F3 New Orleans

Tag: Mayhem

  • Renaissance means Revival – from Triple Shift

    To hit my minimum requirement of two Qs a month, I had to get one in quick before January ended so I signed up for the Sunday Renaissance. With the New Year resolutions passing for many on quitting day (Jan 19th), the men of F3 NOLA yielded themselves to YHC and I didn’t want to disappoint. Time to bring out the sandbags and kettlebells for a revival of pumping iron (sand).

    YHC arrived with a few minutes before 6:30 am and a crowd was present. Along with that crowd came the subsequent mumblechatter. In fact, it was in rare form as the pax was trying their best to distract me from my mission to help these men accelerate. Enough of the chirping and I called out Burpees in cadence up to 10 and things settled down. We performed Imperial Walkers, Low Slow Squats, Open the Gate, Close the Gate, Arm Circles (forward and backward) and closed out with 10 burpees in cadence.

    THE THANG
    We would perform 5 burpees, 10 body rows (flat part of hand rails), 15 Kettlebell swings, and 20 squats then run around NOMA x 5.
    After that round of exercises, we went to the fountain for one legged glute bridges x 10 IC each leg and then Bulgarian Split Squats x 5 IC each leg
    With time running short, we went to the back of NOMA and did three Sunday Mornings.

    COT
    Countoff, Namerama, and intentions. Prayers for MacGyver’s health, Cheese Steak’s son in law and son. Thank you for the opportunity to lead!

  • 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.

  • Wet & Wild with Napoleon on Crack! – from Fracsac

    Torrential rains for a brief but brutal period the night before left the track and inner field looking more like a community pool than a field. Lucky for the Pax, YHC arrived early and set a few things up.

    Flag planted, classic rock on the speaker, disclaimer given, mosey in a direction to get us in a parking lot on the back side.

    Warmup with regular stuff, no clubbin though. We got stuff to do! Threw some Tempo Merkins in for good measure.

    Left leg and right leg power ups x 20 at the benches where they do pseudo yoga. Added 15 dips in between

    Mosey to where the cones were set up. 11 burpees at start, bear crawl to cone 10 burpees, continue the backwards Route 66 down to 1 burpee.

    Mosey to gymn where we did some Sunday Mornings x 3 on Hump Day!

    Mosey back to the cones, each pax stand near a cone. 5 burpees to get the pax to listen.

    The end pax throws the frisbee 2 pax down, receiving pax unable to move. If HIM catches it, continue down the line. If frisbee is dropped, 4 burpees for the group. 9 sets of burpees or 36 more. Add the 5 and 66 previously and we did 107 total.

    Mosey to the flag for CoT

    NMM

    It was great to see Napoleon from Birmingham back, and he brought Sergeant Crack with him!

    66 burpees , plus the 5 and then 9 sets of 4 burpees for frisbee drops, or 36 more, gave a total of 107! Well done!

    YHC kept the pax feet semi dry.

    Thanks for posting with me!

    SYITG

  • Napoleon fueled by Ethanol – from Fracsac

    13 Pax showed up, with 7 headed to stretch and 6 taking advantage of the track. Regardless of sprinting, walking or stretching, showing up is what is important!

    Ethanol and Napoleon from Birmingham joined YHC and Mayhem for sprint ladders, RevSox and Tenderloin walked, and the rest of the Pax stretched with Scantron.

    COT

    SYITG

  • 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

  • What Did You Say?!? – from War Eagle

    [Overcast, Cool, 66 Degrees]

    5:15 – YHC arrived early to survey the landscape.

    5:17 – YHC realized that the park has not been providing light. A 6:57 sunrise would not allow us to throw a black football.

    5:19 – Reminded that YHC is on IR and cannot do burpees

    5:20 – Still bringing the SUCK

    5:27 – “I hear a train a comin’”

    5:29 – Disclaimer

    5:30 – LET’S GO!

    WARM-O-RAMA (middle of the football field)

    Abe Vigoda’s X 10
    Grassgrabbers X 10
    SSH X 31
    Hillbillies X 15
    Peter Parkers X 10
    Arm Circles X 10 (Forward & Reverse)

    THE THANG (baseball field near the gym)
    *9 trees*

    ROUND 1

    1 Bonnie Blair, 1 Squat
    2 Bonnie Blair, 2 Squat
    3 Bonnie Blair, 3 Squat… to 9

    Round 2

    1 Honest Merkin, 2 Air Press
    2 Honest Merkin, 4 Air Press
    3 Honest Merkin, 6 Air Press…to 9

    Round 3

    Rinse & Repeat: Bonnie Blair round
    As YHC gave this instruction, a mumble in gloom was heard using language that would make a prisoner blush. It’s ok, Boo Boo was punished accordingly.

    ROUND 4

    9 – 8 Count Body Builders
    8 – 8 Count Body Builders
    7 – 8 Count Body Builders…to 1

    Mary back at the football field

    COT

    Prayers for our city

  • 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