F3 New Orleans

Author: Rudy

  • Beethoven and Burpees – from Pop-Tart

    Warm up
    SSH – 10 IC
    Imperial Walkers – 10 IC
    Arm Circles -10 IC
    Reverse Arm Circles – 10 IC
    Overhead claps
    Self love
    Grass Grabbers – 10 IC

    High Brow workout at the Renaissance this morning exploring Beethoven’s grit and genus.

    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/088Sk2PLdtaapKL9XpcGY8?si=gqAbqKrATxSgf0YpqqaIKw

    The 9
    Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies in his lifetime. These are know as “The 9″… along with the 1927 Yankees.

    Work:
    9 burpees every minute for 9 minutes

    The Fate Symphony — #5
    “These notes depict the hand of fate knocking on my door.” In it’s entirety the piece represents a battle between death and despair vs hope and life.

    Work:

    Dora
    Run / merkins – 100
    Run / lunges -200 1/1
    Run / American hammer – 300 2/1
    Dips / Rising merkins up the NOMA steps – accumulating count
    Dips / Scuba diver merkins down the NOMA steps – accumulating count

    Allies in WWII used Symphony #5 it as a Victory call, V in mores code is ( . . . — ) mimicking the first 4 notes of this piece. Ironically as Beethoven was German

    Work:
    Sunday Mornings x5

    ….I’m going to end with a quote that people attribute to Calvin Coolidge, but it’s really by Ray Kroc, one of the founders of McDonald’s: “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent….”

  • Rock City meets Margarita on the Rucks – from Triple Shift

    As 10 HIMs are preparing for the GrowRuck Alamo on April 9-11th, we had to put some work in with weights. As expected, the football field was wet with dew and the weather was unseasonably warm at 5:30 am. Here is the link to the explainer video!

    Those men at F3 Alamo are killing it with their high quality explainer videos and exercises! In short, it was a suck fest performing rock rows, rockees (burpee with rock), flutter kicks, brickyard man makers, squats and then out 50 yards and back and rinse and repeat for 45 minutes. We had to modify it since your QIC was the only one with a ruck. Anyway, truly humbled by the men that yielded themselves to my leadership this morning. Ended in a prayer of gratitude and request to be growing in our leadership.

  • Stretch it Out at Home – from Bird

    Seven strong posted for Scramble at 0515. A little cooler temps than expected this am as a result of the storm that rolled through Mandeville yestereve. Personally still adjusting to the time change and shaking the cobwebs off at the early hour is still a work in progress. Q arrived 0505 to find Ackbar stretching it out and getting loose. The rest of the PAX posting for the morning included: Shooter, Bushwacker, Zoolander, Waterpick (ran from his house wearing some crazy red, white, and blue getup) and Cowbell (rolling in hot as per usual).

    Q counted down watching the clock to get moving right at 0515 beginning with 10 counts, in cadence, of side straddle hops, toe touches, windmills, and torso twists. A ten count forward fold was sprinkled in to try and further loosen the hamstrings; however I recently read that there isn’t supposed to be any stretching in F3 – you’re supposed to do that at home! I guess that’s a bit like no crying in baseball? Keep stretching it out at home fellas, don’t wanna get too tight!

    The brief warm up with F3 exercises was followed by a “dynamic warmup” with a lunge walk with twist, t-walk, and ninja squats. PAX was commenting at YHC’s flexibility during the ninja squats, but little did they know that a muscle pulled during the process was concealed so as not to show any weakness prior to the beatdown.
    Typical route to sunset point was mixed up with 4x4s (burpee to plank, 4 merkins, and 4 mountain climbers). After starting with 3, PAX added 3 more each time passing the intersection at Monroe and Massena, finishing with 12 4X4s on the return trip. PAX mostly stayed together during the run, but regrouped after each round of 4x4s to begin again.

    Along the run, YHC and Bushwacker exchanged grateful observations of the night sky, clear and bright after the previous night’s washout. During the 4x4s, it was obvious that the after-effects of Shooter’s Building Blocks at the Gipper on Wednesday were taking their toll. As I’m writing this post-Saturday beatdown, YHC is amazed at the Ackbar’s dedication to the merkin. I had to pull out excel to calculate the Scramble merkins (120 if you didn’t already count), but that pales in comparison to the 500 PAX executed this am.

    PAX arrived back at City Hall with only a few minutes remaining and alas there wasn’t time for the Bruce Lee that Q had planned. Those arriving first dropped into a plank hold while waiting on the six. The rest of the PAX dropped into plank and alternated chill cut and high plank until 0600. COT, YHC prayed us out, and announcements. If you haven’t heard, next Saturday’s beatdown in at the Marsh!

  • We’re Caught in a Trap, and Can’t Walk Out… – from Akbar

    Because I love y’all too much baby.

    And so it began, the 2nd annual Merkin Trap on the lakefront. Last year around this time we did 400 Merkins, could it be topped? I think so.

    18 PAX converged at the Lakefront today (without Gnats!) to make ourselves better. It could have been an even 20 if TankedUp didn’t steel Bush and Steve for a OYO Marathon.

    Gloom Factor – overcast, chilly 47 degrees

    Warm up – Nada. It’s time to get to business

    THANG – multiple exercises, mosey’s, and a lot of Merkins with a surprise thrown in mid-way. Exercises were done IC, 12,8,5 (50 reps) and some OYO.

    Starting out at the shovel flag: SSH | Merkins IC 12,8,5

    Mosey to Rips for Calf Raises on the stairs | Dirkins on the curb. 12,8,5 IC

    Mosey to the wall: Step Ups OYO in sets of 12/8/5 | Irkins OYO 24, 16, 10

    Run 2 blocks to Jefferson, stop for 10 Merkins at Claiborne. Monkey Humpers |Stone Mountain 12/8/5 IC

    Run 2 blocks to Monroe stop at Madison for 10 Merkins. Squats | Leg-up Merkins 12,8,5 IC

    Run to the Marsh, stop at Livingston for 10 Merkins

    Milestone Marsh: 50 pull ups, 50 Freak Nasties OYO – modification was supine or negative pullups

    Cowbell gave me a time check before we hit the Marsh, and after 100 reps YHC had to modify to make it back in time.

    Run back to the flag, stopping at each street for 15 Merkins.

    On the way, some father son intensification took place with Hammer and Pickaxe. Hammer carried Pickaxe most of the way piggyback style, and I took a turn for 1 leg. While Hammer and I did Merkins, Pickaxe did a Luigi (I think) – or pretty much a Merkin with no arms. At least he didn’t have to carry Shooter for 6 blocks.

    Back to the shovel flag for the wrap up.

    · Crunchy Frogs for Cowbell | Merkins 12,8,5 IC
    · LBC’s IC 12,8,5 24 Irkins OYO 8,5 FIA Merkins IC
    · Hello Dolly | Merkins IC 12,8

    500 Merkins in an hour, Advil post beatdown OYO

    Count, Name – Welcome FNG Binky!

    Announcements:

    1. F2 with FIA Thursday March 25th, 6pm at the Lakefront Gazebo and Barley Oak afterwards. Bring your wife, girlfriend, your female children, and their friends. Who wouldn’t want to attend that!

    2. Zoolander Q next week at the Milestone Marsh – NOT THE LAKEFRONT

    Thanks for following my lead,

    Till Next Gloom – Akbar

    Moleskin

    I first did this workout in Atlanta and loved the cadence. Last year we did it with 400 Merkins and hit 500 this year. 600 in 2022?

    Great to see Blaze back at the Mothership again.

    Zoolander had a 3 man EH. T claps for What’s That making the trip all the way from Kenner.

    T Claps to Pickaxe who hung in there, that’s a long way to run for a young man.

    Great to see Steve again at coffee and glad he’s back in the workforce.

    TankedUp is either crazy, a beast, or both. He just decided to run a marathon in Covington on his own. Maybe because Hammer called him Geriatric. T Claps brother.

  • A la Moby – from Bushwacker

    It’s been too long…I’ll be missing a lot of F3 in the next few months…Jose’s a nagger. Take your pick, but YHC felt it was high time he made an appearance at the A1C (2nd of the year?) and as Q at that! Now there has been frequent talk and use of “coupons” lately. So much so, in fact, that the warning to “bring Gloves” has simply become assumed. The problem is that Q is NOT a fan of cinder blocks. They scrape forearms and lead to poor form – simply not ergonomic enough for a former weight lifter (yea yea boohoo). So, Inspired by a favorite beatdown, “Moby’s heavy-ass chain”, YHC brought a 50lb &30lb pair of doumbbells, as well as x2 25lb, 35lb, & 45lb plates!

    WARMORAMA

    This time inspired by Turbo Dog, we started off with (IC x10): Squats (sans poop), High Knees, T-Stretches, Torso Twists, Air presses, and Self Love.

    THANG

    With the plates on one end of the garage roof and the dumbbells at the other end, the PAX split up to either side. One man would carry any weights of his choice, so long as each hand was gripping metal, and move from one end to the other in any fashion he found sufficiently challenging. Meanwhile the rest would be doing a core exercise, changing each time someone returned with weights. There was walking and running, while doing shoulder presses, shrugs, flies, arm swings, or just carrying. While on the ground, you name it, someone did it. There were even games of keep away and fetch thrown in for good measure!

    MARY
    We finished with 2 minutes to spare, and the PAX were kind enough to grab the weights and return them to the back of my truck.

    COT
    BBQ prayed us out and all was right in the world! Thank you guys for rising to meet my ergonomic challenge and start the day out right.

  • :Zima and Z Cavariccis – from Bolt

    PAX: Amnesty, Pop Tart, Scantron, Rougaroux, Hand Grenada, Tool, Left Coast, Bolt
    Mosey to end zone for:
    Stretching: neck, shoulders, hammies, hip flexors

    Mosey to midfield for:
    Warm up: SSH 25x, reverse slow grass grabbers 10x, Hillbilly squats 15x, Toy Soldiers 15x, Arm Circles froward/back, finishing with Self Love all 15x

    Mosey to bleachers for:
    LBC 20x, R leg step up 25x, big boys 20x, LLSU 25x, dips 15x, dying cockroaches 20x

    Mosey to baseball diamond for:
    Z90s: one exercise/base moving between bases in a Z pattern to honor our workout title: (rear crab walk between home, 3rd, 1st, 2nd): burpee 5x, Cracker Jacks (frog>star jump>frog) 10x, merkins 15x, plank jacks 20x

    Mosey to flag for COT, prayer

  • Inaugural Afternooner! – from Almonaster

    Looking for Leprechauns on St. Patrick’s Day!

    PAX:

    – Subprime
    – King Kong
    – Blowout
    – Almonaster

    Mosey to grassy area near WWI Memorial.

    Warmup:

    SSH – 20 IC
    Imperial Walkers – 10 IC
    Hillbilly’s – 10 IC
    4-Leaf Clover Grabbers – 10 ICWindmills – 10 IC
    Mountain Climbers – 10 IC

    The Thang:

    Mosey around the track to the first grassy area on the right past the entry sidewalk.

    Burpees – 10 OYO
    Merkins – 20 OYO
    LBC’s – 30 OYO

    Mosey to the Fountain.

    Burpees – 10 OYO
    Incline Merkins – 20 OYO
    Hello Dolly’s – 30 OYO

    Mosey to 1/10 mile track.

    Burpees – 10 OYO
    Shoulder Taps – 20 OYO, 2 is 1
    Flutter Kicks – 30 OYO, 2 is 1

    Mosey to grassy area behind the Golf Hole.

    Burpees – 10 OYO
    Merkins – 20 OYO
    Box Cutters – 30 OYO

    Mosey to grassy area behind the Monkey Bars.

    Burpees – 10 OYO
    Lunges – 20 OYO, 1 is1
    Russian Twists (Douille’s) – 30 OYO, 2 is 1

    Back to Flag

    Plank – 1 minute
    Cool down stretch – 1 minute

    COT
    Birthdays
    Anniversaries
    Announcements
    Intentions
    Prayer

    Thanks for the Opportunity to Lead!

  • St. Paddy’s Day Brick Fest – from Rudy

    The Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/04wIJSMgALwapngjBJXwXP?si=dH03I0VjQ0qMJMSTUS5oqA

    11 PAX joined YHC for a St. Paddy’s morning fest. Humid, and warm. Good to see some old faces (looking at you Amnesty) and new (Sir Purr! Welcome back to workout #2!)

    Lots of green around the horn. Bongo didn’t get the message, but pointed to his light green light on his workout watch as if that counted. Catfish also didn’t get the message, but no PAX had the audacity to call him out for it. Much debate on whether Saban’s yellow-ish highlighter tank was closer to Green than Kuch’s Aqua Athleisure shorts. Thanks to Snooze and Da Parish for CLEARLY wearing their finery. The mom’s of the group (Ya Mom ‘n’ Dem, Mama’s Pride) – B- for effort on the attire front….

    Disclaimer, then open up the Pot o’ Gold (i.e., YHC’s Mini) to grab 2 of the red-colored Bars o’ Gold (i.e., “Bricks”). Head to the track.

    Quick warmup with some stretching, SSH and IW. Then b/c YHC had often wanted to try it – lets do Bat Wings with the bricks. That’s a good challenge. It will make a return appearance.

    The Thang:

    Queue up the Irish Music. We’ll rinse and repeat a tabata-ish workout. 4 Rounds of Exercises (45 seconds on, 15 second rest), then a Lap aruond the track (everything with the bricks).

    + Round 1: Seal Claps, Dying Brick-roaches, Lunges, 8 count body-builders.
    + Round 2: Floyd Mayweathers, Crunchy BrickFrogs, Calf Raises (awkward…), 8 count body-builders.
    + Round 3: Merkins, Irish Twists, Monkey Humpers, 8 count body-builders
    + Round 4: Newston’s Cradle, LBBCs (Little Baby Brick Crunches), Squats, 8 count body builders
    + Round 5: T Merkins, Brick-guins, Side Lunges, 8 count body-builders

    Back to the flag. YHC had grand ambitions of getting lots more 8 counts in. But I greatly underestimated the time it would take us in total to run a mile carrying bricks. So OYO over the course of the day – everyone owes about 300 more 8 counts (to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of the initial 8 count challenge, increasing by 1 per day until “No more covid restrictions for the great state of Louisiana”).

    COT: Countoff, Name-o-Rama (Sir Purr? Surr Pur?), Announcements and closing out with a prayer. YHC especially wants to thank the “75 Soft” group under whose strict tutelage YHC has been driven to keep reading his bible. Specifically, messages over the last few days have emphasized import of Evangelizing. Its not sufficient for us to just hear good works, or even do good works. We need to be inspiring others through our actions. That applies spiritually, professionally, personally. Thanks 75 Soft-ers.

  • Building Blocks – from Shooter

    Knowing that our coupons have never been tampered with at the Gipper, YHC planned a beatdown all around the blocks. Q has been absent on Wednesday the last two weeks, so it felt like the perfect setting to return to strength focus on this mild gloom. T👏🏼 to Barely Legal and Einstein staying committed to the prethang miler and the return of Bubba to the Gip… PAX swelled to 13 before long and 0600 had arrived for us to get started.

    Warmup:
    10IC Arm circles (flapjack), Cherry pickers, Torso twist, Windmills, Grass grabbers and Imperial walkers.

    Thang
    PAX converged at the coupon yard to grab from our selection of mixed weights of blocks. Really didn’t matter if one thought they had escaped the dense 35 pounder as they quickly learned the blocks would soon be mixed in our parking lot around the corner. On this Gloom all parties involved would get a touch of the varying weights not by choice but possibly by default of being the last to select in some cases right BB?
    💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
    First the PAX stacked all the blocks at one end of the lot them formed an assembly line to move the blocks down the line. As each PAX finished with the last block he would flip one of 2 tires placed in the lot earlier 2x and then rotate to the other end of the line to return all the blocks to the original starting block. Once complete we duplicated accept this time keeping the blocks overhead as we passed down the assembly line. R/R with the tire completing 2 rounds of each.

    FLORA 123 was next on the agenda.
    PAX partnered up for 100 (Merkins/Plank holds), 200 (LBCs/6”holds), 300 (Goblet squat/ Goblet hold).
    Example:
    100
    P1 10x Merkin with feet on coupon P2 hold plank with feet on coupon.
    200
    P1 20x LBCs with block on chest, P2 holding block above with 6” leg hold.
    300
    P1 25x Goblet squats, P2 Goblet arm chair hold.

    All about the Benjamin’s up next.
    Split the PAX on opposite ends of the parking lot.
    G1 completed 25 Curls for the girls while G2 25 Lunge walks across.
    Flapjack
    Next
    G1 Overhead press 25 and G2 25 Lunge walks with Block.
    Flapjack

    Returned our coupons to their resting place and finished with setting up for the farmers market.

    Count off, announcements and thoughts and prayers to our brethren Toto and Hogsbreath!!

    YHC prayed out the PAX

    Privileged to lead you men and would build with you anytime..

    Thanks for the post and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!!