Good idea, poor execution. We ventured away from higher learning and back to our playground roots. After a warm up we BLIMPED our way down St. Charles to Daneel playground. Partnered up for some Dora 1-2-3 with burpees, LBC, and squats. Noted on the corner was the house of one of our limey pax flying the Union Jack. A moment of silence was considered but we were short on time. Indian run back the flag with modification and chaos ensuing. Oh well. Count off and namorama with a welcome back to Poboy. Blessings for a great weekend.
Tag: Whopper
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Special Teams – from Tinkles
The pax was still mentally numb from watching LSU put the special in special teams late into Skinny Eve. Despite that, 15 strong showed up at 5:30 on Labor Day for a great start to the day. The game chatter at least helped pass the time and good beat down was had by all.
Warm up: arm circles forward and back, SSH, IW, Mountain Climbers, Squats
Beatdown: ran around the loop mixing Indian runs with individual tempo work. Swept the 6 and stopped for merkin ring of fire, bench work, some Mary, and lastly 10 burpees.
Back at the flag with some time to spare and plank work.
Count off, namorama, intentions. Well done fellas!
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Less Than or Equal to One Man Left Behind – from Tinkles
Last week we had some aggressive workouts. Llama is still somewhere on the golf course. We think he will be back. With that in mind we stayed centered on the flag but were still able to get some quality time in!
Warm Up:
SSH x 30, IW x 20, FAC x 20, RAC x 20, Mountain Climber x 20.Beat down:
1/2 mile loop with station for 30 LBCs, 20 Squats, 10 Merkins. Pax covered a range of 2-3 miles.
Count off, Namorama (Welcome FNG Wilson!), Intentions, Prayer.
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Fore! – from Landing Strip
I thought I was dusting off an oldie-but-goodie with a morning run/workout through Audubon Golf Course, but low and behold MacGyver beat me to it a week or so ago. Nevertheless, we persevered…
Warmup
We moseyed over to in front of the clubhouse for the following exercises:
-20 x SSH
-15 x Forward Arm Circles
-15 x Self LoveTha Thang
We then moseyed through the course, hole-by-hole. Each hole was accompanied by an exercise, with reps to match the # of the hole. But we waited for the 6 to finish that # of exercises before moving on. Make sense? Yeah, it was kind of confusing out there as well.Here were the exercises:
1. Burpee(s)
2. Diamond Merkins
3. Mountain Climbers
4. Wide Arm Merkins
5. Peter Parker
6. Incline Merkins
7. Parker Peter
8. Decline Merkins
9. Air Presses
10. LBCs
11. Flutter Kicks
12. LBTs
13. Hello Dollies
14. J-Los
15. High Planks (didn’t get to these)
16. Low Planks (didn’t get to these)
17. Mission Impossible (didn’t get to these)
18. Big Boy SitupsWe were a few minutes late back to the flag, and there were some stragglers / bathroom breakers, but all in all, a solid workout wherein 5k+ was covered!
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Form police – from MacGyver
FORM POLICE
Warm Up
Hillbillies (15)
Imperial walkers (15)
Abe vagodas (8)
Grass grabbers (10)
Cherry pickers (10)
Peter Parker’s (15)
Parker Peter’s 1(0)Select battle buddy
Run to golf course
First green Area
Ring of fire, Pax hold plank while teams bear crawl around the circleSecond green
Squats x30
(Form police, bad reps = do it again) total of 45 reps were doneThird green
Push ups x15
(Form Police)Fourth green
Burpees x10
(Form Police) total of 18 were doneFifth green
Wheel barrow Across the green , switch with buddy, Wheel barrel backSixth green
Each team does
40 push-ups
100 squats
100 4Count LBC’sBack to COT for 12 count Echo stretch, Center/Right/left
Tubesteak1
Chiquita,
Attendance
Pop a lock
EL wire
King Kong
couch
Peaches
Whopper
Angie’s list
Llama
yanks
Brown bag
Tinkles’
Meatball
Sandbar
Revit
MacGyver
Dewy
Jingle Vader -
Making it “uncomfortable” – from Sandbar
YHC kicked off his last WPM as site Q exhorting the PAX to push themselves and step out of their “comfort” zones with their reps and runs.
Mosey to the Loyola Palm circle for the Warm up. SSH, 5 burpees, Low slow squats, Windmills, Grassgrabbers, 10 more burpees.
Mosey to the mountain. Pair up for the burpee ladder. One pax does 10 burpees while the other runs up one ramp and flat and does LBCs until the second PAX catches up and then runs past up one ramp and one flat and does 10 burpees. This added 30 more burpees.
At the top we did 10 more burpees at the far end of the garage, then moseyed back and did 10 more burpees. (running total 65). Then all PAX down the stairs and 5 more burpees. Back up the stairs and 15 burpees. Back down the stairs and 10 burpees. Back up and 5 burpees. That completed a century of burpees @Bolt!.
Back down the stairs and the PAX moseyed to ROTC pullup bars. YHC reminisced about spending 3 years next door at TLS, and smoking a cigarette with Antonin Scalia in the breezeway and sharing a beer with Ralph Nader just inside. 20 yrs goes by fast.
At the pullup bars the PAX split into 4 groups – pullups, merkins, dips and LBOs. Count was 10 pullups and we ran the cycle 4 times.
Mosey back to the flag and COT. YHC announced that after 3 1/2 years as site Q he was handing the mantle to @meatball. Thanks for the opportunity. Find ways to make yourself uncomfortable.
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Uptown Bakers Dozen – from Fracsac
YHC was alerted to a Down Range Pax needing an Uber to a beat down. Being the hospitable type, YHC volunteered to take said Pax to the Bird Cage.
Lucky for YHC the Bird Cage needed a Q.
Arriving early, the normal well lit alley of trees was found to be dark, so no go there. Grab some cones and set up along walking path.
Not having made it uptown in awhile, new faces were seen. It’s good to move around!
At 0530 disclaimer was given followed by a mosey to the brick area at the entrance to the alley of darkness. Normal warmup, then mosey to cones.
First up – Lucky 7 BLIMPS
7 burpees at first cone, 6 at second, and so forth. After 1 burpee run the parking lot loop and back and wait for the 6. Continue with Lunges, imperial walkers, merkins, plank jacks and squats.
During Lucky 7s O’doul’s pulled me aside and told me I needed to step things up and that my workout was weak. I pretended that I couldn’t hear him, deafness is a great crutch at times. He hung back with me to push me, tempting me with next seasons fig harvest. Better step it up! This guy is a beast!
Next up, suicide burpee 11s.
Do a burpee, run back to start line. Run up to 2nd cone for two burpees, run back to start line. Continue until 11 burpees.
Times up, thank goodness.
COT
NMM
YHC had to get Chew Toy back to his hotel, so coffee was missed with the Uptown crew. I’ll be back!
Unfortunately we only got to 94 burpees, but pax were told to feel free to do the additional 6 on their own….
Joking aside, O’Doul’s really is becoming a beast. He pushed hard and never quit. Brown Bag is raising a solid young man and I’m honored to have had the opportunity to lead.
SYITG
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Better Late Than Never – from King Kong
I Q’ed almost a month ago and was too lazy to write a backblast. On June 26, I decided to write this…..
We moseyed behind Tulane Gibson Hall and did some warm-ups. Then moseyed to PJs under the wind tunnel with more warm-ups. Then arrived to Tulane Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, which is named after El Wire’s grandfather.
Here we did Dora 1, 2, 3. While one partner ran a loop around the parking lot, the other partner was doing 100 step ups, 200 shoulder taps, and 300 American Hammers. Flap-jack until the exercises were completed.
After Dora, we ran to the baby Loyola garage. At the first ramp, we bear crawled to the next level. At the second ramp, we lunge walked to the next level. At the third ramp, we bear crawled backwards to the next level. Once we got to the top, we Native American ran down to the base of the mountain.
We then moseyed to the Palm Court to finish it out with a round of Mary’s with some good form merkins.
Back to the flag with COT.
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Road Trip – from Mahatma
The decision was made the evening before while sitting on the porch checking out the Q Sheet……no commitment for the birdcage so why not. YHC new the trek would require some planning: 1. Rise 15 minutes early 2. Pack a snack as its a long drive 3. Route around road construction 4. Don’t suck bring the beatdown.
Well if it wasn’t for luck in crossing King Kong’s path YHC wouldn’t have had a shot at #4…..it was God’s plan!
Arrive exactly at 5:30 – YHC busted out with “boom” box ready to rock…..only to find a crowd of 12-15 pax standing around. Quick disclaimer and we were off to the lighted alley you’d expect to find in Audubon (Metry ain’t got such nice things).
Music On!
Quick Warm up of AbVagodas, Mnt Man Poopers, Good Mornings, SSH, and Side LungesWork 1
1771
Line Up on Light Pole 1, Speaker at Light Pole 2, transition at Light Pole 3
For 1771 – each end always adds to 8 – flip flop exercise at either end V-Ups and Jump Squats
2 Merkins in the middle in one direction and 2 Burpees in the middle coming back
When finished circle up for Mary – Sandbar lead us in LBCs
Work2
Le’ 14 (I honestly think there were some chuckles as to the idea of how easy this was going to be).
13 double under and 1 merkin
12 double under and 2 merkins
so on…….
YHC has never been able to go past 8 without a break and today was no different. All Pax stood to recover for 1m and 15sec
Restart
7 double under and 7 merkins
so on…..
YHC made a mental strain error at 4 as we continued to 10 double under then 10 merkins at this point YHC was modifying merkins from his knees.
We completed through 1 DU and 13 Merkins –Work 3
In The Air Tonight
Hold plank throughout the song – merkins during the best part YHC counted out 20Work 4
AC/DC Thunderstruck
1 Burpee everytime the title was said we counted somewhere between 30-32 – it appeared some of the pax hated the music as much as the burpeesWarm Down with Mary
X Factor – Gas Pumpers – WWII SitUpsCOT – welcome 2 new Pax – “Higgins” and “Royal w/Cheese”. No doubt Peaches was probably correct more “creative” names may have had been bestowed with the help of
Angie’s List!All said it was good to see “most” of the pax…..lol just kidding. I can honestly say the “uptowners” do a great job showing up and continuing to EH. Solid!
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It’s Going to be a Great Day – from Landing Strip
Warmup
-mosey to WW1 Memorial, do 20x SSHTha Thang
-deconstructed BLIMPs = 5x burpees, followed by a lap past the Peristyle, through the parking lot and back to the WW1 Memorial, followed by 10x lunges (2:1), 15x imperial walkers (2:1), 20x merkins, 25x plank jacks and 30x squats, each followed by a lap
-if you finish, then start back the other way (30x squats, 25x plank jacks, etc.) until we hit time
-mosey back to the flag for COTCOT
-Author BJ Fogg (Tiny Habits) says we can transform ourselves via the formation and deconstruction of good and bad habits in our lives. I heard an interview with him where he says the most powerful habit anyone can pick up is to simply say the phrase “It’s going to be a great day” upon waking up each morning. I’m going to try it and encourage the HIMs of F3 to do so as well.
