F3 New Orleans

Tag: Catfish

  • Folsom Prison Blues – from Rudy

    21 PAX gathered in the gloom – 1 DR visitor from Katy TX (Happy Meals) and 2 more of the Chips brood – welcome Chip and Dale, his 9 year old identical twins! (also joining were the other 2 Chips boys – Frito Lay and Knucklehead. What a name — “Knucklehead”!!!)

    6:30 strikes and after a disclaimer we were off to the rocks. Limber up with some stretches and low impact activities (Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies), then some SSH. We had to restart that after explaining to Maytag how a “cadence” works. Oh, thanks for joining late Mahatma and DAX.

    Non-stop chatter from Heisenberg and Vagabond earned a quick 5 burpee penalty. Then go grab a rock.

    YHC grabbed a rock that proved to be way too big. But we’ll get to that.

    Deck-o-Death: start plowing through the deck with Overhead Press, Curl, Row and Squat. One variant – doing 2, 3 or 4 of any suit barely seems worth the trouble. So when those cards were flipped, we’d do 10 burpees, 20 Peter Parkers or 30 LBS instead. FracSac accused YHC of planting the deck with multiple King of Spades. WRONG. Half way through, Hawgcycle noticed that YHC was struggling – so he snuck in to replace my rock with a mere pebble that he’d been using. Shamed, but thankful…

    7:00am – time to call the deck off (half way through give or take) and mosey to the Mini to gather up some bricks. Didn’t quite have enough for everyone – figure it out.

    Partner up on the Great Lawn for a Dora-Ish thing. 3 rounds. PAX 1 (timer) runs back and forth with the rock while PAX 2 exercises. Flip. Rinse and Repeat. First round: PAX 2 does Brick-pees. Second round: PAX 2 does FLoyd Mayweathers (with brick). Third round: PAX 2 does Sit Ups. Rounds change on a timer, not on a count – so everyone just keeps going.

    7:20 – time for the last item. 56 Years ago today, Johnny Cash recorded Folsom Prison Blues live at the Folsom Prison. So to honor the man in black, we’ll do Ring of Fire while listening to Cocaine Blues, Dirty Old Egg-Suckin’ Dog and other hits. First round with Merkins, Second round with Squats, Third round with Leg lifts.

    And that got us to 7:30. Back to the flag for a COT. Naming of Chip and Dale might have been the FASTEST FNG naming I’ve ever been associated with. “I like Disney Land” said one of ’em. And that was that.

    Intentions for sick and suffering F3 PAX and friends – Bongo’s wife, Mayhem’s friends the Schaff family in particular (but not alone).

    YHC took us home with a reflection about Romans 7. Then off to coffee!

  • Frisbee Burpee Blast – from Fracsac

    10 pax showed up to kick off Sunday with a bang and found improvement through consistency.
    With the flag planted and the disclaimer given, face the bacon for a warmup at 0630. End the warmup with 10 x 8 count body builders.

    11s on the steps of NOMA. Burpees and squats.

    Frisbee fun around museum. A drop means rolling the die for surprise exercises. First drop came pretty quick with 15 burpees coming up on the die.
    Continue around changing to 5 burpees penalty and fitting in 3 x Sunday Mornings at the back wall.
    Ended with 105 burpees and 10 pax begging for more. Sorry boyz, time is up.

    COT followed by Coffeteria.

    SYITG

  • Forgot the deets – from Vagabond

    Posting backblast 2 weeks after – we did a bear crawl relay and pax choice of exercise. Forgot the rest. Just wanted to get pax attendances recorded.

  • Frisbee and Burpees – from Fracsac

    The Mothership happened today with a visit by Goose from Thibodaux. Ballast, Heisenberg, Revit, Catfish, Bongo, Dax, Tool, Kennah Brah, Squints, and YHC brought us to 11.

    Disclaimer made, then mosey.

    Warmup at the peristyle with some regular stuff and included TIE Fighters. #IYKYK
    Ended warmup with a mental challenge. Count to 16 SSH in cadence than to 22 in silence. Penalty for non compliance was 10 burpees. Spoiler alert: we did 10 burpees.

    Move to great lawn for variation of BLIMPS to recognize NDSU in FCS playoffs. 5 more burpees ‘cause the pax called their mascot a buffalo.
    1 cone in the middle with 5 cones on the outside. Start with 5 burpees in the middle and then bear crawl to an outside cone to do next exercise. Always return to middle cone for 5 burpees.
    10 Lunges, 15 IW, 20 ‘mericans, 25 PJ, 30 squats.

    Mosey for a while with a Bison run. Last man sprints to front of column and tosses frisbee to last man, continue until all get a shot.

    Ring of fire in front of sculpture garden entrance. ‘Mericans, squats and then monkey humpers (just as a nun was walking by – not my best day).

    Mosey and pass the frisbee across at least 4 pax. 5 burpees for the one drop.

    11s at the bridge behind Cafe du Monde. Jump squats on one side and V-ups on the other side.

    Some frisbee practice at Pops band stand with SSH.

    Finish with some Mary then back to the flag.

    55 burpees total. #ironsharpensiron

    CoT

    SYITG

  • NOT Easy Like Sunday Morning! – from Triple Shift

    The Commodores released a song called “Easy” 1977 that has a classic line in it that goes like this, “I’m easy like Sunday morning.” Well, the one thing I discovered in F3 NOLA, is that easy workouts are not things that motivate me to get up in the gloom. To me, Easy is sleeping in, overeating, staying up late, foregoing that hard conversation, etc. Simply put, easy is being indifferent or passive. Conversely, I’m not saying that you should always look to redline your heart rate at every workout but it’s not my natural inclination to do hard things. So, under that mindset of creating a hard workout, I presented the following.

    Warmup – Low Slow Squats, Low Slow Merkins, Imperial Walkers, SloVigodas, and Grass Grabbers

    The Thang – Perform 30 air squats, 25 V-Ups, 20 Body Rows (flat portion of hand rail where you are inverted and bring your chest to the bar), 15 No Cheat Merkins (hand release merkin with two shoulder taps), 10 Bulgarian Split Squats (each leg by the fountain), 5 Burpees and then run a ¼ mile. Rinse and repeat a total of 4 times. Maytag killed that workout and picked up the six!

    COT – Countoff, Namerama and gave thanks to God for his gift of physical health so we can help others in need.

  • Saders Beat Jesuit 15-3 … Rummel beat John Curtis in Overtime – from Hokie

    October 7th 7 of Diamonds

    Temperature in the 60’s greeted one FNG (Cabin Boy) , one down range (Face Plant from F3 Orlando) poster and 8 NOLA Pax

    After brief disclaimer we moseyed to Peristyle for warmups of

    15 SSH
    3 burpees
    27 hillbillies … the rumbles from Pax were heard “insinuating” to FNG the Q forgot to utilize voice inflection to stop at 20 or 25 and thus inflected to stop at 27

    Mosey to benches for
    21 four count step ups

    After YHC instructed Pax to report to 1st corner shelter of great lawn, the Q “educated said Pax” the validity of the 15-3 and 27-21 counts honoring the Two football big games last night

    BM beat Jesuit 15-3

    Rummel beat Curtis 27-21 in overtime

    The Thang …
    7 of diamonds with 4 corners of great lawn

    Mode of transportation between corners

    Mosey long right side of great lawn
    Lunge short side by Storyland
    Backwards mosey long side by City Putt
    Backwards lunge short side by peristyle

    Step ups at benches waiting on 6 to finish each round so we all would start & finish each round together

    Round 1 – 7 Burpees in each corner

    Round 2 – 14 HR Honest Shoulder Tap Merkins each corner

    Round 3 – 21 four count Star Toe Taps each corner

    Round 4 – in honor of Jesuit’s 3 points 28 three move honest big boys with left leg to chest, right leg to chest and then big Boi sit up

    Mosey back to flag for COT

    Thanks for allowing YHC the opportunity to Q

    Hokie
    Cabin Boy (FNG- lives in Pensacola)
    Face Plant (F3 Orlando)

    Bogey
    Catfish
    FracSac
    Heisenberg
    Thighs
    Tool
    Triple Shift

  • KISS – from Hokie

    9 Pax showed up to see Vagabond’s bag of fun

    Keeping it simple just two exercises
    100 Merkins
    90 Squats
    80 Merkins
    70 squats
    60, 50, 40…

    Between sets
    Backwards run to irrigation then run back to the bacon

    As always closed with Sunday mornings

  • PYDHY – from Vagabond

    Warmup

    Circle up – challenge to see how far we can push ourselves beyond mental limits

    PYDHY – “Push yourself don’t hurt yourself”
    do as many as you can side straddle hops facing outward so you can see other pax – stop when you get tired (not speed but total number)
    do as many as you can shoulder taps – stop when you can’t do any more

    When done turn around LBCs in your own
    Was the number surprising to you?
    We’ll do again another time – remember your number

    Partner up

    throw frisbee, kick ball to each other back and forth 10x each
    frisbee touches or ball bounced ground, 5 burpees/3 8 cts

    Peristyle benches 15 reps
    Squats while waiting

    Dips
    Derkins
    Irkins
    R leg step ups
    L leg step ups
    R Hungarian split squat
    L Hungarian split squat
    Incline wife pleaser
    Plank walk up/downs

    Ring of fire
    Bonnie Blairs
    Al Gore

    Mary

    Great lawn – soccer

  • Doin the Do – from Vagabond

    Warmup

    Great Lawn
    Jump ropes partner up
    1 pax jump ropes while other runs to middle of field to come, 1 burpee and back peddles
    5x

    Plank
    1 pax runs to cone with rock rifle carry drops rock
    Pax 2 runs to get rock brings it back
    5x

    Bear crawlf
    pax crawls until he can’t while other pax walks with him doing curls to end and back of great lawn x2

    Peristyle
    plank walks with hands
    plank walk with feet
    balls to wall shoulder taps
    People’s chair

    Front of peristyle alternate every bench
    10 dips
    10 alternating step ups

    Mary
    COT

  • Yippee! – from Rudy

    7 PAX (5 on time, 2 stragglers) at the Mothership for the annual Yippee Bag! Hot Hot Hot.

    Warm Up on the field. No one seems brave enough to tackle the Yippee Bag as we go through stretches, some SSH, some IW and some Peter Parkers. OH WAIT. Catfish breaks the ice and pulls the “20 Low Slow Squats for the Q”. So while YHC does that, Catfish leads the Peter Parkers.

    The Thang

    11s, with Sit Ups and Jump Squats. Intermingled are Lunges for the Q, Ring of Fire, Balast dares to reach in and immediately regrets it, as he pulls the “10 8 count for You” card. Bongo draws the “Tag” card, and its on! Game of Tag while PAX continue trying to complete 11s (El Guapo is still it). Snooze draws the “1 lap for a PAX” and nominates himself. I guess he thinks running is better than Jump Squats.

    Finish up, close up the bag and mosey over to the Rock Pile. Grab a Rock.

    First thing with the rock is a repeat of Friday’s rifle carry. The distance was shorter – maybe 200 yards? To the stop sign and back. Go!

    After that, circle up for some Press/Curl/Row combos, along with some Yippee treats. Catfish defeats RevIt in a “Hold your breath” challenge. Bongo and Catfish get Wacky Jacks x20. YHC gets 20 BBSU. And a partner-up back-to-back Peoples Chair. Put the rocks back, head to the museum.

    At the museum side stairs – Tooth Fairy is the timer (increasing Irkins up the steps), while another group does peoples chair and another does LBCs. Interruptions for 10 8 count BBs for everyone, then 1 lap around the museum. Mosey back to the flag.

    COT: prayers for Bongo’s co-worker and a cancer diagnosis. Continued prayers for Saban’s mother and family.

    Thanks everyone for putting up with YHC during the birthday week Q bonanza!