F3 New Orleans

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  • It’s A (Merkin) Trap! – from Akbar

    9 men showed up to get better this dark gloom for the annual Merkin Trap. It was so dark YHC was worried about seeing the Wiki if needed. But this has been done before, and besides making some cadence mistakes, went well with no Wiki needed.

    Conditions: near perfect, a little chilly, but not for long

    PAX
    Russo, SOGO, Hammer, Truecoat, Jose 10k, Grappler, Chewy, Akbar, Smuckers

    Warm Up x 12 IC – Grass Grabbers, Arm Circles, Self-Love, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Toe Touches, Windmills

    The thang went like this. Most exercises were done in cadence x12, x8, x5 – with one exercise followed by some form of Merkin. Total of 50 reps IC or 25 OYO. We moseyed around from the Flag to the Playground stopping along the way for:

    SSH, Merkins IC
    Rocky Balboa’s and Wide Merkins OYO
    Squats and Dirkins, Freak Nasty and Irkins IC
    Scuba Steve, Sister Mary Catherines IC
    Scuba Steve’s, Stone Mountain IC

    At this point in time, we headed back doing everything again tempo or Copperhead style – 3 count down, 1 count up on Merkins

    Supermans, Stone Mountain IC
    Copperhead Squats, Dirkin IC
    Freak Nasty and Irkins IC
    Rocky Balboas and Wide Merkins OYO

    Mary
    Back to the flag for LBC, Crunchy Frogs, Wife Pleasers, Heals to Heaven, Hello Dolly, and Rosalita with another 50 Merkins sprinkled in.

    450 Merkins in an hour.

    Count, Name, and YHC prayed us out with thanks for the opportunity to make us men stronger physically, mentally, and spiritually.

    Announcements
    Sign up to Q, Turkey Trot coming up.

    Thanks for following the lead gentlemen.

    SYITG, Akbar

  • Time for cake (and fall?) – from Russo

    MUCH better weather all of a sudden today for a split beatdown. YHC, who is hot and sweaty when it’s a December morning, might even call is “mildly pleasant”. Up is down. Down is up. Cats and dogs living together. REGARDLESS, what a blessing some relief from the oppressive heat was.

    Warmup (10x, all IC)

    -Torso Twists
    -Toe touches
    -Arm circles
    -Grass grabbers
    -Cherry pickers

    Thang: While Grundy took half the pax in an IPC with coupons and AMRAP and burpees and pain, YHC took the other half on a cakewalk around the lakefront.

    The cakewalk order:

    45 Seal jacks
    44 High knees (2 is 1)
    43 SSHs
    42 Plank Jacks
    41 goof balls
    40 squats
    39 Hello Dollies
    38 Calf raises
    37 Apollo ohnos
    36 Freak Nastys
    35 step ups
    34 flutter kicks
    33 butt kicks IC
    32 Peter Parker’s
    31 imperial walkers
    30 Shoulder taps
    29 American hammers
    28 Monkey Humpers
    27 Merkins
    26 Smurf jacks
    25 wife pleasers
    24 Rosalitas
    23 crab jacks (crab position – think reverse plank jacks)
    22 groiners
    21 Bear crawls (counting your right hand as a rep)
    20 murder bunnies

    At this point, we said hello to a gentleman (Tom) working on his boat. Pik EHed him and he joined us for the rest of the walk. Come to find out, he knows Steve and Bird. Here’s to his rejoining is soon and getting a proper F3 name.

    19 Wide merkins
    18 Bobby Hurley’s
    17 crab cakes
    16 circle ups
    15 Bulgarian split squats
    14 urkins
    13 Sister Mary Catherine’s
    12 LMCs IC
    11 diamond merkins
    10 star jumps
    9 donkey kicks
    8 8 count body builders
    7 merkins
    6 Box cutters IC
    5 Carolina dry docks
    4 Wife pleasers
    3 jump squats
    2 burpees
    1 minute plank

    COT, name-o-rama, announcements, and prayer closed us out. Prayers for our brothers running the 5k today, a special intention from Zoolander, and a successful delivery for Cowbell and his M on twins A and B (soon to be renamed) this week.

    Here’s to a good week for all.

    SYITG