking Garage, at the garage entrance; backward lunge haf way then sprint, repeating up the ramp concourse.
    once on top; some core work, bear crawling, and sprints.

    Mosey to the front of the court house for some freak-nasties and rocky balboas.

    Mosey back to the flag for a minute of V-ups

    Circle-up, Count-o-rama, Dinghy leads us out with prayer; lifting up those recovering from injuries, the elderly, and families dealing with difficult challenges. And for “meet-less” BBQ, who has lost his alarm clock.

  • Total Meltdown with the Fire Fighter Challenge Tabata – from Bushwacker

    Following a long rehabilitation after shoulder surgery, during which YHC did ABSOLUTELY nothing overly strenuous that Chewy would frown upon, it’s back to the fire department. And, of course, that means then Lakefront is due for another Fire Fighter Challenge… this time Tabata style! Our own friendly neighborhood Steve graciously offered to stalk me at 5:45am and help set up an array of treacherous exercises for the general populous of F3 Northshore.

    WARMORAMA

    Ok, let me be honest, as I sit here typing this drivel of a backblast, I’m having (not for the 1st time) memory issues. Everything came in sets of 10 and in cadence. There were several things with knees and feet and hands, ya know the usual. We really just needed to get loose enough to reduce risk of injury while dying in the heat and humidity.

    THANG

    The PAX mosied to the shaft where a variety of tires, weights, a giant rope, and a 50ft length of fire hose awaited the assembled. A hopefully-briefer-than-expected-by-the-PAX explanation of the ordeal laid out was given and things got underway. A tabata of 40 cycles – seconds of work with 12 seconds rest in between had such familiar FF exercises such as the Tire Pull, Tire Toss, Tire Flip, and Sledge Hammer Swing, interspersed amongst which were other favorites such as the High Rise Pack Carry, Burpees, Flutter Kicks, Farmer’s Carry and more. After the completion of the Challenge, in which a valiant effort was put forth by the brave men willing to cross the thin red line to take the red pill, there were none willing to compete for the Badaxxe Award by completing the Tire Pull, Tire Flip, and Farmer’s Carry for time. QIC wasn’t certain whether the lack of interested parties was because the defending title holder Grundy was not in attendance, or like myself, everyone was almost fully spent. Either way, there seems to be some unfinished business…

    MARY

    After mosying back to the flags the PAX were treated to 11 full-ass minutes of mary that finaled with 100 100s OYO.

    COT

    Countorama/nameorama, True Coat shared the opportunity to take part in a 30 minute men’s weekly zoom meeting involving spiritual discussions of Opus Dei and more of the most intriguing sort. Hit him up to learn more. The fair-weather Kotter Quart Pipe prayed us out and off to coffeteria we went!
    Gentlemen, thank you for following me into the fire (of sorts), and allowing me to lead you all in this thing of ours, la F3 cosa nostra. And don’t forget, HYDRATE HYDRATE HYDRATE!

  • DORA of Fire – from Jose10k

    Remember the great fire of 1979 that supposedly started in your garage when that chipmunk ingested some fertilizer and then fell into a can of kerosene instantly turning him into a flying-lil’, fluffy-lil’ molotov cocktail that set a blaze leveling the whole neighborhood West of Newton’s Hardware Store?

    You started that fire?

    No, but that was pretty cool, huh?

    Bonus points to whoever knows what movie masterpiece I took this quote from. I am counting on Hammer to be the first to respond.
    This was the topic of conversation at the Gipper this morning. The fire that knocked out power for so many of us. In addition to the power outage, the other topic of conversation was the increase of persons with no fixed address at the Gipper. Anywho, 6 showed up to a relatively cool morning to get some exercise in before starting their day.
    Warm-up: y’all know
    The thang: Dora with some coupons. Partner 1 ran down the path behind LOLA and back up the front. Partner 2 performed the exercise. 100 Merkins on your coupon, 200 squats with coupon, 300 big boy sit ups with your coupon. Once finished, shoulder presses while the partner ran the loop one extra time. Finished up with 1 minute of deep stretching. COT with Maverick praying us out. Intentions for Phoenix, 3 year anniversary at the A1C this Friday, Bushwacker FireFighter workout this Saturday. We’ll see if Russo copies my beatdown yet again next week.

  • Nine at The Gipper – from Einstein

    Heat & humidity for the gathered PAX, this Wednesday morning, at The Gipper. With guest pax Assange from the Birmingham mother ship location.
    Maverick and Gilligan rolled in way past hot.

    Long Warmup:
    Toe Touch, SSHops, Neck Rolls, Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Peter Parkers, etc.

    Mosey to the coupon cache location – WHOA – not enough blocks in our normal spot – Moby and company had to run to the rock pile and borrow a few from the Covington Garden Club display.

    Thang – all cinder block work except for the run, and rotating block locations – so we could all get a turn using the two-ton-tony waterlogged cinder blocks

    Round 1: blockees, curls, overhead press, goblet squats, then run around downtown Covington water tower/depot trapezoid loop

    Round 2: big boy situps with block on chest, leg lifts over the block, chest press with block, GRRs(grip,rip,and roll from the exicon) – YIKES
    then run around downtown Covington water tower/depot trapezoid loop

    Round 3: rows, kettle bell swings, murder bunnies up and down the grassy knoll, finished up with bear crawl/block drag up and down the grassy knoll

    Time is up – return coupons

    Circle-up, Count-o-rama, Gilligan leads us out with prayer.

  • Who says BOMBS are limited to the 4th or New years? – from Shooter

    With the opportunity available for YHC to post the Gipper it felt right to bring left over BOMBS out today. Temperatures should show signs of cooling this week according to forecasters, but apparently 86 at 6AM is still warm and super humid based on the perspiration reflected off the concrete.. Add a coupon to the mix and the sweat angels really come to life.. Music is a must whenever Jose10k is around and the count for cadences held true… Soon enough though the only noises to be heard were the grunts, heavy breathing and sound of anguish..

    Warmup
    15IC and 10IC
    SSH, Toe Touches, Wife pleasers, Bridges and Scorpion kicks.

    Thang
    B.O.M.B.S (coupon for overhead press)
    Prison cell burpees, over head press, Merkins, Big Boy Sit-ups and Squats..

    Teams
    Jose10k/Bushwacker
    YHC/Barely legal/Moby

    P1 exercises while P2 runs the trace toward the courthouse making a loop around the block.

    As time drew near YHCs team had to modify to finish. Returned the coupons for the count, announce and COT..

    Thanks to Jose10k for closing us out in prayer!!

    Until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • Rinse, Lather, and Repeat – from Jose10k

    Back to Back Qs, no problem. Especially when no one from Tuesday would be posting on Wednesday. So, you simply rinse, lather, and repeat. Sidenote 1: We all do appreciate Russo taking the week off, so we can try to catch up with him on the PaxMIner report.

    Warm-up: Again, you’ve been to a beat down before, so you know how it goes.

    The Thang: Once again, the A1C has music. YHC brought the music to the Gipper. What does the Gipper have that the other AOs don’t: coupons. It was a Gorilla workout that Shooter introduced to me a few weeks back. Pick up your coupon and Mosey from the Gipper to the side of the courthouse. 8 reps of each exercise, 8 rounds. Curls, shoulder presses, merkins, and kettlebell swings. Run the entire length of the side of the courthouse to do 8 gorilla humpers.
    Mumble Chatter included the recent weather, pilots and pilot instructors, current real estate predicaments, and of course interest rates. Steve has the Q tomorrow, Einstein has Friday’s Q, and Bird has the Q for Saturday (expect Yoga). COT with of course the tremendous extra respect again in Covington. It’s music and respect at the Covington AOs. Maverick prayed us out. As always, I appreciate the opportunity to lead y’all, and I appreciate anyone reading this backblast. Sidenote 2, I am eagerly waiting for Russo’s slideshow trying to prove that the Karate Kid is a better movie than the Goonies. I think he suffered a head injury recently.

  • Mankini, Banana Hammock, Root Suit – from Einstein

    Yes, that was BBQ describing his preferred swim wear – anticipating showing off his F3 toned physique on his next beach visit.
    and the mumble chatter continued in that venue, easily overtalking the cadence

    After the early-bird one mile run we got to it;

    Long Warmup:
    Toe Touch, SSHops, Inperial Walkers, Good Mornings, Butt Kicks, Neck Rolls, High Kneees, Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers, Scissors, Smurf Jacks, etc.

    Thang:
    Three sets of about fifteen minutes of block work, separated by a run around the square block
    block work included; curles, rows, blockees, over-head press, sit-ups, eights thru the legs, windshield wipers, squats, skull crushers, murder bunnies,
    bear crawl with block snatch, farmer carry, rifle carry, etc.

    Circle-up, Count-o-rama, Legal leads us out with prayer.

    One humid mofo,this Wednesday morning, at The Gipper, but we all walked away better for it. Ha.