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  • The Other October 31st Holiday

    On this day, 501 years ago, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the Church Doors of Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reformation and 501 years later a fool named Rev Sox incorporated 95 and 1517 into the F3 NOLA Fight Club. It was a workout of two, but Gremlin stuck it out to the end now that he is back with us. Looking for more men in River Ridge, Harahan, and Kenner to show up for the Fight Club.

    Warm-Up

    Following the standard disclaimed, YHC led the Pax on a short mosey to our warm-up spot down the road.

    SSH – 20

    Annies – 20

    Imperial Walkers – 20

    Real Freddie Mercury – 20

    Arm Circles – 20 (10 forward and 10 backwards)

    Windmills – 10

    The Mini H8

    The Pax moseyed back to the boxing statues and stairs for a miniaturized version of the H8. The Pax would run up the steps to the level with the American Flag, bear crawl across to the other set of stairs, run to the top of the steps and back over to the other side and back down. The Pax stopped at the American Flag again and bear crawled over to the other side. The Pax ran down to the bottom for an 8 count descending burpee-merkins.  The Pax completed 4 laps of the mini-H8. The burpee-merkins dropped from 8 to 6 to 4 to 2 at each lap.

    Purgatory

    The church teaching that started the Reformation was the selling of indulgences to pay one’s way out of purgatory. YHC believes waiting at the DMV is an earthly purgatory, so the Pax moseyed down to the local DMV to do a little Reformation Day Purgatory.

    Sit on the wall for 95 seconds

    15 merkins

    Sit on the wall for 95 seconds

    17 merkins

    Sevens

    The Pax moseyed back to the stairs for sevens to finish out the time. LBC’s on the bottom and jump squats on the top. Run up one set of stairs and down the next.

    The End

    Count off, Name-O-Rama, Announcements, and Intentions – pray for Gremlin as he is getting some spots on his lungs looked at next week and Hawg’s mom with cancer

    Thanks for pushing yourself Gremlin,

    Rev Sox

  • Round #2 – A Step Up

    Likely that it was actually a step down, or a step back, but nonetheless three men met in the early morning gloom of Kenner-brah and this is what went down.

    Warm-up

    YHC gave the disclaimer and we proceeded on a warm-up lap, passing by the police station, up the levee ramp, and back down the steps to the SF.

    SSH x 30; Hillbillies x 20; Windmills x 15; Peter Parker x 20; Copperhead Squats x 20.

    A lap up the stairs and down the other side and we were ready for…

    The Thang

    Given the venue, I decided to modify the Jack Web, by adding some punches.  I renamed it the Jack Johnson in honor of the man who became the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World in 1908.  We definitely have race issues in this country now, but it’s got to be better than when Jack was fighting.  Here’s what they say the NY Times wrote about him before the fight:  “If the black man wins, thousands and thousands of his ignorant brothers will misinterpret his victory as justifying claims to much more than mere physical equality with their white neighbors.”  Wow New York Times.  It appears that he ended up being arrested on some suspiciously racist laws and was just recently pardoned posthumously by President Trump.

    Just as we started the Jack Johnson a plane flew overhead….Time for a Sudden Flight Change.  Sometimes life doesn’t go as planned.  Things happen and you have to suck it up and roll with it.  During this workout we had to do 5 burpees every time a plane flew overhead.  Since the AO is located directly south of the airport, you can imagine how many times this occurred.  Well, whatever you are thinking you are probably wrong.  This one time is the only time we did sudden flight change burpees.  Either the flight patterns were kind to us today, or I wasn’t paying close enough attention.

    The Jack Johnson:  1 Merkin, 1 left-right combo, 1 victory shoulder press; repeat with two reps of each escalating until maxing out with a set of 10 reps of each.

    Proceed to the ledge:

    Channing Tatums* x 20; Decline Merkins x 7; Tatum Channings x 20; Incline Merkins x 7

    *Keeping with the theme of the AO, in addition to starring in Step Up Channing Tatum starred in a movie called Fighting.  39% on Rotten Tomatoes.

    Tabata – 20 seconds all out followed by 10 seconds of rest.  We did burpees, merkins, squats, and big boi sit-ups, then repeated for a total of 8 sets.  #CrowdPleaser

    Cool down lap up the stairs and back down the other side.

    Back to the ledge:

    Channing Tatums* x 20; Decline Merkins x 7; Tatum Channings x 20; Incline Merkins x 7

    To the top of the levee for another #CrowdPleaser – Quadraphilia….4 minutes of running down the south side of the levee and back up always facing the river.

    Back to the flag for 1 minute of Mary – Dying cockroach x 30.

    NMM

    • I worked out in shoes for the first time in months.  This AO is tough on flops.
    • I really thought Rev Sox and Gremlin would hate Quadraphilia.  I was disappointed that they didn’t complain about it more.  In fact, it didn’t really seem to bother them at all.
    • Hopefully the City of Kenner can use all of the money they are going to save by not buying Nikes to mow our AO more often.  This is definitely our most poorly maintained AO.

     

  • The Fight Club: Round One

    The Fight Club: Round One

    After a false start a few years ago, F3 is back in Kenner! The Fight Club is on!

     

    YHC hated F3 when Hawg and Channel Mullet dragged him to his first F3 workout last October. YHC hated F3 when he continued to workout at the Birdcage as he was unable to finish any of the exercises. A few weeks later, YHC’s opinion of F3 slowly changed from one of hate to tolerate to love. YHC knew F3 was getting into his blood when he would drive by the boxing statues in Kenner and think, “that would be the coolest place to lead an F3 workout. We could run up the steps, take the long run up the ramp on the levee, and we could run to the park nearby for some suicides. Maybe we can incorporate some of the drift wood into a workout?” So here we are six months later with the launch of the Fight Club at LaSalle Landing in Kenner. The home to the first ever World Heavyweight Boxing Championship match, and now F3NOLA.  8 men came out and endured the rain and wind of Tropical Storm Gordon to workout in the gloom.

     

    The Warm-Up

    We moseyed over to the Rivertown area with plans to workout by the picnic benches following the warm-up. (Note to self, they lock up the Rivertown area at night). We circled in the parking lot outside of the area for a standard F3 warm-up.

    SSH -20

    Peter Parkers – 20

    IW – 20

    Plank jacks – 15

    Arm Circles – 20

    Annies – 20

     

    Double Dip

    We moseyed back to the levee to continue the Fight Club. YHC planned on doing the next workout at Rivertown picnic benches, but since the Fight Club is the best site ever for F3, he was not deterred. We took care of the decline merkins and dips near the statues.

    15 – decline merkins

    20 – dips

     

    The Rocky

    We split up into 2 groups of 4, one group at each set of stairs. We ran up the steps like Rocky and at the top, we raised our hands in a jumping celebration (5 burpees). We ran back to the bottom of the hill and back up for more celebrating (4 burpees). Continue up and down until we reach one small burpee celebration.

     

    Dora

    YHC thought Dora was a must for any F3 launch as it is the ideal F3 exercise in his humble opinion. Do more reps of 3 workouts than you ever thought you could with help from an F3 brother and it has a stupid cartoon name (Dora sums up what F3 workouts are all about). While one pax did the rep, the other ran the long way up and down the levee (over to the police station and up the long ramp on the levee). Props to Jingle Vader for tapping into the Dark Side when he took a nasty stumble and was still the first to complete the Dora with a little help from Amnesia.

    100 merkins

    200 jump squats

    300 American hammers

     

    Mary

    Wife Pleasers – 20

    Flutterkicks – 15

    Dying Cockroach – 20

    Penguins – 20

    O Dolly – 15

    LBCs – 20

    Nolan Ryan – 20

     

    Depature

    Counted off, name-o-rama, and we named our new FNG. Welcome Nick Hybart the next time you workout at the Fight Club, and call him “The Gremlin.” The only announcement was a call to travel to Mobile on the 22nd to help with the start of F3 in Alabama. Thanks for showing up men to help bring F3 to Kenner, praying that God will use 45 minutes in the morning on Wednesdays to help the men in our community be better leaders, husbands, and fathers for His glory.

     

    RevSox