F3 New Orleans

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  • Burpee Palooza

    It was Friday at Pontiff Park and YHC was hoping that I wouldn’t be a PAX of one, like Woz was the previous Friday for a rainy, chilly morning at The Uptowner.  Upon walking up, it was good to see several regulars in position and other trickling in, including an exchange student, Crayfish, from F3 Memphis.  Here’s what we did:

    Quick Warmup:

    SSH x20

    Arm Circle x20

    Windmills x10

    Low Country Crab x10

    Then to our goal for the day, 200 Burpees.  Why 200 you ask?  Well, our buddy Babyface had been whittling away at a 1000 Burpee Challenge all week (200 per day) to raise money for a non-profit that he works with, Next Generation.  So as to pay homage to his efforts, YHC thought it would be fitting to rally the PAX to see exactly how enjoyable 200 burpees would be.  After refreshing everyone on proper Burpee form (w/ push up and jump), we started off with 2 minute rounds, descending count:

    20 Burpees + rest in a 2 minute period.  Then, 19 Burpess…..18 Burpees…all the way down to 6 Burpees, making for a total of 200.  After getting to around 14, we shortened the time on each round.  All together, this took us about 25 minutes.  YHC did his best to keep the crew motivated and engaged.  T-claps to those providing the jokes and motivational quotes.  It was not the most pleasant way to spend a Friday morning but was rewarding once complete.  There was some mumble chatter about getting the count up to 250 but cooler heads prevailed and we kept it consistent with Babyface’s 200 per day totals.  Most of the PAX were feeling a Burpee buzz at this point, with a few nearing the stage of being Burpee drunk.

    Sober up with a countdown and still plenty time left to work in some Mary, DJ style:

    The Kimchi Special x15

    American Hammer (HVAC) x20

    Big Boy Wife Pleasers (Triple Shift) x20

    Hello Dolly (Crayfish) x25

    Dying Cockroach (JV) x20?

    Tin Snips (Fracsac) x20

    YHC then called for a Bear Crawl back to the flag (40yds?) to seal the deal.

    Closed out with a COT.  T-claps to Crayfish for finding us in the gloom.  T-claps to Rudy on his marathon training and heckling us as he ran countless loops around the track.  Double T-claps to Babyface for his burpees for a cause throughout the week.

    Moleskin:  I would have never done 200 Burpees on my own.  Thanks to F3 for the continued push.  I am confident that we can do 300 in a workout.  Maybe more???

    Tool

     

     

  • Thankful for the Respect!

    I signed up to Q the Mothership workout today a few months ago as a celebration of my upcoming 50th birthday.  Although I don’t turn 50 until tomorrow (December 24th), I was inspired to share the love with the PAX of New Orleans today.  I had a coupon themed workout in store and major t-claps to Tool for his provision of cinder blocks (Full – 28 lbs and Half – 19 lbs) and gloves.

    As the PAX started to show up for the start of the Mothership workout, the group of men swelled way beyond what I had expected.  Did they all come out to celebrate with me or did they imbibe and consume too much during the Christmas season and felt the need for a beatdown?  I’ll never know.  It’s 5:30 am and I give my disclaimer and off we go.

     

    WARMUP

    We mosey toward the Great Lawn and go right past it toward Delgado.  Ahhh…the mumble chatter starts to fly.  As we head away from the Great Lawn, we take a right through a parking lot and proceed toward Story Land.  More mumble chatter ensues.  We take a right and then head toward the Great Lawn and circle up.

    Side Straddle Hop x 50 IC

    Imperial Squat Walkers x 25 IC

    Mountain Climbers x 25 IC

     

    THE THANG

    Lieutenant Dan’s, Deadlifts, Side Lunges, Curls and Block Webbs with coupons…OH MY!

    As we finish our warmup, we mosey down the road and pass Morning Call and go over to the field to the right of NOMA.  Stopping at Tool’s sleigh loaded with concrete gifts, the PAX pick out their “present” and head out to the field.  I instruct the PAX to line up on the first tree to do a modified Lt. Dan with our “presents”.  At the first tree, we will perform one (1) burpee with an overhead press with our coupon.  After we finish the first burpee, we will lunge walk with our coupon to the second tree and perform two (2) burpees overhead presses with our coupon.  As we proceed to the third tree, we will bear crawl while dragging our coupon until we get to the third tree and then perform 3 burpee overhead presses with our coupon.  We continue this alternating pattern until we reach 10 burpees.   Not much mumble chatter on this one but I appreciate the Christmas carol serenade by Bogey.  After the Lt. Dans, we headed back to the first tree and circled up and proceed to do the 20 IC x Straight Leg Deadlifts and 10 IC x Side Lunges with Curls.  My hamstrings and glutes were cramping up on the side lunges with curls so I had to cut it short.  Next up was the Block Webb all the way up to 10 Irkins and 20 overhead presses with our coupons.

    After the THANG, we take a break and get some water and finish up our COP with 20 Supermans x IC (not a good idea of lying on our coupon), 25 LBC x IC while holding our coupons over our chests, 20 World War 2 Situps with Glute Bridge x IC and finally we finish it off with 50 Copperhead Squats x IC.   Time is running short so we put out presents back in Tool’s sleigh and mosey back to the flag.

     

    CIRCLE OF TRUST

    Countoff, Namerama, Thoughts, and Prayers.

    I can’t say enough how thankful I am for the true honor and privilege of being your Q today.  In a world of cynicism, divisiveness, and disappointment, F3 has been a constant refuge of camaraderie, accountability, encouragement, inspiration and friendship.   During this Christmas season, please set aside some time to reflect and ponder the purpose and identity of Christ (The Appointed One).  May God Bless you and your family.  Merry Christmas!

     

     

  • Two’s Company Three is a Crowd

    Well thanks to Steve I had some really good F2 and got in my 10K this morning. After pondering the thought of only running a 5K using the Foggy morning as my excuse. Knowing the causeway would be convoyed or one lane. But the chatter was nice and it may the run short. Thanks again Steve for being a part of F3 Seal Team! Enjoyed our conversation!

  • Christmas Party – 12 Days of Christmas @ Urban South Brewery

    I am sure that I am missing someone on our PAX list but thanks to everyone who posted for our end of the year Christmas Party.  The gifts are certainly appreciated by Operation Sweet Tooth.  I am on my way to drop off the physical gifts that the PAX brought to Urban South after I post this backblast.  If you noticed that I missed someone put it in the comments and I will add them in the PAX.

    A nice sized crowd of 31 participated in the 12 days of Christmas beatdown.

    We mosey’d over to the park on Orange Street and St Nick was in a giving mood – because he left the lights on for us.

    After we circled up – we started right into the 12 days of Christmas.

    1 burpee

    then…2 squat jumps, 1 burpee

    then 3 lunge jumps, 2 squats jumps, and 1 burpee

    then 4 monkey humpers, 3 lunge jumpers, 2 squat jumpers and 1 burpee

    5 golden burpees, 4 – you get the picture

    6 low country crabs, 5 burpees, …

    7 Russian Twists, 6 ….

    8 Peter Parkers

    9 Cross Fit Merks

    10 Dyin’ Roaches

    11 Plank Jacks

    and on 12 I let cashbar decide if we would do 12 burpees first or 12 SSH so we did 12 SSH in cadence….then 11 PJs, etc.

    Then we did the ball of people…in the circle we named new participants, and closed with a prayer.

    It was a fun mini-beatdown — then we mosey’d back to the brewery for libations and vietnamese food!

    Tclaps to Brown Bag for facilitating our evening.

    Tclaps to Bogey and Wheezie for posting on their 25 wedding anniversary.  Tclaps to 86 for hooking them up earlier!

    Tclaps to Tool for bringing a FNG

    Double Tclaps to Seaman for bringing 2 FNGs

    Merry Christmas!

  • Cork Screw #1

    OK – I blew it – I was supposed to get someone else to cover todays beatdown but I kept getting side tracked and before I knew it – it was 10pm on Thursday and I couldn’t reach out to Fredo for a VQ request – so Fredo if you read this you are up for a VQ next Friday!

    A few weeks ago Douille did something I thought was pretty cool and I wanted to see how far and how long it would take to complete the cycle.   He called it the cork screw and we only finished 3 floors so I wanted to dedicate the whole workout to doing the complete cork screw.

    So disclaimer and the 9 PAX mosey’d to the top of Wolfpack Mtn.  A truly muggy, foggy, gloomy GLOOM for the beatdown this am.  A comfy 63 degrees.

    Warm up was SSH x 20, Imp Walkers, Hillbillies, and Morning Glories x 20 IC

    THE THANG:

    Then we started the cork screw.   Run down the stairs to the bottom floor then up the ramps to the top (7th floor).  At the top floor 60 LBCs.  Then run down the stairs to the 2nd floor, up the ramps to the top.  50 Plank Jacks.  Then down the stairs to the 3rd floor up the ramps to the 7th floor 40 Peter Parkers, then down the stairs to the 4th floor up the ramps to the top 30 Russian Twists, then down the stairs to the 5th floor up the ramps to the top 20 Merks, then down the stairs the the 6th floor up the ramp to the top and 10 Hip Dips each side.  This is the Cork Screw.  The only cadence is the warm up.  Each PAX can work on their own – so each guy gets as much burn as they want.  They can attack the MTN or Whiskey DIck it – the modify burden is on the last PAX members – they may not get to finish.

    When all was said and done we ran 3 miles.  It is almost a 5K.  El Wire recommended a possible extra lap bottom to top to finish – or run the ramp down as the cherry on the top which would also push the workout to be more than a 5K. *I like that idea.

    We got to the flag 2 min each so we did some mission impossible, and some nolan ryans on the left and right.

    It is always a pleasure!  Merry Christmas to the PAX.

  • seiscientos diez pisar muy fuerte #121

    It was 0530 and 7 men and a K9 looked at each other wondering who was going to take the Q. If Pacecar could have spoke, she probably would have asked why there was a dog in a truck at the AO. You thought she was gonna speak up and take the Q? Dogs can’t talk…..
    YHC volunteered, gave a brief disclaimer, and said to run for 20 minutes out and 20 minutes back on traditional route. Arriving back at 0610, the Pax did:

    Flutter kicks IC x 20
    WW2 Situps IC x 10 (4 count)
    Hello Dolly IC x 20

    Seal the deal with 10 Burpees OYO (enter the dog from the truck to make Pacecar uneasy…..)

    COT
    Count off, Name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, and closed with a prayer to the Sky Q.

    It was a real gloomy morning in the gloom, as one can see from the photo.

    Thanks for posting with me today. SYITG.

    Naked Man Moleskin
    This was an effort at translating 610 stomp to Spanish. YHC just wants to see if RY is paying attention…..

  • High chance of humidity

    It was thundering when YHC woke up.  Should he fartsack or go out?  Red pill, blue pill?  A little rain never hurt nobody.  Up and at ’em, it is.  When YHC arrived, two guys were in the gloom in front of the fence: an FNG and his dad, Rigs, a buddy of El Guapo.  Then Walleye, then Tool and Amnesty, and finally, with a coffee cup in his mouth, in bikes Marlin.  YHC gives a real disclaimer (first in probably two years), and the PAX is off for The Thang.

    Warm-Up COP:

    • Imperial Walkers 31xIC
    • Squats 31xIC
    • SSHs 31xIC
    • Mountain Climbers 31xIC

    The PAX selects their favorite rocks (YHC got one that Triple Shift marked as weighing 30 lbs) for another COP:

    • Shoulder press, curl, dead lift, squat and then (cuz the ground was wet) bench press, each 20xIC
    • Rinse and repeat for 16xIC, then 12xIC, then 8xIC and finally 4xIC.

    Lunge walk half away across the field to a line of trees, and then lunge watch to the far side of the field to the edge of the parking lot for some Mericana on the parking pumpers: regular merkins 10xIC, diamond merkins 10xIC and wide merkins 10xIC.

    Mosey back towards the rock pile for a Circle of Mary:

    • LBCs 25xIC
    • Flutter Kicks 25xIC
    • Penguins 25xIC
    • Box Cutters 25xIC
    • Wife Pleasers (for our FNG) 25xIC

    Finish off with ten burpees OYO, then return rocks and mosey back to the virtual flag for Countoff, Name-o-Rama (where the PAX after much deliberation named the FNG, who’s a senior at LSU and wants to go to vet school and is the son of Rigs, Dead Pets), and Circle of Trust.

    Peace, Jingle Vader

  • Blackjack at Grandmas House???

    Four PAX gathered at Grandmas House with the air  heavy, as if we were meeting in a smoke filled poker room at the casino. The QIC had thoughts all night of repeating a previous Super 21 beatdown delivered a few months back, but he decided we would just implement 21 troughout the beatdown instead. Having lost my father Saturday, I felt it appropriate to remember him with one of his favorite past times of playing Blackjack.. Big appreciation out to my fellow F3 brothers, who I can’t thank enough for their compassion and support in this time..

    warmarama

    21 SSH IC, 3 (8 count body builders), 21 WM IC, 6 (8 CBB), 21 IW IC, 9 (8 CBB), 21 BK IC 3 (8 CBB)

    the thang

    Moseyed to the tunnel for some Dora. Partnered up 50 Burpees, 100 Merkins, 150 Squats, 200 lunges. As one partner started the series the other moseyed down through the tunnel and up and back. Upon returning picking up the count of his partner to completion. Once complete the PAX moseyed back to the AO for some core work. One PAX held plank while the other journeyed up the steps to the top completing 21 LBCs, next 21 MC and finally finishing with 21 Peter Parker’s.

    Count off, announcements, COT

    Much appreciation to the Pelican for leading us out in prayer. Reminding us to truly remember what this season is all about..

    Always appreciate the chatter and fellowship with you men in the Gloom. Definitely sets the tone of my day and inspires me to be a reflection of what we at F3 strive to live for “Faith, Fitness, Fellowship”

    Thank you brothers for the opportunity to lead..

     

     

  • We lost one

    Nine PAX including one FNG (friend of Chiquita, name & age unknown) showed up for a classic beat-down in the wet gloom of Audubon.

    No luck finding dry land as we circled up between the row of lights:

    SSH x20, Plank Jacks x20, Elbow Plank Jacks x20

    IW x20, Parker Peters x20, Elbow Parker Peters x20

    Hillbillies x20, Peter Parkers x20, Elbow Peter Parkers x20

    Goofballs x20, Mountain Climbers x20, Elbow Mountain Climbers x20

    After enough elbow fun in the mud, we moseyed to the track for an Indian Run.

    Stopping past the row bars on a somewhat dry patch for another circle:

    Catalina Wine Mixers x10 OYO

    Boo-Boo Bears Crawls Left Leg – one circle around

    Catalina Wine Mixers x10 OYO

    Boo-Boo Bears Crawls Right Leg – one circle around

    Back to the track for another Indian Run to the Pavilion.

    The QIC diligently instructed the FNG to modify the route  if needed.  Unfortunately the FNG chose a new path directly to his car  and sped out of Audubon the wrong way.

    On to the benches:

    BSLL x15, LLSU x15, Dips x15, Decline Parker Peters x10, Derkins x5

    BSLR x15, RLSU x15, Dips x15, Decline Peter Parker x10, Derkins x5

    Circle for Mary:

    RT x15, Flutter Kicks x15, RT x15, Hello Dollys x15, RT x15, Real Freddie x15

    Mosey back by the flag:

    Catalina Wine Mixers x10, Plank-o-rama the MI for 20 sec

    Count off, Name-o-rama (sans AWOL) and a quick prayer

    Good start to the week…Thanks

     

  • When Cold, Do Burpees

    Due to some excuse involving something, Walleye asked if YHC would give up his prime pre-New Years Eve Beat Down and take today’s Q instead. Being the team player, YHC said “sure thing!” Besides, YHC isn’t sure if he will be in NOLA for that pre New years Eve Hoe Down. Look at that, it all works out in the end.
    It was good to be back at the Mothership, having visited the Highland Park AO the week before. No snow on the ground, but still cold. It was 0630 and 9 Pax joined YHC to better themselves, making 10 Pax at the Shovel Flag brought by Kimchi. Speaking of Shovel Flags…….have you seen what the Northshore did? We gotta step it up! Tool, I’m stopping off at the store in the near future and we’re gonna get busy! Anyways, it’s cold….
    YHC knew exactly what would warm the Pax up! But first, the Disclaimer…and then

    Mosey to the Great Lawn
    Arm Circles IC x 10 back and 10 forward
    SSH x 5….followed by
    10 Burpees OYO (YHC heard cheers of joy, that’s the story so chosen and shall be told as such)
    SSH x 5
    9 Burpees OYO
    SSH x 5
    8 Burpees OYO
    You get the idea….7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2…..followed by a twist
    SSH x 5
    10 Burpees OYO (The Pax is now warm and happy!)

    Mosey toward NOMA
    Circle up on the lawn near the tracks for
    Ring of Fire #1
    All Pax get in low plank and each Pax takes turns completing 5 merkins and then getting back into plank position.
    Ring of Fire #2
    Bear crawl around the circle clockwise. Get back into the low plank position. Each Pax completes 1 Burpee, then returns to plank. The Pax did 5 full revolutions. It was interesting going from plank to burpee then back to plank.

    Mosey to the walking path around the lake near NOMA for the Bataan Death March!
    Indian run around the lake with the last man dropping off for 5 Burpees, then running to the front of the line. The Pax did 1 full lap, with each Pax getting in 1 set of burpees.

    Mosey to the fountain for:
    Channing Tatums IC x 20
    Derkins x 10 IC (4 count)
    Tatum Channings IC x 20
    Irkins x 10 IC (4 count)

    Mosey to the tree line near NOMA.
    At the first Tree…..Sudden Change! 10 Burpees OYO
    Bear Crawl to tree #2, then Copperhead squats IC x 10 (very slow count to get the Pax into a deep squat)
    Lunge walk to tree #3, then catalina wine mixer IC x 10
    Bear crawl to tree #4, then Bobby Hurley IC x 10
    Lunge walk to tree #5, then merkin IC x 10 (4 count)
    Bear crawl to tree #6, then squats x 10 (4 count)
    Sprint back to tree #1.

    Indian Run to the Tool Wall for:
    Calf raises IC x 30
    Monkey Humpers IC x 30

    Mosey back to the Great Lawn for:
    Mary, All IC
    LBC x 30
    Hello Dolly x 20
    Tin Snips x 20
    Flutterkicks x 20

    One minute left, what to do? Burpees! 10 Burpees OYO.

    Mosey back to the flag.

    COT
    Count off, Nam-o-rama, announcements, intentions, followed by a closing prayer.

    Naked man Moleskin
    Congrats to Kimchi on the latest 2.0 in the oven.
    There were no Pax over 49, or under 33 at the Mothership today. No Respect, No Hate!
    F3 Christmas Party next Tuesday at Urban South. Start time was debated this morning, 1830 or 1900. Check your email to be sure, or watch for announcement on Group Me. Either way, find a way to get there, and bring a toy for Operation Sweet Tooth! M’s and 2.0’s are welcomed.
    Da Parish has a Christmas Ornament Exchange Party going on today. Hit him up for details.
    Baby Face is going to do 1000 Burpees for Charity! Watch for ways to donate. YHC demands video evidence!
    Next Mothership is Triple Shift’s Respect Q! You don’t want to miss that one!
    Great Coffeteria with Kimchi, Triple Shift and Mahatma. Kimchi had to rub in the Army-Navy game from last week.
    Do what you can to support the Baton Rouge F3 launch. Clown cars head up Saturday, so jump on one!

    10 Happy Pax after all we did, including 94 Burpees. If YHC had been counting, we would have done 6 more!

    Thanks for joining me today, and for allowing me to be a part of F3.

    SYITG