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  • 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.

  • Unofficial Start of Summer at The Gipper – from Einstein

    Warm and humid for the gathered PAX, this Wednesday morning at The Gipper

    Short disclaimer …
    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: SSHops, TTouch, HBillys, GMornings, IWalkers, SShrugs, MKicks, Swimmers

    Event #1: Partner up for a running count of 50 box jumps, 100 lunges, 150 skater hops. While one partner exercises, the other runs the courthouse stairs up, and around the half block, then trade places.
    Event #2: Atop the parking garage, 1st and 10, with 10 burpees, sprint, 1 merkin, jog back, then 9 burpees, sprint, 2 merkins jog back,…etc; ad nauseam

    The PAX: Akbar, Barely Legal, Bean, Cowbell, Einstein, Moby Dick, Nacho Libre, Mr. Shooter, Turbo Tax

    Count-o-rama, AKbar leads us out with a prayer.
    Thanks guys. Always fun to lead

  • Tabata II: Electric Boogaloo – from Russo

    Pax of 7 were met with humidity and mugginess at the A1C today. Undeterred and unplanned, pax gave a hastily thrown together Tabata a go to celebrate the last day of school for the year!

    Warmup (all IC, between 10x and 20x)
    – Sealjacks
    – Cherry Pickers
    – Mummy Kicks
    – Windmills
    – Imperial Walkers

    Thang
    Tabata (multiple rounds, 45 seconds on, 15-ish seconds off, interspersed with laps around floor 4 of the garage)
    – Shoulder tap merkins
    – Crunchy frogs
    – Jump squats
    – Peter Parker’s
    – Derkins
    – American Hammers
    – Lunges
    – Air presses
    – Calf Raises
    – Bulgarian Split Squats
    – Urkins
    – LBCs

    With a few minutes left, pax wrapped up with Mary: Hello Dollys, Leg Raises, Gas Pumps, and Penguins.

    A great time was had by all!

    COT, Name o’rama, announcements, and prayer closed us out.

    Special mention of the Memorial Day Murph (5:15 AM Monday at the Marsh, corner of Livingston and Lamarque, coffee to follow?) and our thoughts and prayers to Jose for his knee MRI on Monday.

    Thanks to all for the fellowship and fun from the fellas on a Friday.

    SYITG

  • Patriotic Friday – from Jose10k

    While nursing a bum knee, YHC decided to focus on chest exercises. Getting there early, I completed 200 merkins before the PAX showed up. Moby, Cowbell, Einstein and myself made a great group to work out on a windy Friday morning. After a brief warm-up, we moseyed to do 4 corners. 7 wide merkins at each corner, 14 t merkins, 21 hand release merkins, followed by 28 merkins at each corner. Then a quick 20 to make it an even 300 merkins. After I ducked out to go to work, Cowbell lead the PAX rounds of exercises, adding to each. 5 burpees, 5 burpees, 10 squats: 5 b, 10 s, 15 lbc: 5, 10, 15, then 20 lunges: then 5, 10, 15, 20, adding 25 plank jacks, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, then adding 30 sec plank, the decreasing and working the exercises backwards. Mary: 15 hammer, 15 penguins, 15 crunchy frogs. Einstein prayed them out. Thanks for joining me and allowing me to lead. Thanks for Cowbell taking over for me.

  • Time will tell – from Shooter

    In a selfish attempt to slow multiple PAX down for the upcoming H8, YHC will need to wait 24 hours to see if his evil plan plays to his favor.. Then again all the men that posted on this wonderfully cool gloom at the A1c have proven time and time again that they won’t be denied when it comes to a challenge.. Wether it be Einstein continuing an amazing streak of 38 years at the CCC T👏🏼, or Russo’s transformation of shredding lbs and becoming a runner through this last year of COVID, perhaps most importantly Cowbell breaking his record this week of being on time for the start of every beatdown 😬 (Alexis aka Brains for loaning the Audi)🤪 that must be the reason? Maybe it’s Jose10k and the past 60 plus streak of beatdowns I believe it was with inspiration of course from Zoolander with the sweat gallon challenge 🤢… My skin still itches for you Zoo!! However considering your one armed modified Merks or your Murphs in true form with a ruck sack I am sure your armor repelled the acid filled jug with ease… I look forward to seeing you guys crush the H8 in the Gloom, as I know my evil wish will NOT deter any of you from showing up or showing out or perhaps showing off as we meet at the Lakefront tomorrow for a Turbocharged Turbo tax Q!!

    Brief warmup
    All 10IC Grass grabbers, Torso twists, Cherry pickers, Toe touches, Imperial walkers and Seal Jacks.

    Moseyed over to the front or rear Tax payor funded fortress of a Justice center to Qs parked car. Retrieved our coupons with the perfect number of six.
    Instructions simple
    “Ring of Fire” check out the Exicon for details.

    Short order alternating Blocks/Cardio
    Squat thrusters, Bench box jumps, Shoulder press, Sister Mary’s, Curls, Apollo Onos, Chest press, Jumping Knee tucks, Block clean and jerks, Sprint up stairs and return to R/R 2 full rounds of all 10 and pressed for time we got back to the first 4 for the final round.. 24 sets of AMRAP with time blocks of 1 min…

    Returned to the top of the garage right on time to count-off, announce and YHC closed out the COT with intentions of awareness of Mental health Month for May..

    Always enjoy the Gloom with you men and appreciate the accountability!!

    PAX
    Cowbell, Einstein, Jose10k, Russo, Zoolander

  • 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.

  • #41 – from Cowbell

    YHC was due to Q and after a couple days off from being out of town, wanted to bring some heat. YHC thought back to a workout that will forever be burned in his memory and that is Rudy’s “40” workout after his favorite band U2. It’s an awful terribly wonderful workout that I remember as a big #crowdpleaser. It involved the brutal Okwata levee and U2 music.

    Well, The Gipper has no levees and doesnt know much U2, so we’ll leave that to Rudy.

    So, modify we must, to a parking garage and The Dave Matthews Band. How convenient that YHC’s favorite band has a song named #41?!?

    It went like this:
    Mosey to the middle deck of the parking garage for-
    Warm up
    8 count body builder X 10
    Plank-O-Rama:
    Peter Parker X 10
    Parker Peter X 10
    Mtn Climbers X 10
    Plank Jacks X 10
    SSH X 30

    The Thang: #41
    (Some of YHC’s favorite DMB songs playing in the background)

    Complete 41 reps of each exercise but breaking up into 11 reps then run up the ramp, 10 reps, run down, 10 reps, run up, 10 reps, run down and plank for the 6 and next exercise call out.

    Set 1: tempo merkins
    Set 2: monkey humpers
    Set 3: plank jacks
    Set 4: diamond merkins
    Set 5: low slow squats
    Set 6: American hammers
    Set 7: wide merkins
    Set 8: crunchy frogs
    Set 9: sister Mary Katherine’s
    Set 10: Burpees

    Due to time we ran half the distance starting on set 8.

    Ran back to the flag where COT was held.
    Turbo prayed us out.

    NMM:
    – F3/FiA Mixer tomorrow night at 1830 at the Covington Trailhead with drinks to follow at the Tap Room
    – ZOORICH CLASSIC this Saturday

    PS- @Bushwacker I wrote a BB on the day I Q’ed 😉

    Thanks for letting me lead!

  • 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.