F3 New Orleans

Category: Northshore

  • “Gloves recommended” only for some Bushwacker! – from Shooter

    With special thanks to the sky Q, it appeared we survived the turbulent weather from the night before on the Northside of the lake.. Keep those in the destructive path in NOLA and St Bernard in your thoughts and prayers today.

    Arrived to at the Old Winn Dixie with Bushwacker sleeping in the upright position in his truck with his foot on the brake.. Thankfully the truck was turned off, how one knew this is there was no headlights on and only brake lights as the hoodie wearing Bushwacker came too as I blew the horn.. YHC had wondered from the previous night if there were any lights on up there, as he could NEVER get a clear response of our meet up, “Hello MCFLY”!! Nevertheless he exited the vehicle and jumped in for our journey to the Gipper..

    We arrived at the empty shell lot and wandered over to the breezeway.. Within moments the headlights started shining through as more PAX arrived.. First up being Murdock, who clearly has taken the Red pill 💊 and committed since being introduced at the Gipper a few weeks back by our recently deployed HogsBreath.. Quite impressive to hear he has already read “Freed to Lead” and announced this gloom a GoRuck event he committed to in September out in GA and get this already paid for 🤑…. If interested be sure to ask him, as I believe he has committed to posting at 4 AO’s this week alone… Next Akbar and BBQ emerge out of the darkness followed by Barely legal and Moby, by the way the latter soon to be 73, but for now he will remind you it’s only 72.99996…

    YHC prepared the PAX with the disclaimer and the recommendation of gloves, which all seemed to be prepared -1…

    Started with a warmup of SSH, Grass grabbers, Cherry Pickers, Self-love, Monkey 🙈 and Butt kicks all 15IC..

    PAX gathered are coupons and corralled back under the breezeway..

    5 Eight count Body Builders
    10 Squat thrusters
    15 Kettle swings
    20 Overhead presses

    Shoulder our coupon to the backside of the Justice center where we partnered up..
    P1 did curls for the girls while P2 moseyed to the stairs for bunny hops up and returned to pickup count. 150 was the count..

    Re shouldered our coupons and journeyed to the front of the Justice center.. P1 step-ups on benches while P2 utilized the rails on the ramps to rail crawl.. 150 total count..

    Indian marched back as the last PAX extended coupon overhead.. PAX each got 2 rounds of the overhead..

    Upon return we R/R what we started as has become the recent theme started with Steve a few weeks back.. Returning the coupon with 2 mins remaining we completed 20IC Mountain climbers and closed with a blank..

    Count, Announce, COT

    Thanks to Barley legal for the prayers and thoughts to those that experienced the unusual tornado event last night!!

    Appreciate the follow gents and until the next Gloom 👊🏼💪🏼✌🏼!!

  • Recycling: Good for the Earth, Good for the Soul – from Steve

    Rolled up a little early to secretly unload a few cinderblocks this morning, only to find Russo and and Murdoch already on the lookout. This was my first time meeting Murdoch, and YHC assumed he was visiting from another region because a) he looked fairly fit and, b) he was already wearing an F3 shirt. But no! Akbar named Murdoch last Wednesday and, with talk of four posts this week, it’s pretty clear he’s all in! Great, we need some new faces at Granny’s. But hey hey hey – let’s not pass along a shovel flag just yet guys.

    Little bit of catching up about the Nehemiah Project’s 4x4x48, about the SLU / Ole Miss game, and about JV doling out life lessons to ignorant teenagers who hit a car and run. Hey, they can’t all be as upstanding as Grover.

    Warmorama: Torso twists, SSH’s, IW’s, windmills, arm circles, seal jacks, cherry pickers, maybe some other stuff.

    Mosey to the stage for the main event.

    Now YHC will admit, recycling old beatdowns has become something of a pattern lately. And by ‘old,’ I mean, last week’s beatdown, maybe one from the week before. It’s not that I’m lazy, or that the beatdown was even that good, it’s… it’s just that… well, ok, yes, YHC is just lazy. And maybe a bit unimaginative. Mostly lazy though. Anyhow, what we did: a rotating circuit with one guy doing 20x burpees as a timer (JV loved this the first time, so you can imagine his delight in repeating it this morning), while the other pax were performing:

    – Curls
    – Squat thrusters
    – Chest presses
    – Lunges

    Because we didn’t have as many guys this time, once we had all completed the above, we set a one minute timer and knocked out big boys and plank jacks, which were part of the original circuit.

    Then a short mosey around the trailhead before returning to… that’s right, rinse and repeat. Somewhere in there, Russo and JV checked the wall of the stage for the scrawled out wisdom of teenagers. A sort of bathroom stall version of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus-kinda thing that can’t be repeated here provided some good laughs (though god help any small kids who stumble upon this – maybe we’ll have to paint over

    After the second run, we kept the burpees (though we downsized to 15x this time) and threw everything else out in favor of:

    – Alpos
    – Rows
    – Goblet squats
    – Monkey humpers

    JV suspected there was some leftover animosity from the Ole Miss game in the way Cowbell kept shouting out: C’mon JV!! No time for the additional exercises this time, stashed away the blocks and circle up for some Mary: leg raises, Rosalita’s, and crunchy frogs to close it out.

    COT, announcements (April 9th, Northshore’s SIXTH anniversary convergence – be there!), and JV prayed us out. Thank you men for the opportunity to get stronger along side you, and the chance to lead. I appreciate it brothers.

  • 3M – March Marsh Mosey – from Akbar

    50 degrees this gloom as 3 HIM showed up to get better. The EH for the Endurathon crew was denied on the spot Sunday, and with good reason. Today was a Marsh Mosey to enojoy the great weather.

    Pax: Akbar, Waterpik, Junior Varsity

    Warm Up: SSH, high knees, butt kicks, self-love, windmills

    Thang 1

    Mosey to Rips, stopping for a set of 25 Merkins, Squats, LBC’s OYO at every other intersection

    Thang 2

    Rips: Australian Mountain Climbers (BTTW position) x 10, run up and down stairs, jump squats x10 on the other side. 2 rounds

    Thang 3

    Light Poles: Mosey down Lakeshore Drive stopping at the first 3 light poles for 10 reps each: Shoulder Taps (2=1); Sister Mary Catherines (2=1); and Superman’s. Continue to light poles 4,5,6 for 15 reps of each.

    Thang 4

    Return to the flag stopping at 2 intersections for 25 Merkins, Squats, and LBC’s. Return just in time for 2 MOM.

    MARY

    Leg Raises, Flutter Kicks x10 each

    Waterpik prayed us out.

    Thanks for letting me lead –

    SYITG, Akbar

  • Run, Tabata, Run – from Fletch

    Yhc arrived at the Gipper where there was already a group of PAX waiting. As we were ready to start, a couple more showed up just in time.
    Warmup: Arm circles, Self love, Good mornings, Windmills, Seal jacks, Imperial walkers, Cherry pickers followed by 20 Merkins, 20 Big boy sit-ups and 20 Squats.
    Thang: Started with a mosey around the train depot followed by Tabatas, 20 sec on 10 sec off 8 cycles.
    Tabata plank position holds.
    Run, mosey around train depot
    Tabata, Al Gores
    Run,train depot
    Tabata, crab cakes, crab humper, crab jacks, Peter Parker, Parker Peter, superman, scuba steve
    Run, burpee dans, 1 burpee, 4 lunge’s, to end of train depot, and mosey back.
    Finishing with 20 merkins, 20 big boy’s and 20 squats.
    Thanks for letting me lead. Much respect for these men.

  • Hogs Breath Last Stand – from Hogs Breath

    This was YHC last Q before I left out for a six month deployment. YHC meant to give a much more advance notice, but alas I didn’t send out a slack notification till Sunday night at about 5:30pm. So I was not expecting a decent turnout as I pulled into Heritage park [The 007] at 5:20am Monday. However, I was pleasantly shocked as I saw a gaggle of Northshore and Southshore pax already waiting on me!
    As I planted the shovel-flag I welcomed everyone and explained the 007 got it’s name from “Live and Let Die” James Bond movie, which had a boat chase filmed on adjacent Bayou Bonfouca.

    Disclaimer: Given

    Warm Up
    We began right off the back with a “Waterfalls Tunderstruck” all the pax formed a circle of pain around the shovel-flag and began SSH of Imperial Walkers. YHC turned on AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and upon the first ‘thunder’ began to do burpee’s. Once the next ‘thunder’ was sung the pax to the right began burpee’s. This repeated in a waterfall fashion. Unfortunately Fletch, Einstein, and Pass Interference all got stuck doing burpee’s during the long instrumental breaks!
    To stretch our backs out we then did 8 IC Abe Vigoda

    The Thang
    Mosey to the coupons,
    We then did a coupon exercise completely made up on the spot! A row, a curl, an overhead press, then a squat for 1 rep. We then did 8, despite Hokie claiming that YHC had “pissed someone off….”
    Then mosey with our coupons to the playground, where we did 8 of the above ‘crazy eight’ then 8 pull-ups. YHC said to do 3 rounds of this, but got a little over-zealous and lost count, so YHC alone did an extra set of pull ups.

    Then we did a coupon walk to show off all the 007 has to offer. We walked along the water’s edge to the West towards Palmettos restaurant. YHC said upon every bench we would do 3 weighted step-ups. And at every “cleat” we would do 3 squats. But no-one spoke nautical so we didn’t understand what dock cleats were… and there are no actual dock cleats instead boats are expected to moor up directly to the pylons. So YHC would just randomly call out squats at various landmarks, whether it be a BBQ grill, a light post, a corner of the sidewalk. The walk provided for lots of mumblechatter and for Murdock to get to know many of the other paxs.
    Upon the round-trip coupon walk, we dropped the coupons back to their resting place.
    With only 5 mins left, we normally would preform some Mary. However, wanting to showcase the AO, YHC had everyone preform a series of bearcrawls / backward runs around the circular sidewalk in front of the amphitheater. The benches would be the marker for the bearcrawl or the backward run.
    Completed at the shovelflag

    Ended with COT and Coffeteria at Starbucks.

    Gentlemen, it has been a true honor to beat myself down with y’all. This is an amazing organization which I will truly miss for the next six months. Y’all have kept my sanity during these last few years. All the way to Coffeteria where I received numerous offers to help out my family while I’m away, I am humbled it be amongst the shadows of such great men!

  • Party Gras (Don’t mind the date) – from Russo

    The radar this morning did not look promising, so YHC was pleasantly surprised to see JV, Fletch, and Cowbell brave the showers and join me for Granny’s Party Gras ™, 2022 edition, even if it was postponed 2 weeks and scaled back.

    Never one to let a moderately adequate planned Q go to waste, the plan was to base the beatdown around everyone’s favorite floating holiday in this area (unless you’re a bigger President’s day, Labor Day, Flag day, or Thanksgiving fan).

    WARMUP (all IC, 10x – 20x)
    Sealjacks
    Good mornings
    Arm circles
    Windmills
    Self love
    Imperial walkers

    THANG
    Trivia, then corresponding exercise (with column slaloms intermittently disbursed between questions)

    How many official colors of Mardi Gras? 3
    – Suicide – 3 merkins at each column

    What year was the first known Mardi Gras parade? 1837
    – 18 burpees, 37 lunges

    What year were floats introduced? 1857
    – 18 merkins, 57 squats

    When does Mardi Gras season start? King’s day, January 6, or 1-6 (correct answer from Fletch!)
    – 16 SMCs

    How many floats were in this year’s Thoth parade? 41
    – 41 plankjacks

    What float number was I on? 31
    – 31 monkey humpers

    How many scheduled parades (riding, walking, dog) were in and around the New Orleans area this year? 71
    – 71 high knees (2 is 1)

    How many all-female Krewes are there? 8 (Nefertiti, Cleopatra, Eve, Femme Fatale, Nyx, Muses, Selene, Iris)
    – 8 8 count body builders

    Tabata (40 seconds AMRAP, 20 seconds rest)
    – Crab cakes
    – LBCs
    – Wife pleasers
    – Peter Parker’s
    – Apollo Ohnos
    – Crunchy Frogs
    – Butt kicks
    – American Hammers

    – 90 second plank

    COT, Name-o-Rama, announcements (Nehemiah project’s Endurathon this weekend, see/contact Hammer for more info) and prayer closed us out.

    Thanks for joining/reading. You guys make it easier to get up before 5 with the threat of showers looming and push myself to get better.

    SYITG

  • A1C is the Hexadecimal Equivalent of 2588 – from Einstein

    …and it just happens to be how old I felt after laying out for a few months.

    after some chit-chat and a short disclaimer we got to it…

    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: Toe Touch, Side Straddle Hops, Shoulder Rolls, High Knees, Arm Circles,
    Thumb Drives, Butt Kicks, Hi Jack Hi Jills, Neck Rolls, Smurf Jacks, maybe some more…

    Thang:
    Standard playday with core exercises at the four corners
    and using the parking lot stripes as a template:

    loop 1:lunge walk forward two stripes, lunge walk backward 1 stripe, repeat, traversing the upper deck
    loop 2:deep squat at every parking space, with a four count bounce
    loop 3:merkin at every parking space

    Count-o-rama

    Russo led us out with prayer.

    Thanks guys. Always extremely decent of you letting me lead.
    And thanks for the ride home Fletch

  • Lindsey who? – from Akbar

    YHC was early this gloom, committing to the 1 miler pre-thang but arriving to no one — just for a little while. An FNG joined me (EH’d by Hogsbreath) and we chatted until one by one they arrived from the dark.

    PAX: Akbar, Hogsbreath, Leroy (FNG), Moby Dick, Blue Note, BBQ, Barely Legal, Hammer

    Warm up: SSH, IW, Hillbillies, Arm Circles, Self-Love, Grass Grabbers

    Head to the block pile and pick out a coupon for 11’s.

    Curls, block carry across the gravel parking area, Shoulder Presses

    Put blocks down, mosey to the Justice Center for Lindsays, aka forties.

    Let’s call them high rep 11’s. Ex 1 is 30 reps, ex 2 is 10 – increases/decrease by 5 until finished. Total 200 reps

    Start at the benches with Freak Nasties x30; lunge walk to the stairs and do 5 calf raises; traverse up to the top of stairs for 10 Irkins then jog back. Rinse and Repeat

    Mosey back to the gravel parking lot via Kareokes left to the stop sign; Karaoke right to the silver pickup, then sprint to the flag.

    Finisher – 11’s of block rows and squats – no mosey.

    Circle up for no mary, but 10 Imperial Squat Walkers (I think).

    Count, Name, welcome Murdock!

    Announcements – see Hammer’s post on Slack for supporting The Nehemiah Project’s Endurathon – spots left to run. Held at Fountainbleu State Park, we will be camping in the group area both nights – so sign up to run and come on out for the party.

    YHC prayed us out with special lift ups for speedy recovery for injured pax, the War, Hogsbreath’s upcoming deployment to Thailand, and for an opportunity for us to shine light into others this week.

    Thanks for showing up and letting me lead!

    SYITG, Akbar

    NMM

    Wasn’t quite sure on timing for this one, but worked out pretty good if you don’t like Mary. Great to be back at the Gipper after being out of town.

    Hammer did a pre-pre thang run with the Nehamiah boys at 5, and headed up to The Gipper afterward.

    Leroy and Hogsbreat know each other from church, another Pax from Pearl River. He’s a medevac pilot currently working for Childrens. Mash and Murdock came out immediately, but YHC was a big fan of the A-Team and Murdock it was.

  • Pop goes the Beatdown – from Hogs Breath

    Pass Interference expressed interest in another beatdown, and he said he wanted to build muscle. So, YHC planned a “pop up” beatdown with coupons and no running.
    Warm Up
    SSH, Garth Brooks, Mountain Man Poopers, Flamingo stretch

    The Thang
    Four rounds of 30 on / 30 off
    Over head press; Bent over Row; Squats; and Coupon Dips.

    During this YHC turned on some music, this was “My Soundtrack” playlist off Amazon Music, so it was a nice mixture of all the music played from all of the devices that YHC family shares. A very eclectic compilation of 90’s Pop, 2000’s Hard Rock, Christian Praise band music, Children’s songs, and some 80’s Pop music!
    After the four iterations, we then mosey’d with our coupons to the old train station “Scoogin Corner” were we preformed a set of 11’s with Curls on one side, lunge walk through the station, and Derkins on the other side.
    We ended with a new exercise of “Grip, Rip, and Roll” pulled form the exicon.
    Of note this was the second beatdown for Murdock. I think we got a full fledge EH on this pax!

    Ended with COT and Coffeteria

  • Bob the Builder – from Hogs Breath

    During Mardi Gras Break YHC took a trip to Akron Ohio and posted with the Copley AO. This beatdown was completely stolen from Akron F3.
    After a quick warm up. Both pax grabbed a coupon from the trunk of Hogs Breath car, and a rock coupon. The move was simple, one pax would mosey with the coupon across the field, then sprint back to the staring line. While the other pax rested, upon the return of the sprinting pax, the second would begin their coupon mosey, drop off the coupon on the far side and sprint back.
    In between the sets, each pax preformed 10 OH press, 10 squats, 10 chest presses.
    Second round was the same; pax 1 coupon mosey to drop off the coupon, sprint back. Pax 2 would rinse and repeat.
    15 OH press, 10 squats, 15 chest presses
    Third round of coupon mosey and sprints.
    20 OH press, 20 squats, 20 chest presses
    All pax then returned the rock coupons and preformed 25 sets of each coupon exercise.

    The morning mumblechatter from Pass Interference went something like “I don’t care what F3 Akron does, I hate sprinting with coupons!”
    Ended with COT and Coffeteria.