3 Years in the Making
Backblasts New Orleans
3 Years in the Making
Backblasts New Orleans

3 Years in the Making

Date:10/14/17
QIC:Reluctant Yankee / Hawgcycle
PAX:Amnesty, Bartman, Biloxi Bacon (FNG), El Wire, Carpool, Rigs, Tanked Up, Duct Tape, Steve, Shooter, Kimchi, Lucky Dog, The Manny, 86, Da Parish, Bushwhacker, Douille, Terabyte, Ocho, Apples (FNG), Heisenberg, Joe Dirt, Roots, Captain Sparkles, Detour, Reluctant Yankee, Milkman, Jingle Vader, Wipe-out (FNG), Woz, Yo-Yo Circus, Tool, Bubba, Channel Mullet, Two Yutes, Thumper, Colonel, Mathlete, Marlin, Jadaveon, Chowdah (FNG), Jadaveon, Triple Shift, Bongo, Worms, Shorty, Turbo Tax, Rudy, Spike (FNG), Fracsac, Quick Draw, Surge, Moby Dick, Seaman, Gabrielle, Cowbell, Redfish, Butt Splice, Bad Moon, Bar Crawl, Rev-it, Hawgcycle

Three years ago 15 men launched F3 New Orleans – you can read about that first workout here.  Yesterday 68 men showed up in force to celebrate that date.  Yankee lost his voice yelling at his Dad’s softball team, so YHC was charged with the disclaimer.  It was sloppy.  Then off to the great lawn

Warm-up

Yankee led the warm-up.  Many pax noticed how similar it was to the warm-up he led Friday. #Preparation.

SSH x 25 IC; Imperial Walkers x 25 IC; Mountain Climbers x 25 IC; Hillbillys x 25 IC; Dying Cockroach x 25 IC

You Against You

Tabata is a you against you.  It works when you go 20 seconds as hard as you can.  It’s a microcosm of F3.  It works best when you are pushing to get the most out of yourself.  We went with two rounds of Burpees, Merkins, Squats, and WWII Sit-ups.

Pushing Yourself For Others

F3 teaches you to push yourself.  There are certain times during a workout where you are pushing yourself for the other men you are working out with.  In the big picture, you are pushing yourself to get better for your family and community.  This was a partner workout.  Pax 1 ran a sprint across the great lawn (150 yards) while Pax 2 held Al Gore.  We flapjacked and repeated for a total of 3 sets.  Then we did the same thing with Mission Impossible.

Trip Down Memory Lane

We moseyed to the museum for some Red Hot Chili Pepper – introduced by Chong-Li at the first NOLA workout.  The group was two big for the fountain so we split in two.  One group did the Red Hot Chili Pepper with YHC while the other did core work with Yankee.  Then we flapjacked.

Red Hot Chili Pepper:  16 Left Leg Bulgarian Split Leg Squats, 8 Decline Merkins, 16 Right Leg Bulgarian Split Leg Squats, 8 Incline Merkins; 12 LLBSLS, 6 Derkins, 12 RLBSLS, 6 Irkins; 8 LLBSLS, 4 Derkins, 8 RLBSLS, 4 Irkins; 4 LLBSLS, 2 Derkins, 4 RLBSLS, 2 Irkins

Core Work:  Fire Hydrant x 20 IC; Parker Peter x 20 IC; Crunchy Frog x 10 IC; Peter Parker x 25 IC; Plank Walk x 20 IC

Burpees for Linus

We moseyed back to the great lawn and threw in 20 burpees at the buzzer.

COT

We wrapped it up with our longest name-rama ever as we welcomed 5 FNGS.  Welcome Chowdah, Spike, Wipe-out, Apples.  Then Ocho took us out with a very well spoken prayer.

Moleskin

  • Thanks to all the men of F3 Nation that helped launch this thing: OBT, Merlin, Chong-Li, Bobby McGhee, Sir Toppam Hat, and all the others.  I know it’s made a difference in my life as well as many others in the New Orleans area.
  • 5 men from the original group of 15 in 2014 were in attendance:  Reluctant Yankee, Roots, Triple Shift, Channel Mullet, and Hawgcycle
  • 5 FNGs – T-claps to the pax for the EHs.
  • Great to see the all of Kotters.
  • T-Claps to F3 Northshore for coming across the lake.
  • T-Claps to the Uptowners for finding their way to City Park.
  • T-Claps to Worms for coming in from Baton Rouge.  Look out Baton Rouge – we are coming.
  • T-Claps to Amnesty for opening his house for Coffeeteria.
  • T-Claps to Shorty for introducing me to the greasiest donuts I’ve ever had.  They are awesome.
  • The Red Hot Chili Pepper was a shout out to the Chong-Li Special from our very first workout.  It made a lasting impression and has been repeated several time in NOLA.  For the original, Chong-Li held it under the 610 Overpass on tables covered in bird crap.  That started a tradition of North Carolina guys coming to New Orleans and picking strange places to hold exercises.  OBT circled us up in the middle of the street (right next to a really large green space) and DREDD got us kicked out of the Sculpture Park.  As far as I know, those are the only three times those spots have been used for an F3 NOLA workout.  It’s also led to the widespread belief that men in North Carolina workout in parking lots next to beautiful parks.