F3 New Orleans

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  • Big Things, Little Things – from Akbar

    4 strong for another muggyish beatdown before cooler weather comes in. Special guest from St. Louis, Blue note.

    PAX: Akbar, Barely Legal, BBQ, Blue Note

    Conditions: 71 degrees mostly cloudy

    Warm Up
    Extended toe touch, SSH, Arm Circles, Grass Grabbers, Imperial Walkers, Cherry Pickers

    Thang 1 Rock Garden
    X10 IC Copperhead Style: Chest Press, Shoulder Press, Triceps Press, Curl, Row, Prisoner Squat, American Hammers

    Thang 2 Mosey to the courthouse benches
    Stone Mountains x 10 IC, bear crawl to Smokehouse, shuffle back
    Freak Nasties x 10 IC, bear crawl to Smokehouse, shuffle back
    7’s Rocky Balboas and Bobby Hurleys. Climb stairs in between with 5 Calf Raises at top

    Thang 3 Mosey to front of Courthouse
    7’s Inverted Renegade Rows 2=1 and Supermans. Up the stairs with 5 calf raises at top
    Benches: Shoulder Taps x 10 IC, lunge walk to wall, return for Y Supermans x10IC

    Return to the Gipper for Mary of LBC, LMC, and Heals to Heaven

    Count, Name, and BBQ prayed us out.

    Announcements
    Run Cajun Run, Krazy Ivan, Franco’s Dip and Dash, Nightmare Before Christmas postponed – check Slack for updates, Light up Trace ride at Covington Trailhead; F3 Camping trip Januaryish; Ultimate Frisbee Saturday at the Lakefront.

    Intentions
    Aunt Sue – Leukemia; By buddy Ned in Jackson (in hospital for overdose); BBQ brother Ned (dog passed away)

    Thanks for showing up, it was fun. SYITG – Akbar

  • STARjacks and STRIPES at the A1C – from Einstein

    A cool 41 degrees at 5:15 a.m. atop the Justice Center Parking Garage. With the air so fresh, it would make a can of Febreze blush.

    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: ToeTouch, SideStraddleHops, ShoulderRolls, ButtKicks, Swimmers, HighKneees, NeckRolls, Scissors(BBQ excels at this), WindMills, One Minute of RockyBalboas

    Then off to the ramp for a serpentine run down the ramp, followed by a serpentine backpeddle up the ramp, more or less in an Indian Run fashion.
    And for the record, I’m lobbying to have the “Indian Run” renamed to “First Citizen Run.”

    Thang: using parking lot stipes as our template, and the four corners for core exercise pit stops:

    Round One: Lunge Walk forward two parking spaces and Lunge Walk backward one parking space – traversing the whole uppper deck
    at the corners; iron crosses, hello-dollies, rosalittas, front-to-back leg swings

    Round Two: StarJack Jump at ever-other parking stipe, increasing the jump count by one every-other stripe; (first stripe 1 jump, next stripe 2 jumps,
    next stripe 3 jumps…) – traversing the whole uppper deck
    at the corners; across-the-body leg swings, merkins, shoulder tap merkins, crawl bear

    Count-o-rama

    Always good to hear the banter and mumble chatter at F3 – just like a bunch of brothers, which we are.

    Rock-A-Chaw Fletch led us out with prayer.

  • Reunion at the Gipper! – from Shooter

    Seeing the Q sheet blank at the Gipper and the Scramble YHC decided to signup and fill the post. Shortly after Q received a message from Bushwhacker confirming a meet at the old WD parking lot.. Little did Q know he had also EHed Steve for a reunion car pool to convoy up to the north.. YHC had also EHed Akbar to meet and join, but was instructed if no sightings had occurred by 0540 to rollout, so that’s what we did. Now Akbar still posted and shortly into the beatdown Akbar would come to learn that YHC was informed of a recent “Ring of Fire” incident… Funny story to me but maybe not those involved, but never the less felt obliged to pay homage…

    Warmup
    10IC
    Cherry pickers, self love, Torso twists, Toe Touches, Windmills, Grass grabbers, Butt kicks and High knees..

    Moseyed a lap down the trailhead and around back to the flag at which point YHC noticed a new 6 foot barrier between the PAX coupons.. Wasted no time and called an audible in my head..

    Thang
    Moseyed to the school board building where we circled around the flag for a sweet ole campfire song by the famous Johnny Cash.
    “Ring of Fire” played as the PAX completed Merkins. Next we partnered up for wall sits P1 and P2 instructed to sprint around the building. R/R 2x. Next we Indian ran in 2 groups to the front of the Justice center for P1 Right and Left leap frogs on the benches while P2 bunny hopped up the steps and moseyed the ramps down to F/J. Then we we moseyed to the backside of the center for P1 freak nasties on the benches and P2 Carioca to the steps sprinting up like Rocky and returning. R/R 2x.
    Moseyed back to the AO to finish with the Worse Merkin ever to 10 and some Core.
    Wife pleasers, Jane Fonda’s 3 styles, 100s, hands to heels and leg raises..

    Counted off, announced another potential Wacker vacation in Kokomo (possibly Jan/Feb) and Barely legal prayed us out with thoughts and condolences for the families of the recent murders of a retired Priest and pastoral council member found just the other day in Covington… 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

    Appreciate the follow gentlemen and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • 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

  • 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!

  • 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 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • B.O.M.B.S. with a Fuse – from Einstein

    Humid under a near full moon for the gathered PAX, this Wednesday morning, at The Gipper

    Short disclaimer …

    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: Toe Touch, SSHops, Shoulder Rolls, Imperial Walkers, Thumb Drives, Hillbillys, Neck Rolls
    mosey over to the top of the Justice Center Parking Garage

    Event: Set of B.O.M.B.S. with a fuse (run); partner up, one does the exercise, one does the run, flip flop keeping the total exercise count going
    50 Burpees, 20 yard run
    100 Os (on your six tracing the letter “O” with your extended legs), 40 yard run
    150 Merkins, 60 yard run
    200 Bridges – single leg, two is one, 80 yard run
    250 Squats, 100 yard run
    between each letter of the bomb, the whole pax does a 200 yard mosey around the parking lot
    mosey back to The Gipper Trail Head

    Count-o-rama, Shooter leads us out with a prayer.

    BBQ’s sweat-o-meter KCC hat registered near to the top squatchee button.

    Thanks guys. Always fun to lead

  • Kamara Ingram and Moby – from TurboTax

    Alvin Kamara and Mark Ingram have nothing on Moby Dick. At least that’s the way it looked from my perspective at The Gipper this morning. Allow YHC to explain.

    After a quick warmup of toe touches, shoulder taps, windmills, Peter Parker’s, Imperial Walkers, Parker Peters and Seal jacks, the PAX made its way to the back of the Justice Center for the Thang.

    Partner up with partner 1 executing burpees while partner 2 runs up and down the stairs to relieve partner 1. 50 burpees per team. Then we combined crossover runs first with 100 45 degree lunges and second with 200 simulated jump ropes.

    We then brought the show to the front of the Justice Center for the main event. YHC laid out the cones and we sprinted, backpedaled, cut, juked and otherwise ran agility drills like any other professional team. It was impressive stuff I tell you, but Moby was particularly impressive. Like I said, Alvin and Mark are lucky the Saints scouts did not post this morning, or they might both be out of a job.

    Thanks for letting me lead this morning guys. Always fun.

  • Back in Black – from TurboTax

    Good to be back at The Gipper after an extended absence and while YHC actually was wearing a white t-shirt this morning, “Back in White” does not have the same cache’ as “Back in Black.” So there.

    White or black didn’t matter to the substance of the beatdown though. After a warmup of SSHs, shoulder taps, toe touches, Peter Parkers, seal jacks, Parker Peters, and windmills, it was off to Bedrock to kick off the Thang.

    Small boulders were identified and lifted in 90 degrees planes of motion as the PAX either re-habed or pre-habed their shoulders.

    Sufficiently warm, we moseyed to the Justice Center for an animal parade of sorts, Partner 1 performing an exercise (shoulder taps, plank reach throughs, 45 degree lunges, and curtsey squats) while Partner motored about 40 yards and back (bear crawls, reverse bear crawls, ostrich walks, gorilla walks, lateral lunges, crabwalks, and giraffe walks).

    Back to the shovel flag for some Mary with dynamic back and the side planks.

    Countorama, nameorama and then Einstein prayed us out.

    Nice to be back in the PAX. Thanks as always for letting me lead.

  • Gipper Gold – from Einstein

    Plenty of entertainment at the Gipper on this cool 60 degree morning. With BBQ displaying his Irish Riverdance skills
    and Fletch pining about his unsuccessful panning for Gold after swallowing his gold tooth crown.

    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: Toe Touch, Side Straddle Hops, Shoulder Rolls, Imperial Walkers, Hi Jack Hi Jills, Hillbillys,
    High Knees, Butt Kicks, Neck Rolls, Thumb Drives, Scissor Kicks (aka Irish Dance), Good Mornings, Cherry Pickers,etc.

    Thang:
    Carry, Pick up, and put down cinder blocks many times

    Mary:
    Rosalittas, Gas Pumps, V-Ups, Big Boys Sit-Ups

    Count-o-rama

    Fletch meister led us out with a prayer.