F3 New Orleans

Tag: Russo

  • 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.

  • Finally the clock rolled back for someone!! – from Shooter

    As I turned into the parking lot at the AO, YHC almost had to pause as the sight of an F150 idling with its lights on sat. It was almost like seeing some atmospheric event in my lifetime as there is no way this could be Cowbell.. But to my surprise and the surprise of the rest of the PAX it indeed was Cowbell.. Only conclusion that could be drawn was he finally rolled back his clock for daylight savings..

    Warmup
    15IC Seal Jacks, Butt kicks, SSH, Toe Touches, Windmills, Grass grabbers and alternating leg swings front/back side/side..

    Thang
    2 runners and 3 Ruckers set out with a pause on Messina for 10 OYO worse merkins ever and 20 jump squats then resumed.
    Returned for some core 10IC right elbow left knee F/J 20IC Flutter kicks and LBCs..

    JV closed us out in prayer and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • 4 laps for Bird’s Bday – from Chewy

    8 PAX met up on Tuesday morning for a beat down at grandmothers house.
    Warm-up included:
    Sidesaddle x 20 IC
    Imperial walkers x 20 IC
    Windmills X 10 IC
    Glut bridges X 20 IC
    SL Glut Bridges x 10 IC
    Scorpion kicks x 10 IC
    I’s T’s and Y’s x 20 IC

    The thang:
    11’s merkins and step ups

    Mosey to the underpass
    Walk the down, jog the flat, sprint the up x 4 laps

    glut bridges x 10 IC
    SL glut bridge x 5

    Mosey back to flag
    -SL RDLs x 10 pho
    -core rolling x 5 ea oyo
    Plank push ups x 10 oyo
    plank with kicks x 10 oyo
    HS stretch x 10
    Jane Fondas x 10 IC

    Name o Rama, COT, prayers by Shooter

    Happy Birthday to Bird!

  • Turkey Day Leftovers – from Russo

    Given the weather (slightly rainy), folks traveling, and day-after-holiday date, I thought I might be flying solo this morning, but like a shining light off in the distance, Quarterpipe moseyed to start to turn a table for one into a table for two for some Post-Thanksgiving leftovers. No turkey, all dessert for us!

    Warmup (10-20x IC)
    – Sealjacks
    – Toe touches
    – Arm circles
    – Good mornings
    – Cherry pickers
    – Butt kicks
    – Imperial walkers

    Thang

    Inspired by Grundy last year: Leftovers

    Timed reps – AMRAP in time given. The number of reps combined that are below the target, the Pax performs.

    So if the target is 30, and each of the 2 HIM does 28, we collectively do another 4 each. MATH!

    The menu:
    Jump squats: Time 30 seconds, target 40
    Merkins: Time 30 seconds, target 40
    Lunges: Time 1 minute, target 40
    LBCs: Time 45 seconds, target 50
    SMC: Time 30 seconds, target 40
    Big boi sit-ups: time 1 minute, target 35
    Burpees: Time 1 minute, target 25l
    Shoulder taps: Time 45 seconds, target 100
    Freak Nastys: Time 30 seconds, target 35
    Step ups: Time 1 minute, target 30
    Durkins: 25 seconds, target 30
    Jump overs: 30 seconds, target 30
    Squats: 45 seconds, target 40

    In between some rounds, we moseyed some, slalomed the columns some, and splashed around in the puddles from the overnight rain some.

    3 minutes or Mary, with crunchy frogs, penguins, and gas pumps wrapped us up.

    COT, Name-o-Rama, Announcements, and Prayer wrapped us up.

    Good times this morning.

    SYITG

  • SPEED SKATING at the GIPPER – from Einstein

    Inspired by a visit to the Milwaukee WI Pettit National Ice Center and a skating session on the Olympic Speed Skating Oval
    check it out https://thepettit.com – and a bad case of thigh envy, I looked into dry land speed skating drills. So that, what was, on the menu this morning at the Gipper.

    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: Toe Touch, Peter Parkers, Side Straddle Hops, Parker Peters

    Thang: All in speed skater position; two sets of ten excercises – one minute work, then one minute rest; totaling 40 minutes
    1 up and downs
    2 alternating leg up and downs
    3 alternating leg up and down with a one leg jump (alternating)
    4 push back and recover
    5 five squats and one jump-up
    6 side to side shuffle, slow and low
    7 dry skate – staying low, speed skater form
    8 dry skate – adding in a jump-up
    9 low walks – walk a distance forward while in speed skater position, then backward still in skater postion (I triple-dog-dare you to try this over a distance)
    10 one minute skater position squat hold

    Mary 15xIC flutter kicks

    Count-o-rama

    Bird led us out with a prayer

  • 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.

  • If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe I’d been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? – from Jose10k

    6 crazy HIM braved the cold weather this morning to join for a wacky 90s inspired musical. I reached out to the Mandvillians, and they didn’t disappoint. We even were blessed by a wonderer from Slidell. Warm-ups: SSH, self love, grass grabbers, cherry pickers, torso twists, hello jacks hello jills, and high knees all IC TEN count.

    The thang: First song: Cotton Eye Joe as promised. A very Hammer inspired workout to this song. SSH during the song while doing a burpee every time Cotton Eye Joe was mentioned. After that was done, switched the music to a little classic rock, to do a little modified dora. Partner 1 back pedaled halfway across the parking garage, the ran the rest to the other side. Back pedaled half way again, then ran back to the starting point. Then partner two did the same. Each partner had to complete 100 crunches and 200 squats. They got to tag team to do 300 merkins. We circled up to do 10 minutes of Mary, round robin style. Each person called out their own exercise. The music included Aqua’s “Barbie girl”, Haddaway’s “What is Love”. A great selection of 90s classic music. COT and Hammer led us out in prayer. Thank y’all for letting me lead on this chilly morning. I am better because of my brothers. SYITG

  • If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe I’d been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? – from Jose10k

    6 crazy HIM braved the cold weather this morning to join for a wacky 90s inspired musical. I reached out to the Mandvillians, and they didn’t disappoint. We even were blessed by a wonderer from Slidell. Warm-ups: SSH, self love, grass grabbers, cherry pickers, torso twists, hello jacks hello jills, and high knees all IC TEN count.

    The thang: First song: Cotton Eye Joe as promised. A very Hammer inspired workout to this song. SSH during the song while doing a burpee every time Cotton Eye Joe was mentioned. After that was done, switched the music to a little classic rock, to do a little modified dora. Partner 1 back pedaled halfway across the parking garage, the ran the rest to the other side. Back pedaled half way again, then ran back to the starting point. Then partner two did the same. Each partner had to complete 100 crunches and 200 squats. They got to tag team to do 300 merkins. We circled up to do 10 minutes of Mary, round robin style. Each person called out their own exercise. The music included Aqua’s “Barbie girl”, Haddaway’s “What is Love”. A great selection of 90s classic music. COT and Hammer led us out in prayer. Thank y’all for letting me lead on this chilly morning. I am better because of my brothers. SYITG

  • Battle Bots – from Russo

    Mid-50s and drizzle this morning, but the heavy rain passed overnight so a pleasant start to a Tuesday at Granny’s. Late-arriving crowd had me wondering if I would need to modify, but ‘Whacker and Chewy pulled up just in time for a trio.

    Warmup (All IC)
    – Seal jacks
    – Toe touches
    – Cherry pickers
    – Arm circles
    – Butt kicks

    THANG
    Battle:

    (1) High card performs the exercise, reps based on the count on their card

    (2) Low card performs 3x the count on their card

    (3) All others 2x the count on their card

    Rounds:

    – Squats
    – Hello Dollies
    – Calf raises
    – Apollo ohnos
    – Freak Nastys
    – step ups a
    – flutter kicks
    – Shoulder taps (2 is 1)
    – American hammers
    – Monkey humpers
    – Merkins
    – Smurf jacks
    – leg raises
    – Rosalitas
    – groiners
    – murder bunnies
    – Wide merkins
    – crab cakes
    – durkins
    – big boy sit-ups
    – star jumps
    – donkey kicks
    – SMCs (2 is 1)
    – jump squats

    In between every 4-5 rounds, we slalomed the columns and back pedaled back a coupe times.

    Mary IC:
    – LMCs
    – Gas pumps
    – Crunchy frogs
    – Penguins

    COT, Name-o-Rama, announcements, and prayer closed us out.

    I enjoyed the fellowship, gents, thanks for joining/reading.

    SYITG

  • Splashing solo – from Russo

    Fitting that today is 11/11 as 1 was the number today.

    I let the Spirit guide me this morning around the pad with:

    – Calf raises up the steps of the pilot house (3 each step)

    – 2 sets of 10 urkins and 10 freak nastys

    – Lt. Dans (up to 5 and 10, then back down again)

    -5 trips quickly up and back down the pilot house

    – 25 crunchy frogs
    – 25 penguins
    – 25 flutter kicks
    -25 crunches

    One minute Tabata for shoulder taps, and one minute for pew kneels

    In between each of those groups, I slalomed the columns and back pedaled back, twice each trip.

    I grabbed my makeshift ruck sack and went up and down the pilot house 5 times, then two more slaloms and back pedals with the ruck sack.

    Called it a little early since it’s Friday.

    I did say a prayer in thanks for all of the Veterans today, asking God to continue to bless our country and all of us. I also focused my prayer on those that fly solo more than we do. Most of us are blessed to have family/friends/loved ones, and even if we don’t, we can rest knowing we have a brotherhood. But we’re the lucky ones, so my prayer was for those that are struggling with any form of loneliness or emptiness to feel the power of God’s spirit and His love.

    SYITG