F3 New Orleans

Author: MegaDad

  • Case of the Monday’s

    AO: The Knoll

    Pax: 3

    Shangeaux, Snack Pack & yours truly (MegaDad)

    The Scene:

    No clouds, lot of heat from that ball of fire in the sky.  Luckily a cooling breeze picked up at the end.  Enjoy it while we can because real summer doesn’t know cool breezes.

    The Thang:

    Snack Pack was ripping out pull ups before we even started.  His punishment was lots of sprints, incline mercin and al gores until Shangeaux moseyed on up.  We were very warmed up by then.

    Since I’m a lazy Q I’ve been winging workouts. To date, no one hurt and everyone exhausted at the end.  Nothing to shout about, but that ain’t my goal every week.

    We did SSH, mosey both sides (L/R) + karaoke ad backwards.  Then to the sundial for SSH, burpees 2 ways (on ground then on the concrete wall/step) x20.  Couldn’t breathe so  Mosey to hill for up/downs on Q call.  Less breath after so slow mosey to shade for early Mary’s (bench leg throws x15).  Wall squat round robin 60 count and 20 rounds of calf raises.  40 Rep side squats and the 30 rep American hammer.

    Gettin desperate for ideas at this point but Snack Pack was finally tired enough to stop talking about all the awesome workouts the Houston guys brought.

    Jane Fonda side push ups x 12 each side

    real Jane Fonda 3 ways for the fans

    next was Jacobs ladder (aka suicides) on side walk going 10 expansion joints.  Older Asian walker guy made this a riot as he ran through us acting goofy.  Need to get an EHL on him.

    Finished with Snack Pack crunchy frog, Shangeaux legs to the sky (or at least a few inches off the ground) and MegaDad 6” montage before attempting a silly figure 8 soccer mosey back to home base.  We looked like idiots….but very hard working idiots.

    Circle of Trust and prayer for all those hurting around the country.

    PS Shangeaux is still exercising in a sweatshirt.  He’s going to be 90 pounds by mid summer if he can keep from spontaneously combusting

     

     

     

     

     

  • It takes 2 to Shangeaux

    AO: The knoll

    Date: 5/14

    Pax: 2 (MegaDad and Shangeaux)

    The Thang:

    We started with a 10mile Mosey to the coliseum. Shangeaux wasn’t tired so we did bear crawls up and down every bleacher in the stadium. Next we did 10 upside down climbs up the rock climbing wall.

    150 Decline merkins

    450 front straddle jumps (think SSH on steroids)

    150 Incline Merkins with skateboarders standing on our backs.

    35 min of Mary. We just held 6” off the ground while letting kids jump on our abs.

     

    Honestly, gents, it was a blur. We did a good bit of mosey at jog pace. Stopped a few times for Merkins, side straddle hop, lunges up and down the steps for a while, more mosey and then some time on the bars. Side arm pull ups x25, lay back pull ups x10, incline Merlin’s x10, step ups x20.

    Mosey to bench for al gore, leg throw abs and some other fun stuff.  Next a long mosey trying to stay in the shade.  Made for a zig zag run, but fun.  Next some lunges and something else (provable tough)

    Final push was 80% run across 1/2 park to bench, 1 burpee and 10 count rest the full sprint to the flag. We had lots of interested eyes watching me and Shangeaux sprint all out. Must have looked like the last 50 yards of the Shaw shank redemption escape. FREEDOM!

    I will say, we did some serious man bonding while still whipping ourselves into shape. Shangeaux deserves double respect for committing 100% (there’s no such thing as more) the whole time. He didn’t slack off at all and he was humoring me with all sorts of conversation.  All the while, he was wearing a long sleeve sweatshirt.  Maybe reminisce of wrestling days?  He must have lost 5 pounds.

    At the end we relaxed on the splash pad to make Worms jealous. Moneycat didn’t show up with Shark suits so we pretended to be beached whales.

    Truly ended with the line of trust (2 can’t make a circle) and a good prayer.  After all, when 2 are gathered in his name, Jesus is there.  I felt his presence.  Thanks Alex!

     

  • Gettysburg

    Bill, it was hard but I did find a pic from this morning.

    By: MegaDad

    The Scene:  The  Colosseum

    Conditions:  perfect. Moonlight and light fog

    Pax: 10!

    Me

    Cat 5

    Workhorse

    Tapanga

    Fastball

    Big easy

    Duracell

    Shangeaux

    Dagwood 

    MegaDad

    It was another random fluke that I was able to post on Wednesday. Maybe divine intervention, as worms reached out to me through email yesterday and that reminded me that I was working from home and could sneak away for 1hr

    I volunteered to lead, to get back in the swing of things.

    It was not planned, so I’m going to do a haphazard attempt to document what we did

    Mosey under the bridge and over to the foggy field. Tapanga pointed out that we had entered the Gettysburg scene of remember the titans. We stopped at ~3 park benches for various Merkin rotations, jump squats, SS hops,  pistol squats, etc

    We turned around next to the bayou behind Pennington. After enjoying the moonlight remove seat all the way back doing some front, sideways, backwards,  karaoke right and left, and repeat all of those while squatting.   Finished with a slow sprint to the bridge, running back to meet the six if you were fast enough. Few were by this point.   Actually, it’s probably because shangeaux and work horse are the fastest 6’s of ever seen

    We did lunges to the top of the hill then mosey to the circle in the back corner behind baseball fields. Duracell took my challenge to lead a long ring of fire. I wasn’t sure if he was ever going to stop, so I killed it finally.

    Mosey back to home point and finished with some Mary’s. Leg toss on the bench, then again at 45°.  Cat5  was, by far, the best counter.  Although, easier to count when your legs are swinging around.  Next was crunchy frogs on the table top and then CAT5 finished with a bang. I shout out to rocket. Jane Fonda on the table top. I’m sure someone  got a picture,  look for it on the onion or  Jimmy Fallon.

    Best of all, all the conversation between men. I’ve never seen that much during the work out. It was still tough, but these men are getting tougher