The Fight Club: Round One

After a false start a few years ago, F3 is back in Kenner! The Fight Club is on!

 

YHC hated F3 when Hawg and Channel Mullet dragged him to his first F3 workout last October. YHC hated F3 when he continued to workout at the Birdcage as he was unable to finish any of the exercises. A few weeks later, YHC’s opinion of F3 slowly changed from one of hate to tolerate to love. YHC knew F3 was getting into his blood when he would drive by the boxing statues in Kenner and think, “that would be the coolest place to lead an F3 workout. We could run up the steps, take the long run up the ramp on the levee, and we could run to the park nearby for some suicides. Maybe we can incorporate some of the drift wood into a workout?” So here we are six months later with the launch of the Fight Club at LaSalle Landing in Kenner. The home to the first ever World Heavyweight Boxing Championship match, and now F3NOLA.  8 men came out and endured the rain and wind of Tropical Storm Gordon to workout in the gloom.

 

The Warm-Up

We moseyed over to the Rivertown area with plans to workout by the picnic benches following the warm-up. (Note to self, they lock up the Rivertown area at night). We circled in the parking lot outside of the area for a standard F3 warm-up.

SSH -20

Peter Parkers – 20

IW – 20

Plank jacks – 15

Arm Circles – 20

Annies – 20

 

Double Dip

We moseyed back to the levee to continue the Fight Club. YHC planned on doing the next workout at Rivertown picnic benches, but since the Fight Club is the best site ever for F3, he was not deterred. We took care of the decline merkins and dips near the statues.

15 – decline merkins

20 – dips

 

The Rocky

We split up into 2 groups of 4, one group at each set of stairs. We ran up the steps like Rocky and at the top, we raised our hands in a jumping celebration (5 burpees). We ran back to the bottom of the hill and back up for more celebrating (4 burpees). Continue up and down until we reach one small burpee celebration.

 

Dora

YHC thought Dora was a must for any F3 launch as it is the ideal F3 exercise in his humble opinion. Do more reps of 3 workouts than you ever thought you could with help from an F3 brother and it has a stupid cartoon name (Dora sums up what F3 workouts are all about). While one pax did the rep, the other ran the long way up and down the levee (over to the police station and up the long ramp on the levee). Props to Jingle Vader for tapping into the Dark Side when he took a nasty stumble and was still the first to complete the Dora with a little help from Amnesia.

100 merkins

200 jump squats

300 American hammers

 

Mary

Wife Pleasers – 20

Flutterkicks – 15

Dying Cockroach – 20

Penguins – 20

O Dolly – 15

LBCs – 20

Nolan Ryan – 20

 

Depature

Counted off, name-o-rama, and we named our new FNG. Welcome Nick Hybart the next time you workout at the Fight Club, and call him “The Gremlin.” The only announcement was a call to travel to Mobile on the 22nd to help with the start of F3 in Alabama. Thanks for showing up men to help bring F3 to Kenner, praying that God will use 45 minutes in the morning on Wednesdays to help the men in our community be better leaders, husbands, and fathers for His glory.

 

RevSox