F3 New Orleans

Tag: The Uptowner

  • 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.

  • Easy as 1, 2, 3 plus an FNG – from Bolt

    The pax gathered in the gloom, buzzing with excitement at the mere sight of the JBL speaker; great to see Kotters: Left Coast and Mambi along with Boo Boo who was doing penance for missing Thursday Rucking. Upon giving the disclaimer KnOTS headed their way while we were off to the middle of the field where the pax’s exuberance exploded upon hearing Rapper’s Delight, especially Vagabond, while Triple’s FNG certainly started to question exactly what he’d gotten himself into. Warmorama of the usual with demonstration/explanation for the pax who’d become Malware by the end of the BD (welcome to the gloom, brother). Music skip rule in effect.

    The Thang:
    Dry dock ladder up the bleachers
    Squat ladder in reverse count down the bleachers, mosey to playground.

    Morning Call: all pax high plank while two pax do 5 pull ups, calling out the count for planking pax to merkin, Triple doled out a 5 burpee penalty about half through on a 5 minutes song with only 30 seconds to go. Mosey to the rocks.

    Easy as 123 (AMRAP):
    Chest press 1 min (really made the burpees tougher)
    Burpees 2 min (goal 20+, Triple, fueled by competitiveness and his younger, lighter FNG’s stamina hit 32—impressive)
    Step ups 3 min (the “Halfway there” announcement seemed to take 3 minutes)

    Circle up for 5 Absolutions OYO followed by Mary where Triple and YHC were feasted on by ants, ironically after YHC encouraged pax to seek an area without visible ant piles (the best laid plans…). KennaBrah took over the lead after my LBCs and Protractors (a pax favorite—Rudy where were u!?) with a plank/reverse plank alternating leg lift, while I disposed of the ants and passed it Cheese Steak for Hello Dollys and Mambi brought us home with ???

    Return to the flag, COT and naming ceremony for FNG/Malware; come back for ur second BD and discover that F3 is for YOU. SYITG.

  • Friday morning Football – from Pool Boy

    Weather a nice 81 degrees. Quick disclaimer as Knots headed for their workouts and we hit the football field. With it being football season, thought some of us could relive our glory days.
    WARMUPS of:
    SSH
    Grass Grabbers
    LBC’s
    Arm circles
    Peter Parkers
    Imperial walkers
    Hillbillies
    Merkins
    7 FOOTBALL WORKOUTS
    1ST Karaoke 40 yds- 10 merkins. Karaoke 40 yds back – 10 merkins
    2nd Backpedal 40 yds – 10 merkins. Backpedal 40 yds back – 10 merkins
    3rd High Knees 40 yds – 10 merkins. High-knees 40 yds back – 10 merkins
    4th 12 up downs
    5th With 4 cones in a square, back pedal to 1st cone, then shuffle to 2nd and sprint. 5x
    6th With 4 cones in a square, bear crawl to 1st cone, then karaoke to 2nd and sprint. 2x
    7th With 4 cones 3 yds apart, agility drill of shuffling feet. 5x

    Game time! After a few rules, a football game commenced.
    Team 1(shirts): FNG(Manziel), Wedding Planner, Hand Grenada, Mayhem
    Team 2(skins): Pool Boy, Mahatma, Vagabond, Architect
    I believe skins took it 3-2.
    All time QB – Bogey Montana

    Some Mary to finish out.
    COT. We welcomed FNG – “Manziel” to the group

  • Uptowner Old School AMRAPs – from Mahatma

    YHC – showed up with 5 minutes, planted the flag AT the Rock Pile as we did pre plandemic. Dropped off his TJ Max bag with Pickleball gear then headed down to the cage arriving just as the seconds ticked off to 5:30. Quick disclaimer as the Knots crew headed to the track and the rest of the pax to a slow walk back to the rock pile all the while with chatter as to what’s this about an “old” starting spot for “the” Uptowner!

    After 6 years YHC learned a few things and one is don’t get sucked in to the chatter as it will never go your way! So circle up for a warm up.

    Various cadence:
    2 rounds Scantron stretch
    Side Lunge
    Windmills
    Nolan Ryan’s
    Peter Parker’s
    Mnt Man Poopers
    Parker Peter’s
    Forward Lunge Left leg with Arm circles
    Flap Jack
    SSH

    Grab a rock
    1st AMRAP (as many ROUNDS as possible)
    Thrusters (a.k.a. squat press) x 10
    Merkins x 10
    10 wall jumps or alternating step ups
    Lunge walk from tree to light pole
    Walk or run back
    This is 1 round – complete as many rounds as possible in 10 minutes

    Grab your rock relocate on the other side of the road – 4 rounds of Mary

    2nd AMRAP
    6 burpees
    Extended Curls x 10
    6 burpees
    Squat front raises x 10
    Bernie Sanders from tree to power pole
    Walk or run back
    That is one round – again complete as many possible in 10 minutes

    Rtn the rocks – 1 minute of plank to push ups

    COT

  • Tests of Strenth – my Festivus – from Rudy

    YHC decided to try out some fitness tests that have been bouncing around in my head. Whenever I think “this is a bad idea, it probably won’t work”, I recall the immortal words of Hawgcycle from years ago – something to the effect of “Only one way to find out.”

    So at 530 am, a solid group of PAX moseyed off towards the rock pile to get started. A warm up of some stretching and imperial walkers. Then a quick trip to the train tracks for some balance work. Try your best to get 5 squats in. Several minutes of this – SOGO was up to 20 squats, Mahatma had quit in frustration, and finally YHC managed 5 things that sort of loosely resembled squats. So lets grab a rock and head to the field.

    At the field – YHC announces the Thang. 5 Fitness Tests. My Festivus, if you will.

    Test 1: Rifle Carry your rock for 1 lap around the trap. YHC had been curious if this was doable, and if so – how long it would take. The answer: sort of doable, and roughly 5 minutes.

    Test 2: The suck (7 SSH, 7 Merkins, 7 Squats), for 5 minutes instead of the usual 3. Dang, FracSac. Those farts were AWFUL.

    Test 3: Bear crawl the length of the field, then lunge walk back.

    Test 4: The Rock-Suck for 5 minutes. 7 Overhead Press, 7 Curl, 7 Row. Dang, Frac. Those farts were AWFUL. PAX kept shifting to avoid being close, but it didn’t matter. lack of wind meant that noxious fume just hovered over us.

    Return the rocks.

    Test 5: EMOM burpees for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, the Pickle-ballers decided to bail on this.

    Back to the flag for COT. Thank you all for the many years of inspiration you have provided. And thank you Sky Q for the gift of one more year around the sun.

  • 10 things, 10 times, 10 times – from Kenna Brah

    10 things 10 times, 10 times
    1 is 1 for each movement
    10 reps per exercise
    10 exercise per rd
    10 rnds
    NO WARMUP. Must start on time!!
    IN CADENCE 1 is 1
    I’ll call count, but would love help!
    2.7 sec per movement
    SSH
    TOY SOLDIERS
    IMPERIAL WALKERS
    MERKINS
    PETER PARKER
    FREDDIE MERCS
    LBC
    FLUTTER KICKS
    JUMP SQUATS
    BONNIE BLAIRS

    Completed in 20 min!!

    RND 2:

    With Rocks
    10 Curls
    10 Rows
    10 Sumo Squats
    10 OHP
    10 “DO-ceps” extensions because there is NO TRI only DO!

    Finish with Mary Go Round
    COT

    See ya!!

  • Rudy got sold – from Mayhem

    Q started selling Rudy at 7:30pm the evening before on showing up to the proper AO… ABC (always be closing)… Rudy got sold

    530am
    Disclaimer
    Mosey

    Warmarama: windmills, grass grabbers, side straddle hops, peter parker peter, mountain climbers, arm circles, reverse arm circles

    Rock pile then to the parking lot

    Doracides
    2 PAX work together
    Suicides first line, 1 burpee and back, second line 2 burpees and back, third line 3 burpees, tag other PAX and rotate
    100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBCs

    Take the rock to the bollards, manmakers until Triple is done five, take rock back to the start

    Circle up with me
    Game of dice
    Ended with Rudy’s low slow squats

    Back to the rock pile
    Back to the flag (one minute late because of Rudy’s squats)

    Prayer requests for PVC, Rudy’s daughter, Wedding Planner’s friend and all those that are going through a rough patch that we may not know

    Have a great day and weekend

    SYITG

  • Z90s and some pax did a pretend workout – from Bolt

    YHC dug back in the annals (reread the word without your filthy mind filter) of previous Qs for something I hadn’t done in a bit—Z90s it would be with the exercises tweaked and the modes of transportation unchanged. Like many NOLA pax who are also part of the coolest generation on planet Earth, I became an adult in the 90s so this workout title includes a Z for many 90s reasons: Z Cavaricci pants, it’s the end of the alphabet like we are the last generation to not suck, it’s the movement pattern we would follow around the bases, I could go on but on to the Thang which followed the usual warmorama stuff/soundtrack followed Morning Calls for the absent Rudy.

    Z90s: 5 thru 20 reps/4 exercises, mix movement between between bases each round, mosey back to home. Skip rule in effect and an all 90s club mix playlist which guaranteed penalty burpees; it was far worse than the playlist I actually created if u can believe that!

    Round 1 (bear crawl between home, 3rd, 1st, 2nd): burpee 5x, Cracker Jacks (frog>star jump>frog) 10x, merkin 15x, plank jacks 20x

    Round 2 (crab walk): burpee, air squats, Peter Parker, American hammer 2:1

    Round 3 (crawl bear): burpee, Bonnie Blair, Parker Peter, overhead air presses

    It was at this point I gave the pax the option for Qs choice or a fourth round and after some debate Frac and The Architect split, pushing Bogey to be the swing vote, opting for round 4 (would’ve been Mary plus decadie of death) and there was mention of dancing so I called an audible on the movement between bases.

    Round 4 (dance moves of pax choice): burpee, R/L side squats, diamond merks, mountain climbers 2:1

    Back to flag—NOT. At the flag I noticed we had two minutes to spare so not wanting to cheat the pax out of their money’s worth we ventured to the edge of the outside track shoulder to shoulder to put on a show for the Old Metairie muckity mucks: Humping of the monkey followed by pleasing of the wife followed by O rings just to solidify the theme for the obviously horrified onlookers.
    In retrospect, I either forgot how much Z90 can suck or it was a poor choice given all the workouts I haven’t been to recently and only kicked my own ass. I’ll let the pax chime in. Winded, honored, and grateful. COT.

  • 7s on 7/7; where’s Rudy!? – from Bolt

    Mambi (welcome back Kotter) and Rougarou did KnOT.
    Warmorama of the usual to the usual tune with 5 bonus burpees at the end bc…well it is Friday!

    The Thang:
    Mosey to playground for Morning Call just for Rudy in support of his Murph training (yet no Rudy to be found).
    Mosey to rock pile and circle up WITH the Q on your six for some Mary: LBCs x 31, Penguins x 32, Wife Pleasers x 20.
    Grab a large rock and head toward the dog park single file (SINGLE FILE Kenna Brah!) thus we had 5 penalty burpees for not following instructions (YHC could tell in the warmup that KB would b a problem today). Bogey excitedly asked to change the song thinking the 5 burpees were paid as a “skip tax” instead of penalty—wrong, 5 more burpees.
    Continue single file toward the dog park when YHC called an audible for the pavilion (there’s no way we would finish on time with what I originally conceived).

    Circle up for everyone’s new favorite: protractors followed by 7s on 7/7 (Rudy lives for this kinda thing—still no Rudy!) made up of rock chest press/8-count bodybuilders with 5 box jumps sandwiched in between. There was a Hand Grenada skip somewhere in there, costing everyone 5 burpees.

    Rochamburpee is next: pair up in high plank for 10 rounds of rock, paper, scissors where the loser does burpees, the winner does merkins, and a tie is merkins for both with the count being the round number. The pax REALLY liked this as Pool Boy mentioned at coffee that it seems easy enough at the outset.
    Return rocks to pile; YHCs rock seemed to get much heavier on the way back(must’ve soaked up humidity or something). Mosey to flag. COT (honored as always, gents)!