F3 New Orleans

Tag: Kenna Brah

  • Dora 1-2-3 on 1/23 – from Rudy

    YHC has Q for 3rd time in rapid succession. Much grumbling ensued. I think I offered a fake promise of No Burpees. But I had every intention of burpeeing through the morning. Disclaimer and head to the field for warm up. Immediately Charmin starts with “Waaah! I want Rocks!” Quick warm up, then time to get busy.

    January 23rd. 1st month, 23rd day. what else has those numbers? RIGHT – Dora! Count-off to find your partner, then to the sidelines. 100 burpees, 200 merkins, 300 squats. PAX 2 runs back and forth across the field.

    Finished up right on 6am, lets get over to the rocks. Time for…. Yup, another Dora 123! Different partner. 100 Shoulder Presses, 200 Curls, 300 Flutter Kicks. PAX 2 is holding their rock up while PAX1 completes 10/20/30 reps.

    Back to the flag with 3 mins to spare for some Mary. PAX disputes that Scantron’s choice of J-Lo counts as Mary, but we did it anyway.

    CoT with War Eagle praying us out.

  • Maverick++ and 99 Burpees – from Rudy

    Brisk Mothership morning. 12 PAX in the cool gloom came out to better themselves. YHC wanted to reward them – and what better way than with burpees.

    Mosey over to the Peristyle for a quick warm up of some stretching and SSH/IW.

    Thing 1: YHC went way back in the backblast archives looking for something new, and found what Reluctant Yankee termed “The Maverick” from July 2015. But – YHC wanted to one-up them. The Maverick was 11s. What one-ups 11s? A larger number. So in honor of the 220th anniversary of Louis XVI’s beheading – we went for 16s.

    16 Squat Jumps to start, in the Peristyle. Run to the benches, stopping for 1 Hand Release Merkin on the way. Then 1 Dip. Return for 15/2/2. 14/3/3. You get the idea. That was a gasser… Way to go, SOGO and Mahatma (the early finishers) as they pushed the rest of us through to completion. Spaulding’s form was, as always, impeccable.

    YHC was accused of running away, merely because he had to return to his car to get…. The Deck o’ Death. Mosey to the center of the newly-resurrected Great Lawn.

    Thing 2: Hearts = Burpees, Diamonds = Squats, Clubs = Sit Ups, Spades = More Hand Release Merkins (Kennah Brah started griping about that early). Meanwhile, because Macgyver refused to pay attention, he drew a 5 burpee penalty while the rest of the PAX waited. Then the cards began. Out of the gate, Squats took the early lead. But then Hearts started showing. Again. And again. Forever it seemed.

    20 mins later, 26 cards down, YHC called it – so we could get to the last thing. 12 of 26 cards were BurpeeHearts. Frac reported that we did a total of 91 burpees.

    Thing 3: A few rounds of Tyson, with Core exercises. Sprint half-way on the lawn, 10 reps. Sprint to the end, 10 reps, Sprint halfway back, 10 reps, Sprint to the end, 10 reps. Start with V-Ups. YHC instructed PAX who finished first to keep going until the 6 finished 10 reps. Several of the PAX revolted – leading to a 5 Burpee penalty (96 burpees, YHC thought to himself).

    Then we did rounds of Freddy Mercury, Wife Pleasers, and Hello Dolly. Heisenberg and Frac TRIED to get additional penalty burpees to hit 100. But YHC would not bite.

    7:29 – time to head back to the flag. BUT WAIT: 3 more burpees, just because. 99 burpees total.

    COT: Close up with a count-off and name-o-rama. Lots of stuff going on, especially running – Run Cajun Run, Krazy Ivan and City Pork. Several intentions – new life (congrats Disclaimer!) and sad passings. Prayers go with those heading to the next stage of life, and for comfort for those they have left (temporarily).

    And prayers for Spaulding’s friend suffering from Shingles. PSA: The shingles vaccine. If you haven’t (looks askance at himself), please get it. It is painful and 100% unnecessary to suffer through. That is all.

  • Life by Burpee – from Heisenberg

    Warm-up IC IW x20, Abe Vigoda 15, Grass Grabbers x 15, SSH x 31, Arm Circles x 20, 8-Count Body Builders x 10

    The Thangs:
    Alternating Lunge Walks/Bear Crawls with five burpees at each of the ten cones for 100 yards

    Mosey to locked fence and back to endzone for . . . . .

    Death by Burpees – With one-minute rounds we started with one burpee, and added a burpee with each successive minute. The first 5 minutes were almost a waste of time. Minutes 6-10 were a little more exciting as the time available for rest continued to decline. I ran out of time at round 12. I am not sure if anyone made it past round 14. Rudy insisted we complete round 15. Rudy has developed an affinity for burpees.

    Back across the field to use up the remaining 10 or so minutes.
    LBC, Flutter Kicks, LBT’s, Low Slow Squats, Monkey Humpers, Wife Pleasers, American Hammers and 10 more burpees.

    TClaps to Triple Shift for doing much of the above with a sandbag.

    I executed approximately 160 burpees bringing my 2023 burpee total to 1400

  • Runners, Rucker, and Recoverers—Oh My – from Bolt

    Cool in the gloom with a mixed bag of activity: some came to run, some came to ruck, while some came to recover. All came to improve with a dose of the daily red pill. Thanks for the camaraderie.

  • Rock the Route 66 – from Fracsac

    YHC saw the Rock City Q spot open and having not led at that AO for some time signed up.
    Weather was 54 degrees with a cool breeze, but not cold. Track was very wet from earlier rain, so no go there.
    Disclaimer given and mosey to the rock pile for warm up. Regular stuff with one set of 4 burpees OYO and one set of 5 burpees OYO. No clubbin this day, packed agenda!
    Grab a rock and head for the cones set up. Route 66 with Burpees and rifle carry between cones. Cones took pax to the parking lot.
    10 rock curls, run to gym and do 5 Burpees. Complete 5 rounds increasing curls by 5 each round. That’s 25 more burpees.
    Return the rocks and circle up for ring of Fire. 2 rounds of 6 Merkins each. Mosey back to flag.

    COT

    NMM

    – YHC really threw the group off with the count off in the beginning. The pax were sure their number would have some meaning and would be called upon. Maybe next time, or maybe not…..
    – There seems to be 2 schools of thought in the Route 66, especially when burpees are part of it. The first is start at 1 burpee and end at 11. The other thought is to start at 11 and finish with 1 burpee. Which school are you in?
    – Mondays suck, especially after a Saints loss. F3 makes it all better! Thanks for posting with me.
    – That was 100 burpees today, some did more. It’s not too late to jump on the 3100 burpees for January train…..check out the Iron Sharpens Iron Slack channel for more info.

    SYITG

  • Twelfth Day of Burpees – from Mayhem

    Twelfth Day of Christmas – Three Kings Day
    All exercises to be done in multiples of 3 or 12 in recognition of the day

    Conditions: Damp and 46 degrees
    16 PAX strong for a VQ
    Disclaimer and mosey

    Warmups (and the start of the whining):
    12×2 SSH
    12×2 Grass Grabbers
    12 AbeVagoodas
    12 Arm Circles
    12 Reverse Arm Circles
    12 Peter Parkers
    12 Parker Peters

    Round of Circle Burps (17 burpees)

    To the hill
    Modified Burp Back Mountain
    Backwards up the hill, forward down the hill

    Round 1
    6x
    9 burpees (54 burpees)
    9 merkins
    Mary

    Round 2
    3x
    6 burpees (18 burpees)
    6 squats
    Mary

    Round 3
    3x
    6 burpees (18 burpees)
    6 SSH
    Mary

    Burpee Merkin back to the flag (1 burpee)

    Mission accomplished
    Burpee total: 108 (divisible by both 3 and 12)

    COT
    Proud to lead this group of men today
    It’s my first and last VQ but won’t be my last Q

  • You can’t Squeeze the Charmin – from Mahatma

    It’s Sunday New Year’s Day pax scattered here, there and everywhere except no Q for RC on Monday….done and there is a plan. Pulling up hot at the last minute (damn 1st fail of my 2023 resolution) YHC jumps out to join the crowd of pax waiting for direction. Quick disclaimer and focus point “reflect to impact reflex”

    Mosey to the parking lot outside the field Warm Up:
    Scantron Stretch rinse and repeat
    Side lung
    SSH
    Scorpion kicks
    Shoulder taps

    Mosey to bleachers near back of the playground.
    5 rounds with good form
    10 Carolina Drydocks
    20 LS Squats
    30 V-Ups
    Ascend the bleachers to the top and back down. Rinse and repeat

    Once complete run the maze continuously until all pax complete and the 6 joins the group and does 3 laps.

    Mosey to the mini levee – line up shoulder to shoulder – Indian merkin ladder with hand slap between pax

    Line up Indian run to the gym
    2 rounds of handrail squats

    Climb the stairs and find some wall – sit a spell – YHC attempted to provide instructions as to form where you feel the burn in your thighs. Running man to air press back to running back to air press.

    Line up Indian run back to the flag.

    COT – focus on the need for leadership Q commitment. Bolt step up and recruited several new pax to fill open slots on Friday for VQs. He held them after and told tales about El Diablo haunting them unless 100 Burpees are some entwined into the Uptowner beatdowns. To this I say what ever it takes to file the slot. Take time this early new year to reflect on those areas of your life you want to change so to avoid the dreaded reflex of years past!

  • The End is a New Beginning – from Mahatma

    New Years Eve 2022
    Warm up X 22
    Or 11 then 11
    Scantron stretching
    SSH
    AbVagooda
    Cherry Pickers
    Mnt Man Poopers

    11 silent – keep silent and thoughts focused on following the Q as to transition to exercises:
    SSH
    Bend and thrust
    Merkins
    High plank
    Plank Ups
    VUps
    Repeat continuously until 11 minute alarm

    365
    3 Deconstructed Burpee (slow to Qs cadence)
    6 Box Jumps
    5 rounds

    Red Barchetta h

    365
    3 Merkins
    6 Donkey Kick
    5 Rounds

    2 rounds of Indian Merkin (T-Rex helped to lead his team to “a” win)
    Losers 5 burpees

    Stretching and Mary
    Obviously there was some mumble chatter as to athletic stretching?!
    X Factor
    Gas pumper

    COT
    The end has always been the beginning
    Cheers to looking forward into 2023

    F3 note – Catfish experience: In NOLA you may consider hiding your keys other than top of your tire, rim or tailpipe.