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  • Jam Elatedly Replicating Intricate Cadences Half-Obediently – from Russo

    80 degrees or so and humid to begin the morning at Granny’s. YHC was looking for a unique way to remind folks about the beatdown and draw some attention to our mid week AOs as charged by Jose, and in doing so, Zoolander taught me a new word: acrostics. Who knew it was really a word puzzle in which certain letters in words are clues that form another word (e.g. Join Everyone Running In Certain Heat
    Outdoors) and not an acrobatic mystic or an acrylic heretic?

    Early mumblechatter revolved around dinosaur movies, cars in space, Omaha, sharknados, and JVs drinking habits.

    Warmup (all 10-20x IC)
    – Sealjacks
    – Cherry pickers
    – Arm circles
    – SSH
    – Imperial walkers
    – Air presses

    Thang
    A Shooter favorite, the Walls of Jericho
    (7 rounds of seven exercises, followed by a mosey around Granny’s)
    – 7 merkins
    – 7 squats
    – 7 groiners
    – 7 crunches
    – 7 side squats
    – 7 shoulder tap plank jacks
    – 7 American hammers

    Thang after the Thang (which reminded some of “Never have I ever”, so that’s now back on the rotation for a beatdown)

    One round of:
    – 7 Peter Parker’s
    – 7 Bulgarian split squats
    – 7 Durkins
    – 7 freak nastys
    – 7 step ups
    – 7 Urkins
    – 7 leg raises
    – Calf raises (2 on each step) up the pilot house, with a special guest on Jose’s trip (sorry about that)

    Mary
    – 25 wife pleasers IC
    – 20 LMCs IC

    COT, Name o Rama, Announcements, and prayer closed us out.

    Announcements
    – Hammer is putting together a bible study, check Slack for info and to discuss best time/day.
    – Co-Q by pickaxe and chainsaw on Saturday (Luigi’s and Boom ShackaLackas for everyone!)
    – Gnarly Nutria is July 20th at 9 – more info to come on Slack

    Good times all around, gents, thanks for joining me. SYITG

  • Old reliable – from Russo

    70 degrees and humid this morning for a group of 6 to conquer the semi-regular (when I have put less thought into Q than I’d like) deck of death. Old reliable was supposed to be the deck, but it also meant:

    – JV and Cowbell continuing their verbal sparring / encouragement
    – Hammer coming up with yet another brilliant analogy
    – Sweat angels from YHC that confounds Bushwhacker

    Warmup – all IC 10x -20x

    – Sealjacks
    – Arm circles
    – Toe touches
    – Grass grabbers
    – High knees

    Thang – Deck of Death (count and exercise based on card turned over)

    Split the deck into 3 groups for rounds. Rounds included:
    Spades – Wide merkins
    Clubs – crab cakes
    Diamonds – jump squats
    Hearts – circle ups

    Spades – shoulder tap merkins
    Clubs – calf raises (2 is 1)
    Diamonds – SMCs
    Hearts – Crunchy frogs

    Spades – Freak nastys
    Clubs – Monkey Humpers
    Diamonds – side squats (2 is 1)
    Hearts – box cutters / Cowbell Saturday Night Special (size of boxes varied)

    Mary (with bonus definition of Mary for the Pax from Bushwhacker):

    – 20 freak nastys
    – 20 shoulder tap plank jacks
    – American hammers 10 IC
    – Wife pleasers 20 IC
    – Gas pumps 10 IC
    – Hello Dollie’s 10 IC
    – 10 donkey kicks (what’s up Shooter?!?!)

    COT, name-o-rama, announcements and prayer closed us out. Special intention for those traveling.

    MVP to JV for accepting constructive criticism and encouragement from Cowbell with grace and style.

    Thanks for joining, gents, and yet ANOTHER all star krewe this week.

  • F3 Kickball: Chico’s Bail Bonds v Xscissor – from Akbar

    18 men showed in the gloom this morning for a game of F3 Kickball. We are taught to modify as necessary, and learn through trial and error that some things work, and some things don’t. Even the best laid plans go wrong sometimes, and it happened today. Below is the way YHC envisioned it, and then what really happened.

    PAX Hammer, Minnow, Chainsaw, Pickaxe, Gilligan, Moby Dick, Agent Carl, Jose 10k, Zoolander, Grundy, Steve, JV, Shooter, Waterpik, Dangerfield, Maverick, Russo, Akbar

    Warm Up x10 IC – Merkins, IW, Self-Love, Grass Grabbers, SSH, Arm Circles F/B, Toe Touches

    Thang: F3 Kickball
    Count off 1’s and 2’s to form 2 teams. Run to the baseball field in teams, arrive at the field, plank up in teams to pick team names.

    Rules for Kickers

    Kick the ball and mosey around all bases without stopping while kicking team holds plank until the kick is launched. Modes of travel will change in each inning. Modification for runners is always a backwards run. When you score, you get 1 point and lead your team in 5 Wife Pleasers IC while the fielders do Nolan Ryans. Penalty exercises on outs, strikes, and fouls – 10 Australian Mountain Climbers (2=1) OYO while field does Nolan Ryans. No bunting.

    Rules for Fielders

    Ball is not in play until it touches the ground. When the ball hits the ground, fielders must do an exercise before they touch the ball – unless it is a pop fly. If a pop fly is caught, catcher gets to choose kicking team exercises x 5IC or 10 OYO. If ball is dropped on the catch, regular rules apply and exercises must be done before touching the ball. No pegging runners while running with blocks and no forced outs.

    Game
    3 outs or 1x through the lineup, no catcher, winner chooses exercise for losing team at the Flag.

    Pre-Game – The PAX lined up for the National Anthem by Metallica.

    Exercises for Kickers and Fielders
    Inning 1: Farmers Carry, Squat Hold and 30 Air Presses
    Inning 2: Brick Fly Runs, 20 Bobby Hurleys
    Inning 3: Rifle Carry, 20 Big Boy Situps
    Inning 4: Brick Hallelujah Run, 20 Diamond Merkins
    Inning 5: Bear Crawl, Renegade Row Merkins

    What really happened – YHC explained the rules clearly and effectively and it was decided the rules would be explained as we played. The idea is the fielders do exercises to give the runners time to score, assuming that all balls would be kicked in the outfield. That was not the case. By some magic, the balls were kicked into the players at the infield and just sat there. Someone mentioned very early on this would be a low scoring game. In fact, the first inning lasted about 20 minutes. Even the QIC forgot to do exercises sometimes.

    So we went to straight up kickball, regular rules, for the last 10 minutes and a new plan for the next game swirled around in YHC’s head.

    The final score was 9 to 7, Chico’s Bail Bonds took home the pride.

    We got back to the flag a little late, and Shooter prayed us out. Great to have Agent Carl with us, EH’d by Toto, who has been lost somewhere in Oz for the last year. Come back Toto!

    Count, Name, and Shooter prayed us out.

    Thanks for following my lead –
    SYITG, Akbar

  • White elephant (Special co-Q by Pokémon Deez Nuts) – from Russo

    Cooler-than-normal temps (50 degrees) greeted the Pax of 7 this morning for a recycled/repurposed beatdown. But, hey, it was new for ‘22, and for at least some, it was new to them, so we proceed!

    Warmup (All IC, 10x to 20x)
    – SSH
    – Toe touches
    – Arm circles
    – Good mornings
    – Self love

    Thang
    Dirty Santa / White Elephant. The rules are simple:
    (1) Each HIM picks a number.
    (2) Number 1 picks a random gift/exercise from the bag (in this case, a quart sized Ziploc) and performs said exercise while the other HIM perform the standard (e.g. 10 merkins).
    (3) Number 2 has a choice: Number 1’s chosen exercise, the standard, or a new “gift”. If he chooses either of the first two options, the one who had their “gift” stolen can steal or select another mystery “gift”.
    (4) Around and around we go, until all HIM have a chance to select.

    The “gifts”:
    -10 merkins
    -18 jump squats
    -25 squats
    -8 Hand release merkins
    -20 hello dollies
    -14 leg raises
    -30 monkey humpers
    -25 plank jacks
    -4 krakken burpees
    -8 SMCs
    -15 murder bunnies or groiners
    -20 bear crawls
    -10 diamond merkins
    -50 high knees
    -24 Apollo ohnos
    -12 star jumps
    -2 calf raises
    -20 hip slappers
    -12 hallelujah squats
    -33 cherry pickers
    -6 donkey kicks

    Between rounds, Pax also moseyed around Granny’s, on occasion doing the “column slalom” ™ to provide for some strategizing.

    There was just enough time to get in 20 IC Freak Nastys, a trip up the pilot house with 2 calf raises on each step, 10 star jumps at the top, and a quick round of a Mary (20IC American Hammers and Wife Pleasers).

    COT, name-o-rama, announcements and prayer closed us out.

    MVP to JV for his outstanding work imitating a bear for almost an entire round.

    I appreciate you all joining me and letting me lead another All-Star crew.

    SYITG

  • You got to roll me, and call me… – from Russo

    71 degrees, balmy, breezy greeted a pax of 5 this morning at Granny’s, but despite the warnings and threat, no rain!

    Warmup (10-20x all IC)
    – Seal jacks
    – High knees
    – Self love
    – Arm circles
    – Toe touches
    – Good mornings

    Thang

    Super simple this week, a block by block mosey around old Mandeville, stopping to confuse the cars that passed as to why 5 HIM were rolling dice in the middle of the street.

    10 reps of each exercise based on the number of the roll. A double roll? Double the reps to 20 (Rummel math!)

    Roll of 2 – Burpees
    3 – Monkey Humpers
    4 – Leg raises
    5 – Shoulder tap merkins
    6 – Big boy sit-ups
    7 – Hallelujah squats
    8 – 8 count body builders
    9 – SMCs
    10 – Groiners
    11 – Peter Parker merkins
    12 – Calf raises

    Back at Granny’s, we utilized the benches for 10 quick Freak Nastys IC and 10 step ups.

    COT, Name-o-Rama, Announcements, and Prayer closed us out.

    Things we learned:

    – Convergence / Manniversary is THIS Saturday on the lakefront. In my best “announcer for monster truck shows / pro wrestling cards” voice: BE THERE!!!!

    – The SLU / Ole Miss baseball game will continue to live on in infamy. YHC believes this is the 4th straight week we’ve worked it into mumblechatter.

    – I get how odds work. There are 6 ways to roll a 7 with two dice, and only one to roll Snake eyes or Box cars. But this PAX really, really loved rolling 7s. Don’t take us to a craps table. Hallelujah squats for all!

    Thanks, gents, for joining me and giving me an opportunity to lead such a fine group. Great work as always.

    🤛🏼💪🏼

  • “SUPER 21” – from Shooter

    Still recovering with soreness from accepting my 2.0s change of pace for some gym work on Saturday and Waterpik’s previous Monday Q of constant reps at the Marsh, YHC selected an oldie but goodie from the Exicon.. Arriving at the AO with 4 PAX already assembled in the freshly updated splash pad area I quickly jumped out and planted the shovel flag and began listening to the chatter of college baseball between Russo and JV.. Both hopeful of a Cowbell sighting, so that he could be reminded of his recent Rebels series loss over the weekend to the Volunteers..As to not disappoint the illumination coming down Girord street soon revealed the conversation would indeed be continued..

    Warmup
    All IC10 Cherry Pickers, Arm circles forward and back, Toe touches, Hillbillies, Imperial walkers and a brief mosey around the block back to the other side of the breezeway..

    Super 21
    After a short winded like Bushwacker explanation (if that’s even possible) PAX was given instructions on the exercises and break work between.. Instead of sticking to 2 body movements YHC decided to incorporate 6 different movements hopefully to accomplish total body work..

    Utilizing the breezeway pillars throughout its entirety we started with 1-7 Carolina dry docks and Donkey kickoffs.. Met at the stage for 21 recovery 8count body builders. 8-14 Merkins and Mountain climbers 2×1 again meeting at the stage for 21 recovery 8count body builders. 15-21 SSH and squats closing with 21 8count body builders.. Time remaining was 7 mins and after a slow recovery walk back to the splash pad 6 mins of Mary was left to close.. 15IC Crunchy 🐸, alternating elbow to knee both sides of course, Cowbell edition flutter kicks, Little Manny crunches and finished off with 100 OYO 💯s!!

    Count, announced all the great activities coming in April, COT

    Appreciate JV for closing out the PAX in 🙏🏼

    Until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • Party Gras (Don’t mind the date) – from Russo

    The radar this morning did not look promising, so YHC was pleasantly surprised to see JV, Fletch, and Cowbell brave the showers and join me for Granny’s Party Gras ™, 2022 edition, even if it was postponed 2 weeks and scaled back.

    Never one to let a moderately adequate planned Q go to waste, the plan was to base the beatdown around everyone’s favorite floating holiday in this area (unless you’re a bigger President’s day, Labor Day, Flag day, or Thanksgiving fan).

    WARMUP (all IC, 10x – 20x)
    Sealjacks
    Good mornings
    Arm circles
    Windmills
    Self love
    Imperial walkers

    THANG
    Trivia, then corresponding exercise (with column slaloms intermittently disbursed between questions)

    How many official colors of Mardi Gras? 3
    – Suicide – 3 merkins at each column

    What year was the first known Mardi Gras parade? 1837
    – 18 burpees, 37 lunges

    What year were floats introduced? 1857
    – 18 merkins, 57 squats

    When does Mardi Gras season start? King’s day, January 6, or 1-6 (correct answer from Fletch!)
    – 16 SMCs

    How many floats were in this year’s Thoth parade? 41
    – 41 plankjacks

    What float number was I on? 31
    – 31 monkey humpers

    How many scheduled parades (riding, walking, dog) were in and around the New Orleans area this year? 71
    – 71 high knees (2 is 1)

    How many all-female Krewes are there? 8 (Nefertiti, Cleopatra, Eve, Femme Fatale, Nyx, Muses, Selene, Iris)
    – 8 8 count body builders

    Tabata (40 seconds AMRAP, 20 seconds rest)
    – Crab cakes
    – LBCs
    – Wife pleasers
    – Peter Parker’s
    – Apollo Ohnos
    – Crunchy Frogs
    – Butt kicks
    – American Hammers

    – 90 second plank

    COT, Name-o-Rama, announcements (Nehemiah project’s Endurathon this weekend, see/contact Hammer for more info) and prayer closed us out.

    Thanks for joining/reading. You guys make it easier to get up before 5 with the threat of showers looming and push myself to get better.

    SYITG

  • Runners, Ruckers with Cowbell ahead of schedule and somewhere in between Bushwacker!!! – from Shooter

    Last 2 weeks YHC has decided to strap up with a Ruck sack instead of Mosey at the Scramble.. Although the distance is far less for logging RunCajunRun mileage the mumble chatter is far easier and the change of pace for the Q is welcomed at the present.. Acceleration is a key component of F3, whether in Faith, Fitness or Fellowship (preferably in all 3 categories) YHC has enjoyed the latter with Akbar and JV on the recent Rucks… Sharing the likes of history and traditions enjoyed by my fellow brethren is always interesting.

    Warmup
    10IC Grass grabbers and Merkins along with 20IC Butt kicks, lmperial walkers and SSH..

    Thang
    The traditional route for the runners adding a 2nd loop and the Ruckers 17 mins out and returning. Arrived back at the AO with some of the PAX taking in extra loops for mileage. Rounded up the PAX to finish with some core all 25IC Mountain climbers, Flutter kicks, LBCs, Mountain climbers and Hello Dollies. Offered up intentions for the family who unfortunately lost a child in Slidell yesterday. As well as prayed for PAX safe travels and those celebrating the carnival season. YHC also prayed for the PAX to spread Mercy to those in our communities, workplaces and also those that cross our paths daily, most importantly (personal experience) having Mercy in our own homes..

    Appreciate such a great showing at the Scramble this Gloom from the PAX (9+Q) and welcome any takers for my lead at the A1c tomorrow..

    Till the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • 2sday – from Russo

    I had a much different plan for this morning at Granny’s that may or may not have involved a Fibonacci sequence. But as I was prepping my electronic winky, I realized 2day’s date and had 2 erase the whiteboard and start over.

    Great Pax of 8 HIM 2day 2 celebrate a once in a century event: 2-22-22, with a spring-like 65 degrees and slight breeze as our backdrop.

    Warmup (12x or 22x, all IC)
    – Sealjacks
    – Cherry pickers
    – Self love
    – Toe touches
    – Butt kicks
    – Grass grabbers

    Thang

    – 22 Freak nastys
    – Calf raises up the pilot house, 2 every 2nd step
    – 22 Freak nastys (IC, thanks Cowbell!)
    – Calf raises up the pilot house, 2 every 2nd step

    Mosey over 2 the busstop, where it was 22 step ups

    Mosey further 2 Coffee Street for 22 monkey humpers

    Mosey 2 the tunnel, followed by:
    – 11 patty cake merkins
    – Mosey down to the tunnel, shuffle step through the tunnel, back pedal back up
    – R&R those patty cake merkins and tunnel mosey

    Mosey back 2 Coffee Street for 22 Crab cakes
    Mosey back 2 the bus stop for 22 Donkey kicks
    Mosey 2 home for column suicides, 2 merkins at each column

    2 minute plank

    Slalom mosey

    Mary
    – 22 crunchy frogs
    – 22 wife pleasers
    – 22 gas pumps

    COT, Name-o-rama, announcements, and prayer wrapped us up.

    Announcements

    -Cowbell has RCR T’s for captains to be distributed.
    – Hammer and crew are fundraising for the Nehemiah project, check Slack for more info
    – Chainsaw is celebrating his eighth trip around the sun and has his VQ this Saturday at the Lakefront!
    – A week from today is Party Gras at Granny’s, post if you’re in town for some Fat Tuesday-themed fun

    The all-stars were out this morning. You all pushed me and for that, and the camaraderie, I thank you.

    SYITG

  • 2sday – from Russo

    I had a much different plan for this morning at Granny’s that may or may not have involved a Fibonacci sequence. But as I was prepping my electronic winky, I realized 2day’s date and had 2 erase the whiteboard and start over.

    Great Pax of 8 HIM 2day 2 celebrate a once in a century event: 2-22-22, with a spring-like 65 degrees and slight breeze as our backdrop.

    Warmup (12x or 22x, all IC)
    – Sealjacks
    – Cherry pickers
    – Self love
    – Toe touches
    – Butt kicks
    – Grass grabbers

    Thang

    – 22 Freak nastys
    – Calf raises up the pilot house, 2 every 2nd step
    – 22 Freak nastys (IC, thanks Cowbell!)
    – Calf raises up the pilot house, 2 every 2nd step

    Mosey over 2 the busstop, where it was 22 step ups

    Mosey further 2 Coffee Street for 22 monkey humpers

    Mosey 2 the tunnel, followed by:
    – 11 patty cake merkins
    – Mosey down to the tunnel, shuffle step through the tunnel, back pedal back up
    – R&R those patty cake merkins and tunnel mosey

    Mosey back 2 Coffee Street for 22 Crab cakes
    Mosey back 2 the bus stop for 22 Donkey kicks
    Mosey 2 home for column suicides, 2 merkins at each column

    2 minute plank

    Slalom mosey

    Mary
    – 22 crunchy frogs
    – 22 wife pleasers
    – 22 gas pumps

    COT, Name-o-rama, announcements, and prayer wrapped us up.

    Announcements

    -Cowbell has RCR T’s for captains to be distributed.
    – Hammer and crew are fundraising for the Nehemiah project, check Slack for more info
    – Chainsaw is celebrating his eighth trip around the sun and has his VQ this Saturday at the Lakefront!
    – A week from today is Party Gras at Granny’s, post if you’re in town for some Fat Tuesday-themed fun

    The all-stars were out this morning. You all pushed me and for that, and the camaraderie, I thank you.

    SYITG