F3 New Orleans

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  • EHing the Wild West – from Fracsac

    There was an FNG alert broadcast across the channels for the Scrum, or the Goldmine or whatever we call Lasalle these days. Gabby and Yankee came from uptown to support their EH.

    Maytag, Boo-Boo, SOGO, RevSox, the FNG and YHC rounded out the 8.

    Disclaimer followed by a warmup.

    First thang:

    Stations. Partner up. 4 stations, dead hanging, dips, steps ups and 10 burpees for the timer. Rinse and repeat.

    Dirty Mac Deuce.
    4 rounds of 3 exercises (arm leg and core) with a lap in between.

    Mosey to the field for bear crawls, lunge walks and burpees. Finished off with some Mary.

    Mosey back to the flag for COT.

    Welcome Space Cowboy!

    SYITG

  • Napoleon fueled by Ethanol – from Fracsac

    13 Pax showed up, with 7 headed to stretch and 6 taking advantage of the track. Regardless of sprinting, walking or stretching, showing up is what is important!

    Ethanol and Napoleon from Birmingham joined YHC and Mayhem for sprint ladders, RevSox and Tenderloin walked, and the rest of the Pax stretched with Scantron.

    COT

    SYITG

  • What Day Is It?

    What Day Is It?

    Four men arrived to own the gloom at 5:30am for the Hump Day Edition of Rock City at Pontiff Park. YHC gave the standard disclaimer and led the small Pax of men for a short mosey to the rock to get things started.

    The Warm-Up

    SSH – 20

    Imperial Walkers – 20

    Shoulder Taps – 20

    Grass Grabbers – 20

    Smurf-jacks – 15

    The Thang

    Everyone was encouraged to select a rock and carry their burden to the open field located just past the baseball field.

    Making Bricks

    Since YHC missed his annual Passover workout due to the quarantine, he brought out his favorite Passover day workout – Making bricks. Like the Israelites who mixed straw and mud together to max bricks for Pharoah, we slowly carried our bricks across field one lunge step at a time while dropping to our knees between each set of lunge steps to make it all the more taxing in our slow movement across the field.

    Route 66

    The Pax did a standard Route 66 with the rocks. Stop at each tree along the edge of the field for bicep curls. 1 rep at tree one and 11 reps at tree eleven for a total of 66 reps.

    Slow Motion Suicides

    The Pax now moseyed to end of the football field where the Q had kindly placed cones marking the 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 and end of the football field.

    Run with your rock to cone one – 20 Low Slow Squats

    Run back to the start and pick up your rock on the way to mid field – 20 shoulder presses

    Run back to the start and pick up your rock on the way to cone three – 20 bench presses

    Run back to the start and pick up your rock on the way to the end zone – 20 curls for the girls.

    Run down to the start and then back to the end, hold Al Gore while awaiting the six.

    Rinse and Repeat

    Mary

    YHC celebrated his 13 anniversary yesterday and Vagabond celebrates his tomorrow, so time for a round of Mary that celebrates the joys of marriage.

    Wife-pleasers – 26

    Hello Dolly – 20

    Monkey humpers – 13

    The End

    Count-Off, Name-O-Rama, Announcements, Intentions, and Prayer

    Thank you men for celebrating my wedding anniversary and giving me a great beginning to my 14th year of marriage.

    Happy Hump Day!

    -Rev Sox

  • The Inaugural Running of the War Eagle Half-Marathon

    The Inaugural Running of the War Eagle Half-Marathon

    On Saturday, May 16th, six men arrived at the parking lot of Metairie Baptist Church to run 13.1 miles around New Orleans and Metairie. Two weeks earlier War Eagle made the mistake of telling YHC that he was considering running his first half, but he didn’t know when it would be possible. Well, when Hawgcycle is involved anything is possible. A few days later: a date was picked, a time was set, a route was created, and the War Eagle Half was on!

    4 other F3 brothers responded to the announcement of the race as Two Yutes, Shurly, and Yoda (FNG) with Tool promising to join the race once we have crossed the border into the land of Orleans. Two Yutes was also running his first half with an impressive jump of going from an 8 mile run as his PR to 13.1.

    At 6am, the six of us took off at a steady pace of 9:45. Tool, as promised, joined the group in Orleans and ran with the Pax for about 6 miles but became the hero of the day for providing us with much needed water at the 10 mile point.

    Most of the group remained together for the first half of the run but as one to stand out from the Pax, War Eagle took off for the back half of the race to finish with a respectable time of 2:08. Two Yutes finished his first at 2:15 while Shurly and Yoda both came in shortly thereafter. Tclaps to Yoda for finishing the half as his first F3 workout at the age of 61 – double respect!

    But it was one non-runner who arrived at the start and showed us all up before the day was over. Hawg’s M and 2.0 arrived on bikes to ride beside our swift running. Sadly, we were not fast enough for Hawg’s 2.0 as she biked a marathon on Saturday while leaving us all in the dust.

    Those who have never ran a half-marathon, look to Saturday, May 15, 2021 and do something you have never done before.

    -Rev Sox

  • Enjoying the View

    4 men arrived at 5:20am on the levee (well Mahatma and YHC arrived at 5:20) in the early morning gloom. While waiting for the best view in greater New Orleans, they banded together but remained physically distant for a Q-less beatdown. It was Round Robin all around with each of the 4 men taking their turns.

    The Warm-up

    SSH – 20

    Shoulder taps – 20

    Peter Parkers – 20

    Imperial Squat Walkers – 15

    Windmill – 15

    Michael Phelps – 15

    Grass grabbers – 15

    The Thang

    Each of the 4 pax members led a section of the workout. YHC has little confidence that every workout will be recorded with perfect accuracy, but that will make this no different from the standard backblast.

    The Mahatma

    Start at the top of the levee on the concrete pad with 15 merkins, run down to the beginning of the bridge for 15 air squats, run across the bridge for 15 lunge steps, continue running to the next concrete ramp and do 15 merkins on the top of the levee. Run back down the ramp and back to the starting point on the other side of the bridge.

    Mahatma asked the Pax to estimate the time it will take to complete. YHC guessed 6 minutes. Kenner Brah guessed 5 minutes. It took 9:20 as it was about one mile of running. (Who knew it was that far?)

    The RevSox

    15 dips at the walls on the top of the levee. Run down the levee to the paved space on the other side of the bike path and do 15 plank jacks. Repeat with 10 reps of each and then repeat again 5 reps of each.

    The Mambi

    Run backwards up the levee and do 15 squat jumps at the top, run down the ramp and do 15 Carolina Dry Docks. Run back up the levee and down to the bottom on the other side for 15 LBCs. Bear crawl back up to the top and run back down to the starting point. Two Rounds

    The Kenner Brah

    This was the oddest and most mentally engaging exercise YHC has ever done at an F3. The Pax moseyed to the edge of the lake and climbed on the rocks. The Pax then goat hopped (Kenner Brah’s terminology) down the rocks for about 1,000 feet while praying no one was going to sprain an ankle or worse. Thankfully there were no injuries as we hopped from wet rock to wet rock by the lake.

    We sprinted back to the starting point as YHC edged out Mahatma on the run (history is written by the winners baby!)

    Mary

    20 O Dollies

    14 Hello Dollies

    20 – Wife Pleasers

    20 – Penguins

    Stretching led my Mahatma

    Some weird backward picnic table plank led by Kenner Brah

    The End

    Count off, Name-O-Rama, Announcements, Intentions, and Prayer (all with proper social distancing)

    -Rev Sox

  • Dirty Dozen for Rock City with no Rocks for BLIMPSS

    The weather was perfect at 64* for 12 men to gather in the gloom during this time of uncertainty to push each other and to control what was in our control.

    Safety does matter!

    As we started to gather we immediately moved towards the football field to give us extra social distance rather than gathering in the confines of the fence, With an opening disclaimer about the Q not knowing if the virus can linger on rocks and therefore no rocks would be used today we took a nice 400 m mosey around the track before meeting in the middle of the football field along some cones that made their way to the field around 5:10 this AM

    EMOM’s of BLIMPSS … with no breaks

    The Q announced as we lined up midfield the BLIMPS would be done with each exercise lasting for one minute and immediately leading into the next exercise without any breaks between the EMOM (to eliminate any confusion on last week’s debate on EMOM’s and breaks). One minute of Burpees, one minute of Lunges, one minute Imperial walkers, one minute of Merkins, one minute of Plank jacks, one minute of Squats and then one minute of Suicides (utilizing the cones).

    The Q then had Rev Sox give us a 20 count and we moseyed back to the track.

    Another 400m mosey followed by BLIMPSS round 2 – One minute of Burpees, one minute of Lunges (Backwards lunges this time), one minute Imperial walkers, one minute of Merkins, one minute Plank (not plank jacks), one minute of Squats and then one minute of Suicides (utilizing the cones) ~ This time we did the suicides in reverse at request of Mahatma.

    Back to the track for another 400 m mosey and then round 3 of BLIMPSS repeating round 2 with the lunges going from midfield of the football field to the end zone.

    Mahatma gave us a 20 count as we made our way to the end zone area of the track for our last rendition of BLIMPS. This time we only moseyed about 100 m and then did 19 of each (BLIMPS) then another 100 m. It was noted as folks were planking for the 6, one could see steam rising from our backs.

    We then gathered at a safe distance for countarama, nameorama, announcements, intentions and closing prayer.

    Walleye lets us know about the young attorney from St. Ann’s who was misdiagnosed with the flu and is now in EJ ICU with COVID-19.

    We closed with prayers and lifted up all those brothers dealing with adversity, injury, cash flow changes, health issues, families with health issues, life changes from COVID 19 and encouraged each other to recognize COVID 19 is real and to exercise prudent precautions to protect each other and our families.

    Be safe my brothers! Thank you for pushing this 60 year old man to be better!

  • Was it you, BooBoo?

    It was just like old times as seven PAX gathered to celebrate my F3 Anniversary. As some of you know, my first workout was last February on the coldest day of 2019. Today, we were greeted by 41 degree (and dropping) temperatures, but fortunately for us it was also wet – @mahatma made sure to point out the hoarfrost once the sun started to come out. I said a quick “Thank You” to whoever signed me up to Q (sideways glance at @boo-boo).

    Disclaimers and a warm up – side straddle hop, “A?” Pagodas (slow windmills), arm circles, and grass grabbers. Then it was a grab your rock and head to the hill sort of day.

    Out of consideration for the PAX, I went over the hill to check on the moisture and – uh oh – wet AND my calves cramp. It will be modifications for me. We decide it’s not TOO wet, so we begin our 11’s. First round is curls for girls, up and over the hill, merkins, and back again. I decided against making the men do sit ups in the wet grass, so for the second round of 11s we do squat presses, climb the hill and back, then big boy sit ups on the track. This takes less time than I anticipated so we finish off the lifting with 30 rows, then it’s back to the rockpile.

    @hand-grenada does the math for us: 11’s gives you 55 reps of both exercises (or some other high number).

    We finish with Mary’s, but not before cameo appearances by random joggers named @revsox and @rudy (congrats on the 100 miles!). Everyone gets to call a workout today. LBCs, dying cockroach (GET YOUR LEGS UP!), crunchy frog, v-hold, russian twist (or american hammers), gas pumps, and penguins.

    Name-O-Rama, circle of trust, I thank F3Nola for helping me to grow, then it’s off to a hot shower. In the end, thank you for pushing me to Q, BooBoo!

  • 12 Days of Christmas – Sunnyside

    More 2.0s than Dads gathered at UrbanSouth Brewery for the annual Christmas beatdown and fest. Quick disclaimer and we were off up Market St. Some ambitious 2.0s had to be full-stopped before racing across Religious St. in the dark. A few motorists were surprised by the pack the of seemingly feral children that were leading a group of wheezing middle aged men, winding through the dark streets between the warehouses.

    We arrived at Annunciation Square and circled up. Quick 20 SSH in cadence to warm us up. Then the began the days, using the 2.0s as coupons where possible. YHC lucked out with a 2.0 under 25lbs. For PAX without a 2.0, they borrowed from others with several to spare. Modifications were offered if 2.0s were uncooperative.

    1. Partridge in a Pear Tree – squat thrust 2.0 up to the shoulder; or a burpee
    2. V-Ups
    3. Lords/ladies leaping (2.0s hop over dads in plank)  or Russian Twists
    4. Flutter Kicks 
    5. Dizzy Bears
    6. Dying roaches
    7. Plank Jacks
    8. Freddy Mercurys
    9. Measly Merkins
    10. Baby crunches
    11. Crabs a crawling
    12. Burpees or a (12) Partridge in a Pear Tree. 

    The PAX then went to COT and the naming(!) Lots of creativity and individual expression from the 2.0s. Then a mosey back to Urban South to a feast, a bounce house, sweaty & dirty children, and excellent fellowship. Much good food, but shout out to #bones for the smoked boudin he served up.