F3 Nation officially launched in Covington this morning. The PAX met in the Gloom next to The Gipper and, after some mumble chatter from Nacho and EiEi about their relationships with their respective fartsacks, got down to business.
First things first, the PAX dedicated the Thang to the memory of Medal of Honor Recipient Sgt. Darrell S. Cole. The USS Cole visited NOLA during last year’s Fleet Week and ever since then TurboTax has been wondering how you manage to get a US Navy ship named after yourself. A little research over the Memorial Day weekend revealed that taking out three Japanese machine gun nests armed with only a pistol and a few grenades in WWII’s Battle for Iwo Jima and getting shot for your troubles will do the trick. So Sgt. Cole’s story of heroism was imparted to the PAX and succeeded in getting their minds right to tear down some walls in search of some serious fitness.
Warmup: SSH x 20 IC; IW x 20 IC; Merkins x10 IC; Mountain Climbers x 10 IC; Squat Thrusts x 10 IC; Good Mornings x 20 IC; and Hillbillies x 20 IC.
Mosey over to the Justice Center where we entertained all the arriving to work court personnel with a set of elevens. Bench dips on one end, hand slappers on the other, with some painful lunge walking in between. What it is about a lunge walk that looks so easy but is so so hard…Nacho wants to know.
Mosey then to the other side of the Justice Center where there is a very nice Veterans Memorial. TurboTax laying down instructions for the Tabata melody on tap (20 seconds on; 10 seconds rest; rinse and repeat 8 times using squat jumps, Merkins, split jumps, and Merkins again as our poison) when EiEi takes a sudden interest in straightening up all the Memorial Day wreaths that had blown over in the wind. Once we got a recovered EiEi’s attention again, the PAX put down 4 minutes of serious work. Hard to slack off on your 20 seconds of Merkins when you are looking straight down at bricks covered with Veterans’ names and deployments.
A couple of welcome 10 counts and then mosey back to the Trailhead for the Mary finale: some A-B-C-D abs; Scuba Steves, and dynamic side planks.
COT, prayer, and the Covington launch is a wrap. Looking forward to many more, my brothers.
Love the backblast. Keep up the good work.
Mad props to Turbo for the USS Cole back story, followed by a beat down. That was a great workout man. Woo!!! #RESPECT