F3 New Orleans

Category: Northshore

  • Barricadia

    We arrived at Grandma’s House to find we were barricaded out! As if that would stop the PAX…T-Claps to Steve for moving them so we could park.

    Warm o Rama: Good Mornings, Toe touches, Imp Walkers, Hill Billies, SS Hops.

    First up, a mosey on over to the tunnel. Along the way some friendly chatter about the past weekend…Topics that stood out were Shooter with a hunting kill(T-Claps), and Cowbell’s less than stellar sales experience when he went boat shopping.

    The Thang:

    Arrived at the tunnel. Bear Crawls 25 paces, then jog then sprint to the other side of the tunnel and repeat back. Rinse and repeat for 2 rounds.

    Next PAX moseyed over to the bus stop. PAX did 10 each: Decline Merkins, Step-Ups, Incline Merkins, Box Jumps, and Freak Nasties. Rinse and repeat for 2 rounds. YHC almost splashing merlot after those box jumps!

    Next we moseyed over to the Market area where PAX completed Dora 1,2,3. Teams of 2. Pax 1 Ran at 80% to end of Market Hall, and sprinted back, while Pax 2 were doing cumulative reps of 100 Merkins, 200 LBC’s, and 300 Squats. Pax 1 and 2 flap-jacked runs/exercises until cumulative exercises were completed.

    Count O , Name O

    Shooter Prayed us out.

  • 5 year CONVERGENCE!

    Well – 5 years later we are still going STRONG! I remember when we started thinking I don’t have time in my life for this group. After a week of beatdowns I knew that we had to commit to growing this group – it had already begun to change my life and they way I interact with people everyday. I know after a nasty 530am beatdown – that I can handle anything the day throws at me. Thanks to all the guys here in NOLA that keep things running so that we can continue to be a group. Thanks to OBT for taking time out of his life to get us going in the GLOOM! Looking forward to 5 more years of F3 in NOLA.

    Today the pre-run started with about 20 PAX for a run down BAYOU ST JOHN. Beautiful weather, cool air and a crisp breeze. We ran 12 min out and 12 min back so that we could arrive in time for the fun.

    KUCH – has a been a great EH’er and a nice addition to F3 NOLA. Kuch started the party off with a WARM UP circle. SSH, Imp Walkers, Arm Circles, Peter Parkers, Merks.

    Then we divided up by 5 count into teams. We did 5 burpees, 5 Lunges, 5 Merkins, 5 Squats, 5 Plank Jacks. Bear Crawl across the lawn. Run back. KUCH did an excellent job getting the teams set quickly

    5 reps. We ran out of time and had to call it after 3 reps. No team won due to the shortened KUCH set. Kuch represented NOLA well – with a pretty gnarly start to a celebratory event.

    2nd set with DURACELL – FROM BATON ROUGE

    Duracell brought out 2 coupons. 40lb cinderblocks. 2 PAX ran to the center and did 3 thrusters. We went two different directions. A slow starter but once the PAX got the hang out this one – this was a solid beatdown. Duracell had to do about 15 exercises in cadence to 20. Exercises ranged from a regular plank, to shoulder taps, to merk variations to squat/lunge variations. The highlight of this section was Mathlete’s 2.0-Bear getting that cinderblock in the right position and up. Duracell represented the RED STICK well.

    THIGHS FROM THE WANK- 3rd quarter. We started with a solid mosey over the to the lawn in by the museum. Upon arrival we see that Thighs has organized with some printed out signs a 15 min beatdown that is going to suck. At each sign there was an exercise- PAX had to complete 20 reps the first time through, 15 reps the 2nd time through. (Possible 3rd time for the fastest pax members). Exercises were:

    1. Bonnie Blaires
    2. Diamond Merks
    3. Reverse Crunches aka Gaspumps
    4. Bobby Hurleys
    5. Merkin Toe Touches (need to incorporate this more in my Qs)
    6. Freddie Mercs

    RUN back to the start line and do this again. Thighs had the teams organized in a way by street names. Due to 75 PAX that didn’t quite workout but Thighs quickly modified and let the teams fall where they were. A good quick call. Thighs demonstrated that there is nothing easy about the WANK. Those guys are tough! Great turnout by the WB.

    STEVE FROM THE NORTHSHORE- FINISHED OFF The PAX back on the great lawn. Each pax got a partner.

    You had to do your partners age in burpees, your partners weight in LBCS, and your partners months in F3 in Freddies.

    Steve had a few minutes left so he finished with some Peter parkers, and some American Hammer.

    After a 75 PAX NAME O RAMA, NUMBERRAMA – Hokey POkey finished us off with an awesome prayer!

    After the whole beatdown we gathered at Cafe Du Monde for a 5 year celebration party. Tclaps to Rudy, Tool and Gabrielle for making that happen. There were eggs, bacon, sausage, grits, biscuits, beignets and plenty of coffee!

    Thanks to our awesome Qs! IT is NOT easy to Q 75 PAX!

    So blessed to be a part of this group- cheers to 5 more years of F3 NOLA!

  • Wait…You Were Serious?! Tales From The Tabata Trio

    So, YHC thought it would be a brilliant idea to run 5 miles to the Marsh this gloom (yes I was serious), which it was. Except for the tragic water bottle to the knee injury, almost being run off the trace by the brightest bicycle light in the world, and the cramping caused by running the entire way with a shovel flag that kept trying to fall apart. All of which became the final nail leading today’s beat down going from an intense feat of athletic stoicism featuring the Marsh’s newest mega coupon, an outrageously enormous tire (which has already been stolen after only 2 weeks and no opportunities to use it) to a casual, mumble-chatter filled , Shooter-less tabata session in which YHC’s perfectly apropos Halloween costume ideas for Akbar and Steve were blown apart by the awesomely anticipated Obi Wan Kenobi and Fat Sweat-Pants-wearing Spiderman costumes, featuing family coordination.

    ANYway…

    WARM O RAMA

    Steve covered the warm up while Q…uh…took care of some… business – returning in time to rock out some Imperial Walkers.

    THANG

    Tabata cycles of 4 sets of 20 seconds of reps with 10 seconds rest in between each set. Exercises included Merkins, LBCs, Lunges, Reverse Lunges, Reverse Crunches, Freddy Mercurys, Scorpion Kicks ans more Imperial Walkers.

    COT

    Count, Name, Akbar prayed us out, and we are certainly blessed. This Halloween be sure to be on the lookout for Akbar and his light saber and Steve with his slice of pizza!

    Gentlemen, thanks for posting and playing a few rounds of “Bushwacker says”. And Steve, thanks for the ride home…looks like I won’t need a knee replacement after all! (yet)

  • Short and Sweet!

    This BB will be just as the title states, YHC has entered into 2 seasons both of which are Short and Sweet so enough said..

    Warmarama

    All IC to reps of 10 and 15 SSH, Good mornings, Hillbillies, Arm circles and Mummy kicks..

    Thang

    Moseyed to Marigny each corner reps of 5, 10, 15 and 20.. Burpees, Squats, Merkins and Sister Marys 60-70% Mosey to each corner toward the lake. Total reps 350 and 1 mile. Recover walk past RIPS and backdown Girod reps 5, 10, 15 and 20. Groiners, Balboas, LBCs and Hello Dollies.. 2 mins left Front Plank, Right/Left Arm high and Front Plank.

    Intentions for Southshore’s Bellhop and family for their loss!!

    Thanks to Cowbell for praying us out!!

    Till the next Gloom 👍🏻👊🏻✌🏻!!

  • Easy like Monday morning

    Cowbell and YHC have often discussed the misery of Monday mornings at the Marsh. Typically they’re not the most difficult beatdowns of the week, but coming off the weekend, as Lionel Ritchie would tell anyone who’d listen, they’re never easy, easy like Sunday morning.

    In fact, this beatdown was designed purposefully to be easy, and it still wasn’t easy. If that makes any sense whatsoever.

    After a quick warmorama at center court (consisting of toe touches, arm circles, good mornings, windmills, ssh’s) we took a mosey.

    This whole thing was a mosey, in fact – up the trace, to Jackson, down to the lakefront and back – with the stipulation that we’d stopped at (most) intersections to perform a 1 minute AMRAP of an exercise. From what YHC can remember, it was something like:

    • squats
    • LBCs
    • merkins
    • mountain climbers
    • flutter kicks
    • freak nasties
    • knee ups (1 min each leg)
    • burpees
    • jump squats
    • monkey humpers

    And then back in time to hit the pull up bars for 20 oyo.

    Abbreviated mary of Freddie Mercs and leg raises, and Akbar prayed us out. Thanks men for posting and for the opportunity to lead, as you know, I wouldn’t be out there if it wasn’t for you guys!

  • 3 Men in the Morning

    Was a nice run indeed. 10k. Our talks during the run made the time fly and the run so easy. Prayer close out by Bean. Coffee time baby. Anything to be with the fellas.

  • Brees has a backup, and so should Bushwacker!

    YHC was called in off the bench on this Scramble in hopes of filling big shoes.. While Teddy is holding his own in the Dome and on the road picking up 2 wins for our Saints.. YHC was trying to create some Scrambling moves of his own to bring the PAX to victory while starting day.. Sir Wacker a Veteran of the Scramble and Captain of many post took some much deserved rest this Gloom before partaking on a journey northern bound with Southshores Hawgcycle for a pacing adventure along his much anticipated 100 miler in Arkansas this weekend.. Good luck gentlemen and enjoy the journey.

    Warmup

    All IC 10 Torso Twist, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Slow Squats, Scorpion kicks and SSH.

    T-claps 👏🏻👏🏻 given to Zoolander for posting even though unable to make the run he still chose to hang back and work through a series of BLIMPS and bear crawls.. We all know the local Pele’ of the local indoor soccer club shall return. I tip my cap to your discipline and determination to still get out and post..

    Four PAX set out with 3 Clydesdales holding back the 2 year old Colt known as “Cowbell” from racing out the gate.. He so graciously sacrificed and hung back with the PAX as we Moseyed a modest 9:30 pace through ole Mandeville..

    Great job Akbar for completing the 5k without stopping, as I know just a few weeks ago this was not so, yet you keep posting and now you are a runner and soon to be a 10 Au Lait poster as well..

    Upon return we completed a mini circuit 2x of Nolan Ryan’s, 5 Pull-ups, Freak nasties, leg ups and chest press holds (nice suggestion Chewy).

    Count off, announced upcoming NOLA convergence and F2 on the 17th following a brief beatdown, COT included intentions for a special PAX who could not be with us today..

    Thanks for following the backup this morning gentlemen 👊🏻👍🏻✌🏻 Till the next Gloom!!

  • Dinner, then Dessert

    Ten men posted at The Gipper Wednesday morning ready for fun and games as a reward for completing the Iron PAX Challenge only to learn that they would have to eat their green beans before enjoying dessert. So after a disclaimer and a warmup of Imperial Walkers, Squats, Merkins, Groiners and Seal Jacks, the PAX made their way to the temporary resting place of two newly acquired coupons otherwise known as tractor tires. Assembling into teams of 5, teammates took turns flipping those bad boys to a secret undisclosed location. Don’t worry, Barely Legal (who knows everyone in Gipperland apparently) had secured “permission” for our coupons’ final resting place. Hopefully they’ll be there next week.

    The PAX then transported themselves to the Justice Center via the mosey method where they teamed up once again, this time in teams of 2. Each team selected a ball (most went for the always safe tennis ball and no team was brave enough to select the sole Mardi Gras vintage superball) for surprise exercises. First up was the burpee: partner 1 performed the burp while partner 2 threw the ball high so that partner 1 had to stretch to catch it while jumping out of the burpee. Flap jack and repeat for a few rounds. Then we moved on to 180 hops with partner throws. Amazing feats of athleticism ensued, and it’s too bad ESPN was not present because there was at least one top 10 play of the week involved.

    The partners also hit some shuffles with ball exchanges and in between it all the ball play hit some Mary consisting of A-B-C-D abs, alternating Supermans, and Nolan Ryans.

    Then we recovery walked over to the Justice Center entryway for four rounds each of 40 yards of:

    Accelerate, float, sprint;

    Shuffle, sprint; and

    Backpedal, sprint.

    Mosey back to the shovel flag for countorama, nameorama, and Ringo prayed us out. Thanks for letting me lead guys and remember that the best part of dessert is in your imagination and anticipation, not the actual dessert.

  • You Say You Want a Revolution…How About a Few?

    Pulling up with a few ticks to spare, YHC found a relatively old guard Marsh reunion (given the off kilter schedules of the last month or two) with Shooter, Steve and Waterpik gathered center court. As we got started, 2 more wagons came skidding in ever so strategically.

    WARMORAMA

    10xs IC:

    Toe Touches

    Windmills

    Butt Kicks

    Torso Twists

    THANG

    Gathering at the monkey bars, the PAX cranked out 4 revolutions of:

    5 Pull Ups

    10 Squats

    15 Merkins

    20 Mountain Climbers

    25 LBCs

    Run around the basketball court

    Rinse and Repeat 3xs then plank until the last man returns, then offical 30 plank clock starts.

    All told, that made 900 reps: 60 Pull Ups, 120 Squats, 180 Merkins, 240 Mountain Climbers, and 300 LBCs.

    The PAX unloaded Santa Cowbells coupons of cinder blocks and an enormous tire to stow away at the Marsh for future use.

    MARY

    34 Freddy Mercurys without a minute to spare.

    COT

    Count, Name, Shooter prayed us out with a special intention for one of our own. Please add your prayers to this special intention this week.

    Thanks for following my wacky lead, guys! Y’all make me a better me.

  • In the Books

    The 2019 Iron PAX Challenge is now in the books for the F3 Northshore PAX. T claps to F3 Greenwood for throwing the challenge out to the F3 Nation and keeping so many men across so many regions working hard and engaged for an entire month. The beat downs have been epic, and there is something really positive and rewarding about overcoming physical and mental challenges throughout the course of a month. Monday sees the return of our regularly scheduled program at the Milestone Marsh.

    After a combined warmup of 15x IC of Seal Jacks, Mountain Climbers, Windmills, Butt Kicks, Merkins, OH Hand Claps, and SSHs, the PAX split with Grundy taking the IPC PAX westward and YHC taking the non-IPC PAX eastward.

    The eastward bound PAX circled up across from Rips for some Peter Parkers and Parker Peters, 15x IC, and then made their way to the Rips stairs for 5 minutes AMARP of 10x regular Rocky Balboas, 10x lateral Rocky Balboas, and a trip up and over the stairs. Then it was time to mosey down to the Harbor playground for fun and games.

    YHC deployed some cones and balls from his backpack and engaged the PAX in a passing game with increasing levels of difficulty. We started bounce passing the ball to one another in a predetermined order within the confines of the paint (an area otherwise known as the spash pad and usually occupied by wet and screaming rug rats). Every dropped pass earned the PAX a penalty exercise of 5 burpees, Bobby Hurleys, Bonnie Blairs (hair of the dog), Merkins or I’m a Star Jumps. Proficiency ensued and so the PAX advanced to Level 2 where a trip out of the paint and around a cone was required after passing and before receiving the next pass. The game continued with increasing levels of difficulty and at the very end, before our Indian Run back to the Shovel Flag, the PAX returned to Level 1 and impressed themselves with their passing and communication prowess. Forty minutes of honing skills paid dividends.

    Countorama, nameorama and then over to the coffeeteria after reuniting with our worse for the wear looking IPC brothers.

    Thanks for letting me lead guys and congrats to all of you who participated in the IPC. You are all better men than you were 4 weeks ago.