Author: Chewy

  • The return of the Green mile

    7 pax met up at the lakefront this morning for a semi muggy workout.
    Nice to see the Green mile back out in the mix.
    The thang:
    Mosey east towards the playground:
    Warmup:
    SSH x 20 IC
    IW x 20 IC
    New exercise (Pedro’s?): which included single leg stance with contralateral trunk rotation, kind of like a pitching motion with no wind up x 10 IC
    Merkins x 20 IC
    Sudden change!
    Mosey to playground with: butt kicks, high knees, karaoke, back pedal and bounding.
    Circle up at playground for super 21’s: ascending count of merkins to supermans from 1-21 well over 300 merkins,of which turbo tax a green mile seemed to complete #respect.
    Quick 10 count and lunge walk to the lake.
    Catch me if you can x 3 laps around the playground with partner 1 doing 5 burpees and leapfrogging over partner 2
    Lunge walk/reverse lunge walk to street.
    Begin green mile back to shovel flag with 10 my climbers IC at each fire hydrant.
    Abbreviated Mary with:
    Quadruped bird dogs x 10 each side
    X 20 flutter and Russian twist

  • Abita Springs Trailhead…Take 2

    YHC apologizes, again for the tardiness of the back blast, it is now getting done after catching up on over 40 back logged backblasts due for Medicare reimbursement.
    3 pax – met last thursday morning at 5:15…ish for a major beat down, or may be just a minor one with some corrective exercises sprinkled in to help improve posture and hip stability, so we can continue to endure future beat downs.
    Anyway, the thang:
    Warm up lap around the playground followed by dynamic warm-up/stretches: including high knees, power skips for height and again for distance, bounding, lunge with trunk twist, and quad stretch walk, with probably a set of merkins or two here or there. It has been almost a week, so YHC can’t remember all the details

    Pearl one: clam shells with band in sidelying position 2 x 20 B sides in slow cadence to burn out the external rotators of the hips (great for all the desk jockeys out there who sit on the outstretched bums all day)
    Partner up:
    partner one ~ Farmer’s walk (or EiEi in this case) carrying 45# dumbells in each hand x approximately 40 yds out and back
    Partner deuce ~ kettle bell swing with 15 # DB x 20 + 10 merkins
    Partner 3 ~ “No Money” (Bilateral shoulder external rotation with scapular retraction using resistance from a blue theraband) x 20 + 10 merkins; again this one is great for the desk jockeys hunched over a computer screen all day like Quasimodo

    Pearl Deuce: one lap around play ground followed by partner up exercise:
    P1 ~ vaults over bike rack x 20 flip with P2
    P2 ~ toes to Bar kipping exercise x 10…ish, flip with P2
    P3 ~ sprint lap around track
    rinse and repeat 2 sets

    Pearl 3: Single leg mini squats x 20 Both sides, single leg toe taps with opposite leg 3 x 10
    COM … ab exercises, YHC is now suffering from CRS syndrome, and promises from here on out to have the backblasts completed in a more timely manner after his next Q, which will be saturday at the lakefront.

    Come one out to the new F3 northshore workout, on thursday mornings it is a great AO.

    Chewy

  • A snot woggle

    5 pax arose up bright and early out of the fartsacks on a muggy Saturday morning.
    3 minutes in to the warm-up there was some mumble chatter about the workout being too easy. This led yhc to do his best to smoke the pax with an epic beat down aka a snot woggle. This plan seemed successful for everyone except turbo tax. He may or may not be one of those Jason borne type superhuman spies bred by the federal government. He did spend some time in DC, and who knows, tax law could just be a good cover.

    Anyway, the thang:
    Dynamic warm up:
    Walking quad stretch x 20 yes
    Walking figure 4 x 20 yds
    Frankenstein x 20 yds
    Side straddle shuffle x 20 yds
    High knees x 20 yds

    Warm up:
    SSH x 50, yes 50, in cadence
    Mt climbers x 40 IC
    Slow squats x 30 IC
    V-ups x 20 IC
    Merkins x 10 IC

    Mosey to fountain
    Hip abductor walk with bands x 30 yds
    Plank walk x 10 with bands both directions
    Hip abductor walk with band x 30 yds
    Plank with band around hands: star pulls to work shoulders x 3 directions x 10 B sides

    10 count rest

    And partner up for plank sprints;
    Partner 1 planks while partner 2 sprints 75 yds and assumes plank position leap frog back and forth x 10

    10 count rest

    Mosey to swing set:

    Partner 1 x 10 lat pulls on swing IC
    Partner 2 x 10 merkins IC
    Rinse and repeat x 5

    Mosey to shady spot, not shovel flag, for 10-12 Minutes of Mary:
    LBC’s x 20 IC
    Freddie Mercury x 10 IC
    Slow Freddy x 20 IC
    Jane Fonda x 10 IC
    Jane Fonda pulses x 10 IC
    Prone T’s x 10 IC
    Bow pose pulses x 10 IC
    Runners pose squats x 10 each side
    Cross body lunge with reach x 10
    Sudden change!

    COT, nameorama, coffeteria

    Tclaps to EI and his wife for recovering the shovel flag later that day which was left at the scene of the woggle

  • Better late…or never

    My apologies , this BB is so very late, almost to the point I thought about not doing it. But YHC wanted to make sure the Pax on the south shore knows that F3 Northshore is still going strong with a small but faithful and committed crew, and your efforts to help get us launched were not in vain.

    The thang: met at shovel flag: ran eastItoward playground stopped half way for extended warm up/COP:
    SSH x 30 IC
    IW x 30 IC
    Slooow Squats x 30 IC
    Merkins x 15 IC
    Scorpion kicks x 15 IC
    I, Y, T progression x 15 each IC
    Burpees x 5
    Sumo Squats x 20 IC
    Calf raises in squat position x 20 IC
    single leg pulses x 30 IC each leg
    Merkins x 15 IC
    Sidelying leg raises (jane fondas) x 30 IC each leg
    Side plank x 30 sec each side

    Run to play ground: plank and wait
    Partner up:
    partner 1 run lap around playground/partner 2: 10 merks/20 reverse lunges rinse and repeat x 3 reps
    mosey to swings:
    partner 1 lat pulls on swing x 20/partner 2: plank walk across field.

    Green Mile run back to shovel flag: 10 merkins at each fire hydrant

    COM: flutter kicks, bicycles, dollies x 30 IC

    COT.

  • Hello my name is Chris

    9 pax 44% happened to have the hospital name of “Chris” showed up at the lakefront on Saturday and were treated to the northshore’s first running of the green mile. Brought to you by none other than the green mile himself…
    Run/sprint to 1st 3 fire hydrant and perform 20 mt climbers in cadence in cadence and run back stopping at every bench for 20 derkins OYO x 20 rinse and repeat x 3 sets.
    Indian run from shovel flag to gazebo…
    Ark loader from sea wall to waking path (25-30 yds): bear crawls, crab walk, boo boo bears, burpee broad jumps, inch worm, an stop motion lunges… YHC ran out of animals to Load onto the arc

    Sudden change, thanks Reluctant Yankee!

    Mosey to sea wall: jumping lunges alternated with dips x 8 reps IC
    Descending down to 1 rep

    All horses to the barn to shovel flag

    tclaps to green mile for his v-Q
    Tclaps to FNGs plunger and tsssssss for making it out on the first Saturday

  • Slappin’ da bass mon

    After successfully EH’ing an FNG, EI decided to call an audible and stay in the fart sack due to an unexpected late night of work.
    4 pax showed up for a beard own in the gloom.

    The thang:
    Warm up 2 laps around the trailhead: followed by
    SSH x 20 IC
    imperial walkers x 20 IC
    Merkins x 20 IC
    Slow squats x 20 IC

    Mosey to stage:
    Lumbar extension x 20 IC with partner stabilization
    Jacobs ladder with bear crawls to the top of the “hill” x 8 reps

    Mosey to bar:
    Lat pulls and irkinis alternating sets IC starting with 8 reps and working to 1

    Mosey to tower: run up stairs with 5 burpees at top and 5 man makers at bottom repeat down to one

    COM: flutter, Freddie Mercuries, LBC, and Russian twist x 20 IC

    tclaps to toots and nacho for faithfully rising to the occasion every Tuesday morning. Toots is becoming a lean, mean, fighting machine.

    t claps to Sea Bass, FNG For making it out to the gloom

  • Earth, wind, and pull ups

    6 pax showed up in Saturday morning at the mandeville lakefront for a windy workout. The wind off the lake felt good on a muggy morning in May, probably won’t be the case come January.

    First official Saturday without training wheels or a clown car from the south shore, to help us Q. Nacho took the reigns to begin:

    Warm-up:
    SSH x 20 IC
    Butt kicks, high knees, arm circles, Frankenstein kicks all OYO
    Mosey to swing set: partner up for alternating sets of lat pulls and merkins x 10 x 4 sets
    Mosey
    Jack Webb: Nacho style; which includes a 1:3 ratio merkins to air press all the way to 10.
    Yhc, then took the reigns:

    Dirty mc deuce: run around the fountain: 12 pull ups, 12 sumo squats, 12 plank jacks rinse and repeat 4 times.
    Mosey about 10 feet, to climb Jacobs ladder:
    1 burpee sprint or jog fast, or just jog to sea wall for 1 single leg squat on each leg, climb the ladder to 7 and begin
    COM:
    LBC, Freddie Mercury x 20
    Heels to heaven, Putin twists x 10
    Flutter, dolly x 20 all IC
    Superman or as greenie put it, “handy man” x 30 sec

    Mosey to flag for COT
    And prayer.

    tclaps to Daniel son for his second appearance.
    T claps to turbo tax and green mile for cranking out 12 reps of pull ups like they are fresh out of BUDS training.

    Announcements: New workout at Covington trailhead Wednesday mornings at 6:00 am meet at
    The gipper, turbo tax is site Q

  • Steppin’ up at the trailhead

    6, count em, 6 men met early 5:15 am at the mandeville trailhead for the second weekday workout on the northshore. Although it would have been more, but lucky #7, Nacho, was at home playing mr. Mom.

    Warm up: 1 lap around AO to point out the stations
    Followed by:
    SSH x 20
    IW x 20
    Scorpion kicks x 10
    single knee to chest(SKTC) x 20

    Circuit training:
    Up/dn stairs w/ 1 burpee at the top each time x 5
    Run to the stage: x 10 merkins (good form)
    Run to the pavilion: alternating lunges x 20
    Run to the fire station: squats x 30
    Rinse and repeat 3 x

    COM:
    Double knee to chest/jack knife x 10, flutter kicks x 20, Freddie Mercury x 20, Russian twist x 10
    Mayweathers x 20

    Tclaps to Mike(yogi)fng for finally making it out after 4 consecutive weeks by getting EH’d by Nacho and YHC.
    Tclaps to Shwanks and crab legs for getting out of the fartsack to get fit, keep it up guys!
    Nacho will be doing his first Q next Tuesday, expect to run a little.
    EiEi and toots will Q the following Tuesdays.
    Nice job guys

  • Turtleheadin at the trailhead

    3 men met in the gloom for the launch of the northshore’s first weekday workout.

    Warm up:
    SSH x 20
    IW x 20
    Merkins x 10

    Catch me if you can trailhead to underpass with 5 merkins each time
    Through the tunnel of darkness

    Underpass (70 yd sprint) by Nacho’s estimation
    Jacob’s ladder up to 7 Burpees

    Fartlek back to the trailhead,
    Via a few wrong turns for an added 1/2 mile by EiEi’s estimation.

    Jailbreak (all out sprint)back to shovel flag last 1/4 mile by QIC estimation.

    Circle of Mary:
    SKTC x 10
    DKTC/jackknife x 10
    Freddie mercuries x 20
    Lower trunk rotation/LTR x 15
    Mayweathers x 10 alternating
    Scorpions/cobra Kai’s x 10
    Y,T,W,I progression x 12 each