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Tag: The Uptowner

  • Good Friday – Humility – from Mahatma

    Quick disclaimer

    Mosey to the football field watering hole end with:
    4 pax on the beam overhead
    4 pax on the rope overhead
    Tinder loin in tow

    Warm up all 14 or 7&7
    SS
    AbVagoda
    PeterParker
    Shoulder taps
    Side lunge

    Penance Box
    Any pax can call out another Pax to the penance box for 7 burpees kicker is you must go with them and do penance too.
    Can’t be called more than 2 times in a row.

    ****turns out all trips were made by the entire pax 6 total 🟰 42

    14
    13 double under 1 merkin
    12 double under 2 merkin
    Continue until # swap
    YHC was feeling the pain of a prior day chest workout – 45 sec “pause” at 7 and struggled to finish – this will make a return at a future beatdown

    2 teams again – YHC attempted to match heights as best possible.

    Rnd 1
    Team 1 Beam extension and flutter kick
    Timer:
    Team 2 run the track with rope over head (can be one hand)
    Flip Flop

    Rnd 2
    Team 1 Beam curl to overhead press
    Timer:
    Team 2 both hands on rope overhead run to goal line and back
    Flip Flop

    Rnd3
    Team 1 2 pax Beam press other 2 spot (flip flop when Team 2 reached the 50)
    Timer:
    Team 2 both hand on rope overhead while lunging to the 50 and back
    Flip Flop

    Circle up for Mary
    Leg lifts to press
    Gas pumpers
    1 minute low plank
    Star cross

    Head to the flag

    COT – welcome to F3 – Shrinkwrap
    Downrange from Jackson MS – Webelo

  • Creativity Gone Awry – from Fast Tax

    The Uptowner 4/01/2022 – Yes, I know it’s late…

    Notwithstanding that YHC originally listed Battle Frisburpee on the website as a description for the day’s exercise, YHC was hoping to debut (or beta test) a few new ideas. However, the Pontiff custodians threw a curve ball, given that the usual gate to the field and our COT area was locked. No matter…persevere, adapt, and overcome.

    After disclaimer being said on the jogging path, we headed North along the fence for 30ish yards and stopped for warmups consisting of:

    Bat Wings
    Manatees
    Crab Merkins Plank
    Australian Mountain Climber (upside down, vertical mountain climber performed against the fence)

    While still against the fence, and having some success trying out the Australian Mountain Climber, YHC thought it was a good time to dive into his next creation – the Crazy Indian Chicken Pecker.

    All PAX against the fence (or wall of a building) in balls to the wall (BTTW) position. While all PAX are doing Chicken Peckers (aka upside down shoulder taps i.e. Feet up on the fence/wall, hands on the ground, lift your hand and touch your opposite shoulder) the last PAX drops down from BTTW and runs to the front of the line then gets back into BTTW position and continues the Chicken Peckers. Next PAX follows and this repeats until Q says to stop or PAX begin to mutiny. It took less than a minute for signs of an impending mutiny to be evident. Time to abort. Maybe retool and reintroduce later, maybe not.

    On to the next exercise, the Triple Check: Separating into teams of three, the first PAX holds the peoples’ chair, second man in front of him in plank, third man sprints 100 yards and back, then cycle positions, rinse and repeat times two more times.

    Final exercise before the game was the Mad Mad Race.
    Keeping the teams of three, each PAX in the team chose one of the following exercises: soldier crawl, broad jump, or crab walk – no duplicates. From the line, the teams had to traverse 40ish yards, switch positions, and come back. Losing two teams had to do 15 burpees and the winning team did five. With Bolt lamenting the lack of Burpee opportunities, we all added 10 more.

    With 25 minutes left, it was time for Battle Frisburpee. As YHC hopped the fence and began to setup the cones, the remaining PAX were running to the next gate, since the usual entrance was locked. Alas, entry to the field was not meant to be…all gates were locked. Quickly picking up the cones and vaulting them and me over the fence, we made it to the baseball diamond with about 15 minutes to spare.

    Battle Frisburpee:
    Team 1 – Pillsbury, PVC, Hand Grenada, and Bolt
    Team 2 – Boo-Boo, Bogey, Scantron, and Fast Tax

    Team 2 prevailed, 4-1 (I think…could have been the other way around or I could have screwed up the teams since it’s been 8 days since we played 🙂

    With game over we headed to COT for name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, and prayer.

    Thanks for the fellowship! SYITG

  • Just Mary – from Vagabond

    Warm up

    Bring rocks to football field

    Pax choice at 10 yard markers x10
    – 10 burpees
    – 5 Catalina wine mixers + 5 squat
    – 10 merkins + 12 squat

    Marry for rest of beatdown to tunes with Mary in it:

    on back legs lifted rock rotate back forth R/L

    Flutter with rock

    Cocoon – lay flat with arms legs outstretched then crunch with arms at side of bent knees

    Low plank knee tap

    Glue bridge march – wife pleaser with arms extended straight up and lift alternating knee to chest

    Sideways bear walk – knees just off ground

    Leg lifts without touching ground (6 inches to 90 degrees)

    Bird dog knee touch

    Hello Dolly with rock

    Nolan Ryan

    Crunch start with legs extended

    American hammer

    Big bois with rock arms extended

    Back alternating toe touches

    Floyd Mayweather low

    Plank jacks with shoulder tap

    Side plank elbow with opposite arm outstretched

    COT

  • The Inaugural Burpee C-Note Uptowner – from Rudy

    Our illustrious (or infamous?) site Q, Bolt, advised YHC that starting this week there is a new plan for The Uptowner. This new plan involved “Get Down, Get Up” and “Make Frac really happy!”. Yup, we all guessed it. Burpees. The BC Uptowner. Burpee C-Note. 100 Burpees need to get folded into the workout. So YHC thought and thought and thought. How could we possibly get 100 burpees in over 45 minutes? HOW?

    PAX (some who knew of this new plan, and some that were blissfully ignorant – Pai Gow asking whether it was too late to go to The Goldmine) appeared in the gloom around Vagabond’s 14 foot flag. Welcome back Charmin – great to see you becoming a regular! Scantron shows up with The Wood. Seriously, this time. Not Hawgcycle’s “toothpick”. But a real log. 9 PAX heard the disclaimer (including post-hate Disclaimer, arriving “on-time, millenial style”, but NOT including the aforementioned Frac). And we were off.

    Circle up for warmup. Some stretching. Welcome Mambi! 10 PAX.

    SSH x42: 42nd day of 2022. On this Day – 42:1 longshot Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 1992.

    Elbow Plank for 2 minutes, as PAX discuss whether Charmin (27 yo) or Disclaimer (30 yo) even know who “Mike Tyson” was (besides being a movie star). Bolt produces wildly funny and 100% inappropriate joke that will not be repeated here.

    Thing 1: Lucky 7s. Alas, the morning temperature was 44 degrees. So the Lucky Bear outfit stayed home (only appears at 40 degrees and under), much to Hokie Pokey’s disappointment. But we’ll repeat the drill. 7 minutes of 7 burpees on the minute, complete the minute with an exercise that YHC calls out. The resting is at the end. Half-way through, Macgyver appears – 11 PAX! Last round includes 8 burpees, so we get an even 50. Halfway home.

    Mosey to the gym. Mambi and Macgyver nominated to haul the log. Mambi unceremoniously throws it at YHC’s feet upon arrival. Grab some wall. Donkey Kicks and Shoulder Taps (with feet up on the wall). 3 rounds of 10 x 10 each. Shoulders are burning. Lets keep that going.

    Mosey to the gym steps. YHC has called this “The Italians scaling the Alps”. Up the stairs, 5 merkins at the top, then job to the bottom and plank. How do we go up the stairs? Bear Crawl, Crab Walk, Crawl Bear, Walk Crab. Then we gotta go down the Alps. So do the same, only in reverse order. YHC thanks Hawgcycle for the inspiration of doing something as dumb as Walk Crab up a hill. Other pax do not thank Hawg, but instead throw verbal insults at him.

    Back to the Field. Repeat Lucky 7s to get the rest of the way to 100 burpees. Halfway through, Hawg decides to quit and head home. Sorry if this was too hard for you. The other 10 PAX slog through to the finish line.

    28 J Los and 25 Penguins round out the day. Mosey back to the flag for our COT.

  • I Think We Needed Our Heads Examined – from Fast Tax

    Six of F3 Nola’s finest displayed their true grit and stalwart character when they braved the subarctic temperatures and gale force winds to participate in another round of Battle Frisburpee at the Uptowner on Friday. Okay, maybe not gale-force winds and sub-arctic temperatures but it was 36F with light rain and a wind chill of 28.

    After a hasty disclaimer, we moseyed to the driest part of the field for warmups, each of us quietly thinking to ourselves that we should have our head examined…

    Warmups:
    Grass Grabbers, SSH, Bat Wings with MNC. YHC ditched the Swan Dives b/c that would involve getting wetter than we needed to.

    Unwilling to jump right into the highly anticipated main event but trying to keep us warm, YHC kicked things off with Catch Me If You Can:
    PAX partner up. Partner 1 performs 10 Merkins and then sprints to catch the Partner 2, who has been running backwards. Partner 2 now does Merkins while partner 1 runs backwards. The cycle continued until we finished a lap with YHC switching from Merkins to Crab Merkins.

    Wanting to give the PAX some practice throwing the frisbee in the gale force winds, YHC selected Go Fetch as the next thang:
    One pax throws a frisbee. All PAX sprint in that direction until frisbee lands. When it lands, all PAX stop and then lunge-walk until they get to the frisbee. First PAXD there gets to throw the Frisbee, rinse and repeat except change out lunge-walk with bear crawl, then back to lunge walk b/c it is too frickin wet and cold for bear crawls.

    With 25 minutes to go, it was time for BATTLE FRISBURPEE.
    Team 1: Fast Tax, Hand Grenada, Charmin
    Team 2: Bogie, Mahatma, Disclaimer

    After a recitation of the rules for those PAX who were new to the game, we commenced. The battle was intense, in part because there was a lot more running with only 3 people per team and a lot more burpees were required due to the wind catching the Frisbee and PAXs’ hands being too frozen to function very well.

    The game was tied with 3 minutes to go as the rain started to come down again. Marshaling their reserves, Team 1 (primarily Charmin & Hand Grenada b/c YHC was done in by that point) adroitly and tactically moved the Frisbee down the field to score the final point, winning the game 2-1.

    With game over we headed to COT for name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, and prayer.
    Followed by Coffeteria at PJs.
    Thanks for the fellowship! SYITG

  • Can we do 1 round of BLIMPS for 45 min? – from Mambi

    YHC signed up on the Q sheet weeks prior to the actual Q. The night before, YHC looked at the weather forecast and noticed it just might be the coldest day of the year as well as wet. On top of that YHC was notified that we will have 2 PAX joining down range. Ethanol and Sgt. Crack from F3 East Alabama. Knowing the boys from Alabama was joining YHC knew he had to pull out a beat down they would remember. So before hitting the rack for the night, YHC create list of exercise for the beat down.
    At 5:30 am YHC did the disclaimer and instructed PAX to grab a rock at the rock pile then head to the parking lot.
    Once at the parking lot, circled up for warmups 10 minutes of your typical warmup exercises. Ended with a long over extended arm exercise. Just had to do it.
    YHC gave the description for THANG, with a few PAX confused on the concept, so a further explanation was needed. PAX had a better understanding, so we go it on.
    YHC pulled this right from the F3 Nation’s Exicon
    Hindenburg BLIMPS.
    Modified version of BLIMPS. Done on a field (we did it in the Parking lot). Perform exercise at corner #1, sprint to corner #2, perform exercise. Sprint to corner #3 perform exercise. Then to corner #4, exercise and then back to corner #1. Plank it up until all have finished. That’s one round. Round 1 – 10 Burpees; Round 2 – 20 Lunges; Round 3 – 30 Imperial Walkers; Round 4- 40 Merkins; Modifications: Round 5 – 50 Plank (we did plank Jacks at corner #1 and corner #2, and 50 Squats at corner #3 and corner #4.
    YHC looked at the timer and it took the entire 35 minutes to complete the Hindenburg BLIMPS. If you are looking for something to do for your next Q, try this. The rest of the PAX will love you for it.
    With time expiring we gather our rocks and drop them off at the rock pile and return to the flag for COT.
    Announcements and Pray.

  • All About The Benjamins – from Hokie

    Seven Pax met at The Uptowner on a pleasant cool morning for a pre-coffeeteria ante

    We started warm ups, walking backwards on track with long strides around the bend and stopped on the other goal line/corner for some stretching.

    Abe Vigoda x 10
    Grass Grabbers x 10
    Bend over and reach for ground, down right leg, back to center, down left leg, back to center
    Arm Circles x 10

    After stretching “ran” backwards down the straight to the far goal line by the playground, lunged toward playground, and moseyed to rock pile where instructed to get a rock allowing us to shoulder press 25 times straight.

    Now rifle carry towards the field by gym with the two tree lines for some Benjamins

    25 Shoulder presses
    Rifle carry from one tree line to the other
    25 shoulder presses and rifle carry back to the original tree line.
    Rinse and repeat.

    100 Shoulder presses (Benjamin) complete.

    Next round after self love x 10…

    25 Curls, drop rock,
    25 Bear Crawls toward other tree line, 10 burpees, 25 Bear crawls back to 1st tree line, 10 burpees
    rinse and repeat… 50 curls in (not Benjamin, but 100 lunges Benjamin complete)

    25 more curls, 25 lunges toward other tree line, 10 burpees, 25 lunges back, rinse and repeat
    (now 100 curls complete for that Benjamin)

    15 Burpees

    Completed
    100 Shoulder presses
    100 Curls
    100 Bear Crawls
    100 Lunges
    75 Burpees (Sorry Frac)

    Mosey back to rock pile and flag.

    Thank you for allowing me to lead

  • Triple Shift Birthday Q – 54 & 100 – from Triple Shift

    I’ve circled the Sun for 53 years and now I am entering my 54th year. With the passage of time, I can’t help but contemplate my life and how blessed I am to have a wonderful wife of 25 years and five (5) fantastic children! How did I get here? Well, I could answer that in so many ways but for today, I want to honor and recognize my dad who would have been 100 this year if he were still alive. With that in mind, I gave the disclaimer and did a very untraditional run for The Uptowner.

    WARMUP
    I gave the instruction to the PAX that we are running the one (1) mile Pontiff loop and that when we would encounter another person, we would greet them with a hearty “Merry Christmas.” If that person responded back with a “Merry Christmas” we would then perform five (5) burpees and four (4) big boy sit ups. If, however, they responded with anything else, we would perform ten (10) burpees and eight (8) big boy sit ups. Groans and protests ensued from Rev Sox….which validated my decision. During our run, we only encountered one guy walking a dog and he had his ear buds on and never responded at all when we all said, “Merry Christmas.”

    THE THANG
    When we arrived back where we started, we headed out to the football field, and I had the pax line up on the goal line for a tribute to my dad (who would have been 100) and to my birthday (54). For the exercise, we would bear crawl 100 yards and for every five (5) hand touches, we would get up and then perform four (4) forward lunges and then repeat until we reached the other goal line. After we reached the far goal line, I modified the exercise heading back. We would bear crawl 100 yards again but for every five (5) touches with the right hand, we would then perform four (4) burpees. Repeat that sequence until we reached the original goal line. That was a real crowd pleaser!

    With time running out, we partnered up and did B.L.I.M.P.S. around the track. Pax 1 and Pax 2 would run in a opposite direction around the track and when they met up, they would perform 5 burpees. After they performed their exercise, they would take off in the opposite direction and then perform the next exercise of 10 lunges (2 is 1) and so on until we finished with the thirty (30) squats.

    COUNTOFF, NAMERAMA, AND COT
    So very thankful for E Major (my 2.2) and the seven (7) other PAX members coming out to celebrate my birthday! Getting older is a natural condition but getting better takes intentionality, endurance, consistency and accountability. With that, may you experience a peace filled Christmas season and a blessed New Year as we continue to accelerate together throughout 2022!