F3 New Orleans

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  • No legs workout for the runners and cyclists among us – from Amnesia

    Warmup:
    20 x SSH, MC, IW, Peter Parkers, Windmills – all IC.

    The Thang:
    EMOM – first minute, 5 reps of merkin variant; next minute, 15-25 reps of other upper body exercise, all OYO. Next round, increase merkin variant reps by 5. Got through two rounds and started the third before YHC noticed we wouldn’t have enough time. Good thing, too. YHC wouldn’t have made it through round 3, but don’t tell any of the PAX that attended!

    Merkin variants: vanilla, diamond, clerpin, derkin, Carolina Dry Dock, diamond derkin
    Others: first round was mostly overhead press w/coupon (with some chest presses thrown in there); second round was more consistent: 20 coupon curls. Third round was coupon chest presses. Since only one merkin variant was completed on round 3, the coupon chest press was rolled over to the 6MOM.

    6(ish)MOM:
    20 ab exercise reps IC alternated with 30 coupon chest presses OYO. Abs exercises were leg raises, flutterkicks, plank (chillcut, both sides, and reverse), dying cockroaches, Freddy Mercuries, and finished with crunchy frogs led by the man himself. No presses after last ab exercise.

    COT:
    Count-o-rama, Name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, and prayer. Happy 3 years to YHC!

  • Akbar meets Solo and Cindy Crawford on the Payne Train – from Akbar

    YHC arrived early this gloom for a Hero beatdown, and by 5:15 there was still 1. With Cowbell out of town, no late arrival was expected so it was time for some Solo work to honor 2 fallen soldiers.

    Corporal Randy Payne and Corporal Matt Dinning were killed together on April 22, 2006 in Afghanistan while conducting a Close Protection mission, when the Armored G-Wagon they were riding in was struck by a roadside bomb near the Gumbad platoon house.

    WU – 10 Slow high knees, then 10 fast IC
    10 Slow Butt Kicks, then 10 fast IC
    10 IW, Hillbillies, self-love, arm circles, toe touches

    THANG

    The Cindy: 5 pull ups, 10 merkins, 15 Squats. Complete 5 rounds, 300-meter run, then 4 round, 3 rounds… down to 1 for time.

    Finished at 24:36.

    MARY

    What’s a Cindy without the Crawford?

    20 LBC’s, 25 Calf Raises, 5 rounds, 4 rounds, etc to 1

    COT – Corporal Payne and Minning, their families, those who serve our country, and past fallen soldiers. Shooter, Cowbell, and BBQ on vacation.

    Announcements: Amnesia’s 3 year anniversary at Granny’s tomorrow.

    Till next gloom,

    Akbar

  • Gnarly Hangover – from Zoolander

    Four veteran pax converged upon the Scramble this Thursday morning. Admittedly, none of us posted at the Gnarley Nutria, so we at least had an excuse to be well rested. We warmed up with 10 IC SSH, Toe touches, windmills, Apollo Ohnos, and 41 merkins OYO. Ran the normal route with minimal disruption from the deluge remnants that plagued Mandeville earlier in the week. Steve and Bushwacker carried the 12, while Shooter and YHC unabashedly represented the 6. Cooled down with a 4-exercise circuit on the playground equipment: pull ups, leg lifts, chest presses, and hyperextensions. Count, name, pray, out.

    Great to be with you fellas early in the morning. SYITG.

  • 1 year anniversary – from Jose10k

    Warm-up: ssh, grass grabbers, arm circles, windmills all reps of 15 in honor of my daughter turning 15 on Tuesday. The thang: moseyed to the courthouse for some dora. 100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 lbcs partner work. While one partner was performing each exercise, the second partner climbed the walkway rails hand over hand. Once finished, moseyed back to the parking garage entrance, then sprint up the inclines up to the top. Once at the top, Moby busted out the chain. We gathered in a line and each man pulled the chain across the parking garage. Last 5 minutes, busted out some mary. Leg raises, crunchy frogs, etc.. COT and Shooter prayed us out. BBQ busted out some birthday brownies along with some party poppers. Thanks to his wife for the tasty treats.
    Thanks for letting me lead, thanks for celebrating 1 year at the A1C, and thanks for the support for creating the AO. Y’all push me to be better.

  • Keep Your Eye on the Ball – from TurboTax

    The Gipper PAX turned out strong this morning with nary a concern about tonight’s rendezvous with the Gnarly Nutria. After a warmup of SSHs, mountain climbers, seal jacks, Peter Parkers, IWs, Parker Peters, toe touches and Merkins, we headed over to the Justice Center for an animal parade. Crab walks, ostrich walks, bear crawls, gorilla walks, and frog jumps down the alley and then a short mosey to the opposite side of the JC for a series of passing games. Keeping it light to keep the legs fresh for those making the trek to compete in the GN but still competitive enough to make a nice downpainment on the day for the others, we worked together as a team to keep the ball moving and paid the price in penalty exercises when our teamwork broke down. Back at the Shovel Flag, Moby prayed us out. Thanks for letting me lead guys.

  • Some things old, some people new – from Russo

    Based on reading backblasts and personal witness, it’s the opinion of YHC that the MVP of summer beatdowns is Jose 10k. But recently, Bypass is giving Jose a run for his money for July. Joining us just over a week ago, not only has he continued to post, but he already EH’ed Deep Six into joining us, even if it’s only temporary.

    The “new” were joined by 4 “old” Pax for one of my favorite standbys. Rainy, humid conditions at Granny’s this morning, where we managed to avoid most of the torrential rain both before and after beatdown. We were able to witness the, ahem, progress, the city is making on the splash pad (hence the need for fence construction). Let’s just say there are a few new holes from broken concrete and some more mud than usual.

    Warmup (10-20x, IC)
    – SSH
    – Arm circles
    – Self Love
    – Toe touches
    – High knees
    – Goof balls
    – Imperial Walkers

    We moseyed all around Granny’s and the warehouse to stretch our legs before….

    Thang
    More math with the return of the Deck of Death/Destruction/Discomfort/Delineation

    Suits from a standard card deck represent an exercise, the number/face the number of reps (Aces high at 15 reps). Flip over the card, perform the exercise, rinse and repeat.

    4 Rounds, 13 cards each round….Math!!!
    Spades – Shoulder Tap Merkins
    Clubs – Crab Cakes
    Diamonds – Jump squats
    Hearts – Circle Ups

    Spades – Merkins
    Clubs – Calf Raises (2x)
    Diamonds – SMCs
    Hearts – Leg raises

    Spades – Carolina Drydocks
    Clubs – Monkey Humpers
    Diamonds – Squats
    Hearts – 6 inch drill (IC)

    Spades – Peter Parker’s (2 is 1)
    Clubs – Plank Jacks (2 is 1)
    Diamonds – High knees (5x)
    Hearts – Gas Pumps

    In between rounds, we moseyed through the columns at Granny’s slalom style. YHC has to note that Jose must have known his MVP status was in jeaopardy, because he absolutely killed the last mosey.. He and Zoolander completely left the rest of the pax in their wake.

    With just a minute or so left, old fashioned merkin wave closed us out, where again Jose outperformed!

    We closed with the COT, name o rama, announcements, and prayer.

    Reminders:
    Gnarly Nutria tomorrow! Meet at 7:45 around the old Winn Dixie

    Friday: A1C one year anniversary – 5:15AM and PickleBall at Pelican Park around 6:30 (I think)

    Thank you again for the opportunity to lead, and I hope if you’re reading this, you’re safe, high, and dry from today’s storms.

    SYITG

  • Not Draggin’ Around – from Akbar

    YHC arrived at the gloom right on time after hitting the snooze this morning too many times. The AO was vacant, with one unidentified truck. Out walked Bypass and his FNG, Waterpik ran up as usual, and Hogsbreath was the last to make it 5. T Claps for the EH Bypass, in your second week nonetheless. Still burning from Saturday, there would be minimal shoulder work today.

    Warm up SSH, IW, Arm Circles (F/B), Self-Love x 10

    Short Mosey to the playground for Pull-Ups and Swing Tucks: 10, 8, 6 each OYO

    Thang : Mosey to the Lakefront wall. As we started, a man in his car rolled down the window and said “stop draggin’ arse!” That’s really the definition of a Mosey sir, so we did Mosey and stopped for some exercises

    Block 1 10 Apolo Ohno’s (2 is 1), 25 Merkins

    Block 2 10 Apolo Ohno, 25 Merkins, 50 Lunge walk (1-1)

    Lakefront 25 Dirkins OYO, 20 Freak Nasties IC, 20 Peter Parkers IC

    Mosey back to the court stopping along the way for:

    Block 1 10 Apolo Ohno’s (2 is 1), 25 Merkins

    Block 2 10 Apolo Ohno, 25 Merkins, 50 Lunge walk (1-1)

    Back at the beginning, line up on court for 10 Apolo Ohno’s, 25 Merkins, 50 Squats OYO. Move to center court for 50 LBC’s IC. Mosey to playground for Pull-Ups and Swing Tucks: 10, 8, 6 each OYO

    Mary Leg Raises, Hands to Heels x10 IC

    Count, Name, Welcome Deep Six!

    YHC prayed us out with thanks for health & leadership. Thanks for Deep Six’s service to our country and save travels on his trek to NC.

    Announcements

    Gnarly Nutria Wednesday at 9am. Meet at the old Winn Dixie/Acquistapace for Clown Car at 7:45pm.

    FIA/F3 Mixer will not happen this week. It’s been changed to every other month, starting in August. More to come.

    Thanks for letting me lead,

    Akbar

    NMM

    Bypass’s friend Danny was on his way from San Diego to Fort Pendleton in NC. A Marine, he was a beast. He must have done 50 pullups to our 10 at the playground. He loves to Scuba Dive, so Deep Six was appropriate for his F3 name. Bypass and Deep Six said they’d be at Grandmas tomorrow. Great mumblechatter as always on the mosey to the lakefront and back.

  • Bunch of Dora’s – from Akbar

    16 PAX arrived at the Lakefront Saturday to get better. Today’s agenda would be simple, a Steve workout if you will. Dora 123 * 3. Great to be back with my brothers after a 10 day vacation.

    WU – SSH, Merkins, High Knees, Butt Kicks x 25. Grass Grabbers, Self-Love, Arm Circles (F/B) x 10

    THANG: 3 Doras, partners switch each time

    Mosey to the wall at Rips

    Dora 1

    Partner 1 runs to the top of the stairs at Rips, 10 Calf Raises, return to relieve Partner 2

    100 Stone Mountain (feet on wall)

    200 Freak Nasty

    300 Halleluiah Squat (hand up in the air)

    Mosey to the wall at the Gazebo

    Dora 2

    Partner 1 Bear Crawls to sidewalk, mosey back to relieve Partner 2

    100 Dirkins

    200 Gas Pumps

    300 Superman Rows

    Mosey back to the flag

    Dora 3

    Lightning round, partner 1 runs to the street and back, relieve partner 2

    50 Big Boy Situps

    100 American Hammers (2 is 1)

    150 Step Ups (1 is 1)

    Most were finished with 2 minutes left, but not all. QIC called recover and we circled up to honor The Manny with 25 Little Manny Crunches.

    Count, Name-o-Rama. Welcome Swole Patrol!

    NMM – T Claps to The Manny for making the trip from Picayune, great to see you brother. Manny will try and make 2 workouts a month going forward. And to Grundy for the EH of Swole Patrol, who walked up late with no fear and jumped right in. Going head-to-head in Bear Crawls with Swole was quite impressive, he gave it all he had. Chainsaw and Pickaxe teamed up with YHC for the lightning round, with impressive modifications and counts. Also great to see Bypass again for his 3rd beatdown of the week. We worked a lot more shoulders than I thought, mine are still burning at this writing. Hammer named Swole, reminiscing back to his working days on the West Bank – where he saw a stout dude in a truck with Swole Patrol emblazoned on the front. Good work men.

  • No Monkey business at the A1c!! – from Shooter

    Knowing YHC would be out the next 2 days I wanted to give the PAX something to remember. There was no Monkey business but there was Monkey Humpers which brought a comment from Moby that had the PAX in stitches 😂😂 for some of the warmup.. Don’t quite remember the exact statement but I believe he shared “They’ll be no Monkey Humping from me in my future.” or something along those lines.. Either way the PAX really enjoyed his statement and if you want to confirm just ask the next tome you see him..

    Warmup
    Variations of 10IC/20IC arm circles, Cherry Pickers, Windmills, Butt kicks, Mummy kicks, SSH, Toe Touches and of course Monkey 🐵 Humpers..

    Thang
    YHC planted a special delivery at the northern side base of the parking garage.
    You guessed it coupon Friday.
    Picking the 7 of diamonds ♦️ from the Exicon for today’s beatdown.
    The attempt was 7 rounds of exercise. Brief description four corners or in our case 4 lamppost. Increasing rep count by 7 each round to 28 and backdown to 7. For the Qs sake an audible was called for the 28 count exercise 😰😰. 4 rounds of each
    7 rep count each lamppost 8count body builder with a thruster replacing the Plank Jack Tanked.. 14 rep count kettle swings, 21 block Merkins, 28 curls for the girls, 21 chest press, 14 squat thrusters and time expires.. PAX carried the coupon at all times and between each round… T👏🏼👏🏼to all the men on this day for sticking with it and pushing through.. We all agreed that Tanked seemed to just be getting warmed up as he grunted through the finish line, however he graciously informed the Q he was feeling toward the end and the grunts were an assist to finish strong 💪🏼 💪🏼…

    Count, announce and COT with the Q closing out with intentions for my neighbor and prayers for Amnesia’s wife..

    Thanks for posting and and keeping me accountable you fine men!!

    Till the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • I’m not doing that – from Waterpik

    With 1 week remaining before the annual Gnarly Nutria, YHC figured it would be good to get a little extra mileage in today. When YHC announced that the route would include 2 laps around the neighborhood circle, Jose 10k said, “I’m not doing that”. And so there it was. One lap for Jose and 2 laps for shooter and YHC.