F3 New Orleans

Tag: BBQ

  • 10/3/20 – from Shooter

    Wanting to pay tribute to at least one of the many fallen officers of past, present and unfortunately the future… YHC pulled the “Hightower” from the Exicon honoring Jacob Hancher. At 23 years of age and only 8 months into service on the Myrtle Beach police department on 10/3/2020 responding to a call of Domestic disturbance he was met by a 20 year old COWARD. While hit with multiple rounds and on the ground Jacob Hancher managed to unholster his weapon and return fire… He ultimately took a final round at point blank range which ended his life.. With these turbulent times and all this crazy media talking of defunding our brave men and women in uniform, I simply felt the need to at least share with the men of F3 on this Gloom, Jacobs story.

    Warmup
    Reverse order of the date
    20IC SSH
    10IC Toe Touches
    3 Merkins
    20IC Mummy Kicks
    10IC Windmills
    3 Merkins
    20IC Butt kicks
    10IC Cherry Pickers
    3 Merkins

    Thang
    “Hightower” Mathew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God..
    I for one firmly believe the Majority of those who where the uniform are peacemakers!!

    Completed rounds in multiple locations
    R1 Trailhead 9 Burpees
    R2 Bottom of parking garage 9 Man-makers bear crawl halfway up the ramp and spring other half.
    R3 3x Hand release 9 Merkin Burpee back pedal half of flat sprint remainder.
    R4 3xJump squat 9 Burpee bear crawl half and sprint remainder.
    R5 Include all rounds for conclusion.

    Moseyed to the court house spilt into 2 groups.
    G1 1,2,3 step broad jumps up the steps while G2 rail crawled up the handicap ramp. F/J
    To the benches remaining in 2 groups G1 Box jumps 20 G2 2 is 1 bench jump overs.
    F/J

    Returned to the trailhead for Mary.
    20IC Scissor kicks
    10IC Flutter kicks
    3 BB sit-ups
    20IC Bicycles
    10IC Crunchy frogs
    3 BB sit-ups
    20IC 100s
    10IC Left elbow right knee F/J
    3 BB sit-ups

    Announcements and YHC prayed us out giving thanks for Jose 10k moms successful surgery..

    Appreciate leading you men this Gloom and your commitment and accountability to become better men!!

    Till the next Gloom 👊🏼👍🏼✌🏼!!

  • Casino Royale – from Fletch

    No need to gamble with your fitness, just show up and do the work. Warmup of grass grabbers, windmills, imperial walkers, arm circles, forward and backwards, seal claps and overhead claps. The workout of choice was a simple deck of cards where diamonds =squats, hearts=merkins, spades = ssh, clubs= sit-ups. We worked our way through the deck once with a mosey around the parking deck with each joker pulled. We then moseyed around again to finish the deck and started over with each PAX pulling a card at random. Cowbell had luck with him and pulled a joker so we did burpees. We worked our way half through the deck till time was up. Nameorama and Water Pick prayed us out. Everyone walks away a winner after an F3 Beatdown. Thanks gentlemen

  • You Get What You Pay For – from TurboTax

    You get what you pay for. That means one thing when buying a watch or refrigerator but quite another at an F3 Beatdown. The F3 downpayment on the day is measured in effort and sweat and, make no mistake about it, you do indeed get exactly what you pay for.

    So after a quick preliminary warmup of toe touches, shoulder taps, seal jacks, Peter Parkers, SSHs, and Parker Peters, the Gipper PAX made their way to the courthouse, completing the warmup upon arrival with an inchworm walk up the alley.

    Mosey to the top of the courthouse parking garage where we partnered up. Each team worked on completing 100 burpees, one partner knocking them out while the other backpedaled down the ramp and then ran back up to relieve his partner.

    Then to the Veterans Memorial where the partners attempted 100 hand release Merkins coupled with strict lunge walks.

    On to Oak Alley for 200 body weight squats, crab walks and bear crawls.

    And wrapping things up with a stop at the courthouse benches on our way back to the Shovel Flag. A couple of broad jumps combined with partner back to back Al Gores.

    Nameorama and then BBQ prayed us out. Great job this morning guys. Thanks for letting me lead.

  • Arms, Legs, Core and Funk – from BBQ

    Arms, Legs, Core and Funk. The weather cleared but the beat down stayed under the roof at The Gipper. Warm ups were side straddle hops, grass grabbers, wind mills, regular and inverted imperial walkers, regular and inverted Peter Parkers. Self love, arm circles and cherry pickers. Arm work outs with coupons were curls, military press and rows or kettle swings. Legs were Al Gore meets George Thoroughgood, Bonnie Blair’s and squats. The reps for each exercise was 10,15, 20, 15,10 and 5. Core work of of 20 reps each. Freddie Mercury, Flutter kick, American hammer, leg raises, scuba Steve, Einstein’s leg and arm stretches, LBC’s and crunchy frogs. Music was added for the crunchy frogs. Cow Bell led to “ Get the funk out of my face” by The Brothers Johnson. The 1977 disco tune turned the last exercise into the funky crunchy frog and for a moment it was F4! Fitness, Fellowship, Faith and Funk! Fletch prayed us out.

  • Back in Block – from TurboTax

    It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll, but it’s not too far from The Gipper to the boatyard and so that’s where we headed this morning with our blocks after a quick warmup.

    YHC set up four cones 10 yards apart for a 30 yard “field” and the PAX got busy. We farmer carried our blocks from cone 1 to 2, backpedaled to 1, sprinted to 2, then farmer carried our blocks from 2 to 3, backpedaled to 2, sprinted to 3, then farmed carried our blocks from 3 to 4, backpedaled to 3, sprinted to 4, and then farmer carried our blocks back to the starting point at cone 1 completing Round 1.

    Multiple rounds followed after 10 counts with a mix of farmer carries, OH carries, lunge walks, out front carries, backpedals, shuffles, bear crawls, crab walks, sprints, shuffles, lateral hops with Bobby Hurleys, frog jumps, and carioca. We didn’t miss a muscle and then we limped back to The Gipper with our blocks.

    Countorama, nameorama and Bean prayed us out.

    Thanks for letting me lead guys.

    Zoorich Classic this Saturday, April 24th 0630 at the Lakefront.

    F3/FiA beat down followed by F2 on Thursday April 29 18:30 at The Gipper.

    H8! beat down on the Lakefront Saturday May 1st.

  • Surveying New Territory – from Mobydick

    Pax. BBQ, Turbo Tax, Barely Legal, Einstein, Cow Bell, Fletch, Akbar, Grover, Mobydick, Bean, ?

    The Gipper has posted all over downtown Covington for years. Today was new territory. YHC chose to forego the usual warmup circle and took the PAX on a cross town drag and carry. America was laid out by intrepid bands of surveyors that drug chains for miles to measure and note land marks while hauling their gear. The 11 man PAX devided into 3 teams with one 35 lb concrete block per team. A long heavy chain lay stretched out on New Hampshire street. The thang was for each man in order drag the chain one length end for end. It took 11 men two pulls each to get to the gates of Bogue Falaya Park. Mean while each team had to keep up with the chain while team carrying the block over head and lunge walking the 4 blocks to the park.
    Leaving the chain at the gate PAX with block still over head did a tour around the new pathway along the River and stoping at the benches for Derkins Squats Step ups and more Merkins with more lunge walking in between. The return to the Gipper dragging the chain. We must have made pretty good surveyors cause the end of the chain ended up right where it started.
    Not a lot of cardio but YHC found a couple of missing muscles the next day

  • Squat, Lunge, Squat – from Einstein

    I posted this backblast last Friday, but it was rejected.
    I’m guessing too many swear words were in the original version, and it was rejected. (probably rejected from that guy who went to Notre Dame)
    I’ve been binge-watching “Trailor Park Boys,” and have developed what my Dad used to refer to as a “bankrupt vocabulary.”

    Anyways, here is how it went:
    Short disclaimer …
    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: SSHops, TTouch, WMills, IWalkers, HBillys, SJacks, GMornings, SLove, CPickers, BKicks

    Partner up for; 100 jump squats, 200 right foot in front of left foot lunge, then left foot in front of right foot lunge, 300 wide angle squats.
    While one partner was squatting, the other partner sprinted half the distance of the parking garage deck, jogged the other half, then back-peddled the whole distance back.
    Then the partners flip-flopped, keeping the count total going.

    Two minutes of Mary; included flutter kicks, and crunches

    Count-o-rama, MobyDick leads us out with a prayer.

    Thanks guys for letting me lead today.

  • Watch your step? – from Shooter

    Ailing all week with the potential diagnosis of a broken foot YHC got the news Thursday he needed too go ahead and shed the boot 🥾 he had worn the previous 3 days.. Only problem now is the arrival and center stage monkey humper position of “Turbo Dawg” to lay out a Hershey squirt right in the center of the PAX. Which for whatever reason would find the PAX once again circling up around the damaged section of concrete for count and call and the addition of him emptying his bladder as if his territory was not marked up enough. “Watch your step!” Zoolander. YHC must have known the gloom would have presented these moments as Jose 10k arrived mentioning the fact of how his week started with a deranged axe 🪓 yielding fellow swinging it above head as the school week began. Be sure to ask him the next time you see him. As for the rest of us on top the parking garage we couldn’t resist the mention of #Floridaman by Russo to start reminiscing of the days of W&J broadcasting on B97 as Hammer recalls. The enormous “B” inflatable could be seen around town at car dealerships and on site broadcast events all around the Metro NOLA area and if there are still any 10% out there check them out on the 99.5 weekday mornings..

    Alright enough mumbling we can save for F2 at the Waffle House where the rest of the #floridamen meet before getting there assignments.. No judgement here just something I heard mentioned worthy of noting….

    Warmup
    All IC 10 Arm circles F/J, Cherry pickers, Toe touches, SSH, Windmills and Torso twists.

    Thang
    YHC parked his certainly Manly and always roomy Honda FIT a floor below with coupons for the beatdown. Stations were set with the dice of doom, jump rope, Ruck plate, the Black mystery bag, a wagon and a selection of light and heavy cylinder blocks..
    2 men alternate turns wheeling there fellow brethren up the ramp in the wagon completing a burpee at the top and returning for their pull back up. Rest of the PAX alternate through the station’s completing one arm plate swings, rolling your own destiny with the dice of doom, jumping rope, curls for the girls, squat thrusters, Tri-extensions and bag carries up and down the stairs.. Every man made it through each station and we finished with 3 mins to return the coupons to the FIT.

    We assembled back up top for countarama, namarama and COT with Russo closing us out in prayer.. Not quite sure why the PAX assembled back where we did, however I appreciate that we did because it certainly assisted with the naming of this backblast.

    Thanks for following my lead and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Take Shelter – from TurboTax

    8 High Impact Men took their red pills this morning and posted to The Gipper for what looked sure to be a wet workout. Of course it remained dry the whole beat down, but YHC had inscribed the beat down on his stone Winkie and weather conditions were irrelevant. Time to take shelter and get busy.

    After a warmup of Imperial Walkers, Mountain Climbers, Seal Jacks, Parker Peters, Windmills and Peter Parkers, all 10x IC, it was time for the Main event.

    5 burpees every minute on the minute for 40 minutes broken down into 8 sets. Each set coupled 5 exercises with the burpees: 5 burpees with 5 SSHs, 5 burpees with 5 squats or squat jumps, 5 burpees with 5 toe touches, 5 burpees with 5 calf raises or jump ropes or one foot hops or ice skater hopes and finally 5 burpees with 5 air presses. Rinse and repeat with some intensity added, finishing up with 100 air presses before retiring to the COT. Countorama, nameorama and Einstein prayed us out. Thanks for letting me lead guys and hope to see you all Thursday 1800 at the Lakefront Gazebo for our joint beat down with FiA.

  • We’re Caught in a Trap, and Can’t Walk Out… – from Akbar

    Because I love y’all too much baby.

    And so it began, the 2nd annual Merkin Trap on the lakefront. Last year around this time we did 400 Merkins, could it be topped? I think so.

    18 PAX converged at the Lakefront today (without Gnats!) to make ourselves better. It could have been an even 20 if TankedUp didn’t steel Bush and Steve for a OYO Marathon.

    Gloom Factor – overcast, chilly 47 degrees

    Warm up – Nada. It’s time to get to business

    THANG – multiple exercises, mosey’s, and a lot of Merkins with a surprise thrown in mid-way. Exercises were done IC, 12,8,5 (50 reps) and some OYO.

    Starting out at the shovel flag: SSH | Merkins IC 12,8,5

    Mosey to Rips for Calf Raises on the stairs | Dirkins on the curb. 12,8,5 IC

    Mosey to the wall: Step Ups OYO in sets of 12/8/5 | Irkins OYO 24, 16, 10

    Run 2 blocks to Jefferson, stop for 10 Merkins at Claiborne. Monkey Humpers |Stone Mountain 12/8/5 IC

    Run 2 blocks to Monroe stop at Madison for 10 Merkins. Squats | Leg-up Merkins 12,8,5 IC

    Run to the Marsh, stop at Livingston for 10 Merkins

    Milestone Marsh: 50 pull ups, 50 Freak Nasties OYO – modification was supine or negative pullups

    Cowbell gave me a time check before we hit the Marsh, and after 100 reps YHC had to modify to make it back in time.

    Run back to the flag, stopping at each street for 15 Merkins.

    On the way, some father son intensification took place with Hammer and Pickaxe. Hammer carried Pickaxe most of the way piggyback style, and I took a turn for 1 leg. While Hammer and I did Merkins, Pickaxe did a Luigi (I think) – or pretty much a Merkin with no arms. At least he didn’t have to carry Shooter for 6 blocks.

    Back to the shovel flag for the wrap up.

    · Crunchy Frogs for Cowbell | Merkins 12,8,5 IC
    · LBC’s IC 12,8,5 24 Irkins OYO 8,5 FIA Merkins IC
    · Hello Dolly | Merkins IC 12,8

    500 Merkins in an hour, Advil post beatdown OYO

    Count, Name – Welcome FNG Binky!

    Announcements:

    1. F2 with FIA Thursday March 25th, 6pm at the Lakefront Gazebo and Barley Oak afterwards. Bring your wife, girlfriend, your female children, and their friends. Who wouldn’t want to attend that!

    2. Zoolander Q next week at the Milestone Marsh – NOT THE LAKEFRONT

    Thanks for following my lead,

    Till Next Gloom – Akbar

    Moleskin

    I first did this workout in Atlanta and loved the cadence. Last year we did it with 400 Merkins and hit 500 this year. 600 in 2022?

    Great to see Blaze back at the Mothership again.

    Zoolander had a 3 man EH. T claps for What’s That making the trip all the way from Kenner.

    T Claps to Pickaxe who hung in there, that’s a long way to run for a young man.

    Great to see Steve again at coffee and glad he’s back in the workforce.

    TankedUp is either crazy, a beast, or both. He just decided to run a marathon in Covington on his own. Maybe because Hammer called him Geriatric. T Claps brother.