F3 New Orleans

Tag: The Uptowner

  • Fitmas Part Deux, con Roca – from Bolt

    YHC saw the Q sheet open AGAIN and began to wonder what type of site Q runs the Uptowner—ah yes, that’d be YHC. Looking forward to Mayhem taking up the mantle in ‘24; it’s your time, brother!
    YHC came in hot with Satchmo and then had key fob issues to retrieve the JBL, further delaying our start such that Frac had to start warmorama.
    YHC entered the circle and being Fitmas season, decided Frac’s gift for keeping us on time would NOT be forcing him to consume the requisite Bolt warmorama song—many pax were pleased. All the usual stuff and then off to the rock pile to select a medium rock and off to the parking lot.
    The Thang:
    12 Days of Fitmas con roca.
    Day 1: Mosey across the parking lot with rock in rifle carry back and forth as days are added, SSH on the 6.
    Day 2: Diamond merkins
    Day3: Squat Thrusters, rock
    Day 4: Reverse Lunges (2:1, rock)
    Day 5: Blockees
    Day 6: Box Cutters
    Day 7: Tricep coupon presses
    Day 8: Plank Jacks
    Day 9: Overhead rock presses
    Day 10: Big Boy sit-ups
    Day 11: Curls
    Day 12: Mtn. Climbers

    Mr. Rogers got so far ahead of YHC that I accused him of skipping squat thrusters—nope, he’s just that much of a beast (wearing his weighted vest). At time and still completing the BD, we rushed back to the pile and then the flag, COT.

  • Burpeepalooza – from Bolt

    YHC took a late night Q spot and sprinted from the car to the flag while giving the disclaimer at 5:29/30 (finding out post workout that it dashed KennaBrah’s hopes to Q) with a call to the pax to circle up midfield for warmorama featuring Frac’s favorite song and the usual stuff.

    The Thang: mosey to goal line and plank across the end zone for plank hurdles: pax one sprints to the 10 yd. Line and planks while pax two sprints/hurdles pax one, assuming high plank 10 yds. further awaiting all subsequent pax to repeat all the way to the opposite goal.

    Mosey to the playground for Morning Calls: all pax high plank along the border and each pax goes to pull up bar for a called five count whereby pax merkin the reps and retime to plank until all pax do pull ups.

    Mosey to the gym parking where YHC shared its Burpeepalooza; this pleased Bogey…immensely—not. A playlist designed with each song featuring a word/catchphrase that implores all pax to burpee and then return to a given movement (SSH, IW, Air press, Hillbillies). After song two made our legs very heavy (YHC also forgot a phrase initiated the burpee and not the word he incorrectly gave, leading to lots of confusion and even more mumblechatter—so this is what being a chaos monkey is like!), YHC offered the pax a choice by majority rule: more burpees or decadie of pain. Decadie it is: 1 min Al Gore followed by 30 mountain climbers. Surprise! Back to Burpeepalooza followed by a second round of decadie (this is where four “water breaks” in a row were rolled and we don’t do that crap in F3) so we finally landed on (2) 30x American Hammers. One final burpeepalooza song followed by a mosey to the flag, which YHC sprinted, causing enough heavy breathing to make Mahatma and Bogey wonder if I was ok.
    COT, honored as always, men!

  • 🎶 8 Crazy Nights 🎶 – from Bolt

    “It’s Hanukkah…Bitches,” was YHC mantra as I arrived with a whole five minutes to spare before giving the disclaimer. KnOTs headed their way while the real men headed to midfield.
    
    The festival of Hanukkah celebrates the triumph of light over darkness and spirituality over materiality as well as the miracle of the much smaller group of Jewish soldiers taking back the temple from the occupying Greeks, who then were able to keep the lantern burning for eight days with only one day’s worth of consecrated oil.

    Warmaorama included the requisite Rapper’s Delight and all the usual movements; considerable mumblechatter ensued, mainly from Fracsac, but YHC was unfazed by it—mainly bc I couldn’t hear Frac over the sweet musings of The Sugarhill Gang.

    Morning call: pax hold incline plank along the play area border while 2 pax call out each of their five pull ups which the pax then merkin and return to plank while the next two head to pull up bars.

    Adam Sandler’s Hanukkah song came on just in time for the above which allowed YHC to segue into trivia during the mosey to the rock pile which of course included burpees: 3 for a wrong answer and one for the correct answer; we amassed 11 burpees during this segment. Fracsac called for a skip in the waning minute of a four minute song: 5 more burpees for everyone.

    8 Crazy Nights con roca (except abs): AMRAP 8 reps (nights)/9 exercises(candles of the menorah), 10 minutes.
    OH press
    Squats
    Big boys
    Curls
    Lunges
    American Hammers
    Tricep press
    Calf raises
    Manmakers
    Everyone made it to/through two rounds before time ran out. 3 10-counts before we returned rocks and moseyed back to mid-field.

    The Uptowner “dreidel” otherwise known as the decadie of pain. Roll both die and all pax perform the two exercises/rep counts rolled consecutively and then another pax goes until the timer beckons us back to the flag. During this segment Frac called for another skip which cost everyone five burpees. This pleased the pax, especially Hand Grenada.

    Merkins/Mountain Climbers
    American Hammers/Mountain Climbers
    Merkins/Tricep dips
    Bonnie Blair/something else
    Something/Something else
    O2 deprivation is a thing…

    COT; thanks men. Reach out the MIAs

  • Chaos Monkey on the loose – from Kenna Brah

    9 Brave PAX fearlessly stepped onto the filed of battle, scoffing at the impending rain.
    3 Went to KOT and 6 went with YHC.
    Basic warmups
    SSH
    Imperial Walkers
    Low Slow Squats
    Arm Circles F/B
    Then a little stretch work

    The Thang:
    Line abreast at the South goal line Each Pax at a turn dragging a large tire to the 50 yd line, at the other end of the line, another Pax farmer carried two 30# Plates

    The PAX in-between those two did the following up until the tire dragger got to the 50 and blew the “whistle”. At the point we all shifted one place to the left, the dragger went to the far end at each 50 yd increment.
    Rd 1 Sets of 10 Merkins, Shoulder Tpas, Mountain Climbers
    Rd 2 Sets of 10 LBC, Flutter Kick, Freddy Mercs.
    Rd 3 Sets of 10 Squat, Bonnnie Blaires, Side Lunge

    We traversed the field twice

    With time on our hands we loaded the two plates into the tire, a dragger then took the tier to the other goal line while the Pax was lead each member every 10 yds. That member was the Q of that marker and anything he said goes.
    Once all of the members had a turn dragging 60#s in a big tire, w began to cool down, stretch and then mosey back to the Vflag for COT.

  • Just the two of us… – from Kenna Brah

    Just me and Scantron braved the gloom and shared great 2nd F after making laps around the track.
    COT

  • Burpees, Bear Crawls, and Box Cutters…Oh My! – from Triple Shift

    As a plug to the upcoming book study on Tuesdays (PJ’s Coffee on Canal Blvd 6:45am – 7:30am) in 2024, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness, I chose to do something hard at the Uptowner.

    Warmorama – Head to the field to do 15 LSS, 10 Arm Circles forward and back, 10 J Los, 10 slow Imperial Walkers (we look like a bunch of drunken sailors), 10 slow Peter Parkers, and 10 T Merkins all done IC.

    The Thang One – Partner up on the track and do B.L.I.M.P.S. Your partner runs in the opposite direction from you and when you meet on the other side of the track, perform the 5 Burpees. Once the burpees are completed, run in the opposite direction of your partner and when you meet up, perform 10 lunges. Continue running in the opposite direction until you complete the 15 Imperial Walkers, 20 Merkins, 25 Plank Jacks, and 30 Squats.

    The Thang Two – Line up on the goal line and each Pax member performs 10 box cutters, bear crawl out 5 yards and then perform 5 burpees. Walk back to the goal line and perform 10 Box Cutters, bear crawl out to the 10-yard line and then perform 4 burpees. Keep repeating the pattern of increasing the bear crawl by 5 yards and decreasing the burpee by one until you finally bear crawl out to the 25 yard line and finish with one burpee. Reverse plank for the six.

    The Thang Three – Ring of Fire. Everyone holds and Al Gore while one pax member performs 10 squats until everyone has completed 10 squats. Next round was 10 Monkey Humpers/Al Gore and we finished with 10 Bonnie Blairs/Al Gore. As an added bonus we tried to hold an air squat (90 degree angle) for 2 minutes. #epic fail

    Headed back to where we started for some stretching and mosquito slapping with a few minutes left.

    COT – Continued prayers for Scantron’s nephew and Wedding Planner’s daughter’s health.

    NMM – I just finished a book called The Steward Investor: Investing God’s Resources for Eternal Impact by Donald E Simmons and it really challenged my thinking on how I am managing God’s financial resources. Is my mindset on growing my financial portfolio so I can have a comfortable and care free life or should it be about growing my financial portfolio to build God’s kingdom (Thy kingdom come, thy will be done….) through investing in other start up (risky and unproven) business in other areas around the world where God’s values can be established. In the book, a poem by the great navigator, seaman, and explorer Sir Francis Drake from 1577 titled Disturb Us, Lord was definitely a challenge to me. I hope you enjoy it!

    Disturb us, Lord, when
    We are too well pleased with ourselves,
    When our dreams have come true
    Because we have dreamed too little,
    When we arrived safely
    Because we sailed too close to the shore.

    Disturb us, Lord, when
    With the abundance of things we possess
    We have lost our thirst
    For the waters of life;
    Having fallen in love with life,
    We have ceased to dream of eternity
    And in our efforts to build a new earth,
    We have allowed our vision
    Of the new Heaven to dim.

    Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
    To venture on wider seas
    Where storms will show your mastery;
    Where losing sight of land,
    We shall find the stars.

    We ask You to push back
    The horizons of our hopes;
    And to push into the future
    In strength, courage, hope, and love.

  • 1 Year Manniversary – from Pool Boy

    Beautiful Friday morning 57 degrees. Gave the obligatory warnings and headed to the Football field. Scantron and Triple Shift went KOT’s.

    Warmups consisted of:
    SSH’s
    Armcircles;all types
    Abe Vigoda’s
    Grass Grabbers
    Low Slow Squats
    Imperial Walkers
    Slow Merkins
    Burpees

    The Thang
    100 yard’s back and forth of Bear Crawl, Leap Frog, Leap Frog with Partner, Leap Frog Burpee
    Mosey to the Rock Pile and select a rock. In silence: sort of
    Rock Merkins
    Curls
    Overhead Press
    Squats
    Crunches(with rock)
    Rock Press
    Mosey back toward the flag for Rock Toss – Partner up and chunk the biggest rock you have back and forth over the fence to one another. About 5 minutes. Rifle carry Indian Walk back to the rock pile.
    Finished with Mary
    Sprint back to the flag.
    COT
    As this was my 1 year anniversary, thank you all for your support.

  • All together now! – from Kenna Brah

    Mosey to the Rock Pile
    Warmups with a side of chaos – changing counts, tweaking cadence in order to send waves of disruption unto acceleration.
    Imperial Walkers
    Toy Soldiers
    Surprise!! – 5 Burpees OYO
    Arm Circles F/B
    Surprise!! – 5 Burpees OYO

    Pick out a rock circle with Me

    PAX to my left was the TOP OF THE CLOCK – The person there calls the set as follows:
    5 Curls
    5 OHP
    5 Sumo Sq
    The Entire PAX shifts one position clockwise – repeat until all pax execute the sets. leader has freedom to add any spice this gumbo he sees appropriate, and a few did, but cherry picking/dropping ain’t gonna cut it Charmin.
    Toes on Rocks – 10 Merkins facing out from circle
    Brief conversation of being prepared for the unexpected.
    Next Thang –
    Like above but with:
    10 Pullovers to Chest Press and Back – God help those who got Triples boulder.
    10 Calf Raise
    10 Lunges L/R ( 5 a leg )
    Called it quits at 6 sets
    Return Rocks
    and did some Jane Fondaesqe leg work. Hurry back to COT

  • 279th day in Gregorian Calendar – from Pool Boy

    On a beautiful Friday morning, some stretched and others headed to the football field.
    Warmups consisted of Imperial Walkers, Grass grabbers, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters, Abe Vigodas etc
    Bogey and I took turns with the beatdown from Monkey Grabbers, Calf Raises to Derkins and Lunges(backwards and Forwards). Too many exercises to name…
    Finished at the Rock Pile with Curls, Rows and squats.
    COT

  • Descend the Ladder con Roca – from Bolt

    Warmorama of the usual; Vagabond erroneously thought Kenna Brah had the Q and I’m sure regretted showing up for another of my musically schizophrenic playlists.
    The Thang: Descending Ladder with a rock (10 reps/exercise down to 9, 8, etc. reps/exercise): Squat (coupon), OH press, Curls, chest press, tricep press.
    Begin at first tree along side the parking lot facing the gym (it was here that Mahatma took off to second tree to do exercise one—not the directions!), Carry rock to second tree for second exercise where we all paid five burpee penalty for the transgression.

    At fifth tree plank on the six, turnaround and head back the opposite way with one less rep/exercise finishing at starting point. Rinse/repeat until we’ve descended the ladder.

    It was prior to starting round six that I introduced the skip exercise rule: call out, “skip” and roll Deca die of pain for our fate that replaces the skipped exercise, advance to next tree and resume the ladder. Mr. Rogers went first, followed by several others; we did ultimately finish the ladder in time to return rocks and circle up at the flag for Rochamburpee until time: winner does five merkins, loser does three burpees.

    Honored to lead and totally spent; this one sucked. COT.