F3 New Orleans

Tag: Mahatma

  • Charmin’s VQ – Building Boulder Men – from Charmin

    Rock City Workout 8/22

    Abe-Slow-goadas x 15
    Side straddle hops x 20
    Arm Circles
    Forwards x 20
    Backwards x 20
    T-Claps x 15
    Morracan Night Clubs x 15

    Mosey to Rock Pile

    Teams of two pick 1 light to medium rock
    One person does curls
    Other person does calf raises x 20 for time
    Then Triceps lifts behind the head
    Calf raises x 20 for time

    Two sets of that

    Mosey to side field

    YHC describes The thang:

    First person throws rock.
    Second person jogs/runs to rock, throws it farther, then jogs/runs back
    Meanwhile first person is doing the exercise

    100 Merkins
    200 LBC’s
    300 squats

    Once the rock is thrown to/past the goal line, the next person runs to rock and brings it back to start. Other person the. Throws rock and repeats until Dora is done.

    Once we were done we did 10 overhead presses alternating people back to the rock pile

    6-ish minutes of mary at the end.
    10 Frog mans
    26 J-lo’s
    10 hammers
    10 penguins

    Lunges back to the flag

    Name o Rama and COT

  • It Wasn’t the Game Played, But It Was the Game Played – from Boo-Boo

    Disclaimer given and a mosey to the rock pile area for a warm-o-rama consisting of typical warmup exercises such as SSH, 4-count Abe Vigodas, MC, PP, IW, and mountain man poopers.

    PAX were instructed to grab a medium rock, one that could be used for triceps extensions. Rudy felt there was a dichotomy in the instruction bc a medium rock and triceps extensions do not go together. YHC set a repeating alarm for 5 minutes. Every time the dog barked, PAX had to do 5 burpees. Rinse and repeat.

    PAX were directed to the parking lot behind the gym. While in route, there was mumblechatter between Fast Tax and YHC about the unusual breeze, which YHC thought was typically associated with rain at this time of year.

    Pax lined up in the parking lot for Lt. Dans to the gym. As we arrived at the gym, the rain started. Change of plans! PAX were instructed to assume the People’s Chair under the covering, with their rock, to complete overhead presses and curls in cadence. Occasionally rows were thrown in for variety.

    As the rain increased and the parking lot started to hold water, Bogey felt a significant draw to play in the puddles. PAX were directed to the deepest puddle for facedown Aquamans (Supermans in a puddle), followed by face up Aquamans. Only three PAX elected to stay under cover and missed out on the fun. It was noted that these kind of shenanigans would ever be attempted at an uptown beatdown, while also pointing out that our uptown brother in attendance was all in!

    Rinse and repeat the peoples chair routine and Aquamans, adding Abe Lincolns to the puddle fun.

    At one point, PAX went balls to the wall while attempting shoulder taps. Only Fast Tax was able to complete said maneuver, so it was quickly changed to vertical merkins in cadence.

    Rocks were returned and mosey back to the flag for a COT.

    While the surprise rain storm was not in the game plan, it was the game played. Adaptability is a pillar of effective leadership, and this group was very encouraging and accommodating.

  • Ethanol burned our shoulders and got in 100 burpees – from Hokie

    Ethanol reached out several weeks ago to let us know he was posting down range and loves to Q

    Warm up at meeting spot
    Windmill x10
    Frankenstein x10

    Main event – mosey to parking lot
    Thunderstruck SSH/burpees
    Indian merkin line

    Mosey to shelter
    Dip/ incline merkin 50/40/30/20/10
    With v ups/iron cross/Freddie Mercury in between each set

    Mosey to parking lot
    Parking lot burpee suicide 1-11

    Mosey to flag
    99 burpees is not 100 so

    1 burpee & COT

    Ethanol closed us out reminding us to be humble

  • They’ve Never Felt So Wrong – from Boo-Boo

    12 PAX entered the Pontiff bull pen, of which ten were hoping to add another notch in their quest to have their name etched in the El Diablo bat! Tclaps to Hokie and Rudy for being the first two to complete the challenge.

    A short mosey to midfield for a warmup. YHC always decides the warmup on the fly, and Rudy was quick to comment when YHC was slow in deciding the next exercise. He mistakenly took that as a sign of weakness and poor planning. The warmup included (at a minimum) SSH x31 in honor of Wally Pontiff, #31 LSU baseball; Grass Grabbers; Arm circles x10 forward and x11 backwards (to throw off Fracsac with his backwards counting); Mountain Climbers x15, PP x15; and IW x20. It is possible YHC forgot a few exercises.

    The PAX were instructed to line up on the the south goal line, facing north. As YHC pulled out his phone an announced we would be recycling a stacking beatdown, with some modifications, Hawg brought during the COVID shutdown, the mumblechatter increased, with Rudy again misjudging what was about to happen. Over the laughter and heckling, YHC gave instructions to the PAX to complete the designated stacking workout with a 50 yard mosey between each set as follows:

    5 burpees

    5 burpees, 10 merkins

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1)

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1), 25 mountain climbers (2/1)

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1), 25 mountain climbers (2/1), 30 plank jacks

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1), 25 mountain climbers (2/1), 30 plank jacks, 35 American Hammers (2/1)

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1), 25 mountain climbers (2/1), 30 plank jacks, 35 American Hammers (2/1), 40 SSH

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1), 25 mountain climbers (2/1), 30 plank jacks, 35 American Hammers (2/1), 40 SSH, 45 big boi sit-ups

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1), 25 mountain climbers (2/1), 30 plank jacks, 35 American Hammers (2/1), 40 SSH, 45 big boi sit-ups, 50 squats

    Things got quiet around the time the mountain climbers kicked in. Funny how that happens!

    COT, prayer lead by War Eagle, OUT!

    It’s always an honor to lead HIM and have your leadership tested. Thanks for pushing!

  • How do you get to 100…..1 at a time – from Mahatma

    The morning air was wet with streaks of lightning off in the distance – a perfect setting of gloom for the Uptowner.

    8 pax meet in the chain link box at Pontiff with high anticipation of what this morning will bring. YHC approached with a trash bag of goodies and his boom box fully charged.

    Playlist started with “Greenie Rule” in effect. If you don’t know and are curious sift through my last couple of BB for description otherwise if you don’t care no problem as it will be in all future beatdowns that tunes are played.

    Quick disclaimer with Charmine emphasizing that YHC is not a professional…..which I whole heartedly agreed and we kicked off the warm up.
    5-7 of each
    SSH
    ABVAGODA
    MNT MAN POOPERS
    GOOD MORNINGS
    5 OYO Burpees for good measure

    Slow mosey to the kiddie land – 2 lines formed at the rings for pull ups 3 rounds of 3.
    5 Burpees for good measure

    Mosey back
    5 more Burpees – at this point Bolt is seeing that YHC is at least attempting to maintain the focus towards 100.

    Cnt off 1,2 until 2 4 pax teams created. Cones and bats brought out for relay challenge.
    The 2 teams competed:
    1st in dizydean burpee which was 5 times around the bat then perform 5 burpees run to the other side repeat 5 times around the bat followed by 5 more burpees then run back. Each time the bat was dropped another pax was to jump in. End in a close tie with Hokie and Charmine sprinting to the finish so ALL did 5 penalty burpees.
    2nd was the same except no burpees after the 5 times around the bat – team 1 lost and had 5 penalty burpees yet most of not all pax on team 2 joined in.

    At this point there had been 2 Greenie changes – YHC and Sandbar

    Now the “game” – Cabbage-Burpees which was 1st played in the Summer of 2019 (before the world went crazy!!!! and things we know today are the unfortunate infiltrations of our past)

    How it’s played:
    2 pitches (if the pitcher sucks he will be penalized by YHC with Burpees then moved to a new position).
    Strike Out – batter 5 BP
    1st out batting team 2BP
    2nd out 4BP
    Ea base hit or advanced base equals a BP for the defense.
    So a single 1
    Double 2
    Triple 3
    HR 5
    These are to be performed immediately after the batting takes place before next batter for both offense and defense.

    1 burpee for ea run scores accumulated for the inning and performed between innings while changing roles on the field.

    Losing team 10 burpee Penalty.
    Team 1 – Hokie, Sandbar, Stroganoff and Mahatma
    Def
    Team 2 – Glamper, Bolt, Charmine and Rafiki

    Mary – x 20 weighted ball with BigBoy sit ups
    X 20 leg extension throws (you had to be there to understand)

    FlipFlop

    COT

    Prayers for our brother TenderLoin who will be undergoing open heart surgery next Friday. No doubt God brought him into our Pax to help build a base of support both physically and spiritually for what lies ahead. I’m confident he will be back on his feet in no time running the track.

  • The KING of the Wood – from Mahatma

    The King of the Wood is now a legend of lore in fires forged by El Diablo……Hokie.

    That said I apologize for the delayed BB as the work out was written in Elf dust.

    So like many prior beatdowns YHC attempted to establish a “serious” tone by calling out “grab assing” and “jaw jacking” which actually backfired as should be expected. So with the chatter of a school girl soccer team we headed to the field for the warm up.

    Speaker in place with a “planned” playlist blaring tunes for mental distractions.

    Standard cadence of 5-10 ea
    SSH
    ABVAGODA
    GOOD MORNINGS
    MNT MAN POOPERS
    BURPEES

    Before the fun began the “Greenie” rule was established. This was adapted from Willie saying how the Uptowners deal with tune disconnect. Any time a PAX doesn’t like the tune they can change it with a penalty of 5 Burpees – each time the same pax changes a tune their penalty increases by 5 so 2nd = 10 3rd = 15 and so on.

    There was a battle over hated and favorite tunes between War Eagle, Fast Tax, Boo-boo, Rudy and maybe Handgranada. And plenty of penalty burpees!

    So the beatdown was 25 x various exercises some single some double. Finishing with a 100 yd bear crawl then the finale: A/C D/C’s Burbee Thunder Struck – roughly 30-34 depending on your hearing.

    COT

    Congrats again to Hokie the hard charger that was etched history!

    Proud to have the opportunity to lead and know that I push buttons but it’s nothing personal just trying to get the most out of all of us

    SYITG

  • Deck of Cards – from PVC

    Warmorama
    Grab a rock
    The Thang
    Circled up each PAX pulled a card and gave us an exercise
    COT
    Welcomed FNG and named him Aggie

  • F3 NOLA 1776 Patriot Games – from Hokie

    July 1776…. There are on average 1776 strides in a mile

    Warm-o-Rama with SSH x 20, Concrete grabbers x 10, Slow Vigodas x 10

    The Thang
    1 mile run, then 100 of each of the following;

    Merkins
    Overhead claps
    LBCs
    Dips
    Moroccan Night Clubs
    Leg Scissors
    Step ups
    Squats
    American Hammers
    Mountain Climbers
    Shoulder Taps
    Plank Jacks
    High Knees
    Lunges
    SSH
    Superman with Lat pull downs
    Big Boi Sit ups

    IF anyone got through that in the 56 minutes

    They would have continued with 100 yard bear crawl & 76 burpees

    We then had great attendance at Coffeeteria including Charmin posting down range from Houston (at workout too!) and Belloq (still on IR)

  • A squirrel while doing squrls – from Boo-Boo

    After the standard disclaimer. PAX moseyed to the rock pile for warmup including SSH x 31, Arm circles 10 forward/ 10 backwards, Abe Vigodas x10, Grass Grabbers x10, Mountain Climbers x 20, and Toy Soldiers aka Hairy Rockettes aka Kim Jung-uns.

    PAX were instructed to grab a medium rock and proceed to the parking lot near the “running path.”

    LT. Dan across parking lot to the gym.

    3 sets of 25 (Or is it two? Let’s stick with three) triceps extension/chest press (75 total)
    Mosey 50 yards, 10 mountain climbers (2 is 1), and Bernie Sanders back

    SSH waiting for 6

    3 sets of 25 rows (75 total)
    Karaoke 50 yards, 10 American Hammers (2 is 1), and Karaoke back

    SSH waiting for 6

    3 sets of 25 (75 total) squrls (squat, curl)
    Mosey 50 yards, 10 LBCs, and mosey Back

    Tclaps to Rudy, who was the only PAX to complete the third set of squrls. Ironically, on his return mosey, Rudy chased a squirrel (while yelling “squirrel, squirrel”) that was innocently trying to cross the parking lot on its way to get some breakfast.

    Once PAX gained their composure from Rudy’s delirium caused by oxygen deprivation, they returned their rocks and moseyed to the flag.

    COT, prayer lead by War Eagle, OUT! It’s always an honor to lead HIM and helps me to become a better leader.