F3 New Orleans

Tag: The Gipper

  • Flipping ain’t easy!

    3 Mandevillian’s met up at the WD for 0530 to journey north to the Gipper. YHC surprised his fellow comrades by arriving early enough to make the pre miler. Knowing there were so many coupons available at my disposal (Cylinder blocks, rock garden, sand bags, etc.) I chose the latest added to our Gipper collection offered up by a local gym in Covington.. Whoever said flipping ain’t easy, well I guess that depends on the type of flipping. We will keep the road rage gestures to a min for this one..

    T-claps to Turbo, Einstein, Legal, Steve and Wacker for posting the prethang..

    Upon returning the PAX swelled to 13, with Zoolander making his Gipper debut.. Qs thoughts wondered if the likes of past Gipper regulars such as Hammer, Maverick, Tanked up, Grundy and others had posted the Gipper would have been like a Saturday beatdown of sorts. Lets get to it.

    warmup

    15IC SSH, Seal Jacks, Mummy kicks

    10IC Good mornings, Windmills, Scorpion kicks and Mountain climbers..

    thang

    Moseyed to the tire yard to retrieve our newest coupons. Broke into 4 groups 10 yards apart. One PAX would flip to the other team while the rest of the PAX held Al Gore, Plank, Plank Left/Right. T-Claps to the smaller framed men who decided that the MONSTER tire would not win on this day.. Great determination Grover on conquering the big one on your own.. PAX participated in a couple of flip relays also incorporating some bunny hops in as well. Returned them to their resting place with hopes of less time between the next outing.

    Moseyed to the parking garage for our remaining 20 mins of the Escalator. Routine consisted of multiple exercises increasing by 10 on each station change, but somehow Wacker being distracted by Beans fashion show bathing suit episode would soon reveal itself in the end as he laughed at Steve following the proper instruction to completion..

    6 rounds:

    R1 10 Burpees

    R2 10 Burpees 20 Merkins

    R3 10 Burpees, 20 Merkins, 30 Squats

    R4 10 Burpees, 20 Merkins, 30 Squats, 40 Mountain climbers

    R5 10 Burpees, 20 Merkins, 30 Squats, 40 Mountain climbers, 50 PlankJacks

    R6 10 Burpees, 20 Merkins, 30 Squats, 40 Mountain climbers, 50 PlankJacks and 60 Jump Squats..

    Moseyed back to flag 3 mins past official time.

    Appreciate you men for making the commitment to post and pushing me to become a better version of myself..

    Thanks to Goose for taking us out in 🙏🏻!!

    Till the next Gloom 👍🏻👊🏻✌🏻!!!

  • Nippy at the Gippy

    ‘Twas a little nippy at the Gipper this Wednesday.

    So a hardy warm-up was the order for the day.

    ICx20; toe-touches, arm circles, seal jacks, ss-hops, imperial walkers

    Mosey over to the Taj-Mahal for a ring of fire. One counter-clockwise bearcrawl with merkins along the way. Break for a set of hill-billys, then bearcrawl clockwise with merkins.

    Mosey over to the Justice Center parking garage for a set of elevens, doing burpees on the uphill side and merkins on the downhill side.

    Mosey over to the East parking lot, tracing out the parking space striping doing leg cross-overs.

    Mosey over to the front of the Justice center. Partner up. One partner straddles the bench, hopping from side to side while the other partner runs up the stairs and loops around. Then trade tasks.

    Mosey back to the flag.

    Moby prays us out.

  • Good Things Come to Those Who Wait

    This post comes later than it should have. And based off the title of this post you would think that would mean that you will get something extra special from reading this. Instead, today you will learn another valuable lesson. That is, don’t believe everything you read on the interwebs.

    So rather than a profound life changing backblast, I leave you with simply the details of the beat down. Enjoy!

    Warmup

    SSH in cadence, windmills IC, High knees IC, shoulder warmup IC

    The Thang

    Grabbed some cinderblocks for the beat down, and started off with some colt 45s, and followed that with blocktanamo.

    Blocktonamo: PAX, in a circle, hold standard 8x8x16 concrete blocks straight out in front of them while one PAX sets down his block to run inside the circle pressing down on the others blocks. The next PAX sets his block down as soon as the guy next to him is on the move. Ends when the final PAX completes his lap. Works both clockwise and counterclockwise. A modified version of a PAX favorite, Guantanamo.

    We grabbed our blocks and went to the justice center for bear and blocks.

    Bear and blocks: Get on all fours (like you are doing a bear crawl) with your Cinder Block on the grass between your knees or feet. Reach between your legs and pull the Block across the grass passed your head. Now, bear crawl forward until the Block is between your feet again, and keep repeating across the length of the field.

    We did some quick core and went to the top of the parking garage (did a lunge walk up the first ramp) for our last item. Two rounds of high fives.

    High fives: Round 1: 1 Manmaker, up the ramp and back down. Ascend until you’ve reached five reps. Rinsed and repeated with American Hammers for round 2.

    Walked back to the flag where some interesting theories were tossed around about the origins of the lady in the car in the garage. The great unsolved mystery. Who is she, why is she there so early, is she a spy filming F3 for a potential Russian invasion?!?! I guess we’ll never know, but its fun to speculate. But yeah, she’s a spy.

    Circled it up, counted it off, and prayed out.

    Thats it.

  • 10 Turkeys at The Gipper

    Eight veteran Northshore PAX, a visitor from F3 Louisville, and an FNG from Monroe, NC descended on The Gipper in the Gloom this morning for a pre-Thanksgiving beatdown. After a quick warmup consisting of SSHs, mountain climbers, seal jacks, merkins, imperial walkers, plank jacks, and butt kicks, all 10x IC, we headed to the Justice Center for

    B-L-I-M-P-S since we’ll all look like one tomorrow.

    The PAX partnered up and together knocked out 50 burpees, 50 lunges, 50 imperial walkers, 50 merkins, 50 plank jacks, and 50 squats with partner 1 exercising while partner 2 ran up the Justice Center stairs and down the “NO SKATEBOARDING” ramp to relieve partner 1.

    Short recovery walk to Oak Alley where we alternated sprinting and jogging at each live oak tree. That effort turned into a mosey back to The Gipper trailhead and the undisclosed secret location housing our cinderblocks.

    Each man checked out a cinderblock from storage and got together again with his partner. The PAX knocked out 10 reps each of thrusters, swings, manmakers, merkins, around the worlds each direction, figure 8s, goblet squats and RDLs. Between exercises, one partner backpedaled while the other farmer carried two cinderblocks 25 yards. We held our blocks overhead while waiting for the 6.

    After returning our cinderblocks to storage, the PAX moved to the bandstand area and with the three and a half minutes left hit as many rounds as possible of bear crawls down the hill, jump or step up onto the bandstand, jump or run down the ramp or stairs, and raccoon crawl up the narrow concrete ledge back to the starting point.

    Countorama, nameorama, and a nice prayer from The Hammer to wrap things up.

    Welcome FNG Rogan!

    Thanks for joining us this morning Leprechan!

    Happy Thanksgiving guys!

  • No Time to Waste

    Seven veterans and an FNG rolled into The Gipper AO for an abbreviated beatdown ahead of Thursday evening’s F2 get together at The Tap Room. With no time to waste, the PAX warmed up with 10 reps each IC of SSHs, Merkins, Toe Touches, Mountain Climbers, Seal Jacks, Plank Jacks, Windmills and Peter Parkers.

    The PAX then retrieved cinderblocks from the undisclosed top secret location and got busy with a set of 7s…6 manmakers with a cinderblock followed by 1 set of lateral jumps over the cinderblock with 25 yards of suitcase carries in between, 5 and 2, etc, etc.

    Then it was time for one off cinderblock exercises: 10 reps each of Merkins, Swings, Around the Worlds, Figure 8s, Woodchoppers, Goblet Squats and RDLs with a 25 yard OH cinderblock walk inserted between each exercise.

    A final 25 yard out and back sprint and just when things seemed to be getting started they were over. Countorama, nameorama with our new FNG (TankedUp!’s fully grown 2.0) scoring his nickname Donovan, and a prayer courtesy of Moby Dick to end the festivities on a positive note.

    Thanks for letting me lead, guys, and thanks for the post-beatdown fellowship. It was a fun night.

  • A very thankful 4 years of F3

    YHC was greeted this beautiful anniversary gloom by 11 PAX waiting to celebrate an F3 anniversary the right way, with a beatdown of course.

    While planning this beatdown, YHC started thinking how grateful he is of F3, Shorty EH’ing him hard to “just come out and see.” I’ll be forever thankful for the men (and Rudy) of F3 NOLA, and for the Northshore guys for taking a rival brother in like their own. You all are one of a kind!!

    The workout went something like this:

    COP: Warm Up: All IC X 20

    Grass Grabbers, Hillbillies, SSH, Windmills

    Mosey to the Justice center doing butt kicks and high knees en route. Arrive at Justice Center parking lot for some ‘Bone the Fish.’

    Left shuffle to one side, run forward, right shuffle back, back pedal to start

    Left Karaoke to one side, run forward, right karaoke back, back pedal

    Mosey to the top of the parking garage for 11’s (in honor of my favorite AO, Wolfpack Mountain)

    Burpees at the top of the mountain starting at 10, run down the ramp and do 1 merkin, descend burps and ascend merks until 1 burpee and 10 merkins.

    Because the breeze felt so nice, YHC decided to stay at the top of the garage for: Quarter Pounder: Each set of light posts represented 25 yds.

    Sprint 25 yds, 25 merkins, run backwards to start

    Sprint 50 yds, 50 squats, run backwards to start

    Sprint 75 yds, 75 LBC’s, run backwards to start

    Sprint 100 yds, 100 SSH’s, run backwards to start

    YHC REALLY wanted to make it a double quarter pounder but time would not allow, maybe next time.

    COP/ 6MOM: Hurricane Hoedown:

    4 variations of flutter kicks, meant to start at 7 reps each and work down to 1, but again, time messed us up so we started at 5 reps each.

    Hands up flutter kicks X 5, hands behind back flutter kicks X 5, lean back flutter kicks X 5, regular flutter kicks X 5

    Repeat X 4, repeat X 3, repeat X 2, repeat X 1

    Mosey back to the flag one minute late (sorry not sorry), where Grundy was waiting on us, apparently he went running with someone else? rude.

    F3 NOLA 5 Year Convergence this Saturday in City Park, 0630, Coffee, Beignets, breakfast to follow. 3 mile pre thang 0600.

    Northshore F2, Thursday October 17 at Barley Oak, 0600, 30 minute beatdown led by YHC with drinks to follow.

    Bean prayed us out.

    Thanks for letting me lead, and thanks for everything, F3.

    Heres to many, many more!

    -Cowbell

  • Dinner, then Dessert

    Ten men posted at The Gipper Wednesday morning ready for fun and games as a reward for completing the Iron PAX Challenge only to learn that they would have to eat their green beans before enjoying dessert. So after a disclaimer and a warmup of Imperial Walkers, Squats, Merkins, Groiners and Seal Jacks, the PAX made their way to the temporary resting place of two newly acquired coupons otherwise known as tractor tires. Assembling into teams of 5, teammates took turns flipping those bad boys to a secret undisclosed location. Don’t worry, Barely Legal (who knows everyone in Gipperland apparently) had secured “permission” for our coupons’ final resting place. Hopefully they’ll be there next week.

    The PAX then transported themselves to the Justice Center via the mosey method where they teamed up once again, this time in teams of 2. Each team selected a ball (most went for the always safe tennis ball and no team was brave enough to select the sole Mardi Gras vintage superball) for surprise exercises. First up was the burpee: partner 1 performed the burp while partner 2 threw the ball high so that partner 1 had to stretch to catch it while jumping out of the burpee. Flap jack and repeat for a few rounds. Then we moved on to 180 hops with partner throws. Amazing feats of athleticism ensued, and it’s too bad ESPN was not present because there was at least one top 10 play of the week involved.

    The partners also hit some shuffles with ball exchanges and in between it all the ball play hit some Mary consisting of A-B-C-D abs, alternating Supermans, and Nolan Ryans.

    Then we recovery walked over to the Justice Center entryway for four rounds each of 40 yards of:

    Accelerate, float, sprint;

    Shuffle, sprint; and

    Backpedal, sprint.

    Mosey back to the shovel flag for countorama, nameorama, and Ringo prayed us out. Thanks for letting me lead guys and remember that the best part of dessert is in your imagination and anticipation, not the actual dessert.

  • Concrete Jungle

    The Gipper PAX closed the books on the 2019 Iron PAX Challenge in the Gloom this morning. Hauling their concrete blocks to the concrete roof of the concrete parking deck of the Justice Center, the PAX jackhammered and pounded their way through the grueling Week 4 workout. Merkins, squats, swings, Bonnie Blairs, thrusters, lunge walks and cinderblock carries for time…it was all an oxygen deprived affair in tropical conditions. To its credit, the PAX refrained from tossing the cinderblocks from the roof when the final whistle sounded, but it’s safe to say that it may be a while before The Gipper AO sees cinderblocks again.

    Thanks for pushing yourselves and YHC, guys. There’s something powerful about tackling a month long challenge with your buddies. None of us would have pushed ourselves as hard alone.

    Now we need to get creative and come up with a challenge that we can send F3 Greenwood’s way…

  • Pain Cave

    10 men visited the Pain Cave this morning at The Gipper. F3 Greenwood tried to kill us all with the inaugural Iron PAX Challenge last year and, having failed, have renewed their efforts in earnest with this year’s challenge.

    After a very brief warmup and some pre-challenge logistics, it was time to get started. The buzzer sounded and the troops were off for AMRAP in 43 minutes of:

    10 pullups

    15 burpees with lateral jumps over a coupon

    20 coupon curls

    25 coupon thrusters and

    30 gas pumps.

    A combination of Cowbell’s head banging music and everyone’s muscle fatigue soon heated up the AO as the PAX pushed themselves to accumulate reps. All in all, it was a good showing for a group of men who all look much better than they did on their virgin posts.

    One more week to go men. Thanks for letting me lead.

  • I didn’t go to Notre Dame

    We did a lot.

    Bushwacker sends us on our way with his St. Paulesque – Epistle to the Gipperians.