Tag: Hokie Pokey

  • 3 Stations – from Pool Boy

    5:30 Disclaimer given and we head to the parking lot between the Pavilion and the Senior Center.

    Warmups consisting of:
    SSH
    Abe Vigoda’s
    Cement Grabbers
    Arm Circles
    Toy Soldiers
    Imperial Walkers
    Mountain Climbers

    Thang
    With the help of my 12 year son the night before, rocks already at our location.

    Partner up
    3 stations – Rotate after 10 mins.
    Station 1
    Rifle carry from Pavilion to speed bump while partner does squats
    Station 2
    Lunge walk to senior center;partner curls
    Station 3
    Jump rope; partner runs to entrance stop sign

    Mary back at the flag.
    COT

  • 4 Pavilions – from Pool Boy

    Arriving at 5:15 in the gloom to a beautiful morning, it was go time!

    With the intro at 5:30, we moseyed over by the rock pile.
    Warmups:
    SSH
    Slow Abe Vigodas
    Grass Grabbers
    Burpees
    Imperial Walkers
    Arm Circles
    Low Slow squats
    Mountain climbers
    Slow merkins

    The Thang
    Grab a rock and head to pavillion by the dog park
    5 burpees
    15x left leg step up, 15x right leg step up
    20 dips
    25 curls
    Head to 2nd pavillion
    5 burpees
    15 Step-ups
    20 dips
    25 curls
    30 squats with rocks
    Head to 3rd pavillion
    5 burpees
    15 Step-ups
    20 dips
    25 curls
    30 squats with rocks
    35 over head press
    4th pavillion
    5 burpees
    15 Step-ups
    20 dips
    25 curls
    30 squats with rocks
    35 over head press( Did not complete all; ran out of time)
    40 LBC’s)Did not complete all; ran out of time)

    COT

  • Take the Pax to Work(s) Day – from Hokie

    YHC told Mr Roger’s a week or two ago I would take the Q for the 1st El Diablo RCR workout and take the Pax on a different journey.

    After a quick disclaimer Pax were told we were going to get some miles in. We would run with waypoint stops to exercise. Fast Pax we’re instructed to sweep the six at each waypoint so they could get extra miles.

    We left the park and moseyed to the 1st stop sign toward the railroad tracks. We stopped to lift the right leg and just turn the ankle to get juices flowing. Switched and did same on left leg and ankle. We then opened the right gate to awaken the hip flexor followed with 7 slow 4 count merkins.

    We then headed down toward Airline to the next stop sign. Fast Pax ran fast and slow pax were circled. As we all converged we gathered for 7 more slow count merkins.

    Onward toward Airline stopping at 911 (Baloo’s house) for 7 more slow four count merkins.

    Onward to 1525 Airline where we stopped for 7 more slow four count merkins. 1525 Airline is Lucky Coin Machine Co and my M- F day job.

    We continued this pattern as we turned on Airline towards Causeway and Pax were instructed to stay safe and on the sidewalk. The stops were with 7 Bobby Hurleys. Our 1st stop was H-M furniture. On this stretch Mayhem let the Q know we only opened one gate so we also opened the left gate.

    We had 4 stops on Airline with the 4th stop being Las Cruces my Saturday day and Sunday day and night job.

    Turn around and return with 8 stops to return at Pontiff at 0610 were we did extra mileage on the track

    Thank you, I love you all!

  • Route 56 Bday Beatdown – from Triple Shift

    Can’t remember much from my 56th birthday beatdown except that it was like Heisenberg’s Mothership beatdown the day before. Anyway, we did some warmups, and headed down the sidewalk towards S. Carrollton Ave to the front of City Park. At every light post, we performed 5 burpees and the mode of travel alternated between bear crawls and duck walks between each light post. We ran out of light posts and had to cross the street and headed back toward NOMA and ending with 6 burpees at the end to get 56.
    Headed to the back of NOMA for an attempt of Jackass Webb which is an exercise of one burpee and two donkey kicks. Continue until you get to 10 burpees and 20 donkey kicks. Well, we didn’t start at one burpee and two donkey kicks, we started at 8 burpees and 16 donkey kicks and made our way up to 10/20. That was a crowd pleaser.
    Honored to have the F3 NOLA Pax come out and show me some love!

  • 2024 ReNew Q vs Q – from Mahatma

    The back story….a long long time ago of 2020 in a land far far away of Khenna there was a forgotten AO called “The View”! To bring excitement during the time of dome and gloom Mambi came up with the idea of pitting one Q vs another in a face off of who could bring the “best” beatdown with 2 Qs going head to head then have the Pax vote a champion. Unfortunately as life goes AOs thinned and “The View” became extinct! (It’s no longer on the AO list) Fast forward to the end of 2023, Disclaimer was moving into the neighborhood where the lore of this AO and the Q vs Q was stuck in his mind hearing about the tails of his brother pax bringing a competitive beatdown just a few minutes from his backyard. So the call to the last champ and challenger was made and the ReNew Q vs Q was scheduled.

    The date January 19th 5:30AM it was a wet cool 50deg with 18 pax meeting up at the flags planted in Erlanger park. YHC gave the back story and guidelines of the Q Vs Q beatdown. After a quick disclaimer (not actually) a quick warmup:
    SSH
    Grassgrabers
    HillBillies
    Mnt Man Poopers
    Merkins

    Each Q gets 2 alternating 8 minute rounds with 2 minute transition.
    Rnd 1
    Champ King Kong
    Base of the levee for 4 rounds of various in cadence exercise then mosey to top of levee for in cadence ssh.

    Rnd 2
    Tripleshift
    Partner Up for crazy 8
    One pax did exercise while partner carried block overhead out and back then flip flop

    Rnd 3
    King Kong
    HITT – pax perform exercise for 1 minute followed by active recovery for 1 minute

    Rnd 4
    Tripleshift
    Some sort of bearburpeebroadjump combo goal was to reach 40. You had to be there to understand

    Time Up
    COT
    After brief announcements the 2 Qs were brought into the circle – with a convincing unanimous vote…..oh wait Rudy decided to decent and change his vote to KK. Tripleshift was crowned the new champ. After our prayer of thanksgiving the 2 competing Qs met in the circle for the belt exchange and call out by Tripleshift of his desired challenger…..from the LVCC gang the notorious HighRise was challenged!

    A new twist to Q vs Q decided at coffeeteria – the champ gets to designate the AO of the beatdown brawl, which could be ANY so be on the lookout. If HighRise accepts the challenge Tripleshift has hinted it may be at MistyMountain.

    SYITG

  • 🎶 8 Crazy Nights 🎶 – from Bolt

    “It’s Hanukkah…Bitches,” was YHC mantra as I arrived with a whole five minutes to spare before giving the disclaimer. KnOTs headed their way while the real men headed to midfield.
    
    The festival of Hanukkah celebrates the triumph of light over darkness and spirituality over materiality as well as the miracle of the much smaller group of Jewish soldiers taking back the temple from the occupying Greeks, who then were able to keep the lantern burning for eight days with only one day’s worth of consecrated oil.

    Warmaorama included the requisite Rapper’s Delight and all the usual movements; considerable mumblechatter ensued, mainly from Fracsac, but YHC was unfazed by it—mainly bc I couldn’t hear Frac over the sweet musings of The Sugarhill Gang.

    Morning call: pax hold incline plank along the play area border while 2 pax call out each of their five pull ups which the pax then merkin and return to plank while the next two head to pull up bars.

    Adam Sandler’s Hanukkah song came on just in time for the above which allowed YHC to segue into trivia during the mosey to the rock pile which of course included burpees: 3 for a wrong answer and one for the correct answer; we amassed 11 burpees during this segment. Fracsac called for a skip in the waning minute of a four minute song: 5 more burpees for everyone.

    8 Crazy Nights con roca (except abs): AMRAP 8 reps (nights)/9 exercises(candles of the menorah), 10 minutes.
    OH press
    Squats
    Big boys
    Curls
    Lunges
    American Hammers
    Tricep press
    Calf raises
    Manmakers
    Everyone made it to/through two rounds before time ran out. 3 10-counts before we returned rocks and moseyed back to mid-field.

    The Uptowner “dreidel” otherwise known as the decadie of pain. Roll both die and all pax perform the two exercises/rep counts rolled consecutively and then another pax goes until the timer beckons us back to the flag. During this segment Frac called for another skip which cost everyone five burpees. This pleased the pax, especially Hand Grenada.

    Merkins/Mountain Climbers
    American Hammers/Mountain Climbers
    Merkins/Tricep dips
    Bonnie Blair/something else
    Something/Something else
    O2 deprivation is a thing…

    COT; thanks men. Reach out the MIAs

  • What is this Cadence of which you speak – from Hokie

    After being MIA for 28 days, YHC was determined to return and took the open Q for Rock City.

    12 Pax gathered At 0530 we had a disclaimer and headed toward the rock pile for Warm-o-rama

    The first exercise will be Slow Vagoda’s … 1, 2, 3 … and the Mumblechatter erupted about the Q forgetting how we do things at F3 with the Q being left with no defense

    After being reintroduced to correct procedures, we continued

    The next exercise will be
    Arm Circles
    Starting Position
    Move
    In cadence
    Exercise

    We then gathered with requested medium to heavy rocks (probably should have said just medium) to begin our journey up the mountain

    1, 5, 10, 15, … 40…. 35,30…. 5 with coupons/rocks

    1 burpee
    1… 5 cross over merkins
    1, 5… 10 triceps
    1, 5, 10…15 shoulder press
    1, 5,10,15 …20 curls
    1, 5, 10, 15, 20… 25 rows
    1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25… 30 lunges
    1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30… 35 chest press

    Then back down, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, 1

    30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, 1

    25, 20, 15, 10, 5, 1

    20, 15, 10, 5, 1

    15, 10, 5, 1

    10, 5, 1

    5, 1

    1

  • Running and stuff – from Charmin

    Same ole same ole. Consistency is key.

  • Happy 9th Man-iversary F3 NOLA – from Hokie

    10 Pax showed up to celebrate 9 years of F3 in NOLA

    Thank you

    Double Fudge
    Fast Tax
    Hand Grenada
    Hokie
    Manuel
    Mayhem
    Mr Rodger’s
    Pool boy
    PVC
    Vagabond

    For coming out to play!

    Warmorama

    10 Abe Vigodas
    18 grass grabbers
    14 arm circles
    9 low slow squats

    The THANG

    4 corners at the goal line and the 50 honoring 10.18.14 birth of F3 NOLA and our 9th Man-iversary

    Round 1 – 10 Honest Merkins each corner with mode of transportation between corners as follows

    50 to Goal line – forward lunge
    Close goal line corner to far corner backwards run
    Goal line to 50 – backwards run
    Far 50 to close 50 – forward run

    After Doing the same # of reps and the same exercise at all four corners each round Pax would Shoulder taps waiting on the six to complete each round

    Round 2
    18 bicycle big Boi
    Same mode of transportations

    Round 3
    14 Star Toe Taps
    Same mode of transportations

    Round 4
    9 jump for Joy
    Same mode of transportations

  • Before and After – from Charmin

    Before we started today, YHC decided that since we are all doing our own thing, we should make sure that we start at end with the same number of people, specifically that we start and end with the same people (assuming we don’t EH someone along the way). Well today we started with 13 pax. A joke was made that we’d end up with 14 since Triple Shift would be late. After some laughs we all took off.

    KnOTers went their way, Kennan Brah went to his car, and the herd of runners, at Hawg’s request went on a “slow jog”. Towards the end of the run, YHC came back to the track and Lo and beheld Triple Shift and ended up running a lap with him.

    Once we all came back to the CoT, and after a quick count-o-rama heavy jokes were made at Triple Shift’s expense.

    Ended with prayers for family and in thanksgiving for healing.