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Tag: Grandma's House

  • Halfpipe – from Russo

    Pax of 6 this morning at not-quite-as-miserably-hot-and-humid Granny’s, including Jose10k, who YHC feels might have been inadvertently duped into “little or no running” because he saw YHC as Q.

    Warmup (10-15x IC)
    – Seal jacks
    – Air presses
    – Imperial walkers
    – Windmills
    – Arm circles
    – Self love

    Thing before the thang
    3 rounds of 10 freak nastys on the blue benches
    2 round of 10 step ups (2 is 1)

    We then moseyed through the woods to the tunnel of love, where YHC’s flashlight app finally worked for the first time since Bush was president (the broccoli hating one).

    Thang
    YHC called it “the halfpipe” for the tunnel’s resemblance to a skateboard halfpipe, or at least as close as we could get in south LA. I wanted to change into my Vision streetwear and chucks, but decided there was no time.

    Simple 4-3-4 reps of merkins, mosey down and back up between: 4 at the top, 3 mid pipe, 4 at the top again.

    Round 2 switched to Groiners and a 3-4-3 rep count.

    Mosey back to the pilot house and with around 10 minutes left, we did the thing after the Thang:

    Choose your own adventure: Pax chose option A: calf raises up and down the pilot house steps, where, among mumble chatter about accountant analytics, probabilities, and the pros and cons of choosing options A vs. B, YHC heard the best out of context quote so far this year: “Runners are the worst!!” Two thumbs up.

    Choose your own adventure continued with option B, a merkin wave of 6.

    We wrapped up with “the hands of time”, where pax does one leg raise and holds the low position until each person completes the rep (Rinse and repeat 6 times), and 10 “contractually obligated” crunchy frogs.

    COT time, including count, Name-o-Rama, announcements, and prayer, where we noted keeping all those traveling in our thoughts.

    Reminder about a busy third full week of July:
    21st: Gnarly Nutria
    22nd: Mixer
    24th: Thibodeaux visit to see Goose

    A thank you to the 5 folks pushing me today and letting me lead, and to the rest of you for continuing to be quality individuals.

    SYITG

  • Whole Lotta Mosey – from Akbar

    YHC arrived a little early to check the stairs up to the Pilot tower, making sure they were dry enough and no modification would be needed. Russo arrived and sat down to put on his shoes as Snapper walked up. Chewy brought an FNG, a Navy guy who’s on his way from California to Tampa. 5 it would be.

    Warm up x12: SSH, imperial walker, hillbillies, arm circles (f/b), self-love, 10 merkins OYO.

    Short mosey to the Pilot House stairs. 25 reps then run up and down the stairs until finished

    Werkins x50; Shoulder Taps x 100 (1-1)

    Lunge walk mosey to the end of the corridor for Hallelujah Squats (hands up in air) 25 each ,then slalom the length of the corridor and return. Rinse and repeat for 150 total reps.

    Lunge walk mosey to stage, circle up for Stone Mountains IC x20

    Mosey to the end of trailhead for Stirkins x 10 on the wall. Step up each leg, then an Irkin = 1

    Mosey to the gate for These Things. Waterpiks exercise of bodyweight triceps extensions leaning against the gate. He couldn’t think of a name for it and just called it These Things – and it stuck.

    Mosey back to the stairs for Mary, passing the wall by the bathrooms which always reminds me of a brutal Shooter beatdown. We took off our shirts, balls to the wall and then you had to put your shirt back on. I think only Cowbell and Jose10k accomplished it.

    Mary

    Back at the Pilot House for rinse and repeat of the start. Exercise x 25 reps, run up and down the stairs until finished.

    Wife Pleaser x 50, E2K x 100 (50 each knee)

    Circle up for hello dolly 3 ways. Low, mid, and high dolly’s x12

    1 minute lay on your back and stare at the sky

    Heels to Heaven x 10

    Count, Nameorama – Welcome FNG Yeah Yeah (because he says yes to everything).

    COT – Russo prayed us out thinking of Uncle Jimmy and Jose 10K’s mom.

    Til next gloom!

    Akbar

  • Nacho normal Grandmas house – from Shooter

    YHC arrived to nothing but lights and empty spaces at Granny’s.. Truth be told Q was hoping no one would post and he could slip back home to recover from the previous nights session at a local boxing facility. Recently Cowbell and Zoolander EHed YHC into giving it a shot and I must admit the work on the heavy bag with some common F3 mix of squats, Merkins, leg lunges, core, etc. etc. etc. certainly brings you to a different level of cardio… 🥵🥵 Of course the always regular Cowbell had to spoil my wrong intentions by rolling in right on time. Q heard him mention the previous day how he needed a 35 min run today at reasonable pace 🥴🥴 between 7:50-8:50 and since that is out of my comfort zone YHC obligingly instructed Cowbell of what would take place, at which he gladly returned to his truck for a shoe change. As he is completing the shoe swap Nacho rolls in. As he walks up I explain the intentions of my Q at which he states when I saw the Q I figured we would do some running. Just to be clear Nacho YHC is not on the level of said Jose10k, Waterpik, Bushwacker, Steve, Just in Time, Hammer or perhaps Turbo Tax… In fact quite frankly if not for F3 I would intentionally NOT expose myself to such labors, but one must admit the accountability and challenges issued by all of these men throughout some point of my journey with F3 has brought me out of that mental fog to lace them up and get after it.. Thank you for that F3 brethren..

    Brief warmup 10IC Toe Touches, self loves, Butt kicks, Left and Right leg swings..
    Cowbell set the clock and off we went journeying down to Lakeshore drive hooking a left to the boat launch and down to Florida and returned the same. Along our Mosey ran into Garfield out in the darkness who asked about future lunch plans with the PAX. Hammer if your reading this backblast drop that neighborly EH for our next luncheon at which I am sure he would oblige. After returning did 2 core exercises of Left over Right and Right over Left crunches 10IC and closed with hands to heels 10IC.

    Spoke of upcoming events such as Narley Nutria which looks as though we will be short of many ringers.. Numbers appear to be our only chance and the attendance of Phat Johnson which many of you don’t know but he could be up there with In Time to help out the PAX the 3rd Wednesday in July at 9PM..

    YHC closed with COT
    Appreciate the post Cowbell and Nacho!!
    And until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼

  • PARKOUR!!!! – from Hogs Breath

    Through the thick swamp air, three brave souls began a journey over, under and through obstacles at Grandma’s house.

    As YHC planted the shovel flag into the soggy ground, a lone Russo joined in. So two pax began a

    WARM UP

    10 IC toy soldiers
    10 IC mountain man poopers
    10 IC Cornhoulies

    Followed by imperial walkers and butt kicks to “Baba O’Riley” by The Who. As we approached the last 45 seconds Nacho Libre pulled up!

    The Thang:

    Taking inspirations from Michael Scott [the office] we “Parkour!!!” throughout every obstacle YHC found, we would climb, jump, or duck under. Things such as bear crawl across the bench’s, jump over bike stands. Slalom throughout the support posts, then bear crawl through the support posts. A few wounded animals along the parking lot curb. Up the stairs, but under the stair railings!

    After we had enough Parkour we circled back up to perform a burpee-waterfall to “Thunderstruck” by AC / DC each time a “thunder” was called in the song one pax would perform burpee’s while others would SSH. This was performed in a roar sting fashion when each “Thunder” was sung. Nacho and YHC got stuck with several long “Thunder” breaks….

    The final Mary was to “Flower” by Moby. To those unfamiliar the song has the phrase “bring Sally up” and “bring Sally down” we performed this to sit ups [originally planned with Merkins but at this point our arms were smoked!] moving up or down in accordance to the lyrics of the song.

    We closed out with prayers to be good leaders throughout our communities. Thank you for giving me the chance to lead throughout these early gloomy and humid mornings.

  • Grandma had a long, rough weekend – from Carpool

    In town to visit grandma, but no one was home at grandma’s house. So YHC did a solo beat down memory lane.

    Warmarama
    25 SSHs IC
    15 IWs IC
    10 Abe Vigodas IC
    10 grass grabbers IC
    10 little baby arm circles IC
    Flapjack
    10 big baby arm circles IC
    Flapjack
    Run around the block

    The Thang
    11s – hand-release merkin burpees and Lane Staleys (IE downhill burpees) with 50 steps bear crawl in between each round, switching to 26 lunge steps halfway through)

    Run around the block

    10 irkins IC
    10 derkins IC
    10 freak nastys IC

    25 calf lifts IC

    12 rounds up the steps

    5 irkins IC
    5 derkins IC
    5 freak nastys IC

    TAPs to all my Northshore friends. Hope you guys are well.

  • – from Bushwacker

    As I stood in the gloom and watched the the headlights roll in, I thought about all of the “regulars” I was going to see at Granny’s. And when the PAX circled up, including Chewy doing his best Cowbell impression, I didn’t see ANY regulars…all I saw were a group of HIMs ready to start their day off with an offering to the gods of sweat and pain! And thoug YHC brought every excuse as to why this beatdown would be “a little less intense”, the PAX brought their A game all the same.

    WARMORAMA

    All IC x10:

    SSH
    High Knees
    Butt Kicks
    …? (sorry I went on to lead PT for my fellow recruits and have become confused)

    THANG
    But anyhoo…We broke into groups of 2 and reported to either the benches, the pillars or the stairs. Different exercise at each station and rotate several times.
    Benches – Freak Nasties
    Pillars – Squats
    Stairs – Bunny Hops

    SECOND EVOLUTION

    Benches – 100s
    Pillars – Tuck Jumps
    Stairs – run up, 5 burpees, around tower, 5 burpees and down

    THIRD EVOLUTION

    Benches – Freddy Mercuries
    Pillars – Lunge Walks
    Stairs – run up and down twice

    COT

    Count and name, with Chewy praying us out. Thanks for following the gimp of my lead gents.

    See yall at the H8!……?

  • What’s Tabata with you? – from Russo

    While I realize YHC is not the first to use that phrase when describing a pseudo-HIIT beatdown, it was certainly appropriate as a superstar pax of 6 knocked on Granny’s door this morning under pleasant (albeit warming) temps.

    Warmup (all IC, 12x to 20x)
    Seal jacks
    Grass grabbers
    Self love
    Toe touches
    Imperial walkers
    Cherry pickers

    Thang
    Trying to mix it up some, YHC deliberately stayed away from all things “Tunnel” and “Pilot House”, opting instead to rock around the block and give old Mandeville (well, at least every car that just HAD to turn onto Monroe) a Tabata show, 45 seconds at a time.

    Topics of chatter somehow included Humboldt State University, the date of April 20th, and Spongebob Squarepants.

    Standard mosey for one or two blocks in between the following, not necessarily in order or to scale:
    – 8 count bodybuilders
    – squat jumps
    – rower sit-ups
    – plankjacks
    – lunges
    – leg raises
    – shoulder tap merkins
    – suicide squats
    – hello dollys
    – T merkins
    – gas pumps
    – Peter Parker’s
    – LBCs
    – Calf raises
    – butt kicks
    – freak nastys
    – step ups (nicely in sync from Chewie, Zoo, and YHC)

    A mosey back home and a quick slalom through Granny’s columns closed us out.

    COT, Name o Rama, announcements, and a prayer from Hammer wrapped it up.

    Thank you to each of the gents posting this morning. It was another fantastic crew.

    Looking forward to Thursday’s F3/FIA mixer (6:30 Covington trailhead) and the Zoorich Classic on Saturday. SYITG

  • Moonshine? – from Russo

    Pax of 7 had a party at Granny’s this morning. After HogsBreath noted a lack of prior week participation, the call went out and was answered this week!

    Party started promptly at 5:15 (there were no fashionably late arrivals) with:

    Warmup (All IC, between 10x and 20x)
    – sealjacks
    – self love
    – goofballs
    – toe touches
    – cherry pickers
    – imperial walkers

    Pre-thang
    YHC loves granny’s house because of the layout. Stairs and the pilot house are one of my favorite places to do something a little different on occasion, so we started with something I’m going to call the Moonshine: 3 steps up, 2 down, until we reach the pilot house. 20 monkey humpers at the top (with no sunrise yet, that’s the “moonshine” part), then back down 3 steps, up 2.

    Round 2 replaced the 3 up, 2 down model with 3 calf raises on each step (because Math in the gloom is hard).

    Pax moseyed to the tunnel for Thang:
    A modified Dora 1-2-3 where Dora learned how to divide by 2:

    – 50 shoulder tap merkins
    – 100 squats
    – 150 crunchy frogs
    – Partner moseyed down to center tunnel and back peddled back up

    Round 2 (modified until the clock ran out)
    – plankjacks
    – lunges
    – Hello Dollys
    – karaoke in between

    A mosey back through the woods to our start wrapped us up.

    COT, name o rama, announcements:
    – F3/FIA get together next Thursday 6:30PM led by Bushwhacker
    – Potentially lunch on Friday
    – Zoorich Classic on Saturday

    Prayer closed us out.

    A thank you to the truly All Star team that posted this morning and one in particular to HogsBreath for the extra push. Until we do it again, SYITG.

  • To, Too, and Two – from Hogs Breath

    Showing up to Grandma’s house, no other cars dotting the lot, at 0512. I got out, looked around and began to hum to Eric Carmen’s “All By Myself”.
    So I began what any good pax would do, and began to lead myself!
    As I began my 100 ssh, a single light of hope appeared, Cowbell arrived sharply at 0518!!!

    So the two yutes began a rousing workout of

    WU /
    20 ic imperial walkers
    20 good mornings

    Run to tunnel
    Set of 11’s with merkins and squats on the tunnel incline

    50 step ups
    25 freak nasty
    Switch legs 50 freak nasty

    Jacob ladder, where one pax ran to the tower performed a burpee, then ran back for some Mary, and the second pax woood then run. The burpees continued in an escalating fashion, until cowbell sun Daley exclaimed “wait you were increasing the burpees the whole time?!?!?”
    The Mary performed at the bottom of the tower was;
    Lbc
    Flutter kicks
    Big boy
    Gas pumps
    Oblieks

    Cot (which lets be honest with two, is a big circle of trust!)

  • Back peddlin’ – from Russo

    Pax of 4 ventured to Granny’s in Goldilocks weather (not too hot, not too cold) to see how much sweat YHC could drum up.

    Early mumble revolve around basketball, podcasts, 80s rock, and how Soundgarden has been around for almost 30 years now.

    Warm-up (all IC)
    SSH (20)
    Cherry pickers (15)
    Self love (15)
    Toe touches (15)
    Torso twists (15)
    High knees (20)

    Pre-thang 1 (3 rounds, OYO)
    Freak Nastys and Step ups (2 is 1)
    15x, 10x, 5x

    Pre-thang 2

    Bear crawl slaloms through the columns at Granny’s, 5 calf raises for each step up the pilot house, bear crawl around said pilot house, 5 calf raises for each step down, back pedal slalom (it’s a thing) back to start.

    Mosey to the tunnel of love for Thang:
    4 merkins, mosey down the tunnel, 3 merkins, back pedal up the tunnel, 4 merkins. Rinse and repeat four times.

    Mosey back to start for a quick round of Mary: a few more freak nastys, durkins, crunchy frogs IC (requisite since Cowbell posted), 6 inch drill IC (requisite with YHC), hands to heels IC, leg raises IC.

    COT, name o rama, and prayer to close.

    Reminder about both the Northshore convergence this Saturday and F3/FIA get together later in the month (4/29 @ 6:30 PM)

    Thank you to the Pax for pushing me, there were some superstars out there. Until we do it all again, SYITG!