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  • Returns welcomed with or without receipts!!

      With plenty of rain in the forecast the Q opened the garage anticipating a wet post, yet to his surprise it was only the sound of swirling winds, which left a path of blown over garbage cans spewing garbage throughout the streets and early dismantling of Christmas decorations hanging from the rooftops as I journeyed to the AO.. Anticipating a possible return of other PAX who have not posted in sometime (Turtle), Q was excited arriving to the headlights of regulars like Veteran (Steve), post record setter (Ringo) and 2 Scramble essentials in Garfield and Water Pik.. Planted the shovel flag and started the chatter amongst the PAX.

      Began our warmup with

      10 IC Good mornings, Windmills

      15 IC Toe Touches, SSH followed by lunge twist inward and outward for 25 yards. Burgundy arrives as we wrap up the warmup to start our journey..

      Moseyed our standard route through the debris filled streets of ole Mandeville. With steady winds and severe gusts we still managed a respectable time of less than 30 mins. Arrived back for 10 mins of work which consisted of the PAX taking to our 6 while another completed 5 pull-ups as we rotated around to each man. R/R 3 series that included LBCs, Flutter kicks and Crunchy frogs. Closed with 1 min of Merkins.

      Circled up for count, announce, COT

      Reminded everyone of the upcoming Crazy Ivan, which should prove another domination by the Northshore representing and preserving the Hammer 🔨 trophy!!

      Also Water Pik put it out to the PAX for some F2 following his Q next Tuesday at Grandmas House on New Year’s Day!! We will converge at the Cafe Du Monde following the beatdown for some coffee and beignets to start the New year right!! That is of course for any man willing to delay their New Years resolution of tasty warm fried dough coverd in powdered sugar 😋😋…

      YHC prayed us out.

      Appreciate the commitment through the holiday week F3 brethren and Returns are always welcomed!! New year = New choices

      👍🏻👊🏻✌🏻 Till the next Gloom!!

    • On the Third Day of Christmas . . .

      My true love gave to me three French hens. Got it? THREE French hens! THREE!

      The Pax moseyed west along the seawall with a stiff SE wind at its back to the U-turn at Canal and Lakeshore. There the Pax warmed up with THREE exercises, 25 reps, rinse and repeat THREE time: SSH, Imperial Walkers, and Mountain Climbers.

      The Pax moseyed west again along the seawall to the three benches just west of Canal for the thang – a THREE-stop ladder with burpees and then squats. (We couldn’t do THREE exercises because we ran out of time.) The Pax ran to the farthest of the three benches and did twelve reps. Next, the Pax ran back to the second bench and did eleven reps. Next, the Pax ran back to the first bench and did ten reps. The Pax then ran out to the
      farthest of the three benches and did nine reps. Next, the Pax ran back to the second bench and did eight reps. The pattern continued finishing with one rep at the first bench. In between exercises, YHC did a Twelve Days of Christmas count-off.

      The Pax then moseyed east along the seawall for Mary with THREE exercise, 25 reps, and thirty second plank in between each
      exercise: Partridge twist, Turtle Dove crunches, and the Dying French Hen.

      Announcements, intentions, prayer, and then count-off and Nameorama, which YHC almost forgot.

      The Pax didn’t know what type of weather it would face . It could have been a flood causing rainstorm, but there was only wind (and plenty of it). Sky Q was looking after us this morning.

    • Like Finding Candy Corn in My Advent Calendar…..

      …. as I was totally confused, by the crowd that posted at the Gipper this morning. New faces, and faces I have not seen in awhile. Then some regulars missing.

      Here is how it went:

      Disclaimer

      Warmup; All 20xIC, side straddle hops, good mornings, high knees, arm circles, seal jacks, arm circles, imperial walkers, mummy kicks, hill-billys, toe touches

      Over to the rock pile: grab a rock ( or giant boulder if your name is Butt Splice or Shooter) for; rows, overhead presses, curls, forward presses, elfs on the shelfs.

      Over to the Taj-Mahal parking lot for a ladder shuffles, forward, reverse and both laterals,

      To the front of the Taj-Mahal for a merkin ring-of fire.

      Mosey to the Justice Center parking garage for backwards lunge walks and sprints up the ramps. once on top did a few one minute exercises followed by run-arounds.

      No Mary today, as we went overtime

      Butt Splice prays us out

      Thanks for letting me lead today. I had a ribald good time.

    • Christmas Wing (What Time Is It Now?)

      I’m ready to step up for what I love. No Q for Christmas? I got this! Get back before 2.0s spring from their beds (hopefully not from my clatter)… Mission Impossible!

      YHC arrives with time to spare to see Jose and Manny warming it up. Garfield pulls up with a minute or 2 to spare – where y’at Mr. Shoota?!

      I’ll be both frank and Bushwacker, this beatdown feels like days ago, plus my wife’s aunt plied me with enough Natchez, MS version of “Amber Wind” cocktail that my memory would not be submitted into evidence at a trial at this point. That being said, I’ll do my best to recollect what was a mighty effort on today’s PAX.

      WARM O RAMA

      x10 IC:

      Toe Touches

      Imperial Walkers (Enter Shooter)

      Windmills

      Air presses

      New and, Burgundy may say, improved Fire Hydrants

      THANG

      Mosied to end of brick columns at the other end of the stairs. In 2 groups, one from each runs half way and does 5 _______, continues to the end and does 5 ______, runs up the stairs and down and does 10 ______, then half way back and does ______. Meanwhile remaining PAX is doing _______.

      Merkins, Squats, Freddy Mercuries

      (recall confusion disclaimer)

      Dive Bomber Merkins, Mountain Climbers, LBCs

      Peter Parkers, jump Squats, Heel Touches…

      Burpees…aaaahhhhhh??? What time is it?

      Mosied to the bus stop for:

      10xs Freak Nasties, 12xs In n Outs – all x3

      Mosied back to the stairs for some Bunny Hops and 3-step strides up n down.

      COT

      Jose the beast prayed us out and QIC made it back with 30 minutes to spare on 2.0 #1 stirring! Thanks you gents for showing up (NOT BUTT SPLICE) and for following my some what wingin’ it lead.

      MERRY CHRISTMAS!


    • God Make you Mighty, Gentlemen!

      This was my birthday Q (51 yrs old) and I wanted to make it special for the PAX NOLA. As Christmas day is tomorrow, I wanted to not only strengthen the body but also strengthen the mind as well. As I was thinking about the direction I wanted to go in the Christmas Eve themed workout, I realized that we already done a couple of 12 days of Christmas beatdowns and desired to go a different route. During the Christmas holiday season, the pace of life slows down enough for me to be more contempletive and I have more time to read. As I was reading a book by Ace Collins called ‘Stories behind the best-loved songs of Christmas‘, I came across the ‘real’ history of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman which fit the theme of the beatdown today. Here is an excerpt.

      “When people today say “Merry Christmas!” the word merry means “happy.” When “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” was written, merry had a very different meaning. Robin Hood’s Merry Men might have been happy, but the merry that described them meant ‘great and “mighty.” Thus in the 15th century (Middle Ages), a strong army was a merry army, a great singer was a merry singer, and a mighty ruler was a merry ruler….the word rest in the title means to ‘make’ or ‘keep’. As the angel told the shepherds, “I bring you good news of great joy.” That joy and the power of faith can be felt and experienced in every note and word of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.” You just have to know how to translate the words into the language of the day in order to have a very ‘Mighty Christmas!”

      WARMUP

      Run over to the field by the rock pile and proceed with the following

      51 SSH x IC, 20 Imperial Squat Walkers x IC, 10 Abe Vigodas x IC, 10 Arm Circles x IC (Forward and Backward), 20 J-Los x IC

      THE THANG

      I instruct the PAX to get a medium sized rock and we head to the football field for Bearicides. Because we had 15 men, I had to break the groups up into 3s. We line up on the sideline and PAX 1 and 2 perform 100 lunges, 150 goblet squats and 100 straight leg deadlifts. Meanwhile, PAX 3 bear crawls out and pushes the rock forward to the middle of the field then bear crawls back while continuing to push the rock.

      After the bearicides, we did a Febreeze. This exercise consists of WW2 situps followed by air presses with feet 6 inches off the ground while in a sit up position. The count was 2 situps / 10 air presses, 3 situps / 20 air presses…all the way up to 5 situps / 51 air presses. Whew….that hurt!

      Running out of time we did a Jack Webb with a rock press up to 7 merkins / 14 rock presses.

      Time is running out so we put our rocks back and mosey back to the virtual flag.

      COUNTOFF, NAMERAMA AND COT

      Prayers for peace, hope and healing for Brad Brechtel, Hawg’s mom, Disclaimer’s 2.2 and all the intentions we hold in our hearts. Truly honored to be leading such a great group of men looking to get stronger physically, relationally and spiritually! Many blessings to you and yours this Christmas Season!

    • Christmas Vacation

      Christmas Vacation

      Thanks to the holiday season giving many PAX a respite from work the Milestone Marsh was hopping in the pre-dawn gloom of Christmas Eve day. A big welcome to all the PAX for coming out early on a Monday morning.

      CONDITIONS

      46°; 51% humidity; 6:54 AM sunrise

      DISCLAIMER

      The experienced PAX knew YHC’s rank amateur status.

      THE WARM UP

      All exercises done IC

      • Split jacks X15
      • Toe touches X10
      • Abe Vigodas X10
      • Ray Finkles X10
      • Steve Earles Copper head squat finished with hill billy X 10
      • Good mornings X10
      • High knees X15

      Every time Catherine revved up the microwave, I’d piss my pants and forget who I was for about half an hour or so.

      THE THANG PART 1: Getting Stronk

      YHC sees Northshore PAX getting mad strong, so he thought he would keep the trend of lower rep, higher difficulty movements.

      4 rounds
      Pull up sets x6
      Single leg squats X6 each leg

      1 minute recovery after each set

      YHC wobbled some on the single leg movements, but the assembled PAX were rock solid, straight vertical. Backdraft even rocked some of the pistol-style movement.

      It wouldn’t be the Christmas shopping season if the stores were any less hooter than they – HOTTER than they are. Whew. It is warm in here, isn’t it?

      THE THANG PART 2: Let the beat drop

      PAX did some work with 5 drop sets focusing on the lower body. Each set consisted of 15 knee tucks, 15 jump squats and 15 air squats done in succession with no rest. YHC was gassed at the end of these but the PAX grinded out each of the 5 sets with style.

      Surprised, Eddie?… If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am now.

      THE THANG PART 3: The big, big finish

      PAX finished in fine form with the following fun and games.

      • Gecko crawl across the court
      • Boo-yah merkins (Q was tired at this point and the cadence / count confused the heck out of the PAX)
      • Clapping merkins
      • Single leg hops / Marios
      • Snow board hops
      • Grand finale, 1 minute of hanging knee raises

      Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?

      CountORama, NameORama, and COT

      YHC prayed us out.

      MOLESKIN

      Merry Christmas y’all

      Carve the turkey, turn the ballgame on Make Bloody Marys 'cause we all want one Send somebody to the Stop 'N Go We need some celery and a can of fake snow A bag of lemons and some Diet Sprite A box of tampons and some Salem Lights Hallelujah, everybody say cheese Merry Christmas from the family

      Thanks F3-bros, for the fellowship, the beatdowns and for being willing to follow my lead.

    • BASIL the Skinny Elf

      BASIL the Skinny Elf

      YHC is rarely able to make a Monday beatdown due to work. As a matter of fact, YHC has only made three Rock City beatdowns, with one of those as the Q. With YHC taking today off, it was the perfect opportunity to take advantage of attending the Skinny. Upon looking at the Q list and seeing Douille lined up to lead, YHC asked if he would allow this Pax to take the helm. The Mighty Douille obliged and YHC was all set up to Q. This request took place at the Mothership. A few minutes later, YHC realized he had never even posted at the Skinny. YHC arrived a few minutes early to find the Audubon Zoo grassy areas muddy and nearly unusable. YHC asked Douille where we normally warmed up at, and he pointed in exactly the opposite direction of YHC’s plan. So much for a standard Skinny…..

      With 3 minutes to go, there were only about 5 Pax on site. With 2 minutes to go, a parade of cars flooded the parking lot, suddenly making us 18 strong. It was time to get down to business. YHC thanked Douille for allowing me the opportunity to lead, then introduced the Pax to Santa’s Chief Elf, Basil. Basil wasn’t with us, but the Pax would soon get to know each letter of his name.

      Brief Disclaimer, and a mosey across Magazine to the driest grassy area we could find at the zoo.

      Warmup
      SSH IC x 31
      IW IC x 15
      Arm Circles IC x 10 Fwd and 10 Bwd
      Peter Parker IC x 20
      Mountain Climber IC x 20
      Parker Peter IC x 20
      Grass Grabbers IC x 10

      First COP
      The first letter of Basil is B!  We can’t forget about Santa though.  SSH for Santa and Burpees for Basil!

      SSH IC x 5 followed by 10 Burpees OYO

      SSH IC x 5 followed by 9 Burpees OYO

      SSH IC x 5 followed by 8 Burpees OYO

      SSH IC x 5 followed by 7 Burpees OYO

      SSH IC x 5 followed by 6 Burpees OYO

      SSH IC x 5 followed by 5 Burpees OYO

      SSH IC x 5 followed by 4 Burpees OYO

      SSH IC x 5 followed by 3 Burpees OYO

      SSH IC x 5 followed by 2 Burpees OYO

      SSH IC x 5 followed by 10 Burpees OYO

      This was a real Crowdpleaser! Lots of Mumblechatter about No Burpee Mondays….

      Now for the A in Basil…..Agassis…aka Suicides! YHC had some cones set up in the parking lot.

      Sprint to first line and back – 5 merkins, Sprint to Half way and back – 5 merkins, Sprint to 3rd line and back – 5 merkins, sprint full length and back – 5 merkins. The Pax was thrown off by only one set, but YHC had more to get to!

      Time for the S in Basil…..The Suck! Circle up on the somewhat dry grassy area. SSH x 6, Jump Squats x 6, Merkins x 6. Repeat as many times as possible in 3 minutes, calling out each round as it gets completed. Completed two rounds with one minute rest between them.

      The I in Basil is for Indian Run. Two column Indian Run back to the gathering area.

      The L in Basil stands for Ladder Merkins…..it’s the best I could do. Start at first light post, run to second and do 20 merkins, return to first light post and do 19 merkins, then back to second for 18 and so on back and forth. We made it to 17 when YHC realized this would take way too long to complete. Quick audible, as well as Drew Brees calls ’em, and we finished with 5 Burpees at light post one, and 5 Burpees at Light post two.

      6 Minutes for Mary

      Tin Snips IC x 20
      Flutter Kicks IC x 20
      Hello Dolly IC x 20
      LBC's IC x 20
      penguins IC x 20
      Dying Cockroach IC x 20
      American Hammer IC x 10

      COT for Count off, Name-o-Rama, Announcements, Intentions, and closed with a prayer to the Sky Q.

      Special thanks to Douille for allowing me to take the Q, and a big thank you to the awesome Uptown Crew for posting with me today.

      In a new turn of events, 9 Lives was dubbed Meow Meow, which he announced as his new F3 name during Name-O-Rama…..Who is YHC to object?

      Coffeeteria at PJ’s was a great experience as always, with some great F2!

      SYITG!

    • Let’s MOSEY

      With no World Cup Soccer themes or any other ideas for a “LOVE FEST Beatdown” dancing in my mind, YHC figured it would be a good time to work off some of those holiday calories that invariably crop up at this time of year.  So, with a big crowd (T-Claps guys) on the day before Christmas Adam, here’s more or less how it went down:

      To get the blood flowing, we did a brief round of SSH, HK, and BK to warm up.  all IC x 15.

      Mosey Eastward, Circle up for some harder hitting exercises before the main course.  Smurf Jacks IC x 20, Monkey Humpers IC x 20, Shooter’s Burpos OYO x 10.

      Now it was time to MOSEY again, however, this time we went westward.  It was back to the corner of Marigny and Lakeshore Dr for some RACES…(Yes, Bushwacker, you heard that correctly).  YHC divided the PAX into two random groups, and each group took turns racing around the first block of Marigny St (around the circle).  While one group was running, the other group did a continuous exercise.  Rinse and repeat x 3.  The exercises were T-Merkins, Squats, Shoulder Taps.  After some pretty intense running, it was time to MOSEY again…this time we went Eastward, all the way to the PULL UP BARS beyond the outfield fence at Harbor Field.  And that distance may have been a little farther than YHC had remembered, as the PAX thinned to a barely connected group.  Once the PAX re-assembled, it was time for some pullups.  As each man did a set of up-to 5 pull ups (apologies to Zoolander and The Hammer, both of whom can clearly can pop out around 20), the remaining PAX did and exercise.  First it was Imperial Walker Squats, then it was Mack Taraji’s, and last it was, Flutter Kicks.  After 3 rounds, and some really cold hands, we MOSEYED back to the flag for a brief set of Mary.  COT, and YHC prayed us out.  Welcome to our FNG, One Eye.  Thanks for letting me take the lead today and pushing me to greater heights!

      Barely Legal, Bolt, Bubba, Bushwacker, Coconuts, Garfield, Jose Mourinho, Mathlete, Maverick, One Eye (FNG), Shooter, Toto, The Hammer, THE Manny, Tanked Up!, Zoolander

    • No Shorty, No Problem

      Late Monday evening, the PAX checked the Q sheet – lo and behold, Shorty was listed!  Could it be?  Would he make a long-awaited return to the Stomp?

      Short answer: No.

      But that didn’t stop the 4 PAX who gathered to dash off into the thick soupy fog.  Typical Stomp: 20 mins out and back, saving some time for Mary.  Thanks, Smooth, for hanging back with me for the outbound leg.  Great chit-chat.  As YHC turned at Tulane for the return trip, Smooth decided to continue the outbound.  Whoosh – he disappeared into the gloom.  YHC returned, crossing paths with Woz and Hawg on the way back.  And of course, as we neared the Shovel Flag – Smooth sailed past us, barely breaking a sweat.

      Finished up with some Mary around the flag.  Thanks for the great run, gentleman.  Maybe next week, we’ll see Shorty again.

    • 12 days of Christmas – again

      A chilly 46 degrees and windy means a cold mountain at the top of Wolfpack Mtn. I had a few ideas in my head but I waited until the PAX gathered before committing to a plan for the whole workout. El Wire greeted me with his classic – he Yankee is that the North star?

      It was so wet on the Avenue I decided to skip a classic Tinkles move by Blimping on the avenue – instead we went straight to the base of WOLFPACK MTN.

      We circled for a warmup – SSH x 20, Hillbillies x 20, Mtn Climbers x 20 and Imperial Walker Squats x 20.

      Then the thang. We did an Indian run up the Mountain. Each of the 2 lines had a football. The first guy would throw the football back to the 6. The 6 would sprint to the front of the line with his football. Then he would throw the football back to the six. If the football was dropped the punishment was 3 burpees. Team one only did 6 burpees up the mountain. Team two did 15 burpees up the mountain.

      Once we got to the top we circled up for a 12 days of Christmas replay.

      1. Burpees
      2. 2 V-Ups
      3. Peter Parkers
      4. FLutter Kicks **After this we did a lap down/up the stairs
      5. Rising Suns
      6. Dying Bugs
      7. Plack Jacks
      8. Bycicles **After this we did a lap down/up the stairs
      9. Merks
      10. Russian Twists
      11. Low Country Crab
      12. Burpees

      We finished with 5 min left – ran to the benches and we did a side crunch exercise that I wanted to try — 10 OYO on each side. Not sure if that exercise is for everyone.

      This was my last Q of 2018. I enjoyed being with you guys – I appreciate the accountability. We prayed for digits and her PAX and family in South Carolina.

      Merry Christmas you filthy animals!