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Tag: Milestone Marsh

  • Marsh Mix Up – from Akbar

    YHC arrived early today in the gloom, just in time to see Pik and Hammer running down Lamarque. As we circled up, Pik mentioned that I had the Q today – at the 007. Figuring it was a mistake, since YHC was in Mandeville instead of Slidell, he let me lead. Today we hit the playground, ran to the Lakefront to visit the wall for some tempo work, short mosey to Rips for stairwork and holds.

    Conditions: 46 degrees
    PAX: Akbar, The Hammer, Waterpik

    Warm Up
    SSH, Grass Grabbers, Self-Love, Windmills, High Knees, Butt Kicks

    Playground OYO 3 x 10
    • Pull Ups
    • Hanging knee raises

    Run to the Lakefront down Marigny
    Wall
    • Tempo Derkins / Freak Nasty x 10 IC
    • Step ups x 10 OYO
    • Walking shoulder tap plank jack to sidewalk, mosey to Rips

    Rips
    • 40s Balls to the wall hold
    • 50s Wall sit
    • Superman, run stairs with 10 calf raises at top, Rocky Balboas

    Wall
    • Tempo Derkins/Freak Nasty x 10 IC
    • Step ups x 10 OYO
    • Bear Crawl to Rips

    Rips
    • Stone Mountain, run stairs with 10 calf raises at top, Rocky Balboas

    Mary
    • Balls to the wall hold
    • Wall sit
    • LBC, Flutter Kicks, Rosalita x 10 IC

    Count, Name, Pik prayed us out.

    Announcements: Run Cajun Run, Endurathon, City Pork (City Park F3 family event with 5 5k’s) tentatively Feb 25th.

    ‘Til next gloom – Akbar

  • R&R of the R&R – from Russo

    Mid 60’s, humid, foggy, puddles everywhere…the Marsh living up to its name this morning for a repeat of a R&R from YHC. I felt lazy driving up to the Marsh as I was soon to be joined by tandem runners Pik and Hammer.

    Warmup (all 10-15x IC)
    – SSH
    – Hillbillies
    – Toe touches
    – Torso twists
    – Grass grabbers
    – High knees

    Thang

    Tabata:
    – 1 minute each with bricks, 30 seconds rest, with some moseying around the block before each one.

    -Arm curls
    -Cherry pickers
    -Hallelujah squats
    -Arm circles
    -Triceps extensions
    -Milk maids

    COT, Name-o-Rama, and prayer closed out, where we continued to lift up Akbar and his mom, as well as Hammer and his work. Also remember that the Ivan is this Friday (7:30 ruck start, 8 run start) and the Endurathon is coming up in March. Hammer is still looking for a couple more teammates.

    Stop 4 of the goal of Q’ing all NS AOs complete. Gipper, 007, and Lakefront up soon.

    Thanks for joining and / or reading.

    Until the next time, SYITG.

  • Murph at the Marsh – from Jose10k

    Simple: murph at the marsh with 6 of my brothers

  • Thor #3 – from Akbar

    Great day for another Thor workout, although we didn’t do it on the Top Gun Navy ship. Modified full body workout covering all muscle groups and a run in between.

    Warm up – SSH, IW, lower back stretch 10 count, self-love, cherry pickers,

    x10 each, run to stop sign and back in-between

    Blockee, curl and press
    Squat, curl and press
    Alt Reverse Lunge (2 is 1), curl and press
    Curls
    Block Press
    Freak Nasty
    Irkins

    Mary – x20 Crunchy Frogs, LBC

    Got in 5 rounds, last round x5 each.

    Thoughts this week – focus on Faith instead of Fear. Russo prayed us out.

    Announcements

    Bushwhacker Boon Dog Saints movie this Thursday at 5:30, Meredith is making a King Cake
    Krazy Ivan, Feb 3rd 8 pm (Friday)
    Run Cajun Run starts in February
    Endurathon set for St. Patricks day week.

    Have a great week, SYITG – Akbar

  • 12 days of Christmas – from Waterpik

    With the week of Christmas upon us, a holiday themed beatdown was in order.
    After a brief warmup, YHC led the pax through the 12 days of an F3 Christmas with these exercises:

    Day 1: Imperial Squat Walkers
    Day 2: Hello Dollys
    Day 3: Groiners
    Day 4: Flutter Kicks
    Day 5: Jump Squats
    Day 6: Burpees
    Day 7: Imperial Walkers
    Day 8: Sister Mary Catherine’s
    Day 9: Merkins
    Day 10: Crunchy Frogs
    Day 11: Shoulder Taps
    Day 12: Side Straddle Hops

    Count, Name, Prayer

    Have a great week men! As always, I am a better man for participating in F3 and for knowing all of you.

    Waterpik

  • Thor’s got nothing on these Pax – from Akbar

    YHC has been watching Limitless with Wicket this week, who still refers to him as Thor instead of Chris Hemsworth. We’ve been watching Thor do some pretty amazing things. Thor did this workout while on a Navy ship, and looked pretty tough. But the PAX today killed it with intensification.

    Conditions: 64 degrees, 100% humidity, cloudy

    Warm Up
    SSH, Arm Circles, Self Love, Grass Grabbers, Imperial Walkers

    Thang

    7 exercises – 10 rounds, walk it out 60s after each round, 450 reps total
    5 Squats
    5 Meter Bear Crawl – 16.5 feet – 3 point line to baseline. We intensified this to half court after 3 rounds.
    5 Sit Through’s – Bear crawl position, on toes, right leg across body while left hand is raised, switcheroo. 2=1. Similar to Apollo Ohno’s in Bear Crawl Position.
    10 Merkins
    10 Mountain Climbers – 2=1
    5 static Lunge, 5 each leg – hands or knees touch ground
    5 Apollo Ohno’s 2=1
    60s rest /walk out after each round.

    Playground

    Chin ups and Crunchy Frogs. 3 rounds x 10 or max. Last round midway hold on chin ups to failure.

    Mary

    LBC’s x20 IC

    Announcements

    Congrats to Grundy and M on the new baby born yesterday. Everyone is doing well. Run Cajun Run, Krazy Ivan, Franco’s Dip and Dash, Nightmare Before Christmas postponed – check Slack for updates.

    Intentions
    Aunt Sue – Lukemia; Jose 10k’s school family – 5 yr old dealing with cancer

    Count, Name, and YHC prayed us out.

    NMM
    • Thought this would actually be harder, but we do this stuff every day. Great work PAX

  • Y’all do a lot of Squats, huh? – from Waterpik

    A duo down range from North Carolina and an FNG originally from NOLA now living in Kansas brightened the foggy, humid, gloomy streets of Old Mandeville this morning posting at the AO we call the Milestone Marsh.

    Welcome FNG, Wheels Up, to the F3 brotherhood. I hope you post near your home in Kansas or at least when you come to Louisiana to visit.

    Workout:

    Tabata: 15 rounds of different exercises, starting with warmup cadences, such as side straddle hops and Imperial Walkers, graduating to more difficult sets of merkins and burpees.

    Lunge walk to bars for 5 sets of pull-ups with alternating sets of your choice of core exercise.

    Head back to center court for mission impossible hold, 5 count each man, then second set, 3 count each man.

    Head out to street for 4 corners, stopping at each block for Stone Mountains, Peter Parker’s, mountain climbers, crunchy frogs

    Circle up at center court for COT.

    Thanks to Half Back for praying us out.

  • Burn, Burn, Burn – from Akbar

    Wicket and I arrived home from the F3 Campout around 2pm, just in time to air everything out and start washing clothes, when some friends came over for a couple of hours. All of the sudden it was 6pm and YHC remembered he had the Q. During said camping trip, yours truly literally fell into a ring of fire (for about 2 seconds). Long enough to feel the burn, burn, burn. After it was clear that everything was OK, Whacker quickly said he would change my name to Johnny Cash. Knowing that mobility may be an issue, blocks were on the menu for today – with a burn.

    Warm up
    SSH, IW, Grass Grabbers, Self-Love, Butt Kicks IC x 15

    Thang
    Grab the coupons starting with 10 reps moving down the assembly line until all have finished, if you finish early plank for the 6.

    1. Grave Diggers
    2. Curls
    3. Shoulder Presses
    4. Skull Crushers
    5. Brick Flyes
    6. Renegade Row Merkin (20 lb Dbell)

    Jog down to the mailbox and back.

    QIC made a couple of changes since the Grave Diggers and Renegade Row Merkins took so much time, and took out the run. We did 5 more rounds, increasing reps along the way for 15, 20, 25, then decreased by 5 until time was called. After each round we bear Crawled to half court, skipped the rest of the way. Then Bear Crawl half, and backpedal.

    1. Curls
    2. Shoulder Presses
    3. Skull Crushers
    4. Brick Flyes
    5. Merkins

    Mary
    X 15IC Little Manny Crunches, LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, Hello Dolly

    Time called, Count, Name, and Hammer prayed us out.

    Thanks for showing up and following my lead.

    SYITG – Akbar

    NMM
    • Although it was in the 30’s, no dampness made it bearable.
    • Good to see Steve back out again at the Marsh.
    • The knee injury was laughable on some exercises – especially warm up – since I couldn’t lift my left leg above 5 inches.
    • Got to here about Hammers Eagles concert with his daughter, talked about camping, football, and a host of other things.

  • The Song Remains The Same – from Akbar

    The plan was a block day, which we haven’t had at the Marsh in a while. Until a group text went out that Saturdays beatdown would be at the Marsh due to weather, and could someone bring blocks? Grundy put it to us and YHC was about to switch up but stayed the course. For most of the pax, a 2 block workouts back to back. This one to a BBC live soundtrack of Led Zeppelin.

    Conditions: Muggy, especially painful after the great weather we’ve had.

    Mumblechatter: LSU/Alabama mostly, but not a whole lot of time for mumblechatter.

    PAX: Akbar, Waterpik, Hammer, Bird, Quarterpipe

    Warm Up – SSH, IW, arm circles, Grass Grabbers x 20

    Round 1,2 x 20 each

    Curls, Merkin
    Goblet Squats, Chest Press, Merkin
    Thrusters, Merkins
    SMC, Merkins

    Run down to the 2nd stop sign and back
    Wall Sit 45s, 15s rest – REPEAT

    Mary x 15 IC
    Crunchy Frogs
    Hello Dolly
    Rosalita
    LBC
    Penguins

    Count, Name, and Quarterpipe prayed us out

    Thank for letting me lead, great way to start the week
    Akbar

  • From Grover, with Hate – from Akbar

    YHC arrived to the gloom to see 2 shadows moseying down Lamarque, Waterpik and Hammer getting in a Lagniappe block after their usual run to the AO. At 70 degrees, maybe the last warmish day before the cold front moving in this week.

    A quick trip to Hattiesburg yesterday had Grover and I painting a deck, when YHC realized he had the Q. Over sweet tea and pizza, Grover picked out the exercises for the beatdown with a Grinchlike evil grin.

    Mumblechatter was a plenty as usual, catching up on the weekend. Pickaxe broken his wrist, Russo’s beatdown, soccer, Pik becoming a bus driver.

    Warm Up
    Toe touches, SSH, Cherry Pickers, Self Love, Imperial Walkers, Grass Grabbers

    Head over to the playground for 3 x 10 Pull Ups and Low Slow Squats OYO/IC

    Head to Granny’s for the main thang.

    Benches: Slow low Dirkins and Freak Nasties. IC x 12,8,5 for each

    Grass patch: Lunge walk half way, bear crawl to the end x 3

    Stairs: exercises at the bottom x 10 OYO, run up the stairs around the Pilot House, exercise at top x 10 OYO, rinse and repeat.

    Stone Mountain, Monkey Humpers, Slow Squat, Irkins, Sister Mary Catherine

    Back to the Marsh for more Dirkins/Freak Nasties – 10/8/5 IC with lunge walks and Bear Crawls on the court in between

    Mary
    Freddy Mercury, Stone Mountain, Merkin, Little Manny Crunches, Monkey Humpers, x 10 IC. 1 minute plank.

    Count, Name, and YHC prayed us out for Zoo’s dad, Waterpik’s father in law, Pickaxe’s wrist injury, and a chance to influence others for good this week.

    Announcements:
    Bushwacker’s camping trip Nov. 11-13 and M’s 40th birthday Saturday November 5th, Halloween costume party.
    Convergence next weekend in NOLA
    Possible Russo Halloween beatdown Sunday afternoon, stay tuned to slack.
    Sign up to Q!

    Until next gloom – Akbar