Tag: Bushwacker

  • Hit the Bricks! OR When Everyone’s Falling Apart, It’s Time to Push ‘Em Harder – from Bushwacker

    With May weather showing up in February, who knew we would get more 50s in the morning! It was a welcome way to start a challenging beat down on what will prove to be a gorgeous day! For YHC, this morning was about putting my money where my mouth is. There have been some grumbles about the same people signing up to lead the same workouts, and, to be quite honest, the work outs and moral are suffering. How creative, challenging and dynamic can a Q be with his beat down, when he’s lead the same one on the same day 30 out of the last 40 times?! So Bushwacker’s name was added to the sign up sheet and he brought the pain! (maybe a little too much?)

    WARMORAMA

    With Q running a little behind setting up props for the main-ish event, Zoo lander was kind enough to get things started with some Toe Touches and 1 or 2 other exercises. QIC continued with: IC 5 Torso Twists, x10 High Knees, Butt Kicks, Scuba Steves, Mountain Climbers, Shoulder Taps

    THANG

    OYO 100 Lunge Walks towards the west, then mosey to The Shaft.

    1st and 10:

    Markers were set up on the sea wall at 20′ intervals (not enough room for 10 yard intervals). Starting at the 1st marker each man started 11’s with 10 merkins and 1 Burpee in the same place. After, sprint to the last marker and recovery run back to the second marker for 9 Merkins and 2 Burpees, sprint to the end, recovery walk to marker 3, etc. etc. When finished, return to the start and Plank or core exercise to wait for the 6. It was as the process was being explained that Grundy graced us with his presence.

    After all the PAX (and then Jose) had finished, they took advantage of the markers to run Suicides (or Gaskets, Wind Sprints or whichever moniker you prefer).

    Next was a mosey back to the Gazebo, which was when Grundy revealed his inhaler on account of a mild asthma attack! He eventually made it to find Akbar’s Ring of Fire in progress. Whereas the Ring of Fire is a circle of Planks where each man drops for a Merkin as the count reaches him, Akbar’s version consists of a Merkin followed by a leap to to your feet and a hop with hands raised, all in a Burpee-ish fashion. 50 some-odd counts later, the Pax returned to 100 Lunge Walks OYO then mosied the rest of the way to the flag.

    By this point JV was stealing Jose’s grumble thunder regarding all of this darn running, on account of a lingering mystery injury to his foot/ankle. At the flag: 25 Jump Squats OYO, on the wall for: IC Freak Nasties, Irkins, Dirkins, and 25 OYO Box Jumps, where the acutely winded Grundy barked his shin on the cocnrete wall. EMT Todd was on sick leave, and since almost-Eagle Scout Baby Yoda was not present, the always prepared and ever dependable Zoolander leapt into action grabbing a first aid kit from his truck for a little BLS work on the twice-felled Grundy.

    Mosied to Noah Ark and circled up for a variation of Global Warming, where Holding AL Gore, each Pax counted off as they popped up (or squatted lower) individually, counting to 100.
    Mosied back to the flag for…

    MARY

    IC x25 Flutter Kicks, 20 Hello Dollys, 20 Wife Pleasers, 25 Freddy Mercurys, OYO 100 100’s

    COT

    Count, Name, we lost a few of our brethren along the way in Waterpik, Bird, and Grundy, though some came back, in the ineffably resilient Grundy,and some joined late, in Maverick, and later, in Cowbell (Starsky). Speaking of joining us, even though YHC missed his latest actual return last week, welcome back Cotter in Butt Splice! He was kind enough to pray us out on this lovely lovely day.

    The Endurathon benefiting the Nehemiah Project is coming up on March 17-19 at area 3 group camp at Fontainbleau Sate Park. Support the F3 team by sponsoring a loop, or joining in running a loop with Jose, Hammer, Speedy, or Tank. There will be camping Friday and Saturday night so bring the fam!

    The Fury, the Northshore’s 7th anniversary convergence will be on Saturday April 1 starting at 6am on the Lakefront. 12 45 min beat downs, 12 Qs, every hour on the hour! Come for 1, 2, or 12 like Tank. Drinks at the Barley Oak to follow at 6pm. See Slack for the sign up sheet to see who will be Q and to let F3 know which beatdowns you wish to attend. Let’s get a crowd all day long!

    And finally, making this thing – OUR thing – the best it can be, as well as the most attractive to sad clowns and other guys who generally might consider joining us, it takes the effort and dedication of all the PAX. If, excuses aside, your schedule legitimately allows it, consider coming out to a week day beat down and see your brothers more than once a week. As long as Ive been in F3 I can truly say that getting up has been treacherously challenging some mornings, but not once have I EVER regretted getting to a beatdown!
    And while we’re at it, let’s give Russo, Akbar, Shooter, and Waterpik a break and commit to a few Qs. Sign up and let’s get as full as we can a month out each month.

    Big congratulations to Amnesia who, rumor has it, has accepted job offer in Pennsylvania, and to Cowbell and Mrs Cowbell who are expecting TWINS!!!

    Gentlemen, I remain humbled by the opportunity to lead such a fine group of guys, and appreciate your willingness to follow that sometimes fickle, sometimes grueling, sometimes non-sensicle lead

    Bushwacker Sr.

  • Did someone ask for Cilantro? – from Shooter

    Well, I know if you’re reading this you might be wondering what on earth does Cilantro have to do with a beatdown? Simply put, Rucking allows for us Bigger guys, often called pumpkins 🎃 or other nicknames depending on who may post to discuss many topics…
    So, the topic for the day of course was included with the question. What is Cilantro good on? The obvious being Mexican food.. Tacos, salsas, marinades, etc. However, with the recent opening of Mandeville drive thru crawfish recently, Qs taste buds are trying to pin point the secret ingredient used and believes this to be in fact Cilantro.. If any outsiders have the scoop on the above, please share.. YHC may have convinced JV to give it a shot this weekend in one of his boils, as a our mud bug season is officially off and running…
    If you have not tried the drive thru crawfish, I certainly suggest giving it a shot as myself and Russo both agree they are consistent and delicious even if Cilantro is not apart of the recipe… Waterpik and Bushwacker seem to have a more balanced conversation as they were still chattering upon the Ruckers return..

    Warmup
    5 Navy seal Burpees
    10 IC Imperial walkers, grass grabbers, Abe Vogadas, bridges, wife pleasers and monkey Humpers..

    Ruckers rucked and runners ran for about 30 mins and then we returned for 5 more Navy seal burpees and equipment work controlled by pull-ups of 10 each PAX, sit-ups, chest press, freak nasties and leg ups.. Finished core with 15IC flutter kicks, hello Dollie’s and Rosalitas..

    Count, announce and COT

    Thanks to Russo for taking us out and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Global warming with Al Gore – from Fletch

    7 strong in the gloom of this humid morning at the Gipper.
    Warmup: toe touches, grass grabbers, merkins, arm circles, Peter Parker’s, imperial walkers, windmills and hillbillies.
    Thang: started with bear crawl to the street.
    Burpee Dans (1 burpee 4 lunges) to the corner. Shuffle, left foot forward then right foot forward to the next corner and mosey to the Taj Mahal. Circle around the flag and 1 round of BLIMPS: Burpee’s (5), Lunges (10),Imperial walkers (15),Merkins (20),Plank jacks(25) Squats(30). Global Warming, hold Al Gore position and slowly shuffle around flag and do 15 big boy sit-ups reverse direction and 10 merkins reverse again and 20 Bobby Hurleys. Mosey around the building and 1 more round of global warming and 10 Parker peters ic. Bear crawl to the road, shuffle, backpedal and mosey to the rock garden for curls, tricep extensions, grave diggers ic and mosey bak to the Gipper. Barely legal prayed us out. All had a good sweat going. Great workout! Thanks

  • What the Ruck? – from Jose10k

    Simple plan: Go Ruck yourself. Great conversations to be had this morning. Too many parade stories to write about: wild parade riders and best parade were hot topics!

  • The Lions Share – from Akbar

    14 strong at the Lakefront today in bitter conditions. Einstein down range from F3 Houston – who brought an FNG, and 2 other FNG’s related to the first FNG. A family affair. Slots joined us mid-way appearing from nowhere. Did I say it was cold? We got warmed up fast.

    Conditions: 30 degrees and breezy

    Warm Up
    50 SSH, 5 Burpees, 40 SSH, 5 Burpees, Self-Love, Toe Touches, Grass Grabbers, 30 SSH, 5 Burpees, 20 SSH, 5 Burpees

    Thang – Ladder from 100-10 with some runs in between

    100 Squats
    90 Crunchy Frogs

    Mosey to Rips

    80 Rocky Balboa’s (2-1) with a squat jumps after every 10 reps
    70 Wall Plank Jacks – Feet up on wall

    Mosey up Noah’s Ark to Claiborne
    60 Around the World Lunges – front, side, reverse each leg = 6 reps x 10

    Mosey down Claiborne to the old Varsity Sports
    50 Bird Dog Crunches 25 each side

    Mosey back to the Flag
    40 Merkins
    30 Supermans

    Mosey to Noah’s Ark
    20 frog leaps – Hands behind head

    Mosey back to the Flags
    10 Navy Seal Burpees- courtesy of Einstein – Merkin, right leg to right arm, Merkin, left leg to left arm, Merkin, Jump with Clap at top = 1

    Wall Freak Nasty IC x 10

    Mary IC x 10

    LBC, Mountain Climbers, Peter Parker, Jane Fonda, Monkey Humpers, Flutter Kicks, 100’s, Gas Pumps (BBQ led IC)

    Count-o-rama, Name-o-rama
    Welcome FNG’s Parcheezi, Mahoney, and Baggins

    Announcements: Run Cajun Run, Endurathon, City Pork (City Park F3 family event with 5 5k’s) tentatively Feb 25th.

    Circle up, Paw Paw prayed us out

  • Workin’ Our Legs, Workin’ Our Core, and Workin’ Our jaws – from Bushwacker

    Heading to bed, YHC noticed no Q for the Splash Pad. Sure that at least Russo, the Guardian of the Mandeville Trail Head would be there (plus a bonus in Pelican), Bushwacker was on the Q sheet. Around 40 degrees after what ( in February?!) may well be our last significant cold front, it was a brisk morning calling for some immediate thermogenesis.

    WARMORAMA

    QIC recalls starting with 10 IC High Knees and 10 Butt Kicks, but after that it’s all a bit fuzzy.

    THANG

    The PAX mosied down Girod towards the lake, stopping at the Rusty Pelican’s “waiting shelter” for some step ups, and probably 1 or 2 other exercises. What was really focused on during the mosey, as well as for a few minutes every time we stopped, was high level mumblechatter!

    Next was the book and the bean for some quick yoga with our coffee in the form of bungled, but effective Lizard’s Poses. The sea wall was the next stop, and honestly I don’t remember what we did other than more yapping.

    Returning up Lafitte, we paid homage to the out of town (though not out of work) hairdresser, and his lovely family with some Toure de Humpers!

    MARY

    Back to the trail head with 2 core exercises followed by an ever extended jog up the stairs and around ALL the columns,l etc, etc.

    COT

    Count and Name and Pelican prayed us out, and he and myself rounded out the miles for RCR

    Adieu Adieu to you and you and you…and merci beaucoup!

  • Ballgames – from TurboTax

    After a quick warmup of imperial walkers, toe touches, mountain climbers, windmills, SSHs, and seal jacks, the PAX headed over to the Justice Center for some ballgames. Operating in a cone demarcated field, the PAX played a passing game with a tennis ball. Various permutations with various penalties for fumbles had the PAX working hard on their ball skills. Tanked Up was particularly adept at handling the ball, and one can only think he gets lots of practice. At any rate, fun for all and then we traveled back to the shovel flag for our countorama, nameorama and prayer. Thanks for letting me lead guys. Krazy Ivan this Friday at 8 p.m. Mandeville Lakefront gazebo with F2 afterwards at the Barley Oak.

  • Four Cistercian Monks + One – from Einstein

    A cool 40 degrees for the gathered PAX, this past Wednesday morning, at The Gipper
    And good to see cousin Bushwacker, with broken wing, some how able to fling water-logged cinder blocks around with one arm.
    His only complaint was the silence – how quiet us oldsters were. He broke the monk-like silence with some welcomed chatter.

    Warmup:
    Toe Touch, Imperial Walkers, SSHops, Cherry Pickers, Hillbillies, Scissors, etc

    Event: 3 sets of cinder block coupon work, each followed by a run around the block
    set one; upper body
    set two; core
    set three; legs

    Mary: bear crawl, crawl bear

    Count-o-rama, Bushwacker leads us out with early morning matins.

    Cheers

  • A whole lot of Rucking going on! – from Shooter

    This beautiful gloom provided more Ruckers than Runners. Heck we even added a Slinger to the group for good measure.. There was plenty of mumble chatter before the PAX got underway, but the most notable was the fact that Speedy was fresh off a Personal best performance over the weekend finishing his marathon at 3:15.00.. This young HIM has literally taken HUGE strides over these past few years… So much so that when YHC shares gym time with Tanked up that’s all he talks about.. Glad to have you amongst us Speedy and to watch you grow in many ways.. Keep pushing!!

    Warmup
    Mix of 10-15 IC of Cherry Pickers, self love, Toe Touches, SSH, Windmills, Scorpion kicks, and Superman’s. Finished with Al Gore pose around for 10sec count..

    Thang
    Speedy and Waterpik took to the streets journeying through Mandeville coming up Girod street.. Probably logged close to 4.5 on the Gloom and I am most certain there was some great Mumble chatter shared with the always motivated and enthusiastic Waterpik..

    The 3 Ruckers and 1 slinger logged a little over 2 miles and we returned over the time. So we had a quick count, announce and COT..

    Always enjoy the Gloom with you HIMs and until the next 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Ramble at the Scramble – from Russo

    Mid 60s and overcast this morning, but no rain to speak of as a Pax of 9 gathered to run or ruck. Some things become old hat, which denotes old fashioned, predictable, uninspired, but to me its connotation is comfortable, stable, and reliable. Maybe not the best for pushing ourselves each and every week, but it will do well on a Thursday morning.

    Warmup (all 10x -15x IC, except for Whacker who’s on IR)
    – SSH
    – Self love
    – Toe touches
    – Grass grabbers
    – High Knees
    – Butt Kicks
    – Imperial squat walkers

    Thang

    5 runners (Bird, Pik, Speedy, Steve, Zoo) and 4 Ruckers (JV, Shooter, Whacker, YHC) took to the streets for “normal”, classic, traditional routes with maybe a twist or two thrown in.

    Rucker conversation included casinos, Metairie traffic, fabric softener, LA looks hair products, Mardi Gras, and Italian food, in addition to making continued progress on solving all of the world’s problems.

    COT, Count, Name-O-Rama, Announcements, and Prayer closed us out.

    Special intention to F3 Knoxville on the passing of Cardinal and a reminder to us all to keep an eye out for each other.

    Gents, thank you for reading and joining. My goal is to Q each of the AOs this year (maybe not the Au Lait with the Sabbath and all), so 2 down, 5 to go.

    SYITG