F3 New Orleans

Tag: The Gipper

  • Big Things, Little Things – from Akbar

    4 strong for another muggyish beatdown before cooler weather comes in. Special guest from St. Louis, Blue note.

    PAX: Akbar, Barely Legal, BBQ, Blue Note

    Conditions: 71 degrees mostly cloudy

    Warm Up
    Extended toe touch, SSH, Arm Circles, Grass Grabbers, Imperial Walkers, Cherry Pickers

    Thang 1 Rock Garden
    X10 IC Copperhead Style: Chest Press, Shoulder Press, Triceps Press, Curl, Row, Prisoner Squat, American Hammers

    Thang 2 Mosey to the courthouse benches
    Stone Mountains x 10 IC, bear crawl to Smokehouse, shuffle back
    Freak Nasties x 10 IC, bear crawl to Smokehouse, shuffle back
    7’s Rocky Balboas and Bobby Hurleys. Climb stairs in between with 5 Calf Raises at top

    Thang 3 Mosey to front of Courthouse
    7’s Inverted Renegade Rows 2=1 and Supermans. Up the stairs with 5 calf raises at top
    Benches: Shoulder Taps x 10 IC, lunge walk to wall, return for Y Supermans x10IC

    Return to the Gipper for Mary of LBC, LMC, and Heals to Heaven

    Count, Name, and BBQ prayed us out.

    Announcements
    Run Cajun Run, Krazy Ivan, Franco’s Dip and Dash, Nightmare Before Christmas postponed – check Slack for updates, Light up Trace ride at Covington Trailhead; F3 Camping trip Januaryish; Ultimate Frisbee Saturday at the Lakefront.

    Intentions
    Aunt Sue – Leukemia; By buddy Ned in Jackson (in hospital for overdose); BBQ brother Ned (dog passed away)

    Thanks for showing up, it was fun. SYITG – Akbar

  • Leg Day at The Gipper – from TurboTax

    Five PAX walked away from this morning’s beatdown at The Gipper with a little less pep in their step. After a warmup of Imperial Walkers, Shoulder Taps, Toe Touches, Peter Parkers, Squats, Parker Peters, Seal Jacks and Mountain Climbers, all 10x IC, we headed over to the Justice Center for some partner work.

    Partner 1 kicked started our first set of exercises with box jumps on the Justice Center benches while Partner 2 bear crawled to the next set of benches and then crawl beared back to relieve Partner 1. The Partners combined for 50 box jumps.

    Following on this first effort, we rinse and repeated the concept combining 50 Hand Release Merkins/Run up the Justice Center Steps and down the Ramp; 100 Leg Raises/Run up and down two flights on Justice Center Parking Garage Stairs; 100 Curtsey Squats/Run down the ramp and backpedal up the ramp; 100 Mountain Climbers/Run up the stairs, 1 burpee, then run down the stairs.

    We then made our way back to the shovel flag with a stop for some Bobby Hurleys, 20x OYO.

    Oh yeah, we enhanced most of our traveling today with lunges, toe walks, skips, and carioca.

    Two minutes of balance challenges once we made it back to the shovel flag. Countorama, nameorama and then Fletch prayed us out with another solid beatdown in the books.

    Thanks for letting me lead guys and thanks for joining me to start another great day.

  • Reunion at the Gipper! – from Shooter

    Seeing the Q sheet blank at the Gipper and the Scramble YHC decided to signup and fill the post. Shortly after Q received a message from Bushwhacker confirming a meet at the old WD parking lot.. Little did Q know he had also EHed Steve for a reunion car pool to convoy up to the north.. YHC had also EHed Akbar to meet and join, but was instructed if no sightings had occurred by 0540 to rollout, so that’s what we did. Now Akbar still posted and shortly into the beatdown Akbar would come to learn that YHC was informed of a recent “Ring of Fire” incident… Funny story to me but maybe not those involved, but never the less felt obliged to pay homage…

    Warmup
    10IC
    Cherry pickers, self love, Torso twists, Toe Touches, Windmills, Grass grabbers, Butt kicks and High knees..

    Moseyed a lap down the trailhead and around back to the flag at which point YHC noticed a new 6 foot barrier between the PAX coupons.. Wasted no time and called an audible in my head..

    Thang
    Moseyed to the school board building where we circled around the flag for a sweet ole campfire song by the famous Johnny Cash.
    “Ring of Fire” played as the PAX completed Merkins. Next we partnered up for wall sits P1 and P2 instructed to sprint around the building. R/R 2x. Next we Indian ran in 2 groups to the front of the Justice center for P1 Right and Left leap frogs on the benches while P2 bunny hopped up the steps and moseyed the ramps down to F/J. Then we we moseyed to the backside of the center for P1 freak nasties on the benches and P2 Carioca to the steps sprinting up like Rocky and returning. R/R 2x.
    Moseyed back to the AO to finish with the Worse Merkin ever to 10 and some Core.
    Wife pleasers, Jane Fonda’s 3 styles, 100s, hands to heels and leg raises..

    Counted off, announced another potential Wacker vacation in Kokomo (possibly Jan/Feb) and Barely legal prayed us out with thoughts and condolences for the families of the recent murders of a retired Priest and pastoral council member found just the other day in Covington… 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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

  • 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

  • Young at Heart – from TurboTax

    With a combined age approaching 300, 5 young at heart PAX kick started their Wednesday with a tough one at The Gipper. A warm up of imperial walkers, shoulder taps, side straddle hops, Peter Parkers, seal jacks, Parker Peters, merkins and toe touches got the blood flowing for our mosey to the Justice Center.

    It wasn’t the same without Steve, but somehow we managed a nice set of Bulgarian split squats combining isometric holds, dynamic movements and then plyometrics. Rinse and repeat but this time with incline merkins.

    Lunge walk and bear crawl to the stairs for some Wile E Coyote.

    Recovery walk to the mailboxes then some Mary: Scuba Steve’s, Nolan Ryan’s, flutter kicks, Superman’s, hello Dolly’s and jackknives.

    Run with burpees at every light to the flag where we circled up for curtesy squats, single leg RDLs and good mornings.

    Back to the stairs for a few rounds up and around and then a nice long walk sit.

    Mosey to the shovel flag for a final exercise-a back plank.

    Countorama, nameorama and Einstein prayed us out. Thanks for letting me lead guys. SYITG.

  • Recovering mosey and FLORA!! – from Shooter

    With our first cold front upon us, YHC looked to the Exicon for a partner containing coupon routine and FLORA showed herself.. After some chatter under the breezeway with Moby, Fletch and Einstien about Hot Springs AR. and the Diamond 💎 explores toward our north…BBQ comes in hot crunching gravel and exiting his vehicle to confirm our last arrival of the gloom.. We started in with an extended warmup of 20IC Seal jacks, Toe Touches, Imperial walkers, Hillbillies, Butt kicks, Cherry Pickers and Grass Grabbers. We Moseyed around the trailhead toward the courthouse and back around Lola’s with fresh smell 👃🏻 of breakfast in the air.. Upon return we selected our coupons from behind the container and after splitting into 2 groups we commenced to starting in on FLORA.. Completed 100,200,300
    with recovery Mosey in between each… The Goblet squat and hold proved most difficult to the Q, as I know this will be felt in the next few days… According to Moby the men of this Gipper morning may be walking with a little swagger in the days to come.. Once complete we closed with Mary consisting of 10 OYO bridges each leg, then alternating toe to heel Jane Fonda’s, half hold Fonda’s and Pulsating Fonda’s all IC 10 count… Wrapped up with 20IC Hello Dollies, Rosalitas and Hands to heels…

    Appreciate all you single, double and triple respected brethren for the post and allowing me to lead!!!

    Until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • B.O.M.B.S. with a Fuse – from Einstein

    Humid under a near full moon for the gathered PAX, this Wednesday morning, at The Gipper

    Short disclaimer …

    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: Toe Touch, SSHops, Shoulder Rolls, Imperial Walkers, Thumb Drives, Hillbillys, Neck Rolls
    mosey over to the top of the Justice Center Parking Garage

    Event: Set of B.O.M.B.S. with a fuse (run); partner up, one does the exercise, one does the run, flip flop keeping the total exercise count going
    50 Burpees, 20 yard run
    100 Os (on your six tracing the letter “O” with your extended legs), 40 yard run
    150 Merkins, 60 yard run
    200 Bridges – single leg, two is one, 80 yard run
    250 Squats, 100 yard run
    between each letter of the bomb, the whole pax does a 200 yard mosey around the parking lot
    mosey back to The Gipper Trail Head

    Count-o-rama, Shooter leads us out with a prayer.

    BBQ’s sweat-o-meter KCC hat registered near to the top squatchee button.

    Thanks guys. Always fun to lead

  • Upper Deck with a Deck – from Einstein

    Cool – mid 50s atop the Justice Center Parking Garage.

    Warmup:
    all 15xIC: Toe Touch, Side Straddle Hops, Shoulder Rolls, Imperial Walkers, Arm Circles, Neck Rolls

    Thang:
    With Deck of Cards, each pax is assigned their suit: Moby-hearts, Jose10K-spades, Hammer-diamonds, Fletch-clubs
    one at a time, each pax draws a card, the owner of that suit calls out an exercise of their choice and we do that amount of the card.
    The pax came up with a lot of good calls; diamond merkins, seal merkins, standard merkins, burpees, crackin-burpess, man-makers, shoulder-tap merkins, hand-release merkins, squats, lunges, freak nasties, leg lifts, crunches, peter-parkers, etc.
    Joker #1 – back-peddle down and up the inclined ramp
    Joker #2 – one minute of Rocky Balboa

    With continous motion and no laying around, everyone worked up a good sweat.

    BBQ missed it all, again – his sweat-o-meter KCC hat would have registered way south of the top squatchee button.

    Count-o-rama

    The Hammer led us out with a prayer

  • Kamara Ingram and Moby – from TurboTax

    Alvin Kamara and Mark Ingram have nothing on Moby Dick. At least that’s the way it looked from my perspective at The Gipper this morning. Allow YHC to explain.

    After a quick warmup of toe touches, shoulder taps, windmills, Peter Parker’s, Imperial Walkers, Parker Peters and Seal jacks, the PAX made its way to the back of the Justice Center for the Thang.

    Partner up with partner 1 executing burpees while partner 2 runs up and down the stairs to relieve partner 1. 50 burpees per team. Then we combined crossover runs first with 100 45 degree lunges and second with 200 simulated jump ropes.

    We then brought the show to the front of the Justice Center for the main event. YHC laid out the cones and we sprinted, backpedaled, cut, juked and otherwise ran agility drills like any other professional team. It was impressive stuff I tell you, but Moby was particularly impressive. Like I said, Alvin and Mark are lucky the Saints scouts did not post this morning, or they might both be out of a job.

    Thanks for letting me lead this morning guys. Always fun.

  • Getting a Tune-up!! – from Shooter

    With the final week of IPC approaching at the mothership on Saturday YHC decided to bring a tune-up of sorts out to the Gipper.. We started out with a warmup of 10IC Windmills, Grass grabbers, Good mornings, Cherry pickers, Arm circles, SSH and Imperial walkers..

    PAX moseyed around Covington to different locals for called exercises while partnering up at each stop..

    First stop St. Tammany school board office for P1 wall sits 3x while P2 moseyed around the building.

    Second stop front of the Justice center P1 step ups while P2 bunny hopped up each step R/R 2x.

    Third stop back of Justice center where P1 utilized benches for Irkins while P2 bear crawled up and crawl bear down 3x.

    Fourth stop first floor of parking garage for Donkey kickoffs P1 while P2 Carioca the flat and sprint back 2x..

    Returned to the flag for 2 mins of plank and alternating left/right arm high plank..

    All in all we kept the heart rate up with the moseying and enjoyed the tune up for Saturdays final IPC!!

    Count, announce, COT

    Thanks to Fletch for the close in prayer and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!