F3 New Orleans

Author: Hawgcycle

  • Looking for Amnesty

    8 Q-less PAX arrived at #RockCity in the frigid (relative term) gloom looking to lift something heavy.  I wonder if the temperature was any warmer down south where our skinny-armed brethren were congregating.  At 0530 YHC asked if anyone knew where the Q was to learn that he had decide to rest, apparently planning to skip the workout he is supposed to Q in favor of some workouts later in the week.  #LetsNotLetHimForgetAboutThisOne.  After YHC stumbled through the disclaimer it was off to the rock pile.

    The Thang

    We circled up near our workout partners for the warm-up COP all IC:  SSH x 30; Hillbillies x 30 (insert obligatory joke about my Sr. Prom); Arm Circles x 30; Merkins x 15; Toe Raises x 30; Squats x 15.

    Time to select your workout partner, aka rock.   YHC decided to not provide any friendly advice to the FNG – some lessons are best learned through experience.

    Mosey to the flag football field for a Rock COP all IC:  Shoulder Press x 15; Toe Raises x 40; Curls x 15; Squats x 15; Rows x 15

    We then lined up facing the far fence ( 75 yards?) for a variation of Lt. Dan.  2 lunges followed by 1 squat, then 4 lunges followed by 2 squats, 6 lunges and 3 squats, etc. etc. and so forth until you reach the fence.  YHC almost got to 16 lunges.  Tool and I recognized that Shorty seemed to be benefiting from his abnormally long stride.  I am going to put his over/under at 12 lunges.  Feel free to place your bets in the comments.

    Next up was Lt. Dan’s cousin the Rockin’ Jack Webb:  1 merkin with hands on rock followed by one overhead rock press, then 2 merkins and 2 presses, etc., etc., and so forth.  We made it to 7 before YHC got totally smoked.

    Grab the rocks and mosey to the Kaboom playground where we partnered up into 4 groups and completed 2 sets of the following

    • Group 1:  Pull-ups x AMRAP
    • Group 2:  Squats con roca x AMRAP
    • Group 3:  Curls con roca x AMRAP
    • Group 4:  Rock burpees (Rockees?) x 5 (this was the count for everyone)

    Grab the rock in front of you (Heisenberg got the raw end of this deal as he got stuck with Gibraltar) and return it to its home.

    Finish with 6 minutes of Mary:  Regular Plank; Elbow Plank; Pickle Pounders x 15; LBC IC x 30; Dying Cockroach IC x 30; Superman to Boat x 2.5

    Horses to the stable back to the flag.

    Shout Out

    YHC led the shout out praising God for the weather, the park, and a group of men to workout with.  Prayed for increased strength and compassion.

    Naked Man Molekskin

    The title to the backblast is a pun poking fun of our missing Q, but it does hint at a much more serious problem in our world.  The situation in Syria and Iraq is grave and needs our attention and prayer.  The decisions that countries must make in regards to the millions of refugees are not simple.  Let’s pray that world leaders make the right decisions.  Let’s pray that God moves us to look upon those seeking refuge with love and compassion.  What is happening in Iraq and Syria is genocide.  Christians are being killed for their faith.  Peaceful Muslims are are also being murdered.  I follow the band Rend Collective on twitter and they tweeted the following quote that I think is important to consider if you are a Christian:  “Safety is not our number one priority : it is to follow the dangerous, wild, gospel with a cross on our backs. Settle for nothing less.”  If you are a Christian, you have an opportunity to exercise your faith in this crisis.  Will we deny Christ in our decision making, or will we take up our cross and follow Him?”

     

  • You Don’t Have to Move that Mountain

    “You don’t have to move that mountain, Just help me Lord to climb it.” – Nickel Creek

    12 men men met in a perfect gloom for a Wolfpack Mountain Triple Shot.  We were blessed with a guest from Carolina, and to his credit I didn’t hear him mention the Panthers one time – T-Claps for that.  I didn’t ask, but I think he may also be a world-champion crab walker. #FasterThanJameis

    This was my first time to Q a Friday workout.  We gathered around the flag for the disclaimer and we’re off.

    The Thang

    I wanted to prove that I was my own man, so we skipped the normal meandering mosey and headed straight for Touchdown Jesus (watch for cars).  We lined up by the LOYOLA sign fka the YOLO sign for the warm-up LOP.

    All exercises were ran between the LOYOLA sign and TD Jesus (about 35 yards?) – High knees, Butt Kicks, Karaoke (down and back), Bear Crawl, Crawl Bear, Jameis Winston, Winston Jamies.

    Observations:  1) The dewey (not Douille) wet ground was surprisingly cold.  2) Wild Turkey has to be the fastest Bear Crawl / Crab Walker we have ever seen ’round these parts.  I am going to check out some Area 51 backblasts and see if they just do Ark Loaders for 45 minutes.

    Humbled by the Wild Animal from Carolina YHC led the PAX to Wolfpack Mountain.

    YHC chose to do 15s up the mountain instead of 11s.  After realizing the Ole Miss grads were not in attendance I skipped the in-depth explanation of the arithmetic involved (Arkansas – 49th in Education, 1st in your hearts).

    Start with 5 burpees on the south side and 10 donkey kicks on the north side as you run up the mountain increase the burpees and decrease the donkey kicks by one.  I think we ended up with a total of 45 burpees and 40 Donkey Kicks, but take that with a grain of salt (see previous mention about Arkansas being 49th in education).

    Down the stairs.  T-claps to the Loyola campus maintenance department for cleaning up the urine and ice cream.

    We gathered at the foot of the mountain for a Dirty McDuece climb:

    •  Up the first incline and then gather for the COP (everything is IC x 12):  Merkins, Squats, Hello Dolly
    • Up two levels and then: Left Hand Stagger Merks, Lunges, Flutter Kicks
    • Up two levels and then: RH Stagger Merks, Toe Raises, Putins
    • Up two more levels to the top:  Abe Lincolns, Beyonces, Freddie Mercurys (these went particularly well with my mustache).

    Back down the stairs.  At this point we had 6 minutes left, so we went for the trifecta

    Mosey to the outer stairwell and run up one at a time.  YHC went all wedding coordinator like and made the PAX space out.  Cross the top floor of the parking garage and run down the inner stair well.  At this point we moseyed back to the flag just making it in time.

    Naked Man Moleskin

    T-Claps for this PAX and their record-setting performance on Wolfpack Mountain.  Hopefully the record doesn’t stand for very long….I know I am perseverating on this, but I can’t get over how fast Wild Turkey can crab walk.  This is the gold standard to which the NOLA PAX must aim to acheive…Full Disclosure – I think the quote at the beginning of this BB was actually written by Trisha Yearwood, but I thought it sounded cooler to attribute it to Nickel Creek who remade the song.  If you’ve read this much of the backblast your realize that I’m not cool so I’ll be honest – I do love me some Trisha Yearwood… Continued prayers for RY and Agassi’s aunt…T-claps to Wild Turkey for leading us in a great prayer.

     

     

  • Cool Hands

    6 men finally enjoyed some cool temperatures in the Metairie gloom.  I wander if it was as cool down south where our Audubon brethren met this morning.  Marlin biked in hot, YHC gave the disclaimer and we headed off toward the rock pile

    We enjoyed a quick warm-up COP prior to selecting our rocks.  SSH x 30; Windmills x 15; Mountain Climber x 30; IW IC x 30; Jack Webb to 10  (Yeah that’s right.  We did Jack Webb in the warm-up)

    Time to select our rocks.  YHC let the pax know that running with the rock would be minimal, so they could feel free to go a little bigger than usual.  With the perfect rock in hand we completed a Rock COP:  Squat Presses IC x 10; Back Rows IC x 15; Bench Press IC x 20; Squat Presses IC x 10; Deadlifts x 20; Toe Raises IC x 30; Repeat entire set

    Next we set aside our rocks and hit the track, running to the far side playground (about 1/2 mile).  T-claps to Marlin for killing it. Once we got there we divided up into 2 groups.  One group does pull-ups while the other group had the count with the prescribed exercise:  Set 1 = 20 squats, flapjack; Set 2 = 15 Merkins, flapjack; Set 3 = 10 burpees, flapjack

    We hit the track again to complete the loop and rejoin our rocks (another 1/2 mile).  T-claps to Shorty for killing it.  It was time for a little Boss Keane’s rock pile #crowdpleaser.  It’s impossible to put into words, so if you don’t know what it is, you’ll have to come out to #RockCity and experience it (or watch Cool Hand Luke and try to imagine what it could be).  We moved the rock pile 6 times.

    We returned our rocks and ran horses to the stable back to the flag.  T-claps to Tool for being the lead stallion.

    Reminders about this week’s workouts, t-shirt orders open until 11/20 and opportunity to grow your stache and/or donate to http://mobro.co/f3nola

    Shout out emphasizing living Third – putting our creator first and community second, as well as prayers for family members.

    Thanks for supporting RockCity.  We are building something great.

    -Hawg

  • Get Me Off This Crazy Train

    Today was an anniversary of sorts for YHC.  It was one year ago tomorrow that I Qed my first workout.  It is the 50th time I have Qed this year, which was the inspiration for the workout.  You’d think I would be better at it by now.  In Freed to Lead Dredd said he got good at leading PT after about 10,000 times, so only 99,950 to go.

    This one seems to have been an all-time low.  As I pulled up to see several normal looking men gathered around the shovel flag, YHC began to think the costume I was wearing was a very bad idea.  It doesn’t appear that F3 is something that you should wear a costume to, even if it is Halloween and even if you are in New Orleans.  Well, it is far from my first bad idea, and is certainly not my last.

    #T-claps to Side Effects for stepping up and translating the disclaimer for the PAX since my celebrity impersonation was only good in that it was unintelligible.

     The Thang

    • Mosey to the Great Lawn for the Warm-up COP
    • Warm-up COP: SSH (It’s just a bloody jumping jack) IC x 50; LBC IC x 50; Big Arse Arm Circles IC (Forward x 25 and Backwards x 25); Toe Raises IC x 50; Imperial Walkers x 50; 10 Burpees in 1 minute OYO x 5
    • Lunge Walk 25 each leg; Spiderman walk x 25; Lunge Walk 25 each leg; Spiderman walk x 25
    • Mosey NOMA Fountain
    • Low Slow Dips IC x 25 – 15 – 10; Right Leg Step Up IC x 25; Left Leg Step Up IC x 25; Decline Merkin OYO 25 – 15 – 10
    • Mosey to Roosevelt Mall
    • Planks – Each hold 50 seconds: Elbows, Right Arm, Left Arm, Inverted
    • Mosey to CBS Football Field
    • Bear Crawl 50 yards, Forward Jameis Winston 25 yards, Arears Jameis Winston 25 yards, Crawl Bear 25 yards, breathe, Crawl Bear 25 yeards
    • Mosey to the pavilion by the lady bug
    • Flutter Kicks IC x 25 – 15 – 10.
    • Mosey to the flag

    Moleskin

    A lot of #mumblechatter going on this morning in addition to my impersonation.  YHC’s verbal description of an IW, elicited lots of comments and laughter.  Not sure exactly what I said, but it didn’t make sense and it made Vader Jingle.  A few of the other  quotes included “This is still the warm-up?” “50 burpees sounds like a great way to warm-up,” “I just want to know WHY,” “You’re an a$$hole.” “You should have spent more time on the workout and less on the costume,” “Very original” (as we did low slow dips for the third time), “I can’t wait to get off of this crazy train,” “which would you rather have Crabs or Bunions?”

    Shout out

    Prayers go out friends and family facing cancer, Goose’s son’s upcoming surgery, Honeybees Mom’s tinnitus, and a successful Down Syndrome Walk.

    Great turnout today.  Let’s keep the momentum going, keep taking advantage of the opportunities before us, and make something great.

     Announcements

    New workout this Monday at Audubon in addition to the Monday workout at Pontiff.

    -Hawgcycle

  • 610 Stomp #10 – The Force Awakens

    I am not the sharpest tool in the shed.  I walked out of my house and realized I had left my truck at my M’s office about a half-mile away.  I grabbed the bike and started out – train.  Anyway, YHC got there a couple of minutes late, but the pax was still there, probably expecting me to be cutting it close.  5 other Stompers were waiting, 4 members of the regular krewe and Jingle Vader, fka Jazzy, ready for his inaugural 610 stomp.

    The Thang

    4.5 miles with burpees oyo every 6 minutes. Shorty and SFX set the pace and YHC never saw them again after the first set of burpees.  Tool provided the conversation I needed to forget about my aching feet. The usual 90 mph fly by on Filmore was performed by some sort of Sedan today.  The 4-Runner must be in the shop.  SFX was kind enough to come back and find YHC and run with me for my last quarter mile.  Everyone did 10 burpees to finish The Thang off.

    COT

    Some talk about the eventful #RockCity workout yesterday and planning for the 20,000 tomatoes coming to watch us workout on Saturday for our 1-year anniversary convergence.  We are also looking forward to the new Monday workout at the Birdcage AO.  #RockCity has gotten so big we have to split it – only room for three people on the pull up bars.

    We prayed for a friend with Cancer and for our children and wives.

    Thanks,

    Hawg.

     

  • A Celebration of the Saints

    4 men met to bask in the glorious gloom to work out the adrenaline from a night of celebration.  T-Claps to Bubba for keeping his word and showing up for his first Rock City workout.

    Mosey to the Rock Pile for the warm up COP: SSH IC x 20; Imperial Walkers IC x 20; Windmills IC x 20; Big Ass Arm Circles IC (Forward  x 20 and Backward x 20)

    The Thang

    • 100 Shoulder Presses con roca
    • 100 Squats con roca
    • Flutter Kicks IC x 20; Hello Dolly IC x 20; Fred Mercury IC x 20; LBC IC x 30; LBT IC x 30; Putin IC x 20
    • 30 burpees
    • 0.8 mile run
    • 40 pull-ups
    • 160 Merkins
    • 160 Squats

     Moleskin

    Yankee told me he doesn’t get anything out of arm circles, so I tried to go Tony Horton on him in order for him to feel it.  T-Claps to Jingle Vader, formerly known as Jazzy.  The man is a burpee machine.  YHC could not come close to keeping up with him on the set of 30 burpees.  BTW, 30 burpees suck.

    Shout Out

    Prayers for those families affected by the flooding in South Carolina.  Be in prayer for them, specifically asking how we can be the hands and feet of Christ for those in need.

  • Penance for the Saints

    3 men met in the post Saints apocalyptical gloom to work out their frustrations

    Mosey to the Rock Pile for the warm up COP:  Imperial Walkers IC x 30; Good Morning IC x 10; Forward Arm Circles IC x 20;  Backward Arm Circles IC x 20; Toe Raises x 30; Windmills IC x 15;

    The Thang

    • 100 Shoulder Presses con roca
    • 100 Squats con roca
    • 200 LBCs
    • 1 mile run
    • 50 pull-ups
    • 150 Merkins
    • 150 Squats

     Moleskin

    It’s always better to have 8-10 for the Pontiff workouts, but this worked out well with only 3.  We were able to stay together through the exercise and did many of them in cadence.  I think that helped us get through them.  We realized that there is the opportunity for one of us to attend an F3 workout everyday this week.

    Shout Out

    Continued prayers for Rev and Yeungling on their move along with other intentions.

    Announcements

    • Tue Sept 22ndCity Park 530 AM with Amnesty
    • Wed Sept 23rdAudubon @ Magazine 530AM Reveille last Q *Come celebrate it in pain
    • Thur Sept 24thCSAUP  **Night time workout on the levee across from Cooter Browns.  DJ style**This is a F2 activity – farewell party for Yeungling and Reveille
    • Fri Sept 25thAudubon @  St Charles 530AM Agassi/RY
    • Sat Sept 26thCity Park 630AM  Tool’s City Park History Lesson Part 2
    • Mon Sept 28thPontiff 530AM w/Maverick

  • Way Late

    The Thang

    • Mosey to the Rock Pile for the warm up COP: SSH IC x 30; Imperial Walkers IC x 25; Windmills IC x 15; Forward Arm Circles IC x 20;  Backward Arm Circles IC x 20;
    • Select a rock and mosey back toward the flag
    • Boss Keane’s Rock Pile – Added a twist – last man throws the rock over the fence. We alternated being the last man – 5 sets.
    • Mosey to Pavillion #2.
    • Red Hot Chili Pepper: Right Leg Step up con roca x 16; Decline Merkin x 8; Left Leg Step Up con roca x 16; Incline Merkin x 8; Right Leg Step up con roca x 8; Decline Merkin x 4; Left Leg Step Up con roca x 8; Incline Merkin x 4
    • Mosey to the Playground
    • Stations = Pull-ups x 5, Shoulder Press x 10, and Squats x 15.  2 sets
    • Mosey back to the flag for 6MOM – I don’t remember what we did, but I know it was awesome.
    • Mosey back to the rock pile to return the rock
    • Horses to the stable back to the flag

    Moleskin

    My eyes were definitely bigger than my arms this morning.  I selected a rock that I had no business selecting.  I really felt it during the Red Hot Chili Pepper.

  • 610 Stomp #5

    7 men ready to run and burpee.

    The Thang

    4.55 mile loop around city park (according to map my run).  Stop every 6 minutes to do burpees and/or walk for 1 minute.  Rinse and repeat until completing the course.  Each man modifies the workout on his own with the number of burpees he does.

    Moleskin

    I knew I was going to take a lot of heat for the name we gave the FNG.  I am so tired after these burpee fests that I can’t add two digit numbers, much less come up with anything creative.  We ended up on “The Dentist” as a reference to his javelin throwing in college – a reference to Walter Palmer the Minnesota dentist that killed Cecil the Lion.  I’ll leave it up to the comments section for us to come up with another name.  Here are some things to use

    • Went to the University of Alabama
    • Threw the Javelin in college
    • Last name is Stone
    • Currently in Med School

    I’m going to stop trying with the names and we’ll see if that works better.

  • 610 Stomp #3

    Amnesty was shocked to see me sitting by the water fountain as he slow-moseyed with the flag.  I’m not known for arriving early.

    The Thang

    4.64 mile loop around city park (according to map my run).  Stop every 6 minutes to do burpees and/or walk for 1 minute.  Rinse and repeat until completing the course.  Each man modifies the workout on his own with the number of burpees he does.  A few did 10, one did 15, one started with 15 and decreased, some did 5, some did none, etc.

    Moleskin

    Great improvements in our 3rd 610 Stomp.  The fastest time at the inaugural 610 stomp was around 48 minutes.  Everyone finished faster than that this time.  #GettingStronger.  Mr. Awesome would have been even faster if he hadn’t had so many interruptions.  There was talk of changing his name to Double Deuce.

    Shout Out

    We prayed for the family of Dr. Keith Collins and our community as it deals with his loss.  We prayed for Side Effects and his wife along with Mr. Awesome and his wife as they adjust to having a newborn in the house.  Give them the strength and energy they need.    YHC shared the verse John 14:6 – “Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me.”  What a privilege we have in Jesus our High Priest.  Let’s exercise our privilege.