F3 New Orleans

Tag: Bolt

  • Descend the Ladder con Roca – from Bolt

    Warmorama of the usual; Vagabond erroneously thought Kenna Brah had the Q and I’m sure regretted showing up for another of my musically schizophrenic playlists.
    The Thang: Descending Ladder with a rock (10 reps/exercise down to 9, 8, etc. reps/exercise): Squat (coupon), OH press, Curls, chest press, tricep press.
    Begin at first tree along side the parking lot facing the gym (it was here that Mahatma took off to second tree to do exercise one—not the directions!), Carry rock to second tree for second exercise where we all paid five burpee penalty for the transgression.

    At fifth tree plank on the six, turnaround and head back the opposite way with one less rep/exercise finishing at starting point. Rinse/repeat until we’ve descended the ladder.

    It was prior to starting round six that I introduced the skip exercise rule: call out, “skip” and roll Deca die of pain for our fate that replaces the skipped exercise, advance to next tree and resume the ladder. Mr. Rogers went first, followed by several others; we did ultimately finish the ladder in time to return rocks and circle up at the flag for Rochamburpee until time: winner does five merkins, loser does three burpees.

    Honored to lead and totally spent; this one sucked. COT.

  • 3 Steps Forward and 1 Step Back – from Charmin

    Warm up:

    15 SSH
    10 Grass grabbers
    10 neck rolls (on your own)
    10 of each arm circles forward, bacwards, seal claps, t-claps, chinooks, and mnc’s.
    14 kid n plays ( a new one Russo on the Northshore came up with, where it’s a backward lunge followed by a high knee extension to the front)

    Mission check: penalty 5 burpees.

    “To plant grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.”

    I won’t say who, but the group did have to do 10 burpees.

    10 mountain climbers
    5 merkins (focus on perfect form)

    The thang

    Run forward three light poles – backwards walk one (back towards light pole #2)

    When get to playground (which took longer than expected), 7 perfect form merkins

    Exercise equipment, where each Pax picked a piece of equipment and YHC was the timer of 10 big boys. Rotate counter clockwise until all exercises were done.

    2nd half of lap is run forward two light poles and backwards walk forward to 3rd lightpole (lit lights only).

    YHC posed a question of how are we striving to fulfill the mission of F3 in our daily lives.

    Get back to start we planked until all pax shared how they are and will strive to advance the mission of F3.

    Ended with 10 perfect form merkins at the flag.

    In prayer, YHC mentioned that the Lord calls us to perfection, and often, once we complete something easy we are asked to complete something more difficult. The goal is to always push forward and complete the mission.

  • Easy as 1, 2, 3 plus an FNG – from Bolt

    The pax gathered in the gloom, buzzing with excitement at the mere sight of the JBL speaker; great to see Kotters: Left Coast and Mambi along with Boo Boo who was doing penance for missing Thursday Rucking. Upon giving the disclaimer KnOTS headed their way while we were off to the middle of the field where the pax’s exuberance exploded upon hearing Rapper’s Delight, especially Vagabond, while Triple’s FNG certainly started to question exactly what he’d gotten himself into. Warmorama of the usual with demonstration/explanation for the pax who’d become Malware by the end of the BD (welcome to the gloom, brother). Music skip rule in effect.

    The Thang:
    Dry dock ladder up the bleachers
    Squat ladder in reverse count down the bleachers, mosey to playground.

    Morning Call: all pax high plank while two pax do 5 pull ups, calling out the count for planking pax to merkin, Triple doled out a 5 burpee penalty about half through on a 5 minutes song with only 30 seconds to go. Mosey to the rocks.

    Easy as 123 (AMRAP):
    Chest press 1 min (really made the burpees tougher)
    Burpees 2 min (goal 20+, Triple, fueled by competitiveness and his younger, lighter FNG’s stamina hit 32—impressive)
    Step ups 3 min (the “Halfway there” announcement seemed to take 3 minutes)

    Circle up for 5 Absolutions OYO followed by Mary where Triple and YHC were feasted on by ants, ironically after YHC encouraged pax to seek an area without visible ant piles (the best laid plans…). KennaBrah took over the lead after my LBCs and Protractors (a pax favorite—Rudy where were u!?) with a plank/reverse plank alternating leg lift, while I disposed of the ants and passed it Cheese Steak for Hello Dollys and Mambi brought us home with ???

    Return to the flag, COT and naming ceremony for FNG/Malware; come back for ur second BD and discover that F3 is for YOU. SYITG.

  • Never Forget – from Bolt

    22 years ago the USA was changed forever by an attack like no other; today we remember that day, honor those who died, offer reverence, and ponder the years in between as well as those ahead of us.

    Warmorma of the normal stuff to everyone’s beloved lead off song.
    * Mosey to JPAS
    * Read flight details at each corner
    * Sprint to corner 1 plank til 6
    * Plankorama
    * AA Flight 11
    * Boston – Los Angeles
    * Hit the North Tower at 0846
    * 92 perished
    * SSH x 92 OYO
    * Lunge to corner 2 plank til 6
    * Plankorama
    * UA Flight 175
    * Boston – Los Angeles
    * Hit South Tower at 0903
    * 65 perished
    * Mt. Climbers x 65 OYO
    * Sprint to corner 3 plank til 6
    * Plankorama
    * AA Flight 77
    * Dulles – Los Angeles
    * Hit the Pentagon at 0937
    * 64 perished
    * Squats x 64 OYO
    * Lunge to corner 4 plank til 6
    * Plankorama
    * UA Flight 93
    * Newark – San Francisco
    * Crashed in Shanksville, PA at 1003 after passengers stopped attack
    * 44 perished
    * Merkins x 44 OYO
    Staying in plank, each pax recounts that fateful day.

    * 9 Rounds of sprinting 1 lap up
    JPAS steps and down the ramp, followed by 11 reps of the called exercise
    * Sprint Lap 1
    * Diamond Merkins x 11 OYO
    * Sprint Lap 2
    * Jump Squats x 11 OYO
    * Sprint Lap 3
    * Big Boy Situps x 11 OYO
    * Sprint Lap 4
    * Carolina Dry Docks x 11 OYO
    * Sprint Lap 5
    * Lunges x 11 OYO
    * Sprint Lap 6
    * Flutter Kicks x 11 OYO
    * Sprint Lap 7
    * Wide Merkins x 11 OYO
    * Sprint Lap 8
    * Sumo Squats x 11 OYO
    * Sprint Lap 9
    * Burpees x 11 OYO

  • The Day After the Day of No Labor – from Fracsac

    10 pax showed up to either do S&M with Bolt, Knees over Toes with Hokie, or Sprint under the instructions of Pai Gow.

  • Uptowner Old School AMRAPs – from Mahatma

    YHC – showed up with 5 minutes, planted the flag AT the Rock Pile as we did pre plandemic. Dropped off his TJ Max bag with Pickleball gear then headed down to the cage arriving just as the seconds ticked off to 5:30. Quick disclaimer as the Knots crew headed to the track and the rest of the pax to a slow walk back to the rock pile all the while with chatter as to what’s this about an “old” starting spot for “the” Uptowner!

    After 6 years YHC learned a few things and one is don’t get sucked in to the chatter as it will never go your way! So circle up for a warm up.

    Various cadence:
    2 rounds Scantron stretch
    Side Lunge
    Windmills
    Nolan Ryan’s
    Peter Parker’s
    Mnt Man Poopers
    Parker Peter’s
    Forward Lunge Left leg with Arm circles
    Flap Jack
    SSH

    Grab a rock
    1st AMRAP (as many ROUNDS as possible)
    Thrusters (a.k.a. squat press) x 10
    Merkins x 10
    10 wall jumps or alternating step ups
    Lunge walk from tree to light pole
    Walk or run back
    This is 1 round – complete as many rounds as possible in 10 minutes

    Grab your rock relocate on the other side of the road – 4 rounds of Mary

    2nd AMRAP
    6 burpees
    Extended Curls x 10
    6 burpees
    Squat front raises x 10
    Bernie Sanders from tree to power pole
    Walk or run back
    That is one round – again complete as many possible in 10 minutes

    Rtn the rocks – 1 minute of plank to push ups

    COT

  • Don’t shiRt your pants – from Hokie

    79° and slightly breezy at The Scrum Resurrection location where 3 HIMs joined YHC for an easy as 1-2-3 workout

    Backwards Mosey from our shovel flag to the main entrance for The Jefferson Performing Arts Center

    *Warm-up (performed in cadence)
    * 15 reps of each exercise (all 4 count)
    – [ ] Slow VIGODA
    – [ ] Imperial Walkers
    – [ ] Shoulder Taps
    – [ ] Mountain Man Poopers

    * As easy as 1-2-3
    * 1 minute burpees
    * 2 min Hand Release Merkins
    * 3 mins Big Boy Sit-ups

    * Backwards mosey up ramp to side entrance

    * 1 minute burpees
    * 2 mins Dips
    * 3 mins Low slow squats

    * Lunge down ramp to main entrance area

    * 1 minute burpees
    * 2 minutes flutter kicks
    * 4 minutes Step ups

    * Backwards mosey back to shovel flag

    * 1 minute burpees
    * 2 mins X-Factors

    COT where we prayed for
    @Hawg and the Parten’s as they travel to see John
    Heath and his ongoing legal battles
    @Kenner Brah and his biopsy
    My M & 2.0 as they recover mentally from Sunday’s assault & battery on Jack

  • Sprinting, KoTing, and S&Ming – from Fracsac

    15 Pax showed up on a Tuesday morning to do one of those 3 things. 45 minutes later we did a CoT then hit Discipline is Destiny group. Just keep showing up!

    SYITG

  • The Forgotten Pair of 3 – from Bolt

    Hand Grenada did a fine job of Q’ing and a mediocre job of backblasting; see his BB for the deets. I’m merely here to get the three forgotten pax who did the beatdown and didn’t just rest their bodies against a wall and call it a workout…

  • Z90s and some pax did a pretend workout – from Bolt

    YHC dug back in the annals (reread the word without your filthy mind filter) of previous Qs for something I hadn’t done in a bit—Z90s it would be with the exercises tweaked and the modes of transportation unchanged. Like many NOLA pax who are also part of the coolest generation on planet Earth, I became an adult in the 90s so this workout title includes a Z for many 90s reasons: Z Cavaricci pants, it’s the end of the alphabet like we are the last generation to not suck, it’s the movement pattern we would follow around the bases, I could go on but on to the Thang which followed the usual warmorama stuff/soundtrack followed Morning Calls for the absent Rudy.

    Z90s: 5 thru 20 reps/4 exercises, mix movement between between bases each round, mosey back to home. Skip rule in effect and an all 90s club mix playlist which guaranteed penalty burpees; it was far worse than the playlist I actually created if u can believe that!

    Round 1 (bear crawl between home, 3rd, 1st, 2nd): burpee 5x, Cracker Jacks (frog>star jump>frog) 10x, merkin 15x, plank jacks 20x

    Round 2 (crab walk): burpee, air squats, Peter Parker, American hammer 2:1

    Round 3 (crawl bear): burpee, Bonnie Blair, Parker Peter, overhead air presses

    It was at this point I gave the pax the option for Qs choice or a fourth round and after some debate Frac and The Architect split, pushing Bogey to be the swing vote, opting for round 4 (would’ve been Mary plus decadie of death) and there was mention of dancing so I called an audible on the movement between bases.

    Round 4 (dance moves of pax choice): burpee, R/L side squats, diamond merks, mountain climbers 2:1

    Back to flag—NOT. At the flag I noticed we had two minutes to spare so not wanting to cheat the pax out of their money’s worth we ventured to the edge of the outside track shoulder to shoulder to put on a show for the Old Metairie muckity mucks: Humping of the monkey followed by pleasing of the wife followed by O rings just to solidify the theme for the obviously horrified onlookers.
    In retrospect, I either forgot how much Z90 can suck or it was a poor choice given all the workouts I haven’t been to recently and only kicked my own ass. I’ll let the pax chime in. Winded, honored, and grateful. COT.