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  • If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe I’d been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? – from Jose10k

    6 crazy HIM braved the cold weather this morning to join for a wacky 90s inspired musical. I reached out to the Mandvillians, and they didn’t disappoint. We even were blessed by a wonderer from Slidell. Warm-ups: SSH, self love, grass grabbers, cherry pickers, torso twists, hello jacks hello jills, and high knees all IC TEN count.

    The thang: First song: Cotton Eye Joe as promised. A very Hammer inspired workout to this song. SSH during the song while doing a burpee every time Cotton Eye Joe was mentioned. After that was done, switched the music to a little classic rock, to do a little modified dora. Partner 1 back pedaled halfway across the parking garage, the ran the rest to the other side. Back pedaled half way again, then ran back to the starting point. Then partner two did the same. Each partner had to complete 100 crunches and 200 squats. They got to tag team to do 300 merkins. We circled up to do 10 minutes of Mary, round robin style. Each person called out their own exercise. The music included Aqua’s “Barbie girl”, Haddaway’s “What is Love”. A great selection of 90s classic music. COT and Hammer led us out in prayer. Thank y’all for letting me lead on this chilly morning. I am better because of my brothers. SYITG

  • Solo one this morning – from Hogs Breath

    “Come one, come all….”

    Expecting a crisp chill and a fall scent to the air YHC awoke instead to a muggy and swampy fall morning. Arriving 5 mins early YHC planted a shovel fall.
    Precisely at the stroke of 0530, YHC gave himself the disclaimer and welcome and began;

    The warm up;
    A 40 yard inch worm
    Some mountain man poopers
    Some grass grabbers
    Hip swings

    The Thang

    Began with a Motivator – a single count from 10 down to one: 10 SSH, 10 star SSH, 10 leg on sly SSH, 10 in place bunny hops. Then immediately 9 of each, 8….etc

    Followed by a 90 sec alternating sprint / deck of death.

    Several good prospects for EH, as the sun began rising (due to the shift from Daylight savings to Standard time)

    Much like any good Bond flick,YHC told himself
    “….will return again…..” as he rounded out his morning beatdown prepared and fresh for the day!

  • Up and down with the deck of cards – from BBQ

    A strong 5 arrived. Multiple and usual warm ups. Of course I botched the count on a couple. A warm up lap around the top deck. The deck of cards came out. Each suit had an exercise and each card represented the # of exercises, 2 thru 14. The 4 exercises were hand release merkins, copperhead squats, gas pumps and LBC’s. LBC’s were double the card. After each rep we directly stood up from sitting on the pavement to standing up. Using no hands. Or at least we tried. It took some warm up. I do not recall the name of this type of stand up squat. I did them at beat down in St Louis. The one joker was a one star jump every third line across the top deck parking spots. We finished the deck of cards. Nameorama and prayed out. Another great start of the day at the A1C!

  • F3 Wars Episode 6; The Return of Hogs Breath – from Hogs Breath

    On 09 October a cryptic message got sent out on Slack boding of important news. Hogs Breath had returned and would even Q!
    28 weeks, well actually 201 days had passed since this lad had graced us with his presence. In Thailand he was deployed with the Navy.
    YHC came strolling in the mild gloom. Cool fall weather greeted him. Seven months is a long time, he was interest in wanting to plant a flag. However, the shovel flag remained in the trunk of his cheap old beater-car. He was away so long, the trunk would not even open!
    Two showed up to join YHC in beating down our bodies.
    The Warmup
    Despite being flagless we began with some Toy soldiers and Hip Openors in cadence. Then for distance we performed some Inch Worms and Butt Kicks / High Knees.
    The Thing
    YHC has let cardio go by the way of the DoDo. So we Mosey’d to pull ups AMRAP and remembered that number. We then Mosey’d to some coupons and returned to the playground. We preformed a workout inspired by Chris Hemsworth preparation for the last Thor movie.
    10x
    • Bicep Curls
    • OH Press
    • Tricep Extensions
    • Squats
    • Bent Over Row
    • Twist hugging our coupons
    • Chest Press
    In between each round we would mosey back to pull-ups and preformed a descending ladder on our max AMRAP (50%, 25%, 25%, amrap….)
    Lather, rinse, repeat for a total of 5 rounds.
    We then meandered a long way to return the coupons. YHC had a few mins of Mary. And the real closer was 28 Burpee’s based upon the 28 weeks YHC had been departed.

    During our beatdown the mumblechatter was spent on catching up and all the activities we have such missed!

    So even thought the title was Star Wars, the beatdown Marvel, really your Q was just humbled to be back!

  • Hogs Breath Last Stand – from Hogs Breath

    This was YHC last Q before I left out for a six month deployment. YHC meant to give a much more advance notice, but alas I didn’t send out a slack notification till Sunday night at about 5:30pm. So I was not expecting a decent turnout as I pulled into Heritage park [The 007] at 5:20am Monday. However, I was pleasantly shocked as I saw a gaggle of Northshore and Southshore pax already waiting on me!
    As I planted the shovel-flag I welcomed everyone and explained the 007 got it’s name from “Live and Let Die” James Bond movie, which had a boat chase filmed on adjacent Bayou Bonfouca.

    Disclaimer: Given

    Warm Up
    We began right off the back with a “Waterfalls Tunderstruck” all the pax formed a circle of pain around the shovel-flag and began SSH of Imperial Walkers. YHC turned on AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and upon the first ‘thunder’ began to do burpee’s. Once the next ‘thunder’ was sung the pax to the right began burpee’s. This repeated in a waterfall fashion. Unfortunately Fletch, Einstein, and Pass Interference all got stuck doing burpee’s during the long instrumental breaks!
    To stretch our backs out we then did 8 IC Abe Vigoda

    The Thang
    Mosey to the coupons,
    We then did a coupon exercise completely made up on the spot! A row, a curl, an overhead press, then a squat for 1 rep. We then did 8, despite Hokie claiming that YHC had “pissed someone off….”
    Then mosey with our coupons to the playground, where we did 8 of the above ‘crazy eight’ then 8 pull-ups. YHC said to do 3 rounds of this, but got a little over-zealous and lost count, so YHC alone did an extra set of pull ups.

    Then we did a coupon walk to show off all the 007 has to offer. We walked along the water’s edge to the West towards Palmettos restaurant. YHC said upon every bench we would do 3 weighted step-ups. And at every “cleat” we would do 3 squats. But no-one spoke nautical so we didn’t understand what dock cleats were… and there are no actual dock cleats instead boats are expected to moor up directly to the pylons. So YHC would just randomly call out squats at various landmarks, whether it be a BBQ grill, a light post, a corner of the sidewalk. The walk provided for lots of mumblechatter and for Murdock to get to know many of the other paxs.
    Upon the round-trip coupon walk, we dropped the coupons back to their resting place.
    With only 5 mins left, we normally would preform some Mary. However, wanting to showcase the AO, YHC had everyone preform a series of bearcrawls / backward runs around the circular sidewalk in front of the amphitheater. The benches would be the marker for the bearcrawl or the backward run.
    Completed at the shovelflag

    Ended with COT and Coffeteria at Starbucks.

    Gentlemen, it has been a true honor to beat myself down with y’all. This is an amazing organization which I will truly miss for the next six months. Y’all have kept my sanity during these last few years. All the way to Coffeteria where I received numerous offers to help out my family while I’m away, I am humbled it be amongst the shadows of such great men!

  • Lindsey who? – from Akbar

    YHC was early this gloom, committing to the 1 miler pre-thang but arriving to no one — just for a little while. An FNG joined me (EH’d by Hogsbreath) and we chatted until one by one they arrived from the dark.

    PAX: Akbar, Hogsbreath, Leroy (FNG), Moby Dick, Blue Note, BBQ, Barely Legal, Hammer

    Warm up: SSH, IW, Hillbillies, Arm Circles, Self-Love, Grass Grabbers

    Head to the block pile and pick out a coupon for 11’s.

    Curls, block carry across the gravel parking area, Shoulder Presses

    Put blocks down, mosey to the Justice Center for Lindsays, aka forties.

    Let’s call them high rep 11’s. Ex 1 is 30 reps, ex 2 is 10 – increases/decrease by 5 until finished. Total 200 reps

    Start at the benches with Freak Nasties x30; lunge walk to the stairs and do 5 calf raises; traverse up to the top of stairs for 10 Irkins then jog back. Rinse and Repeat

    Mosey back to the gravel parking lot via Kareokes left to the stop sign; Karaoke right to the silver pickup, then sprint to the flag.

    Finisher – 11’s of block rows and squats – no mosey.

    Circle up for no mary, but 10 Imperial Squat Walkers (I think).

    Count, Name, welcome Murdock!

    Announcements – see Hammer’s post on Slack for supporting The Nehemiah Project’s Endurathon – spots left to run. Held at Fountainbleu State Park, we will be camping in the group area both nights – so sign up to run and come on out for the party.

    YHC prayed us out with special lift ups for speedy recovery for injured pax, the War, Hogsbreath’s upcoming deployment to Thailand, and for an opportunity for us to shine light into others this week.

    Thanks for showing up and letting me lead!

    SYITG, Akbar

    NMM

    Wasn’t quite sure on timing for this one, but worked out pretty good if you don’t like Mary. Great to be back at the Gipper after being out of town.

    Hammer did a pre-pre thang run with the Nehamiah boys at 5, and headed up to The Gipper afterward.

    Leroy and Hogsbreat know each other from church, another Pax from Pearl River. He’s a medevac pilot currently working for Childrens. Mash and Murdock came out immediately, but YHC was a big fan of the A-Team and Murdock it was.

  • Pop goes the Beatdown – from Hogs Breath

    Pass Interference expressed interest in another beatdown, and he said he wanted to build muscle. So, YHC planned a “pop up” beatdown with coupons and no running.
    Warm Up
    SSH, Garth Brooks, Mountain Man Poopers, Flamingo stretch

    The Thang
    Four rounds of 30 on / 30 off
    Over head press; Bent over Row; Squats; and Coupon Dips.

    During this YHC turned on some music, this was “My Soundtrack” playlist off Amazon Music, so it was a nice mixture of all the music played from all of the devices that YHC family shares. A very eclectic compilation of 90’s Pop, 2000’s Hard Rock, Christian Praise band music, Children’s songs, and some 80’s Pop music!
    After the four iterations, we then mosey’d with our coupons to the old train station “Scoogin Corner” were we preformed a set of 11’s with Curls on one side, lunge walk through the station, and Derkins on the other side.
    We ended with a new exercise of “Grip, Rip, and Roll” pulled form the exicon.
    Of note this was the second beatdown for Murdock. I think we got a full fledge EH on this pax!

    Ended with COT and Coffeteria

  • Bob the Builder – from Hogs Breath

    During Mardi Gras Break YHC took a trip to Akron Ohio and posted with the Copley AO. This beatdown was completely stolen from Akron F3.
    After a quick warm up. Both pax grabbed a coupon from the trunk of Hogs Breath car, and a rock coupon. The move was simple, one pax would mosey with the coupon across the field, then sprint back to the staring line. While the other pax rested, upon the return of the sprinting pax, the second would begin their coupon mosey, drop off the coupon on the far side and sprint back.
    In between the sets, each pax preformed 10 OH press, 10 squats, 10 chest presses.
    Second round was the same; pax 1 coupon mosey to drop off the coupon, sprint back. Pax 2 would rinse and repeat.
    15 OH press, 10 squats, 15 chest presses
    Third round of coupon mosey and sprints.
    20 OH press, 20 squats, 20 chest presses
    All pax then returned the rock coupons and preformed 25 sets of each coupon exercise.

    The morning mumblechatter from Pass Interference went something like “I don’t care what F3 Akron does, I hate sprinting with coupons!”
    Ended with COT and Coffeteria.

  • Sexual Healing to the milestones of Hogs Breath life! – from Hogs Breath

    So the Superbowl must of set some pax back….. probably nursing there hangovers, and even though YHC valiantly tried to pre-blast and exclaim that this was the kickoff to his birthday (the following day) celebration, only two pax showed in the gloom.

    Warm Up:
    Being that it was Valentine’s Day YHC began with a loving beatdown set to the classic romantic tune “Sexual Healing” by Marvin Gaye! The two pax faced each other in plank position and gazed into each other’s eyes, only to be interrupted each time Marvin sweetly crooned out “baby” and the pax would preform a Merkin. When the soothing sounds of “Sexual Healing” where whispered the pax would then preform a burpee. After 4:06, upon the songs conclusion, both pax coldly and tiredly looked at each other in the same manner that a couple looks upon each other right before they head into divorce court…..
    YHC then transitioned into the birthday story of YHC life, after-all this was the day before his 38 birthday;
    Each milestone was associated with an exercise, then like the passing of the years, the pax took a lap around the circle sidewalk.
    YHC was born in Ohio in 1984, so the pax performed 1 lap; 9 merkins; 8 squats; 4 v-ups.
    lap
    The next milestone was at the age of 3 moving to upstate New York. So 3 Newtons Cradles.
    lap
    At age 6 YHC moved to Detroit MI. So the corresponding exercise was 6 Derkins.
    lap
    At age 12, there was a move back to Ohio. So 12 lunges, there was a reason that it was lunges, but in my advanced age, I’m having trouble remembering the reason….I hate lunges……
    lap
    At 18 YHC joined the Navy. The first assignment was attending training to become an Interior Communication Electrician. So like any good Electrician, we avoided getting ‘shocked’ by ‘jumping’ out of the way with 18 SSH! Then YHC attending Special Warfare School, were many flutter kicks were preformed, so thus 18 flutter kicks!
    Lap
    At 19, YHC became a father, and he set himself in that predicament by preforming a series of moves, sooooo this milestone exercise mimicked the event that allowed him to be a father; 19 monkey HUMPERS.
    Lap
    Sadly, YHC first marriage ended in a divorce, so this round was a backwards sprint to the stage, much like being set back in life. But it’s okay, he turned himself around, so at the stage the pax turned around and sprinted towards a new…well a new exercise!
    At 24 he met his ‘solid’ mate, so much like her being the ‘core strength’ of his life, the pax planked for 24 seconds.
    At 27 he married this strong women, so to symbolize her strength the pax bear crawled around the shovel flag 3 times. No, its not because his M has a morning attitude worthy of a gumpy bear, parish that tought!
    For the next two milestone events, the births of his youngest daughters he asked his 3.0’s what their favorite exercises where;
    At 30 YHC welcomed Addy, aka “Doctor Barbie” (at least in the FIA circles) and she gladly exclaimed “Squat Thrusts” so 30 squat thrusts it was!
    At 33 YHC welcomed Lorelle, the third 3.0, and a true wild card. When YHC asked her what her favorite exercise was, she simply ran over to a brick in the flowerbed and began to pick up this coupon in a manner that resembled an upright row, so 33 coupon rows it was!
    The last exercise, was the last day of being 37 years old, so AC/DC “Thunderstruck” was turned on, and both pax preformed 37 Burpee’s.
    Ended with a COT and Coffeteria at Front Street Starbucks.

  • How 007 AO was born, and no it was not assassination!!!!! – from Pass Interference

    To fully give credit Q was both Pass Interference and Hogs Breath

    This BackBlast is like my wifes period (after 3 kids and a vasectomy) it’s better late than never! Trying to “accurately” record the short history of this newly minted AO.
    A Balmy high 40ish, several pax made the trek down to Slidell AO. Unfortunately the railroad track directly in front of Heritage Park was being resurfaced, so YHC tried to send out a last min text and warn all pax that they would have to circumnavigate to the backside of Heritage, and still the Co-Q Pass Interfernce was nearly late while he adjusted his cerebral compass to find the shovel-flag.
    Still this was the innagural Slidell AO flag planting, only 2+ years in the making!
    Warm Up
    Hogs Breath lead pax in a rousing warm-up consisting of some Hairy Rockettes, Mountain Man Poopers, Self Love and some other stuff…..
    The Thang
    Hogs Breath began by not being able to find his Deck o’ Death, so he improvised and made a quick adjustment using a gladware container and strips of paper. First pax would begin a sprint around the circle sidewalk, while the other pax would draw a slip of paper and preform said exercise. When pax one returned, all would take a break until the 90 second mark, then rinse lather and repeat.
    The Q was then handed over to Pass Interfernce, who led all in a complete confidence of sprints from shovelflag to the auditorium stage, some sprints and some exercises where involved!
    While during a mosey run, all pax began to think of Names, one of the CO-Q pointed out that Bayou Bonfouca, the waterway that Heritage Park rests against, was a filming location of a James Bond boat chase scene in “Live and Let Die”. The name “007” was thrown out and all pax stamped the idea. Thus 007 AO was christened!
    Ended with a COT.