F3 New Orleans

Tag: Mobydick

  • Rotating Rock Party – from Jose10k

    YHC arrived to see a Mandevillian chilling in his car. Russo was ready to go, until they needed to weedeat behind his car, the only grass in the parking lot, and Russo parks there.
    With no one picking up the Q, YHC decided to pull out an old favorite. Time to rotate at the rock garden.
    Warm-ups: All IC, ssh, grass grabbers, torso twists, self love
    The Thang: Moseyed to the rock garden where everyone grabbed a rock. We did 10 reps in cadence. Curls for the girls, shoulder presses, squats, and rows. Then rotate. Rinse and repeat all the way around. Then we did a lap around the courthouse. Stopping at the back and the front for some irkins. Back to the rock garden where the two elder F3 brothers put their two heads together for 5 exercises in tabata style, 1 minute on, 30 seconds rest. Triceps, torso twists, bouncie squats, chest presses, and lbc’s. Moseyed back to the flag, COT, and Moby prayed us out.
    Announcements: Gnarly Nutria coming up on July 20th
    Intentions: Continue prayers for BBQ’s mother who is doing much better.
    Thanks for letting me lead gentlemen.

  • YOU CAN’T GET OUT WHAT YOU HAVEN’T PUT IN. INVEST IN YOURSELF! – from Jose10k

    There was 3 of us who decided to wake up early and put in the work to make us better men.
    Warm-up: SSH, torso twists, grass grabbers, windmills, self love, and cherry pickers.
    The thang: We moseyed to the rock garden for some work. Curls for the girls, squats, triceps, 45 degree presses, and rows. Each IC, ten count, rotate clockwise to the next rock. 3 rounds. Then Squat thrusters, alpos, triceps, grave diggers, and rows. Moseyed back up to the A1C to finish off with Mary: little Manny crunches, American Hammers, flutter Kicks.
    COT and Hammer prayed us out. Thank y’all for the chance to lead this morning. After all the fun, there was 25 minutes of conversation about everything, zucchini fries, car repairs, and how the numbers have been dropping at AOs and the reasons for the low numbers. It’s time to head lock y’all, time to get those brothers back out to the gloom. The hardest thing about exercising is start doing it. Once you start doing it regularly, the hardest thing to do is stop it. SYITG

  • Awww Crap! – from Akbar

    6 men chose the Red Pill this morning for a hot mosey around the Gipper.

    PAX: Hammer, Akbar, Moby Dick, BBQ, Barely Legal, Jose 10k, F3 Northshore, The Gipper

    Conditions: Clear, 72°F, Feels like 73°F, Humidity 80%, Wind 1mph from NE

    Warm Up x 10 IC mostly: SSH, IW, Hillbillies, Cherry Pickers, Arm Circles F/B, Self-Love, Grass Grabbers

    Thang 1: Rock Garden for Curls and 45 degree shoulder press x 10 IC, 3 sets. Much shorter than Mavericks nightmare last week.

    Thang 2: Justice Center benches: Freak Nasties and Bulgarian Split Squats x 10 IC, 3 sets

    Thang 3: 11’s on the Justice Center Stairs. Merkins at bottom, Y Supermans at top, 5 Calf Raises every 4 steps on the way up.

    Turbo Dog took a dump at the entrance to the Justice Center, possibly a metaphor for some. Then 2 ladies made their way up the stairs saying hello to Hammer.

    Finishing 11’s we helped Moby look for a cleanup device, which was found, and while Moby was cleaning up we did Freak Nasties and Dirkins on the benches IC
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    5 minutes left, Mosey back to the invisible flag for E2k both sides x 10 IC

    Countorama, Nameorama

    Announcements:
    BBQ is a Grandaddy! Another possibly very tall boy.
    TopGun 2 movie at The Movie Tavern 8:45 tonight.
    The Elite Part 2 at the Lakefront Saturday with Tanked Up!
    Sign up to Q and write a backblast!

    COT: Hammer prayed us out with thoughts of BBQ’s mom who is doing better and his new grandchild, the school shooting last week, Ukraine, and a wayward bullet killing a lady at a graduation at Xavier recently.

    Thanks for following my lead – SYITG. Akbar

  • Fire Fighter Challenge Part Deux – from Bushwacker

    I feel I’ve been so delinquent in my commitment to F3 lately and it showed as I tried to start the warmorama. IMHO (as the kids put it), that delinquency continued right on through the beat down with my unorganized leadership, chaotic participation, and off-the-cuff modifications. But YHC brought the coupons, set the games in motion, and we all watched with little surprise as the former Marsh Madness champion and current King of Distain quite literally ran away with the Badaxe award this go ’round. Nonetheless, all men (regardless of age) put forth an effort most valiant indeed!

    WARMORAMA
    As previously mentioned, QIC felt entirely out of practice, forgetting exercise names, miscalling cadences, and generally flubbing my return. But PAX kept showing up until the ranks grew to a respectable number. Even after out our mosey to the shaft, Grundy popped up to fiddle around with our tires.

    THANG
    Farmer’s Carry
    Sledge Hammer Tire
    Tire Flip
    Tire Pull
    Prisoner’s Carry
    Tire Drag
    Chain of Doom
    Lunge Walk

    Teams of 2-3 did 3 1 minute rounds switching between the coupon and plank or al gore. We kept this up until, with 5 minutes remaining, the 4 bad asses competing for the Badaxe award ran the tire drag for time. As previously mentioned, our own reverend pastor preacher man took home the prize… until next time!

    COT
    On the spot we carried out count/nameorama, with zoo having departed prematurely. I appreciate you guys. I cherish my time with you guys. Many many thanks!

  • Can Do card workout again! – from BBQ

    Another beautiful morning at the AIC. Warm ups were the usual mix but focused on the upper body. Specifically shoulders in support for our recovering sling brothers, Einstein and Turbo. The deck of cards with the Can Do logo came out again. Each suit represented an exercise and each card dictated the reps 2-14. Hearts were hand release merkins. Diamonds were bouncy squats. Spades were gas pumps. Clubs were LBC’s. Hammer, Fletch and Frank the Tank led the cadence on their respective suit. Thanks for their help. Each of the 2 jokers had the PAX go across the parking lot doing Starjacks or lunges. These are favorites from our missing sling brothers. Nameorama. Hammer strongly prayed us out.

  • Trilogy completed – from Shooter

    YHC signed up for 5 AOs two weeks ago and today concluded the trilogy of his thoughts.. With the Marsh and the A1c both experiencing the 2 min drill the Gipper was all that remained.. YHC was rewarded by 2 other PAX in Akbar and Moby getting a second dose and newcomers Barely legal, BBQ and Cowbell were able to get a sample of a simple 2 min interval workout that can prove to be effective..

    Simple warmup of 15IC Cherry Pickers, Moracans, Self Love, Grass grabbers, SSH and Butt kicks with a Mosey around the block..

    Work consisted of Jump rope, plate swings, squat thrusters (block), chest press (block), curls (block) and eight count body builders (block).. In between intervals ran down the the ole railway and around the trolly..

    YHC prayed out the PAX with prayer intentions for BBQs mother Jan with her upcoming procedure and prayers of safety for the journey of Cowbell to Boulder CO and fellow PAX Grover for his trip to AR..

    Appreciate the post gentlemen and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • Three Amigo’s and of course “Sonny” – from Shooter

    With a few weeks removed from my last Q at the A1c, YHC decided to signup and duplicate what he brought to the Marsh on Monday. There of course was some slight variations as only 3 PAX decided to take the pill on this Gloom.

    Brief warmup of 10IC Grass Grabbers, Cherry pickers, Arm circles Abe Vagodas and a mosey around the parking garage. The thang consisted of 6 exercises with 2 minute intervals followed by loops around the parking garage between sets. Included jump rope, kettle swings (ruck plates), shoulder press (cylinder block), lunges (stairwell), chest press (cylinder blocks) and curls (ruck plate).

    Appreciate the post and until the next gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • The Planets Aligned – from Mobydick

    YHC Signed up to Q the night before and showed up without much of a plan and almost expecting no turnout. To my surprise I was not alone. Fletch , Hammer , Jose10k we’re already there. The overnight rain had cooled things down but cleared out leaving a moonless predawn darkness . Fletch pointed our attention to the southern sky where Mars Mercury Venus and Jupiter were aligned and clearly visible. The workout just evolved.from there. Since I had signed up I led warmip off with vigorous 30x IC SSH and passed off the next selection to Hammer then Jose and Fletch After 3 or so rounds of that we moseyed to the Corner for the thang. YHC . continued the collaboration by selecting a 5/10/15/20 rep progression around the garage roof. We each took a corner in turn and selected an exercise. 5 Burpee’s started us off. Jose took the 10x corner with things like knuckle merkins and later to his regret 10 calf raises on each of step of two flights of stairs. Hammer took the next corner and merkins became a theme all kinds diamond/ wide/ hand release Fletch got to pick the 20x corner and legs got a workout. A 2x lunge at each parking stripe (there are 25 of them) started us off Forgive the old guy for not remembering all the exercises 4 rounds 4 different stations 4 different PAX selections adds up to a lot of variety. YHC closed out with another PAX choice set of rounds with a stretch theme. All in all a well rounded work out and ending right on time. COT

  • 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

  • Who’s got the Q? – from Mobydick

    I arrived, prepared with the deck of death, rocking to a 10 minute version of Prince’s “little red corvette”. I didn’t know that Moby picked up the Q, so after a bit of back and forth, we decided to do a round robin 4 corners. 5-10-15-20 reps at each corner. Burpees, knuckle pushups, freak nastys, leg raises, calf raises, lunge walk the entire parking garage, basically a burpee at each parking stripe, core exercises galore. And after 45 minutes, an epic beatdown was finished. Moby prayed us out, Shout Out to Speedy and all the other Covington High Lions graduating tonight. Y’all remember, Kick Ball tomorrow.