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  • Did I say Frisburpee? – from Fast Tax

    I could detect a hint (or was it a modicum) of disappointment in the air emanating from the 11 PAX assembled as YHC arrived to Q El Diablo this morning. Alas, what tragedy was responsible for this burgeoning discontentment? Apparently, it was seeing my hands bereft of any battle balls or Frisbee. It did not take YHC long to remember (or be reminded) that the workout description for today said “Battle Frisburpee Likely.” Not today – Sorry…

    After disclaimer, we moseyed to the rock pile area for warmups consisting of:
    • Grass Grabbers
    • 5 Penalty burpees – Rudy renaming Q’s exercises
    • 5 Penalty burpees – Rudy renaming Q’s exercises AGAIN
    • Mountain Man Poopers
    • Nancy Kerrigans – YHC was not the only one having trouble standing on one leg while sticking the other leg back and rotating both arms in circles…
    • Hairy Rockettes

    Following rock selection, we headed to the football field and lined up on the goal line for the first event, Colt 45s.
    Colt 45s are basically a broken down curl (with rock) performed IC:
    • 15 reps go from the bottom of the movement up to the halfway point (with your arms at a 90 degree angle and hands at elbow level).
    • 15 reps go from the halfway point up to the top of the bicep curl (hands up near shoulder level).
    • 15 reps start at the bottom of the movement and complete a full range of movement all the way up.

    Red Barchetta was the next event, enhanced by the musical accompaniment of Rush’s 1981 hit – Red Barchetta. PAX line up on the goal line and perform the following sequence OYO no resting:
    • 10 O/H Press; 100 yard dash, 100 SSH, run back to goal line
    • 10 O/H Press; 75 yard dash, 75 mountain climbers (2 is 1 of course), run back to goal line
    • 10 O/H Press; 50 yard dash, 50 LBCs, run back to goal line
    • 10 O/H Press; 25 yard dash, 25 merkins, run back to goal line
    • 10 O/H Press; 10 yard dash, 10 Burpees, run back to goal line

    After a 30 second breather, it was time for Captain Thor, a 1:4 ratio of BBS to American Hammer, performed OYO, increasing by 1:4 each rep, typically 10 reps. Noting the lack of gasps and groans halfway through, YHC thought we could use a couple more reps…so let’s make it 12. For those who don’t want to do the math, the last rep was 12 BBS & 48 Amer. Hammers for a total effort of 78 BBS and 312 Amer. Hammers.

    Digging deep into his repertoire of exercises for something interesting and entertaining, YHC selected Vertigos.
    PAX run to the 50 yd line but with each step you rotate so that you are always spinning as you move forward (clockwise or counter-clockwise, your choice). On reaching the 50 yd line, and letting the dizziness subside, we performed 10 absolutions and ran Vertigos back to the goal line.

    With a few minutes to spare, we paused our mosey back to the rock pile for 5 Welsh Dragons.

    Then it was back to the flag for count off, name-a-rama, announcements, and prayers.
    Happy Birthday to @Belloq

    Followed by Coffeteria at PJs.

    Thanks for the fellowship!
    SYITG

  • 36 degrees, 36 reps – from Rudy

    Brrr.. It was chilly this morning. There’s only one way to stay warm. That’s right – break out the Lucky Bear. That’ll keep YHC warm! But it definitely prompted some strange looks from the other folks getting an early workout under the shelter. BUT I WAS WARM.

    The LVCC was apparently chilly, so Snooze, Mama’s Pride and Kuch waited as long as possible before emerging for the workout. Frac, confused by a large green fuzzy thing, joined the OTHER PAX for his pre-thang burpees. Baywatch, wearing 17 layers, looked almost as warm as YHC. And then Saban. Brave Saban wearing his shorts. What’s he thinking…

    At 5:28, Mahatma decided that it was time for the workout to get started. Patience, big chief! At 5:30, YHC issued the disclaimer. And we were off.

    Warm Up: some stretching, then SSH x36 (one rep for each degree that the Mini reported this am).

    Thing #1: Lucky 7s. 7 minutes. Each minute, 7 burpees then finish out the minute with exercise that YHC names. Kuch was strangely quiet, after griping that his heart rate wasn’t moving during the warm up. FInish with 1 more burpee for an even 50.

    Thing #2: Grab some bricks from the Mini, and lets head to the mountain. Going up and over, we’ll stop at the half-way, top, 3-quarter and bottom. At each stop, the PAX will do 36 reps. But… If you finish early, keep rep’ing until the 6 finishes the 36 reps. YHC won’t point fingers, but a certain jolly green figure was usually leading up the rear. Situps, Squats, Twists, American Hammer, Calf Raises, Carolina Dry Docks, Shoulder Taps and Newton Cradles.

    OK, I GREATLY underestimated how hard 36 Newton Cradles (2 is 1) would be. That took a while, and several pauses. Yikes.

    Mosey back to the shelter for 2 rounds of 18x Wonder Bras in the peoples chair.

    COT: Prayers of comfort for Frac’s sister, having just lost her husband at too early of an age. Thanks, PAX, for dragging yourselves out of the warm comfort of your beds to start the day pushing me to be a better man.

  • Westward Ho—down R.E.S.P.E.C.T – from Bolt

    Warm-o-rama
    SSH (25), Abe SLOWgodas (12x), arm circles forward/back, seal claps, overhead claps(all 20x), self love (10); Toy soldiers, Hillbillies (15x)

    Frac rules enabled (plane coming in=pause the current exercise for 5 burpees then resume whatever was going on (2X)
    Rochamburpees
    winner does merkin/loser burpees and ties both do merkins, reps equal to round (10 rounds)
    Everest(up/over/back the levee):
    Lunge up one step, perform 1 squat, lunge up with other leg, perform 1 squat.
    Side straddle hop burpees:
    Perform 5 Side-Straddle Hops in cadence, then drop and do 2 Burpees (5 rounds/10 burpees)
    Planks Jacks (ICx50, Duh!?)
    Escalator:
    10 jump-ups, 20 burpees, 30 merkins
    Chumbaburpee:
    SSH at beginning of song, then every time they say, “I get knocked down, but i get up again” you do a burpee. While not doing burpees, you are continuously doing SSH.
    Tie Fighters
    Baby Arm Circles in a lunge position. Forward BACs with right leg forward. Backward BACs with left leg forward to balance the Force
    Mary
    Dying cockroaches 50x, again—Duh!?)
    Wife Pleaser-Squeezer: heels close to butt, elevate to wife pleaser but hold at the top for three count-lower to ground=1, rinse repeat for 10, Mahatma swore his butt didn’t tingle to which I say BS—too scared to admit it!
    Bogey insisted I was gonna need a defibrillator due to my excessive panting throughout the workout to which I say, if I’m not out of breath there’s no way Triple Shift has even broken a sweat.

    COT: beyond honored to be pushed by you men and appreciate those who joined my respect misery.

  • Where is Snoooooze? and Popeye’s is closed – from Hokie

    There were 10 Pax showing up at two sites.

    Frac, Hokie, Gabby & Catfish attempted to re-launch Popeye’s only to find Lafreniere locked up…. upon redirecting ourselves to what promised to bve a fine beatdown by Snooze we headed to Rock City to find Bogey, Hand Grenada, Tenderloin, Triple and Vagabond standing around waiting for 0530 and Snooze when what should appear was not St. Nick but Mahatma with a flag and disclaimer.

    We moseyed to the middle of the field for a circle of rotating warm up Q’s and exercises.

    Still no Snooze we moseyed to the bleachers for warm up Merkins as we ascended the bleachers… 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 & 14

    Now mosey onto the playground for three rounds of three pull ups… and one scary moment as Vagabond took a hard left into a crossbar across the nose…By the grace of God, no stitches and as of this writing he is ok

    As Q’s continued to rotate and there was some mumbling about burpees, we ventured to the rock pile where Bogey took the lead with “impeccable directions” of “grab a rock with some weight to do some exercises and mosey over yonder”. As we wondered, some of us discovered we really could do two things at once, … like walk and curl, then … stop and disobey 😉

    We rifle carried and curled, then stopped and squated 😉 Now mosey some more with indigenous walk while carrying rocks towards the parking lot where Vagabond jumped back in with some control… a descending ladder of thrusters, lunges and russian twists (10, 8, 6, 4 & 2)

    Noting we were running out of time, we started our way back to drop off the rocks and Hand Grenada wrapped us up with dying cock roaches, wife pleasers (where cries of “Where’s Heisenberg?” were heard) and wrapping up with LBC’s.

    Back to our flag and Tenderloin (who knocked out 3/4 of a mile) and our COT.

    At Coffeeteria we met up with Kenner Brah who said he and Heisenberg went to The Joy at Erlanger

  • Bringing Heavy to Wisner – from Vagabond

    Warmup

    Each pax chose a weight ranging from 25 lbs to 60 lbs, including ruck sacks, weighted vests, sandbags, etc. – carried throughout beatdown in double time across the mountain and back stopping at various intervals for 3 exercises.

    Black Jack 21s (21 reps apiece)

    Light
    -merkin
    -prisoner kneel
    -flutter kick 2is1

    Base 1
    -burpees
    -lunges 2is1
    -sit-ups

    Middle 1
    -donkey kicks
    -imperial squat walkers (4ct)
    -incline wife pleasers

    Base 2
    -alternating toe taps 2is1
    -Bobby Hurley
    -box cutters 1is1

    Middle 2
    -plank ups (4 ct)
    -bob & weave
    -v ups

    Base 2
    -shoulder tap 2is1
    -low slow squat with weight
    -on back alternating toe taps

    Light (did not complete)
    -Nolan Ryan
    -side squat with weight
    -hello dolly

    Extra: Mary

    COT and reminder of F3 Mission

  • Sweetness at the Ho – from Fracsac

    Westward Ho needed some love, so YHC stepped up and snagged the Q. Arrived a little early to get some burpees in, because that’s kind of what I do….
    Luckily Mahatma pulled up, keeping it from being the loneliest site.

    Disclaimer given.

    Warmup with usual stuff.

    The Thang:

    Pax 1 carry Sweetness across the parking lot, complete 10 burpees and carry her back.
    Pax 2 jump rope.
    Rinse and Repeat x 4

    4 corners with merkins, squats, Floyd Mayweathers, LBCs, lunges, big boi sit-ups, tin snips and dying cockroaches.

    COT

  • Nothing Fancy, Just Grinding it Out – from Baywatch

    The rain missed us on Sunday and spared the PAX at Pontiff. It would have been a wet, muddy, and cold morning otherwise. Instead, the cooler temp was pleasant with an 18 mph breeze, so YHC made sure the workout wasn’t so pleasant. We headed over to the rock pile for a warmup.

    SSH 25 IC
    Mountain Climbers 25 IC
    Imperial walkers 25 IC
    Hillbillies 25 IC
    Arm Circles 15 IC (both directions)
    Grass Grabbers 10 IC

    With the warmup complete, everyone grabbed their obligatory rock and headed to the field.

    The Thang

    Grab a dance partner. While one partner is doing the rock exercise, the other partner runs to the 50 yard line and back. Then switch.

    100 over head presses
    200 curls
    300 chest presses
    400 flutter kicks

    I must admit, the curls were brutal. Although, my rock choice sure didn’t help. This took a little longer than expected so YHC cut short the next exercise. With a few minutes left, we lined up on the goal line. We bear crawled to the 20 yard line, did 5 burpees and bear crawled backed. Then we did the same thing to the 10 yard line and back.

    With rocks returned and all PAX back at the flag, we did some low slow squats and merkins IC to close out the morning.

  • Lucky Bear vs Form Police – from King Kong

    Q vs Q on 1/7/2022

    Our Department had been receiving calls for months about a group of “guys” working out at 5:30 a.m in Kenner. The complaints were never about the noise or other nuisances, but they were about the form. He complained about the push ups…. (they call it “Merks or Merkins”), squats, lunges, burpees, and the list goes on. I recognized his voice every time he called. I couldn’t ignore his complaints anymore since he was so persistent and passionate about the form. As Lieutenant King Kong from the Form Police Department, I showed up on 1/7/2022 ready to hand out citations.

    Upon arrival, I noticed 13 other “guys” (they call themselves “Pax”) showed up promptly on a cold, chilly, windy morning. While I was introducing myself to the Pax and why I was there…. One of the Pax called himself “Rudy” aka Lucky Bear was challenging and questioning me like he was defending his turf.

    A Kenner Native named “Mambi” led a warm up with jumping jacks (they call it “side straddle hops”), windmills (aka “Abe Vigoda”), and a stretch named “grass grabbers.”

    I saw an opportunity to take the lead after Mambi was done with the warmups. I called out another Kenner Native – Mahatma to demonstrate the proper form of a Merkin…. then Gabrielle with squats. After the demonstrations, I led the Pax with 10 merkins, ran to the stop sign, did 10 squats, ran back. When I noticed bad forms, I blew my whistle and everyone had to do 5 burpees. We did that for about 2 rounds… then Lucky Bear interrupted me by telling the Pax to grab a “coupon”, which is a cinder block, and headed towards the levee.

    At the levee, we did something called Gorilla. With a coupon, PAX performed the following OYO without stop: 8 Curls For Girls, 8 Rows, 8 Overhead Presses, 8 Chest Presses, then drop coupon followed this up by a quick mosey over the levee and back. Rinse and repeat until Lucky Bear yelled “halt.” Afterwards, we did few rounds of king kong with the coupon up and down the levee until Lucky Bear yelled halt again.

    At this point, I’m getting tired of Lucky Bear’s nonsense… so I gathered the Pax away from the levee and redirected their focus back on form, but this time with the coupon. We did 7’s (one side with a manmaker, ran to the stop sign and did squats). About half way through, I was interrupted again by Lucky Bear. He must have loved my idea of 7’s. He instructed the Pax to do “Lucky 7’s” – 7 burpees follow with an exercise of his choice in one minute for seven minutes nonstop. I blew my whistle couple times when I noticed his bad form.

    By the end of this, Mambi had enough and halted the entire workout because the environment felt like Form Police versus Lucky Bear. The group voted that I was the winner…. didn’t even know I was in a competition. Now I was asked by the Pax to come back out to Kenner in a month and challenge someone else. They called this “Q vs Q.” I called this a sucker bet to get me out to Kenner at 5:30 a.m. Since I don’t mind getting back out here, only fitting for me to challenge the caller who filed all these complaints. He is Triple Shift.

    Side notes worth mentioning – Fracsac showed up in a Godzilla costume looking for King Kong. Willie is the one who gave me the idea to be Form Police. But the Oscar award winning acting and calling out Triple Shift…. That’s all me.

    Blessed and honored to lead a Q vs Q workout. SYITG.

    King Kong

  • All Day Baby……#2 – from Mahatma

    All Day Baby…..(it may take that long to read this thing)
    There is so much diversity in our Pax that if you stick around long enough you’ll learn something not only about various beatdowns but yourself as well!

    This leads us to the gloom of today…..
    YHC had an idea for incorporating a recent Rudy based beatdown and lore from recent grow rucks (and past military experiences) all designed to make a physically and mentally uncomfortable environment while pushing beyond a comfort zone.

    Short disclaimer then mosey to the great lawn circle up for a quick warm up of SSH, windmills, grass grabers, side lunges and self love.

    Then line up for craw-daddy’s where you start in a plank position bar crawl approx 10 yds perform 2 merkins and 2 double unders bear crawl another 10 yds then 4 and 4, bc then 6 and 6, bc then 8 and 8 now hold plank for the 6.

    We are getting warm now! Oh look hear 5 blocks set up in a line – all pax line up in plank position shoulder to shoulder on the left of the blocks now side step plank across and over until the last pax completes the line HOLD plank once complete we went back the other direction!

    Now warmed up the morning mission is given out pax divided into 4 groups 3 of 3 and 1 of 4 (Diddy Kong was the muscle of this group). Each group was to carry a block overhead at all time – if for any reason the block was lowered below eye level then the that team of pax had to do 3 burpees with instructions given we headed out for our objective – YHC left some additional blocks by the Stomp’s starting point to be retrieved – along the way YHC would have the groups stop for some varied exercises (blocks must be maintained in the overhead position). See a need for some change at some point YHC had PAX circle up and instructed that the blocks over head could be lowered yet there was some hesitancy by a few pax that thoughts this might be some evil trick to have them do burpees – not the case yet Rudy even requested YHC to make some ridiculous statement “Simon Says”. It was left up to his judgement to follow or not. From here we were close to a 1/2 point – so we pushed on – Once at the Stomp teams now retrieved 2 additional blocks that had to be farmer carried back with 1 Pax still keeping the other block over head. YHC realized he under estimated the strength of Vagabond and his gang as they seemingly toyed with their overhead block holding it with one hand while the rest of us grunted and mentally pushed through YET karma had her way when during an exchange their block dropped and so did they giving 3 punish burpees.

    As we were 1/2 way back Snooze all of as sudden remembered he had leave 15 minutes early putting his team of YHC and Frac to ponder the thought of carrying the blocks solo! Well YHC being selfish attempted to push the pace apparently giving the impression he was looking past his teammate Frac but with all the chirping from the normal suspects of Bogy and Rudy (maybe War Eagle too but he often got sidetracked as many millennials do looking at text on his phone while he was supposed to be working). Anyway YHC knew Fracs strength to carry on!

    Back at the great lawn we finished the adventure with some individual block exercises (and complaining) closing with some more block over block plank trains and 10 man makers.

    As we returned to the flag YHC requested the blocks be returned to his truck where Rudy was defiant until he he heard “Simon Says”.

    COT – prayers of gratitude and humility for serving others. Also recognizing the strength of joy in others as Tool is prepping for an 18 year birthday celebration for Speed-Racer.

    God Bless