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Tag: Pass Interference

  • Coupon for a Sprint – from Hogs Breath

    Two of us meet at the 007. The December weather was nice and balmy.

    Today was a rather simple, but effective workout! We first mosey’d to grab some
    Coupons

    The warm up
    Good mornings, inchworms, grass grabbers, mountain man poopers, and SSH!

    The Thang
    -15 coupon curls
    -sprint a little ways

    -20 OH press
    -sprint a little farther

    -20 chest presses
    -sprint some more

    Do you see the pattern yet? After each sprint we’d increase the distance. We slow mosey’d between each sprint session to lower our heart rates.

    Coupon exercises included
    – tricep extensions
    – Squats
    – Cal raises
    – Bent over rows
    – Curls [again]
    – OH press [again]
    – Chest press [again]

    Ended with COT and Coffeeteria.

  • Reindeer Games 2 – from Hogs Breath

    Since Hogs Breath was the sole participant of Reindeer Games 1, YHC decided to set a rematch.
    This time the pax doubled! YHC and Pass Interference!
    We begin our chilly, 37*, games with a warm up of
    – Imperial Walkers
    – SSH
    – Windmills and some other stuff

    The Thang
    The gameplay is easy. A yard jenga tower awaited. Each pax took turns pulling a log out. If there was an exercise written on said log it was dealer choice for the amount of reps. If it was blank it was completely a dealers choice for both except use and reps. Also, a Deck-o-Death awaited to assist the pax if they needed inspiration for an exercise or number of reps.
    Once the tower fell, due to Hogs Breath, the pax at fault did burpees until the tower fell. It took 25 Burpees for the tower to be rebuilt!!
    Ended with some videos for promotional content for F3, COT, and coffeeteria at Starbucks!

  • Christmas Decoration Mayhem – from Pass Interference

    Arriving at The 007, the city of Slidell had began decorating for Christmas and put up a drive thru display, directly in front of the restrooms (the normally shovel flag location. Pass Interference and Hogs Breath thus parked in front of the boat ramp.

    The duo quickly decided to Co-Q and created an on the fly beatdown.
    Warming up with some Copperhead Squats and a Motivator round. The Thang consisted of a deck of death, some coupon mosey, a few sprints and lunge walks. A fun time was had by all!
    Ended with a COT and Coffeeteria at Starbucks

  • All Star Festivities (4 year anniversary) – from Russo

    Beautiful weather this morning topping out at 60 degrees. Flags came in quickly as Shooter and JV arrived early and off we went with the mumblechatter.

    Around 4 years ago, an offhand “You should join us” from Toto began my adventure with F3, so today I thought we’d honor those folks that have shaped our beatdowns and who continue to be positive role models for their friends, family, coworkers, and in their corner of the world. While certainly not the only ones, each of these men have had a favorable impact on my F3 experience and have helped me grow tremendously over he years, with plenty of room for more growth and learning to go. Despite objection, SmashMouth was NOT played.

    Warmup (mostly IC)
    – Sealjacks
    – Arm circles
    – Self love
    – Imperial squat walkers
    – Toe touches

    All Star recognition 1: Zoolander – the HIM most likely to EH someone (and then we never see them again) – Goofballs and then 5 knuckle merkins

    Thang
    All star Speedy – the Crazy Ivan Ringer – mosey to the gazebo

    All star recognition 3 and 4:
    Hammer: pushed me as hard mentally as I’ve ever been pushed by F3 with 1,000 burpees, and Grundy, whose cakewalk is the hardest non-Iron Pax I’ve ever been pushed – cakewalk of 5 merkins

    Mosey to the shaft for more All Star recognitions:

    WaterPik- King of Form: 10 8 count bodybuilders IC

    Moby: Leader of the chain gang – without his chain, we subbed with an Indian bear crawl

    Turbo: the Godfather – mosey back to the flag, teams of 3, passing the tennis balls (NOT golf balls). If the ball hits the ground, team performs 3 merkins (in honor of All Star Akbar: Mr. Merkin Trap). Many T claps to Wicket and JV for being in sync all the way, and leading like they’ve been QBs and/or WRs all their lives.

    On the wall, we honor All Star Bushwacker: King of the impromptu Q: 10 IC freak nastys and 10 durkins, rinse and repeat. We skipped the additional 15 rounds he made us do one week.

    Move to All Star Barely Legal: Who knew his crab walk skills? Crab walk to the street and back to the wall. Bird, I hope your hands are ok.

    Mosey around Noah’s Ark where we honored All Star Jose 10k: most Supportive, Mr. Will Do Anything Another Brother Asks, always one of the first to join in, NOT Mr. Grumble, who “won” White Elephant 2021, by doing cherry pickers while moseying.

    At the block, we stopped to honor All Star Cowbell, Prince of Punctuality: 25 crunchy frogs (just enough for Jose to note “He’s waiting for everyone to just stop”)

    Back at the sea wall, we honored (1) All Star Steve: Most likely to outwork you and smile the entire time: 5 Kraken burpees

    and then (2) All Star Shooter: Most 6 pickups (at least when I was 6): 10 donkey kicks, where MVP was Bird and his handstand yoga walk

    followed by (3) the Futures portion: the 2.0s

    – Pickax
    – Wicket
    – FNG Wookie!
    – Yoda
    – Pixie stick
    – Hazard
    – Chainsaw
    – Gilligan
    – Minnow
    – Bear
    – Trakbar
    – Grover (Welcome back!)
    – Machete

    In their honor we performed 26 Smurfjacks IC (13 x 2.0)

    Moving over to Rip’s, we paused for the In Memorium portion of the festivities, up the steps and back down to honor those that we hope rejoin us one day, including but not limited to:
    – Bypass
    – Butt paste
    – Mick
    – Stock boy
    – Coconuts
    – Amnesia
    – Bends
    – Slider
    – Toto
    – Ocho
    – Pelican
    – Pea shooter
    – Swoll patrol

    Back at the sea wall, it was my pleasure to honor All Star Manny: Encouragement personified, the first to tell me “Just keep coming” – 10 LMCs IC

    Quickly running out of time, we wrapped up with our final All Star: Maverick: the Music Man, who makes me hate Roxanne to this day. Performed to “She’s so Cold” by The Rolling Stones, high knees, with a squat every time you hear “hot” or “cold”.

    Mosey back to the flag where COT, count, Name-o-Rama, announcements, and prayer closed us out.

    Announcements about NOLA convergence next week, Bushwacker’s camping trip and wife’s birthday party, upcoming potential Halloween beatdown on Sunday 10/30, among others. Check Slack for more info.

    Special welcome to Wookie, Chewy’s 2.0 and our newest HIM.

    One final note: as each year passes, I remember less and less of that first October post back in 2018: pre-COVID, pre-Joe Burrow becoming Joe Burrow, pre- many of our newest brothers, 10 pounds lighter.

    I remember I was late, Buttsplice had Q, we did some yoga. But I’ll never forget feeling sore for at least 3.5 days after, and loving it. Doing something different. Outside with no weights.

    Not wanting to make that same mistake, lest I be judged, I was about 20 minutes early, either the next week or the week following that, and made the mistake of being TOO early, to where I joined the pre-Thang run and after about 40 yards, thought “This was a mistake”.

    But then either Tank or Shooter picked me up as the 6 (details aren’t important, because both have done it repeatedly and offered encouragement). Having started off on the wrong foot, not one but twice, would have normally sent me packing and wishing the group the best in future endeavors. But the encouragement sparked me. That kept me coming back.

    I said it last year, and the statement holds true: Because of what we do, and what our mission is, our reach extends beyond losing a few pounds, getting bigger arms for the gun shows, or finding our abdominal muscles again. If we’re doing it right, we’re improving confidence in those around us, encouraging each other to be impactful in our commmunity, and exemplifying Christ’s disciples in our words and actions. My prayer is that we keep doing that. Whatever “that” is, keep doing it. We’re doing something right.

    That’s my goal, and even if I fall short, I know I’ll have another opportunity to do it soon enough.

    Thank you for making that commitment and for all that you do. SYITG

  • F3 Wars Episode 6; The Return of Hogs Breath – from Hogs Breath

    On 09 October a cryptic message got sent out on Slack boding of important news. Hogs Breath had returned and would even Q!
    28 weeks, well actually 201 days had passed since this lad had graced us with his presence. In Thailand he was deployed with the Navy.
    YHC came strolling in the mild gloom. Cool fall weather greeted him. Seven months is a long time, he was interest in wanting to plant a flag. However, the shovel flag remained in the trunk of his cheap old beater-car. He was away so long, the trunk would not even open!
    Two showed up to join YHC in beating down our bodies.
    The Warmup
    Despite being flagless we began with some Toy soldiers and Hip Openors in cadence. Then for distance we performed some Inch Worms and Butt Kicks / High Knees.
    The Thing
    YHC has let cardio go by the way of the DoDo. So we Mosey’d to pull ups AMRAP and remembered that number. We then Mosey’d to some coupons and returned to the playground. We preformed a workout inspired by Chris Hemsworth preparation for the last Thor movie.
    10x
    • Bicep Curls
    • OH Press
    • Tricep Extensions
    • Squats
    • Bent Over Row
    • Twist hugging our coupons
    • Chest Press
    In between each round we would mosey back to pull-ups and preformed a descending ladder on our max AMRAP (50%, 25%, 25%, amrap….)
    Lather, rinse, repeat for a total of 5 rounds.
    We then meandered a long way to return the coupons. YHC had a few mins of Mary. And the real closer was 28 Burpee’s based upon the 28 weeks YHC had been departed.

    During our beatdown the mumblechatter was spent on catching up and all the activities we have such missed!

    So even thought the title was Star Wars, the beatdown Marvel, really your Q was just humbled to be back!

  • Back in the Saddle – from Rudy

    Been a while since YHC has been Q’ing regularly. Time to get started again, and what better place than one of YHC’s favorite locations – Okwata. Even dug the flag out of the shed and shoved it in the back of the mini. And with that, 4 PAX started off in the morning gloom.

    Thang 1 (after a brief warmup): 11s with Bobby Hurleys (along the water). Mode of transportation is the bear crawl. Lots of griping – but Hawg, I’m doing what I can to help the PAX prep for the great 2023 bear crawl.

    Thang 2: Up and over the levee at Canal St. Hand Release merks at the bottom, Situps at the top, Slow Squats on the bottom of the other side. Cross over and repeat. Got about 2.5 cycles in.

    Thang 3: Mosey along the levee to the crawfish-laden-House-of-Pain. 2 PAX head down to get 5 Pull Ups, then Bernie Sanders back up to the top. The other PAX head down the other side for 5 Big Boys, then Bernie back up – LBC waiting on the pull-er-upp-ers. Rinse, repeat. Everyone got 2 rounds in. YHC quads were definitely burning.

    Back to the flag, made it in time for a 90 second low plank to get us to the full 45 minutes. I did not want to short change anyone.

    Thanks for joining me in the gloom. Cheers to Okwata, especially when its dry!

  • Lil Somethin’ Somethin’ – from Vagabond

    5 pax did boot camp + 3 Double Nickel training for 10 miles

    16 descend to 0 by 2s
    – big bois
    – merkin
    – side squats

    Rock / coupon – timer runs with or without rock around perimeter of great lawn – partner up… every team has coupon off the ground entire time
    – burpees
    – curls
    – overhead press
    – kettle bells
    – X factor
    – lunges
    – jump rope

    50 step ups R/L

    COT

  • Hogs Breath Last Stand – from Hogs Breath

    This was YHC last Q before I left out for a six month deployment. YHC meant to give a much more advance notice, but alas I didn’t send out a slack notification till Sunday night at about 5:30pm. So I was not expecting a decent turnout as I pulled into Heritage park [The 007] at 5:20am Monday. However, I was pleasantly shocked as I saw a gaggle of Northshore and Southshore pax already waiting on me!
    As I planted the shovel-flag I welcomed everyone and explained the 007 got it’s name from “Live and Let Die” James Bond movie, which had a boat chase filmed on adjacent Bayou Bonfouca.

    Disclaimer: Given

    Warm Up
    We began right off the back with a “Waterfalls Tunderstruck” all the pax formed a circle of pain around the shovel-flag and began SSH of Imperial Walkers. YHC turned on AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and upon the first ‘thunder’ began to do burpee’s. Once the next ‘thunder’ was sung the pax to the right began burpee’s. This repeated in a waterfall fashion. Unfortunately Fletch, Einstein, and Pass Interference all got stuck doing burpee’s during the long instrumental breaks!
    To stretch our backs out we then did 8 IC Abe Vigoda

    The Thang
    Mosey to the coupons,
    We then did a coupon exercise completely made up on the spot! A row, a curl, an overhead press, then a squat for 1 rep. We then did 8, despite Hokie claiming that YHC had “pissed someone off….”
    Then mosey with our coupons to the playground, where we did 8 of the above ‘crazy eight’ then 8 pull-ups. YHC said to do 3 rounds of this, but got a little over-zealous and lost count, so YHC alone did an extra set of pull ups.

    Then we did a coupon walk to show off all the 007 has to offer. We walked along the water’s edge to the West towards Palmettos restaurant. YHC said upon every bench we would do 3 weighted step-ups. And at every “cleat” we would do 3 squats. But no-one spoke nautical so we didn’t understand what dock cleats were… and there are no actual dock cleats instead boats are expected to moor up directly to the pylons. So YHC would just randomly call out squats at various landmarks, whether it be a BBQ grill, a light post, a corner of the sidewalk. The walk provided for lots of mumblechatter and for Murdock to get to know many of the other paxs.
    Upon the round-trip coupon walk, we dropped the coupons back to their resting place.
    With only 5 mins left, we normally would preform some Mary. However, wanting to showcase the AO, YHC had everyone preform a series of bearcrawls / backward runs around the circular sidewalk in front of the amphitheater. The benches would be the marker for the bearcrawl or the backward run.
    Completed at the shovelflag

    Ended with COT and Coffeteria at Starbucks.

    Gentlemen, it has been a true honor to beat myself down with y’all. This is an amazing organization which I will truly miss for the next six months. Y’all have kept my sanity during these last few years. All the way to Coffeteria where I received numerous offers to help out my family while I’m away, I am humbled it be amongst the shadows of such great men!

  • Pop goes the Beatdown – from Hogs Breath

    Pass Interference expressed interest in another beatdown, and he said he wanted to build muscle. So, YHC planned a “pop up” beatdown with coupons and no running.
    Warm Up
    SSH, Garth Brooks, Mountain Man Poopers, Flamingo stretch

    The Thang
    Four rounds of 30 on / 30 off
    Over head press; Bent over Row; Squats; and Coupon Dips.

    During this YHC turned on some music, this was “My Soundtrack” playlist off Amazon Music, so it was a nice mixture of all the music played from all of the devices that YHC family shares. A very eclectic compilation of 90’s Pop, 2000’s Hard Rock, Christian Praise band music, Children’s songs, and some 80’s Pop music!
    After the four iterations, we then mosey’d with our coupons to the old train station “Scoogin Corner” were we preformed a set of 11’s with Curls on one side, lunge walk through the station, and Derkins on the other side.
    We ended with a new exercise of “Grip, Rip, and Roll” pulled form the exicon.
    Of note this was the second beatdown for Murdock. I think we got a full fledge EH on this pax!

    Ended with COT and Coffeteria

  • Bob the Builder – from Hogs Breath

    During Mardi Gras Break YHC took a trip to Akron Ohio and posted with the Copley AO. This beatdown was completely stolen from Akron F3.
    After a quick warm up. Both pax grabbed a coupon from the trunk of Hogs Breath car, and a rock coupon. The move was simple, one pax would mosey with the coupon across the field, then sprint back to the staring line. While the other pax rested, upon the return of the sprinting pax, the second would begin their coupon mosey, drop off the coupon on the far side and sprint back.
    In between the sets, each pax preformed 10 OH press, 10 squats, 10 chest presses.
    Second round was the same; pax 1 coupon mosey to drop off the coupon, sprint back. Pax 2 would rinse and repeat.
    15 OH press, 10 squats, 15 chest presses
    Third round of coupon mosey and sprints.
    20 OH press, 20 squats, 20 chest presses
    All pax then returned the rock coupons and preformed 25 sets of each coupon exercise.

    The morning mumblechatter from Pass Interference went something like “I don’t care what F3 Akron does, I hate sprinting with coupons!”
    Ended with COT and Coffeteria.