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  • 610 Stomp #162 – Run!

    Late Monday, a request for a 610 Stomp Q went unanswered, so YHC committed to taking it, which would also make sure I got my hind end out there! RY mentioned that we might have an exchange student posting Down Range, but the late night temptations of New Orleans probably contributed to the Fartsack. Regardless the reason, no visitor today. YHC arrived to the AO with three minutes to spare and 5 other usual suspects of F3 looking lost in the gloom. With two shovel flags planted and a working streetlight, YHC gave the minimal version of the disclaimer, and said to be back at 0610. We ran……
    Smooth, Rudy, Cowbell, and El Guapo took off way ahead as expected. Thankfully Heisenberg was there to keep YHC company. Not that we were slow. 4.2 miles in 38 minutes, equivalent to a 9:04 pace, is nothing to sneeze at! That sub-9:00 pace is right around the corner!!

    Mary
    Flutter kicks IC x 20
    Hello Dolly IC x 20
    Tin Snips IC x 15
    LBC’s IC x 30
    Crunchy Frogs IC x 10

    Seal the deal with 10 Burpees OYO!

    COT

    Count-off, Name-O-Rama, Announcements (Convergence the 13th), Intentions, and closed with a prayer.

    NMM
    We somehow brought our numbers from 6 to 7 at the COT. Hawgcycle rode his bike to the Stomp, but it was apparent his ETA was a little off. Regardless, he got some good miles in, and still rode his bike home! Well done!!!
    There are lots of opportunities to Q the Stomp. Feel free to change things up, or keep it traditional. Step up and Lead! Remember, leading a workout is how you give back to F3!

    SYITG

  • Sparring with a Hawg in the Gloom

    YHC arrived to the Fight Club with hopes that the River Ridge/Kenner F3 men would finally start to come out for a morning beatdown and he was let down as 5:30am came up on his watch and he stood alone at the base of the levee. It looked like this was going to be the morning when YHC did some shadow boxing at the Fight Club.

    He looked like a crazy man saying the disclaimer to no one in the dark and started the warm-up.

    SSH – 20

    Arm Circles – 20 forward and 20 backwards

    At this point Hawg came strolling in to help save YHC from his first dancing idiot F3 workout. Like a seasoned pro, he dove right into the warm-up without need of explanation.

    Real Freddie Mercury – 20

    Hillbillies – 20

    Windmill – 20

    With the warm-up complete, the Pax took off down Reverand Richard Wilson Dr. to workout at the Buddy Lawson Playground for the first Fight Club field trip. Once arriving at the field, YHC took advantage of the football field for a round of F3 suicides.

    Run 1/4 length of the field and stop for 10 burpees

    Run back to start, down 1/2 length of the field and stop for 20 jump lunges

    Run back to start, down 3/4 length of the field and stop for 30 merkins

    Run back to start, down full length of the field and stop for 40 big boy sit-ups.

    Run back to start

    Since this is the final week of regular season baseball, YHC wanted to honor the 2018 MLB season with a short game of Plankball. Plankball = run the bases and stop at each base for a plank exercise done together in cadence.

    1st base – 20 Plank jacks

    2nd base – 20 Peter Parkers

    3rd base – 20 Annies

    Home – 10 Nolan Ryans on each arm

    1st base – 20 Parker Peters

    2nd base – 20 Mountain Climbers

    3rd base – 20 Merkins

    Home – 10 Nolan Ryans on each arm

    We moseyed back to the boxing statues to finish off some with some core and leg workouts

    American Hammer – 20

    Wife Pleasers – 20

    Penguins – 20

    Flutterkicks – 20

    Dying Cockroach – 20

    Rocky Balboa – 20

    Channing Tatums – 20

    Tatum Channings – 20

    Incline Merkins – 10

    We counted off, called our names, YHC made announcements that were half for F3 and half for Grace Community Bible Church since the entire Pax are members of the Church. We circled up for a sweaty side hug of man and called it a day. Thanks for the sparring session Hawg. We will back in Kenner on October 3rd! Don’t forget to mark your calendars since Amnesia will be leading his first real Q.

     

    -Rev Sox

  • F3 Mobile Launch – Saving the Best for Last

    Four New Orleans Pax descended upon Mobile as the final round of guest Qs.  Here was our line-up:

    Gabrielle – A beast of a man.  He’s helped lead an Uptown resurgence as those around him strive to achieve similar looking biceps.

    Jingle Vader – The name says it all.  A stalwart of F3 New Orleans.  No one has attended more workouts than this High-Impact Man.

    Rev Sox – A long time hold-out, but ever since he was finally coerced into posting at an F3 workout he’s been afire.  He is single-handedly responsible for bringing F3 back to America’s City.

    YHC – Unfortunately, I’ve really let myself go.  I don’t even own shoes anymore.  If only the Men of Mobile (MOMs) could have seen me in my heyday.

    Just before 0700 we introduced ourselves to our 3 native cohorts, YHC provided the disclaimer and we were off on a short exploration of this great AO.  I can’t say that we rode into Mobile with all the fury and fight of the Four Horseman that Grantland Rice made famous, but I can say that the two jogging stroller moms did peer once or twice at the bewildering panorama spread on the green plain below.  (Shout out to Rudy).

    Warm-up

    The Mobilites are on their own next week so YHC spent a little time going over how to count and then gave them the opportunity to lead some exercises in cadence.

    SSH x 10 (YHC); SSH x 10 (Plunge); Imperial Walkers x 10 (Sludge); Squats x 10 (Boots);

    Then we talked about saying recover when it’s time to get up…and if you want everyone to stay in plank, don’t say recover:  Peter Parkers x 15; Plank Jacks x 15; Parker Peters x 15…recover.

    Then we went over some different types of cadences:

    Tempo Merkins x 15 (3 counts down – 1 count up); 8 count Body Builders* x 10; Jack Webb (2-count cadence) up to 10.

    *I totally fouled up the body builders.  I knew I had the merkin and plank jack backwards after the first one, but I owned it and kept trucking with supreme confidence, as if I this were the way they are supposed to be done.  Fortunately, I brought along 3 men from New Orleans that were all quick to point out I was wrong.

    The Thang

    The Q was passed to Rev Sox.  During our two and a half hour planning session the night before, we had decided Rev Sox would Q some 11s.  However, during introductions, we learned the Mobilenniums had already done 11s.  Not to be deterred, we flipped to Appendix E of our game plan and chose plan C.3 – Global Warming.

    All pax in a circle holding an Al Gore.  Pax #1 starts 5 burpees.  When he gets to burpee #3, the pax to his right starts 5 burpees, so on and so forth around the circle twice.

    We then moseyed to one of many open fields where there were some benches.  Chong-Li delivered an epic beatdown during the New Orleans launch almost 4 years ago that included something we named the Red Hot Chili Pepper.  He did it under the I-610 overpass in City Park, I assume because he saw a bunch of tables and benches there.  1) Who would think that people would want to picnic under an interstate overpass? 2) Who would want to work out on abandoned picnic tables covered in bird feces?  Fun fact:  It’s been 4 years since the New Orleans Pax have worked out under that overpass.

    This was a modified version of the original Chili Pepper (in cadence).

    Channing Tatums x 16; Decline Merkins x 8; Tatum Channings x 16; Incline Merkins x 8;

    Channing Tatums x 12; Decline Merkins x 6; Tatum Channings x 12; Incline Merkins x 6;

    Channing Tatums x 8; Decline Merkins x 4; Tatum Channings x 8; Incline Merkins x 4;

    Channing Tatums x 4; Decline Merkins x 2; Tatum Channings x 4; Incline Merkins x 2

    Then it was on to the middle of the field where we circled up for half of a Dirty MacDeuce.

    JV on Q – Nolan Ryans (left hand down) x 12; dying cock roaches x 12; Bobby Hurleys x 12 – 1 lap.

    Gabrielle on Q – Arm Circles (6 forward, 6 back); Flutter Kicks x 12; Squat Jacks x 12

    This left us just enough time to play a little F3 Ultimate.  On each change of possession, the team losing possession must do 2 merkins, play doesn’t stop until someone scores.  Team that gets scored upon must do 5 burpees and sprint to the other end of the field.  YHC picked teams as I paired myself with the 3 Mobilesexuals.  I chose well as we thrashed the New Orleanians, scoring 3 times in about 4 minutes.  One might say we won because we outnumbered them 4 to 3, but I’m pretty sure we won because Plunge was on our team.  He may have been able to beat us 1 on 6.

    That was it.  We gathered our flip flops and headed back to the flag, arriving a couple of minutes late…Don’t ever let that happen again.    We enjoyed COT and then headed out for coffeeteeria.

    Naked Man Moleskin

    • Thanks to F3 Mobile for inviting us to take part in their launch.  We all thoroughly enjoyed getting to know these men.  I don’t know about the rest of Mobile, but these three guys are top notch.  They are going to do some great things in this city.
    • Rev Sox, who hasn’t been to a Saturday workout since his FNG posting felt like he was working out in the middle of the day with the 0700 start.  It’s much brighter at 0700 than 0530.
    • I was more than thrilled to see Boots’ choice of footwear.  Shoes may be the standard F3 attire, but who says that’s right?
    • Mobile is set up for success with both the AO and the coffee shop.  The AO has a ton of potential.  I didn’t see a place to do pull-ups, so someone may need to take that into their own hands and provide a solution.  Not a lot of inclines either, so you may need to get creative there, but there are tons of open fields, a pavilion, benches, etc.  The coffee shop was a local spot and had plenty of room.  It also had a stage, which opens up lots of possibilities.

  • 610 Stomp #160 – Going Back to Our Roots

    We got back to our roots this Tuesday….Bayou Root (cause the original route is scary) run 6 minutes, enjoy one minute filled with burpees (preferably 10) and rest, then rinse and repeat until the 45 minutes is up.

    If you enjoying running, come out to the Dome Patrol on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month.  We meet at the corner of Poydras and LaSalle and take in the the sights, sounds, and smells of the Quarter and Downtown.

    Plans are in the making for an Uptown run on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month…follow GroupMe for details.

    Thanks,

    Hawg

  • 110 Floors 9/11 Remembrance Stair Climb

    Well – I wanted to sign us up for a Stair Climb to commemorate 9/11 so a few months ago I contacted a group that does one at the Hyatt.  They told me only first responders can do it – so I decided we would do our own stair climb at our Friday spot at WPM.

    The 11o Floors were the number of floors that First Responders and Firefighters climbed to get to people at the top of WTC in NYC on 9/11/2001.  I can’t imagine doing that in full gear with the stress of the scenario playing out – not to mention the heat and the weight of the gear.  Tclaps to Landing Strip, Peppa and Hawg for bringing their RUCK gear.  I think one more PAX brought their gear.

    We did a quick MOSEY to the base of WPM and immediately got to work trying to get our 16 trips up.

    It was much harder than I thought it would be.  I actually only got to 14 complete reps.

    All of the PAX in the first stairwell completed the activity.

    Tclaps to BAM from Winston Salem who actually did a stair climb on 9/11.  So he did it twice!

    We had our guy Carlton post again but then vanish mid workout – I suggest Copperfield for his F3 name–

    For he is a master of illusion.  (or perhaps GOB pronounced JOB)

    Thanks again for letting me attempt this reflection.  Someone gave me an idea for doing that at Champion Square next year and I think that might be a better location.

    See you in the gloom!

    RY

  • Round #2 – A Step Up

    Likely that it was actually a step down, or a step back, but nonetheless three men met in the early morning gloom of Kenner-brah and this is what went down.

    Warm-up

    YHC gave the disclaimer and we proceeded on a warm-up lap, passing by the police station, up the levee ramp, and back down the steps to the SF.

    SSH x 30; Hillbillies x 20; Windmills x 15; Peter Parker x 20; Copperhead Squats x 20.

    A lap up the stairs and down the other side and we were ready for…

    The Thang

    Given the venue, I decided to modify the Jack Web, by adding some punches.  I renamed it the Jack Johnson in honor of the man who became the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World in 1908.  We definitely have race issues in this country now, but it’s got to be better than when Jack was fighting.  Here’s what they say the NY Times wrote about him before the fight:  “If the black man wins, thousands and thousands of his ignorant brothers will misinterpret his victory as justifying claims to much more than mere physical equality with their white neighbors.”  Wow New York Times.  It appears that he ended up being arrested on some suspiciously racist laws and was just recently pardoned posthumously by President Trump.

    Just as we started the Jack Johnson a plane flew overhead….Time for a Sudden Flight Change.  Sometimes life doesn’t go as planned.  Things happen and you have to suck it up and roll with it.  During this workout we had to do 5 burpees every time a plane flew overhead.  Since the AO is located directly south of the airport, you can imagine how many times this occurred.  Well, whatever you are thinking you are probably wrong.  This one time is the only time we did sudden flight change burpees.  Either the flight patterns were kind to us today, or I wasn’t paying close enough attention.

    The Jack Johnson:  1 Merkin, 1 left-right combo, 1 victory shoulder press; repeat with two reps of each escalating until maxing out with a set of 10 reps of each.

    Proceed to the ledge:

    Channing Tatums* x 20; Decline Merkins x 7; Tatum Channings x 20; Incline Merkins x 7

    *Keeping with the theme of the AO, in addition to starring in Step Up Channing Tatum starred in a movie called Fighting.  39% on Rotten Tomatoes.

    Tabata – 20 seconds all out followed by 10 seconds of rest.  We did burpees, merkins, squats, and big boi sit-ups, then repeated for a total of 8 sets.  #CrowdPleaser

    Cool down lap up the stairs and back down the other side.

    Back to the ledge:

    Channing Tatums* x 20; Decline Merkins x 7; Tatum Channings x 20; Incline Merkins x 7

    To the top of the levee for another #CrowdPleaser – Quadraphilia….4 minutes of running down the south side of the levee and back up always facing the river.

    Back to the flag for 1 minute of Mary – Dying cockroach x 30.

    NMM

    • I worked out in shoes for the first time in months.  This AO is tough on flops.
    • I really thought Rev Sox and Gremlin would hate Quadraphilia.  I was disappointed that they didn’t complain about it more.  In fact, it didn’t really seem to bother them at all.
    • Hopefully the City of Kenner can use all of the money they are going to save by not buying Nikes to mow our AO more often.  This is definitely our most poorly maintained AO.

     

  • 40 points are better than 0 points

    It was a rough Monday morning for us Saints fans on the heels of that embarrasing loss in the season opener.  Surely a 45min therapy session at Rock City would help cure any hangovers or headaches.  Here’s how the healing went:

    Started with a mosey to usual area for warmup x20ea SSH, AC, WM, LSS, LCC, follwed by a brief delay where YHC pointed out scoring 40 points in a game is nothing to shake a stick….gotta think positive!  YHC annouced we’d knock out 40 of the final exercise which were SSH, despite Rudy’s request for burpees, which would come later.  Then a bear crawl to the rockpile to make sure the juices were flowing.

    We picked our rocks and headed to the main field/track area, keeping the rocks moving along the way with curls and presses.

    Circuit #1:  We lined up on the back of the endzone and partnered up.  PAX #1 ran to opposite endzone for 10 Burpees and ran back (timer) while PAX#2 knocked out Curls x20, LBC X20, Curls x20, LBC x20,…until partner was back.  Flip flop, rinse and repeat twice for a total of 3 rounds.

    Circuit #2:  We lined up again, this time approx 1oyds from the edge of the track.  Got things going with a 10 Burpee pre-thang to bring our total up to 40 Burpees.   Then, 4 rounds of Shoulder Press x10, Bear Crawl to track, Merkins x10, Backwards Bear Crawl…..totaling 40ea on the two exercises.

    Mary:  Round Robin included Hello Dolly x20, V-Ups x10, In-Outs x10, Penguins x20, capped off with LBT x31 to give a shout out to the LSU Tigers scoring 31 points and to Mahatma’s son who is on the team.

    Time was ticking so time back to the rockpile, then a mosey to the flag followed by some planking.

    COT:  YHC explained the orignal workout plan envisioned was hinged around the Saints winning and using the points scored as rep counts and as a way to celebrate our road to the post season.  Since we instead ended with a loss, YHC thought it would be fitting to still use the points scored by the Saints as a reminder for us to be greatful for what you have in life and not stress over what you don’t.  Additionally, we all have rough days on occasion and need to remind ourselves that the next day is a chance to move forward and make any improvements….which is hopefully what our beloved football team will do.  Capped things off with a prayer with intentions for Hawg’s mom and YHC’s son Brady.

    Thanks for the opportunity to lead.

    Tool

     

     

     

  • The Fight Club: Round One

    The Fight Club: Round One

    After a false start a few years ago, F3 is back in Kenner! The Fight Club is on!

     

    YHC hated F3 when Hawg and Channel Mullet dragged him to his first F3 workout last October. YHC hated F3 when he continued to workout at the Birdcage as he was unable to finish any of the exercises. A few weeks later, YHC’s opinion of F3 slowly changed from one of hate to tolerate to love. YHC knew F3 was getting into his blood when he would drive by the boxing statues in Kenner and think, “that would be the coolest place to lead an F3 workout. We could run up the steps, take the long run up the ramp on the levee, and we could run to the park nearby for some suicides. Maybe we can incorporate some of the drift wood into a workout?” So here we are six months later with the launch of the Fight Club at LaSalle Landing in Kenner. The home to the first ever World Heavyweight Boxing Championship match, and now F3NOLA.  8 men came out and endured the rain and wind of Tropical Storm Gordon to workout in the gloom.

     

    The Warm-Up

    We moseyed over to the Rivertown area with plans to workout by the picnic benches following the warm-up. (Note to self, they lock up the Rivertown area at night). We circled in the parking lot outside of the area for a standard F3 warm-up.

    SSH -20

    Peter Parkers – 20

    IW – 20

    Plank jacks – 15

    Arm Circles – 20

    Annies – 20

     

    Double Dip

    We moseyed back to the levee to continue the Fight Club. YHC planned on doing the next workout at Rivertown picnic benches, but since the Fight Club is the best site ever for F3, he was not deterred. We took care of the decline merkins and dips near the statues.

    15 – decline merkins

    20 – dips

     

    The Rocky

    We split up into 2 groups of 4, one group at each set of stairs. We ran up the steps like Rocky and at the top, we raised our hands in a jumping celebration (5 burpees). We ran back to the bottom of the hill and back up for more celebrating (4 burpees). Continue up and down until we reach one small burpee celebration.

     

    Dora

    YHC thought Dora was a must for any F3 launch as it is the ideal F3 exercise in his humble opinion. Do more reps of 3 workouts than you ever thought you could with help from an F3 brother and it has a stupid cartoon name (Dora sums up what F3 workouts are all about). While one pax did the rep, the other ran the long way up and down the levee (over to the police station and up the long ramp on the levee). Props to Jingle Vader for tapping into the Dark Side when he took a nasty stumble and was still the first to complete the Dora with a little help from Amnesia.

    100 merkins

    200 jump squats

    300 American hammers

     

    Mary

    Wife Pleasers – 20

    Flutterkicks – 15

    Dying Cockroach – 20

    Penguins – 20

    O Dolly – 15

    LBCs – 20

    Nolan Ryan – 20

     

    Depature

    Counted off, name-o-rama, and we named our new FNG. Welcome Nick Hybart the next time you workout at the Fight Club, and call him “The Gremlin.” The only announcement was a call to travel to Mobile on the 22nd to help with the start of F3 in Alabama. Thanks for showing up men to help bring F3 to Kenner, praying that God will use 45 minutes in the morning on Wednesdays to help the men in our community be better leaders, husbands, and fathers for His glory.

     

    RevSox

  • This was not a real VQ

    A number of PAX missed their shot at the IronPax Challenge, week 4, so an impromptu AO was orchestrated by Hawgcycle and Gabrielle, among others. YHC was informed that this would count as an “official” F3 workout if he were to Q. Seeing as YHC has been obsessed over his streak and stats related to F3, he figured it would be a good way to dip his toe into the pool of Q-dom and have the workout technically count.

    Started at the Birdcage starting point for Count-Off, Name-O-Rama, Announcements, Intentions, and Prayer, as this Challenge was known to run over the allotted time. Moist arrived during the prayer. Just in time for some pain! As was mentioned elsewhere, Q-ing an IronPax Challenge is nice in that the workout is already planned.

    The Week 4 Challenge, as ordained by the PAX at F3 Greenwood, was as follows (for time):

    • Run 1 mile
    • 50 pull-ups (or pull-up regressions)
    • 4 rounds of 25 lunges (alternating legs) and 25 squats
    • 4 rounds of 25 merkins and sprint 25 yards
    • 100 thrusters with coupon
    • 50 pull-ups (or pull-up regressions)
    • Run 1 mile

    Gabrielle kindly picked up the coupons, which we unloaded as a group. Medulla mapped out what at first seemed to be a circuitous mile route which started at the golf course parking lot and ended at the pull-up bars. Hawgcycle marked out the 25 yard sprint. Everyone else helped in various capacities. It truly was a team effort. I just jumped in to imaginary Q it.

    I was the six and my time was 57 minutes and change, so I know everyone else completed the Challenge in under an hour! Well done! T-claps to Gabrielle and Triple Shift for absolutely killing it!

    Upon mentioning that this was my VQ, Gabrielle was quick to note that it didn’t count and that I needed to do a “real” one. So, this was my imaginary Q, or pre-VQ. It was a good experience, and I look forward to my real VQ!

     

     

  • IRONPAX III

    Hawg stole YHC’s Q for this morning with IronPax Week III, and YHC was not happy.

    YHC loves his precious F3 workouts and these stupid IronPax Challenges were just ruining a good thing. The first challenge left me hobbled like a 90 year old grandma, but YHC is into it now. After watching Amnesia and Hawg up their scores in week two by over 100 from their first run at the IronPax at the Birdcage to their second run at the Uptowner, YHC was ready to take up the challenge and work his way into top 100 in the nation for week 3.

     

    Hawg weighed out a dozen 25-30lbs rocks, Mahatma set off cones 10 ft apart (we quickly corrected his mistake before the challenge started), and YHC led a warmup of 20 SSH and 15 PeterParkers.

    Mahatma served as our time keeper as he recovered from an injury and we were off. The IronPax challenges are surprisingly quiet as we go all out trying to get in the most burpees and other stuff as possible.

    This week’s challenge was a confusing one, but here it is in a nutshell:

    15 burpees, 50 hand release merkins, broad jump (bunny hop) 10 yards and back

    14 burpees, 50 goblet squats, broad jump (bunny hop) 10 yards and back

    13 burpees, 50 leg lifts while holding rock in bench press position, broad jump (bunny hop) 10 yards and back

    rinse and repeat while counting down the burpees

    Once again JV is the tops of the morning with an astounding 626 reps

    Hawg 532

    RevSox 519

    TripleShift 455

    Tool 440

    Rocket 431

    FracSac 404

    War Eagle 394

    Two Utes 389

    Amnesia 384

    Abacus 265

    YHC improved from 404 to 519. YHC points this out to say it was all based on watching his brothers tough it out last week in the challenge and push him to do better. You never know how you will challenge, encourage, or push the men out here simply by being present and challenging yourself. YHC is stronger and healthier thanks to all of you in F3, and he can’t put into words what this group has meant to him over the last 10 months. F3NOLA, keep pushing forward, so we can all journey with you.

    RevSox