F3 New Orleans

Tag: FracSac

  • Sweetness at the Ho – from Fracsac

    Westward Ho needed some love, so YHC stepped up and snagged the Q. Arrived a little early to get some burpees in, because that’s kind of what I do….
    Luckily Mahatma pulled up, keeping it from being the loneliest site.

    Disclaimer given.

    Warmup with usual stuff.

    The Thang:

    Pax 1 carry Sweetness across the parking lot, complete 10 burpees and carry her back.
    Pax 2 jump rope.
    Rinse and Repeat x 4

    4 corners with merkins, squats, Floyd Mayweathers, LBCs, lunges, big boi sit-ups, tin snips and dying cockroaches.

    COT

  • Renaissance Heavy Jam Fest – from Vagabond

    Warmup SSH, mtn climber, arm circles, etc

    Partner of 2 OYO as many as you can do while partner runs around NOMA with weight (music playing) – any exercise can be swapped for burpees

    1: low slow squats
    2: shoulder taps
    3: incline wife pleaser
    4: bob and weave
    5: alternating toe taps
    6: LBCs
    7: imperial squat walkers

    5 burpees

    5 min of Sunday Mornings

    4 mins of Mary to Zydeco

    COT

  • Lucky Bear vs Form Police – from King Kong

    Q vs Q on 1/7/2022

    Our Department had been receiving calls for months about a group of “guys” working out at 5:30 a.m in Kenner. The complaints were never about the noise or other nuisances, but they were about the form. He complained about the push ups…. (they call it “Merks or Merkins”), squats, lunges, burpees, and the list goes on. I recognized his voice every time he called. I couldn’t ignore his complaints anymore since he was so persistent and passionate about the form. As Lieutenant King Kong from the Form Police Department, I showed up on 1/7/2022 ready to hand out citations.

    Upon arrival, I noticed 13 other “guys” (they call themselves “Pax”) showed up promptly on a cold, chilly, windy morning. While I was introducing myself to the Pax and why I was there…. One of the Pax called himself “Rudy” aka Lucky Bear was challenging and questioning me like he was defending his turf.

    A Kenner Native named “Mambi” led a warm up with jumping jacks (they call it “side straddle hops”), windmills (aka “Abe Vigoda”), and a stretch named “grass grabbers.”

    I saw an opportunity to take the lead after Mambi was done with the warmups. I called out another Kenner Native – Mahatma to demonstrate the proper form of a Merkin…. then Gabrielle with squats. After the demonstrations, I led the Pax with 10 merkins, ran to the stop sign, did 10 squats, ran back. When I noticed bad forms, I blew my whistle and everyone had to do 5 burpees. We did that for about 2 rounds… then Lucky Bear interrupted me by telling the Pax to grab a “coupon”, which is a cinder block, and headed towards the levee.

    At the levee, we did something called Gorilla. With a coupon, PAX performed the following OYO without stop: 8 Curls For Girls, 8 Rows, 8 Overhead Presses, 8 Chest Presses, then drop coupon followed this up by a quick mosey over the levee and back. Rinse and repeat until Lucky Bear yelled “halt.” Afterwards, we did few rounds of king kong with the coupon up and down the levee until Lucky Bear yelled halt again.

    At this point, I’m getting tired of Lucky Bear’s nonsense… so I gathered the Pax away from the levee and redirected their focus back on form, but this time with the coupon. We did 7’s (one side with a manmaker, ran to the stop sign and did squats). About half way through, I was interrupted again by Lucky Bear. He must have loved my idea of 7’s. He instructed the Pax to do “Lucky 7’s” – 7 burpees follow with an exercise of his choice in one minute for seven minutes nonstop. I blew my whistle couple times when I noticed his bad form.

    By the end of this, Mambi had enough and halted the entire workout because the environment felt like Form Police versus Lucky Bear. The group voted that I was the winner…. didn’t even know I was in a competition. Now I was asked by the Pax to come back out to Kenner in a month and challenge someone else. They called this “Q vs Q.” I called this a sucker bet to get me out to Kenner at 5:30 a.m. Since I don’t mind getting back out here, only fitting for me to challenge the caller who filed all these complaints. He is Triple Shift.

    Side notes worth mentioning – Fracsac showed up in a Godzilla costume looking for King Kong. Willie is the one who gave me the idea to be Form Police. But the Oscar award winning acting and calling out Triple Shift…. That’s all me.

    Blessed and honored to lead a Q vs Q workout. SYITG.

    King Kong

  • All Day Baby……#2 – from Mahatma

    All Day Baby…..(it may take that long to read this thing)
    There is so much diversity in our Pax that if you stick around long enough you’ll learn something not only about various beatdowns but yourself as well!

    This leads us to the gloom of today…..
    YHC had an idea for incorporating a recent Rudy based beatdown and lore from recent grow rucks (and past military experiences) all designed to make a physically and mentally uncomfortable environment while pushing beyond a comfort zone.

    Short disclaimer then mosey to the great lawn circle up for a quick warm up of SSH, windmills, grass grabers, side lunges and self love.

    Then line up for craw-daddy’s where you start in a plank position bar crawl approx 10 yds perform 2 merkins and 2 double unders bear crawl another 10 yds then 4 and 4, bc then 6 and 6, bc then 8 and 8 now hold plank for the 6.

    We are getting warm now! Oh look hear 5 blocks set up in a line – all pax line up in plank position shoulder to shoulder on the left of the blocks now side step plank across and over until the last pax completes the line HOLD plank once complete we went back the other direction!

    Now warmed up the morning mission is given out pax divided into 4 groups 3 of 3 and 1 of 4 (Diddy Kong was the muscle of this group). Each group was to carry a block overhead at all time – if for any reason the block was lowered below eye level then the that team of pax had to do 3 burpees with instructions given we headed out for our objective – YHC left some additional blocks by the Stomp’s starting point to be retrieved – along the way YHC would have the groups stop for some varied exercises (blocks must be maintained in the overhead position). See a need for some change at some point YHC had PAX circle up and instructed that the blocks over head could be lowered yet there was some hesitancy by a few pax that thoughts this might be some evil trick to have them do burpees – not the case yet Rudy even requested YHC to make some ridiculous statement “Simon Says”. It was left up to his judgement to follow or not. From here we were close to a 1/2 point – so we pushed on – Once at the Stomp teams now retrieved 2 additional blocks that had to be farmer carried back with 1 Pax still keeping the other block over head. YHC realized he under estimated the strength of Vagabond and his gang as they seemingly toyed with their overhead block holding it with one hand while the rest of us grunted and mentally pushed through YET karma had her way when during an exchange their block dropped and so did they giving 3 punish burpees.

    As we were 1/2 way back Snooze all of as sudden remembered he had leave 15 minutes early putting his team of YHC and Frac to ponder the thought of carrying the blocks solo! Well YHC being selfish attempted to push the pace apparently giving the impression he was looking past his teammate Frac but with all the chirping from the normal suspects of Bogy and Rudy (maybe War Eagle too but he often got sidetracked as many millennials do looking at text on his phone while he was supposed to be working). Anyway YHC knew Fracs strength to carry on!

    Back at the great lawn we finished the adventure with some individual block exercises (and complaining) closing with some more block over block plank trains and 10 man makers.

    As we returned to the flag YHC requested the blocks be returned to his truck where Rudy was defiant until he he heard “Simon Says”.

    COT – prayers of gratitude and humility for serving others. Also recognizing the strength of joy in others as Tool is prepping for an 18 year birthday celebration for Speed-Racer.

    God Bless

  • The Four Horsemen of the Insurrection – from Rev Sox

    Only four arrived for the start of the Wally Run with YHC, Tenderloin, Vagabond, and Frac present. YHC gave a quick disclaimer announcing that this was F3 and it was time to run/ruck for the next 45 minutes. Frac, as the profound leader of F3 NOLA, announced that this Wally Run would be different from all others.

    Frac took control and led the Pax of 4 in the start of a long mosey to the Capitol Hill to storm the legislator in honor of Insurrection Day. His speech was so stirring. His words so poetic. His appearance so rugged. Tenderloin, Vagabond, and YHC were transfixed and began the mosey with urgency. The Wally Run Pax would forever be known as the Four Horsemen of the Insurrection. The Four Horsemen began the long 1,124 mile trek to Capitol Hill which would only take 370 hours based on Google predictions.

    Fortunately, Hawg arrived late to the Wally Run and missed Frac’s legendary speech. Armed with nothing but flip-flops and the legend of a WDSU news story, he called on the Four Horsemen to cease their foolish pursuit. Awakened from the fog of Frac’s momentous call to upheaval, the Four Horsemen retreated from their goal to arrive at the flag by 6:15am for the count-off and prayer.
    – Rev Sox

  • The Center of Attention – from Hawgcycle

    Conditions: Cloudy, 55 degrees, Humidity 81%, Wind 0.2 mph from the East

    Pax: The Bogé, Crypto-tron, The Champ, Pebbles, Lane Kiffin Fan Boy, Clayton Money, The Real Triple Shift, Extrinsic Muscles, The Black MABA, War Daddy, and YHC

    Mosey to the football field where YHC took his rightful place as the Center of Attention

    Warm-Up
    • SSH x 31, IW x 20, Don Quixote x 10
    • 20 Burpees OYO
    • Peter Parker x 15, Parker Peter x 20, Good Mornings x 10
    • 12 Burpees EMOM x 5
    • Forward Alternating Lunges x 10
    • 10 Burpees OYO
    • Backerds Alternating Lunges x 10…repeat with better form
    • 10 Burpees OYO

    The Thang
    • Jack Webb – Merkins:Air Presses, 1:2 -> 10:20
    • Right leg balancing (Tree Pose -> Table -> Morestead)
    • 10! (Merkins -> Lunges -> Big Bois)
    • Left leg balancing (Tree Pose -> Table -> Morestead)
    • Jack Webb – Squats:Bonnie Blairs, 1:2 -> 7:14
    • Hamstring Stretch

    Mary
    • LBC x 31, Left Crunch x 20, Right Crunc x 20, Dying Cockroach x 20, American Hammer x 10

    NMM
    I was a shy, introverted, simple, barefooted Arkansan a week ago. But after all of the media coverage, podcast shout outs, Instagram likes and Twitter retweets I have become quite accustomed to being the Center of Attention. I had everyone circle up (on me Belloq, in case you are wondering) for the warm-up and it felt so good that I stayed there the rest of the workout. It just felt natural to give the people what they want. I’m currently scheduled to be on the Roundtable Podcast this month. I’m fairly certain that this will spin-off into a weekly F3 podcast where I can wax poetic about the joy of running in flip flops, give my different product reviews for flip flops – feelgoodz vs. Locals, vs. that Reef flip flop with the built in bottle cap opener – The best place to take a leak in Pontiff Playground at 11:30 pm, etc….I have content for years.

    I’m also working with Scantron to create some NFTs to commemorate my flip flop 10Ks. Look for those to be dropping any day. You will be able to get a seat at the virtual auction table by writing a $100 check to my friend Cash. Small price to pay for a chance to buy image of me running in a pair of flip flops across your computer screen all day.

    There were some other things going on with the other guys at El Diablo, but honestly, I can’t remember what they were.

  • A little chill in the air – from Fracsac

    It was a balmy 36 degrees at the View with a cool north breeze creating a fear factor of 26 degrees, but still nowhere near the temps the pax in Fargo ND are experiencing…..

    Disclaimer given,

    Much needed Warmup :

    Typical stuff: SSH, IW, Arm circles

    The Thang

    Grab a coupon, do 10 reps of something and do burpees. Move to the next location, and do it again. Rinse and Repeat. Sometimes we ran from point A to B, sometimes we carried our coupons. Two things for sure:
    1. Completed 100 burpees
    2. 45 minutes total

    End in COT

    Coldest day of the year is no match for the elite of F3! Well, that really only goes for Kennah Brah and YHC…..

    SYITG

  • Speed Walker – from MacGyver

    7 PAX showed up Saturday morning to ring in a new year the only way we know how, with a fun and relaxed get together.

    We all got together at the flag and started Warmups, Abe Vigotas x10 Imperial Walkers x 12 Side Straddle Hops x22.

    Then we Indian ran to the front of the Art Museum for AYOP Burpies. Time limit was set by how fast Q could finish theirs.

    We then mozed over to the far side of Big lake for more AYOP Burpies, after that we finished the lake loop at the bridge and did another set of AYOP Burpies.

    At this point burpies and running were old news, and we wanted to keep things interesting so naturally we ran again to the back of the museum for relaxing break of 25x donkey kicks on the wall. After that we ran back towards the Great Lawn stopping at a garden bed for Dips X 12, Bulgarian slow squats X 12, dips X 12, squatsX 20, LBC X22, and Flutter Kicks X22.

    We then finished our trip over to the Great Lawn for a little bit of team work, everyone picked a misery buddy, then one man did Buripes while the other bear Crawled across the field. When the Bear Crawler finished they started Buripes and their buddy started to bear crawl across the field to reunite the pack. Once we were grouped up again we did a murkin ring of fire, followed by Crunchy Frogsx22 Dr. W’s X ( 12 I think) Scissor kicks x22 and Big Boy sit-ups X10. After that we mosied back to the flag for one last set of Buripes everyone was too tired for, then COT

    The following evening Q remembered to write their First BB, in doing so they are pretty sure the missed 1-2 pax who attended and are definitely sure they missed a few exercises and messed up some of the counts, but I guess that better BB’s will come with experience.

  • Rainy Day – MABA & Sunday Mornings – from Hokie

    On a gray rainy day, 7 Pax gathered under the entrance to NOMA for warm-O-rama

    Thank you Abacus, Catfish, Frac, Mall Cop, Pass interference , and Triple for joining me for a short
    Warm-A-Rama / Stretch-A-Rama of
    Arm Circles Forwards – IC x 10
    Arm Circles Backwards – IC x 10.
    And Spiderman Stretches under the entrance to NOMA before our mosey to the back of NOMA for 40 minutes of EMOM doing AMRAPs

    The MABA Thang

    1. MABA – 1 min AMRAP
    2. Various 1 minute recoveries such as low slow squats, forward lunges, backward lunges, big boi sit ups, planks, merkins,
    3. Sunday Mornings – 1 min
    4. Various 1 minute recoveries such as low slow squats, forward lunges, backward lunges, big boi sit ups, planks, merkins,

    Rinse & repeat for 20 minutes

    After 20 minutes, we took a lap around NOMA and then continued for another 8 minutes before moving to the fountain in front of NOMA

    For the last 10 minutes we did
    1. Burpees
    2. Left Leg Step ups
    3. Burpees
    4. Right Leg step ups
    5. Burpees
    6. Calf raises on NOMA stairs
    7. Left leg calf raises
    8. Right leg calf raises
    9-10 Two minutes of burpees

    We ranged from 105-175 burpees

    MABA!

    Thank you