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  • Grants Tomb – from Akbar

    Mild, foggy gloom this Saturday as 10 took the red pill for Grants Tomb. In honor of Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president who adorns the $50 bill, we would mosey around doing 50 reps up and down the Lakefront.

    Fun Fact: Grant was invited to Ford’s Theater by President Lincoln on the night of Lincoln’s assassination, but he turned him down.

    Warm up x 15 IC. SSH, Hillbilly, IW, arm circles, self love, shoulder taps, grass grabbers and other things

    Mosey to the Shaft for Grants Tomb: 25 reps on the wall, various styles of Mosey @ 25-30 yards, 25 reps at the other end, mosey back.

    George Thorogood’s, Bear Crawl, Tuck Jumps
    Freak Nasty, Sprint, Superman
    Peter Parker, Crab Walk, Donkey Kick
    Stone Mountain, Sprint, Copperhead Squat
    Squat Jump, Long Skip, High Knees
    Plank Jacks, Murder Bunny, Shoulder Taps
    Good Mornings, Sprint, Big Boy Situps
    Irkin, Sprint, Apollo Ohno’s

    Mosey toward the Gazebo for abs:

    Flutter kick, 20 s Left side plank
    Leg Raises, 20 s Right Side Plank
    Crunchy Frogs, Mountain Climbers
    Hello Dolly, Superman
    American Hammers, J’Los
    Rosalita , Scuba Steve

    Mosey to the flag for several sets of below exercises x 10 IC

    Merkins Stone Mountain, 8 count Body Builder, LBC’s, and finish with 100 100’s

    Announcements: Run Cajun Run sign up for February; Grundy’s Nightmare After Christmas end of January.

    Count, Name, and UHC prayed us out.

    SYITG,

    Akbar

  • UNO!!! – from Bushwacker

    The dry hot days have given way to rainy humid misery. But turn that frown upside down, boys. It’s time for Fun n Games! A late night/early morning Wack signal sent the PAX converging at the Marsh.

    WARMORAMA

    IC x10: SSH, Windmills, Torso Twists, Scorpion Kicks, Fire Hydrants L/R, Self Love, Cherry Pickers

    THANG

    Two groups, each with a deck of UNO cards circled around their respective decks. A card would be flipped and the resulting actions would be taken based on card type, color and/or number:

    Red: Burpees
    Blue: Jump Squats
    Green: Gas Pumps
    Yellow: Freak Nasties
    Draw Two: add 2 reps to next card flipped
    Draw 4: add 4 reps (“stacking” was instituted in case of more than one Draw card in a row)
    Wild: 10 reps of any exercise the PAX chose
    Skip: skip the next man
    Reverse: change direction and go back to previous man

    The pain added up in cumulative fashion with some thick decks to get through. When a group got finished, they Planked for the remaining group.

    Next came 11’s – SisterMary Katherine’s (1 is 1)/T Merkins

    MARY

    IC x 20: Hammers, LMCs, Flutter Kicks, ?
    100 100s OYO
    Plank until time

    COT

    Count, nameorama,

    Never Forget 9/11 5k September 14 at Covington Trailhead. Link to registration was posted on Slack.

    Grundy will be hosting a Spartan beatdown at his house at 8am featuring obstacles and endurance, apps 2 hours 9/21(I believe)

    2024 turkey trot is going down, sign up and come keep Jose company!

    I appreciate you fellas, coming along for another episode of Wacker’s wacky, fun and games!

  • Northshore Flickerball Championship and Upper Body Marshmania – from TruCoat

    Saturday’s workout included two activities, an upper-body medley led by The Manny at the Marsh and an intense Flickerball match played by 12 of the Northshore’s best at the 30.4-by-90 pitch. The Marsh beat-down included an expansive kit of training aids, possibly depleting Home Depot’s Garden Center, to challenge grip strength and upper body stamina.

    The Flickerball match was preceded with 25 minutes of warm-up exercises–sequences of lunges, sprawls, and push-ups. The match pushed past regular time with back-and-forth play. Game highlights included many bodies sliding out at the end zones in hope of a game winning final touch, potentially trading the integrity of their hamstring for glory. The match halted briefly as Bushwacker selflessly fended off Pontchartrain’s aquatic life to save the game ball. In the final moments of extra time, the defensive wall formed by Dukes, Russo, and Akbar was too much, leading to a quick transition and game winning score by The Hammer. Congrats to Pickaxe and Grappler, too, who were critical ingredients for the win!

  • I’ll get all the sleep I need when I’m dead – from Akbar

    Fond memories flooding my sleepy brain as YHC arrived to 17 pax helping celebrate 5 years of F3. 11 hours of sleep in 2 days gave me brain farts. 2 Toe Touches IC almost back to back in the warm up, forgot PAX names when calling 10 counts, and didn’t think to tell anyone it was my 5 year anniversary.

    5 years ago, YHC arrived at the Lakefront, unwillingly, overweight, and probably hungover – EH’d by Russo and my wife. Bubba was the Q, there were men of all ages, speaking to each other like they’ve been friends for 10 years. The one thing I remember most vividly was being last, but I was not alone – learning the concept of picking up the six. No man left behind, that stuck with me. The rest of that year, I was hooked, stopped the gym, started hitting 3-4 days a week, CSAUP’s, and building lasting friendships. I lost 25 pounds in 6 months and never looked back. Fond memories, and more to come.

    Warm up:
    SSH, arm circles front/back, self-love, toe touches, Imperial Walkers, toe touches, Hillbillies, and some other stuff

    Mosey toward the wall near the Gazebo for Red Hot Chili Pepper: Dirkin, Freak Nasty, Irkin, Step Ups – x10 IC descending to 6

    Mosey to the Shaft for Benjamins.

    2 exercises each round, 25 reps each, with a mosey back and forth from the flag. 100 total per round

    Another version of sleepyhead emerged – the plan was to do Freak Nasties and Dirkins first, until YHC realized we just did 180 Merkins on the wall. Modification was needed.

    1. Stone Mountain, Bear Crawl, Mountain Climber
    2. Superman’s, Flying Nuns (lunge walk with arm circles), George Thorogoods
    3. Squats, run, Renegade Row
    4. Reverse Grip Merkin, Bear Crawl, and something else.

    Mosey back to the Gazebo for more Benjamins with Core focus.

    1. Little Manny Crunches, run, LBC’s
    2. Crunchy Frogs, run, Hello Dolly

    Mosey a little further to get some shade, circle up for some shoulder work.30 second for each exercise with a hold at the end. Moroccan Night Club, We’re not Worthy – aka Field Goals, ,Cherry Pickers, Overhead Claps, hold arms out straight – @ 30 seconds each.

    Indian Run to the Flag – kinda – everybody just really took off and ran in a line with some sprints.

    At the Flag, 7 minutes of core. Hello Dolly, Crunchy Frogs, E2k, and some other stuff.

    Count, Name, and YHC prayed us out with thanks for F3. Remembering Birds family, Jose10K’s student and their family.

    Announcements:
    Spartan Dallas in October, sign up soon – talk to Hammer. Plenty of runs coming up for July 4th through Thanksgiving.

    Zoolander’s 6 year anniversary Q next Saturday.

    Here’s to 5 more years 👊
    SYITG, Akbar

  • WE ARE F3 – AROO AROO AROO!!! – from Bushwacker

    This fall, some of the PAX of the Northshore will be CSAUPing at the Spartan Beast obstacle race near Dallas. There is a palpably intense excitement in the air and this beatdown was designed to make sure all in attendance felt it. YHC, along with some some kind and committed brothers, arrived at 5:15 to begin setting up. We just beat the pre-thangers back to the flag in time to get things started promptly.

    WARMORAMA

    Warm up consisted of briefly attended tabata, and a garbled pronouncement of rules, regulations, and “the way things aughta go”, which, thanks to Jose’s requisite comments and interjections of others, were immediately and throughout the course disregarded, slightly adopted, and outright ignored. But a great challenge was mostly bested and a fun time was had by all teams of 2 who attempted.

    1. Tire Shuttle – step in each of 6 tires while running through (QIC tripped and fell so never assume anything is TOO easy!)
    2.Sandbag StepUp – holding 50lb sandbag, 10 Step Ups on sea wall (MAY have forgotten to mention the step up part)
    3. Bucket Carry – 5gallon bucket filled with sand carried out and back
    4. Sledge Hammer Slam – 15 wacks on the tire with a 10lb maul
    5. Tire Toss – 2 tires tossed individually out and back
    6. Sled Drag – 2 45lb plates on a minil sled pulled out and back
    7. Battlerope – 3″ battlerope slung up and down for 15 reps
    8. Rope Climb w/ Cowbell (not the short crunchy-frogging runner) – climb rope appx 12′ and tap the bell. As indicated prior to start, if a PAX was unwilling or unable to complete an obstacle, they were to complete 10 Burpees and move on. However, the rare and awesome challenge that a rope hanging from a tree posed caused a bit of a pile up by the time QIC and partner Shooter arrived. Immediately Shooter was pulled in by the tractor beam as well
    9. Dummy Drag – appx 150lb hose dummy dragged out and back
    10. Tire Pull – giant tire with long rope attached, pulled length of rope
    11. Spear Throw – in addition to the Rope Climb, Farmer’s carry, Sand Bag, flags and cones our own Zoolander (aka Chaka Zulu)supplied his new favorite toy to be thrown at and stuck into a foam target strapped to a tree. However, our honorary FNG, Al Gore, let us know with great protest that we were committing arbocide and proceded to take picture of the crime scene, and tear down the foam target for good measure.
    12. Farmers Carry – set of appx 30lb logs with handles carried out and back
    13. Tire Flip – giant tire flipped end over end out and back
    14. Sawhorse Hurdles – 4 8′ sawhorses spaced 6′ apart hurdled over

    Strong Work, great fun, fantastic teamwork!

    COT

    Count, Name, Grappler demurred praying us out in lieu of Rev Russo.
    Just a small taste of thing to come in October, gentlemen. Thank you for allowing me to lead you in tackling this Fire/Spartan obstacle course

    Post Script: Many thanks to the many hands who made light work of picking up the coupons!

  • Time for cake (and fall?) – from Russo

    MUCH better weather all of a sudden today for a split beatdown. YHC, who is hot and sweaty when it’s a December morning, might even call is “mildly pleasant”. Up is down. Down is up. Cats and dogs living together. REGARDLESS, what a blessing some relief from the oppressive heat was.

    Warmup (10x, all IC)

    -Torso Twists
    -Toe touches
    -Arm circles
    -Grass grabbers
    -Cherry pickers

    Thang: While Grundy took half the pax in an IPC with coupons and AMRAP and burpees and pain, YHC took the other half on a cakewalk around the lakefront.

    The cakewalk order:

    45 Seal jacks
    44 High knees (2 is 1)
    43 SSHs
    42 Plank Jacks
    41 goof balls
    40 squats
    39 Hello Dollies
    38 Calf raises
    37 Apollo ohnos
    36 Freak Nastys
    35 step ups
    34 flutter kicks
    33 butt kicks IC
    32 Peter Parker’s
    31 imperial walkers
    30 Shoulder taps
    29 American hammers
    28 Monkey Humpers
    27 Merkins
    26 Smurf jacks
    25 wife pleasers
    24 Rosalitas
    23 crab jacks (crab position – think reverse plank jacks)
    22 groiners
    21 Bear crawls (counting your right hand as a rep)
    20 murder bunnies

    At this point, we said hello to a gentleman (Tom) working on his boat. Pik EHed him and he joined us for the rest of the walk. Come to find out, he knows Steve and Bird. Here’s to his rejoining is soon and getting a proper F3 name.

    19 Wide merkins
    18 Bobby Hurley’s
    17 crab cakes
    16 circle ups
    15 Bulgarian split squats
    14 urkins
    13 Sister Mary Catherine’s
    12 LMCs IC
    11 diamond merkins
    10 star jumps
    9 donkey kicks
    8 8 count body builders
    7 merkins
    6 Box cutters IC
    5 Carolina dry docks
    4 Wife pleasers
    3 jump squats
    2 burpees
    1 minute plank

    COT, name-o-rama, announcements, and prayer closed us out. Prayers for our brothers running the 5k today, a special intention from Zoolander, and a successful delivery for Cowbell and his M on twins A and B (soon to be renamed) this week.

    Here’s to a good week for all.

    SYITG

  • Hurt Locker – from Akbar

    You’ll know it when you’re in it. Google definition: to physically mess someone up, badly. AKA a world of pain.

    Unlike the movie – we weren’t disarming bombs in the heat of combat, recklessly plunging men into a deadly game of urban combat, didn’t have to control a wild leader, no cities exploding into chaos, and may not have changed every man’s character forever.

    There wasn’t even a locker per se, but the 13 men who showed up to make themselves better for the day were in a sense locked into the beatdown.

    Did we have to overcome obstacles? Were we challenged? Was there sweat and complaints? Absolutely. There was enough bang to send us all to Jesus, but we didn’t die. We made ourselves better today.

    Conditions 79,WNW wind 4, 5% cloud cover, still hot

    Warm Up: x10 IC: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Grass Grabbers, Self-Love, Toe Touches, Windmills, Merkin, Squat, 2 burpees
    _____________________

    Mosey toward the Gazebo for the main thang at the wall, with various moseys to the street and back in between. 20 reps for the first exercise, 30 for the second, and 2 burpees to wrap it up.

    Merkin, Squat, Burpees
    Dirkin, LBC, Burpees
    Irkin, Sumo Squat, Burpees
    Stone Mountain, American Hammers, Burpees
    Merkin, Lunges, Burpees
    Dirkin, Mountain Climber, Burpees
    Irkin, Sweat Angels, Burpees
    Wide Merkin, SSH, Burpees

    _____________________
    11’s at the wall – Freak Nasties and Supermans with a run in between

    7’s – Plank Jacks and Squats, Bear Crawl/run

    _____________________
    Mosey back to the flag for a Mountain Climber Ring of Fire

    Hold plank, start with 1 MC and add 1 each time around the circle – ended up stopping at 5.

    ____________________
    6 minutes of Mary, x10 IC

    LBC, Wife Pleaser, E2k, Little Manny crunches, Nolan Ryan, Heels to Heaven, Flutter
    Kicks, Plank, Down Dog, Cobra

    Count, Name, and Mathlete prayed us out.

    _____________________
    Announcements

    Iron Pax: Week 0 next week
    Grow Run NOLA – need more men or the event will be canceled. See Slack for details and sign up, or get with Fracsac
    Never forget 5k run/walk in Covington, Sept 9th

    Thanks for following my lead👊
    SYITG – Akbar

  • Eight is Enough – from Russo

    83 this morning as YHC pulled up, with a nice breeze to limit the sweat damage early. Great group of 12 for the beatdown.

    Warmup
    All 10x – 16 IC:
    – Seal jacks
    – Self love
    – Toe touches
    – Cherry pickers
    – Good mornings
    – High knees

    Thang

    Mosey around the block, stopping at each corner for:
    8 8-count body builders
    16 shoulder tap plank jacks
    24 merkins
    32 Peter Parker’s (1 is 1)

    Next round:
    8 Imperial squat walkers IC
    16 Hallelujah squats
    24 Apollo Ohnos
    32 Monkey Humpers

    Round 3:
    8 Dr. w’s
    16 Gas pumps
    24 LBCs

    Over to Rip’s, where it was:

    – 4 minutes of 24 rocky balboas followed by a trip up and down their steps (R&R)
    – Two rounds of 24 Rocky Balboas, 16 Urkins, 8 Rocky Balboas, 4 Urkins
    – Two rounds of 24 calf raises, 16 step overs, 8 calf raises, 4 step overs

    Back to the flag for Mary (16x IC)
    – Penguins
    – American hammers
    – LMCs
    – Rosalitas
    – Crunchy Frogs

    COT, Name-o-Rama, Announcements, Prayer, in that order. We lifted up our walking wounded, school starting, those traveling, Steve’s mother in law, and the victims of the Maui wildfire, among others.

    Coffee added a couple Starskys (apparently a thing in the F3 lexicon according to ‘Whacker) in Bird and Cowbell.

    Even though I took us away from the breezes on the lakefront that cooled us off ever so slightly, I appreciate you all joining me on a jaunt around the area, and what you bring to your own corner of the northshore. Fine group of men this morning. Let’s do it again soon (like at the Splashpad!)

    SYITG

  • Murph at the Marsh on Memorial Day – from Jose10k

    It’s as simple as the title: we had a Murph at the Marsh on Memorial Day. You have to love the alliteration. 26 total showed up for the annual event. Hogsbreathe began with a history of the workout, his own personal experience, which we greatly appreciated. It was fun watching Zoo’s face as each car pulled up. He so graciously offered up his beautiful outdoor kitchen for breakfast afterwards. A huge shout out to his wife for helping prepare breakfast for a bunch of smelly men. Warm-up followed by the murph. COT, 2 FNG’s, (welcome Pole Dancer and Flex Seal), followed by Hammer praying us out. Thank you all for posting and the fellowship as always. Happy Birthday Pick!

  • Kickball Redeaux – from Akbar

    21 strong at the Lakefront for a redeaux of Kickball. This time, it was simple.

    Conditions
    Wet, muggy, just another day in SE Louisiana.

    Warm Up
    SSH x20 IC, Grass Grabbers, Butt Kicks, Self Love, High Knees, Imperial Walkers, Mountain Climbers, Merkins – x15 -10 IC

    Thang
    Mosey to the baseball field, count off 1’s and 2’s and teams were made. Regular rules apply this go round, with exercises called by QIC at random of Merkins and Sister Mary Catherines. Team 2 came out strong with a big lead, while Team 1 went 3 and out pretty quickly. A modification was made to not let all the kids kick first, and it was better. After a couple of innings, we were getting stomped. At this point, Mathlete had a suggestion that YHC implemented- Team 2 would have to Bear Crawl the bases to give us a chance. We made a short rally, but still got squashed by double digits.

    We headed back to the flag a little early since we didn’t really exercise that much and YHC implemented the Red Hot Chili Pepper. A standard of Hogcycle, we did Merkins and Squats to finish out in 3 rounds. Merkins and Squats x20 IC, Merkins and Squats x15 IC, Merkins and Squats x 10IC

    Count, Name
    Announcements

    Sept 10 5k/5mile at Covington trailhead

    Iron Pax is coming in September

    Hammers bible study Wednesday at 8:30 at the Crisi Pregnancy Center

    Bubba prayed us out with special prayers for JV’s Grandma who passed this morning at 98.

    Head to Coffeeteria and called it a day

    Thanks for following my lead – Akbar