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  • D-Day Tribute and Remembrance – from Fracsac

    11 Pax posted to the Renaissance on their journey to get right.
    A short history lesson was provided on the 5 beaches stormed on D-Day 77 years ago today, with Americans assigned to Utah and Omaha. With a shovel flag planted, disclaimer was given, then mosey for:

    Warmup

    SSH IC x 31
    GG IC x 10
    Abe Vigodas x 10
    Bat wings with AC, OC, SC, MNC
    Peter Parkers IC x 15

    Mosey to the grassy field and circle up:

    Count off and remember your number.

    13 x 8 count body builders IC

    Time for EMOM:
    6 rounds of 10 burpees, 1 round of 7 burpees
    Looks like we missed 77 total, so 10 more OYO for good measure.

    Embrace the Suck
    7 rounds of 7 reps each to commemorate the 77th anniversary:
    Bobby Hurley’s, Merkins, LBC

    Ring of Fire:
    10 squats, do Whacky Jacks while waiting.
    10 Bobby Hurleys, do Goofballs while waiting

    Mosey to tree line. Bear crawl to tree 1, 5 Merkins and run back. Bear crawl to tree 2, 5 Merkins and run back. Bear crawl to tree 3, 5 Merkins and run back.

    Circle up for mental challenge:

    Asked 2 pax for numbers, instructions were to SSH for first number IC, then SSH for second number in silence and stop with the Q. Penalty was 10 burpees. Spoiler alert, we did 10 burpees. Tried again, explaining that now with 100 burpees, there doesn’t have to be a penalty. We did 5 more burpees. We needed to get to the Sunday Mornings!

    Mosey to back of NOMA for Sunday Mornings!

    COT

    NMM

    -YHC was excited to see 11 Pax at The Reni! Thanks for coming out to pay tribute to D-Day.
    -The completed 105 Burpees and 8 ct body builders. Solid beat down! Well done!!
    -Coffeteria followed with incredible F2.

    SYITG

    Thanks for the opportunity to be a part of this awesome brotherhood!

  • Hip Hop Hooray – from Dry Socket

    Beautful morning out there at Audubon park. We had 20ish PAX present. Warmups included SSH, Grass grabbers, Peter Parkers, Mountain climbers and forward and reverse arm circles.
    Then we posted up at the zoo. DJ Dry Socket broke out his 90s/2000s underground hip hop classics to the delight of the 2 PAX that recognized a Beastie Boys song 🙂
    Did a DORA BOMBS (Burpees, Overhead Press, Merkins, Big Boy Sit up, Squats). Partner ran 0.3 miles around the zoo and switched off.
    We logged close to 3 miles today.
    Then we headed back to the field for a little game of Roxanne/Redlight. Ring of Fire, stayed in plank until your part came up then the pax did 4 merkins at a time.
    Ran back to the flag for some Penguins, LBC, Freddy Merks.

  • Summer Sweat is Back – from Tinkles

    The days are starting to get a bit more humid and what was recently tolerable seems to be getting tougher. Today seemed that way, and I was happy when the workout was over.
    Warm Up:
    • Mosey around a bit and settle at the Tulane lawn
    • SSH IC x 30, Imperial Walker IC x 20, Forward arm circle IC x 20, Reverse arm circle IC x 20.

    First Thing:
    • 10 Burpees EMOM for 10 minutes- sorry about the lack of music, will do better next time!
    • Recover with some penguins IC x 20, and LBCs IC x 30

    Second Thing:
    • Mosey over to the garage, backwards run up the inclines and forward run the flats to the top
    • Down the stairs to the bottom and then back up the other staircase
    o To illustrate the lack of ventilation in the stairwell, someone’s weed lingered in the air adding to the sweat
    • Back down again

    Third Thing:
    • To the benches for right leg power up IC x 10, Decline merkins IC x 10, left leg power up IC x 10
    • Mosey back to the flag for some time killing wife pleasers

    COT:
    • Count off, namorama
    • Welcomed FNG. Previous run-in with Pop o’ Lock or friends yields ‘Perp’. Welcome Perp!

  • Forgot I signed up to Q by Dry Socket – from Cyrous Ardalan

    A surprising Q as I initially thought I was signed up for Wednesday! Without a watch I figured I would step up to humbly lead these men into confusion.
    We started with some SSH, Grassgrabbers, Peter parker, Parker Peters, Arm circles, Rev Arm circles and overhead Claps.
    We then ran through the park and at each light post did B L I M P S. 4 laps so a total of 40 Burpees, 40 Lunges, 40 Imperial walkers, 40 Merks, 40 Squats

    Then we came around and half the group did 2 laps around the parking lot while the other group did 15x LL and RL step ups and 15x LL and RL power ups.

    Some of the PAX were unaware I had no concept of time this morning and luckily Chowda and Douille were giving me the correct time when I asked for it.

    So then we began a nice game of ring of fire with 20 merkins total 2 times around.

    After that were some core exercises consisting of LBCs, Dying cockroach, Freddie merks, Low Country Crab, Wife Pleasers.

    Realizing there was still time left, we ran 2 more laps around the parking lot and then ended with 20 Merks at the flag.

    All in all I think we got in a great workout…sorry for the confusion. Be it mine or the PAX. DS.

  • 12 Days of Fitmas – from Bolt

    The mosquitoes turned out along with 20 PAX total for my VQ. Feeding on energy from the group we started with a short mosey around the clubhouse parking lot to circle up at the pavilion for an attempt to warm up enough for lactic acid to be released. I think I’m the only one who experienced that after SSH, Lounge Singers on each side (Angie’s List’s new favorite), Grass Grabbers in the middle, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters, Hillbilly Squats, Arm Circles froward/back, Moroccan Nightclubs, Seal Claps, finishing with Self Love.

    The workout began with really bad singing of the 12 Days of Fitmas, taking us through 12 different exercises with guest singing appearances from Kermit the Frog and/or Cookie Monster depending on who you ask.
    Day 1: Mosey
    Day 2: Merkins
    Day3: Shoulder Taps
    Day 4: Lunges
    Day 5: Burpees
    Day 6: Squats
    Day 7: Diamond merkins
    Day 8: Big Boy sit-ups
    Day 9: Plank Jacks
    Day 10: Superman
    Day 11: SSH
    Day 12: Mtn. Climbers

    With 11 minutes left, we put our fate in the “deca-die” of pain, rolling for random exercises (OYO) including 15 tuck jacks (twice), 15 jump lunges, 20 tricep dips, 20 burpees, 30 mountain climbers, 15 Vladimir Douillies, 20 merkins. Mosey to flag for 20 dying cockroaches, CoT, name-o-rama: welcoming in FNG, Escrow, and finishing with announcements/intentions and prayer. F2 coffeeteria followed, immediately preceded by hosing the dog crap off my shoe which I apparently carried the entire workout.

  • Burnin’ Bearpies (Muscleship 2020-01-04)

    Lovely slight chilly morning at the Muscleship with 7 PAX: Tool, Hokey Pokey, Green Screen, Sogo, Organ Grinder, Hobbs, and Catfish (Q).

    Statrted with Windmills, grass grabbers, hillbillies, and side straddle hop, then moved to the treeline for some burpees and bear crawls. The exercise was to bear crawl two tree lengths, then do 5 burpees, plank and wait for the six, then two round of ring of fire, then peter parkers. Rinse and repeat with 10 burpees, two rings of fire, then parker peters. Again with 15 burpees, two rings, and plank jacks. Again with 20 burpees, two rings, and mountain climbers.

    Then moved back to the starting line doing bear crawls (2 trees), crab walk (2 trees), duck walk (2 trees), and frog jump (2 trees). Planked and waited for the six and did some shoulder taps.

    On our sixes for some freddy mercuries, flutter kicks, and LBCs, with some catalina wine mixers thrown in to keep the upper body throbbing. Moved to the fountain for right leg stepups, derkins, left leg stepups, dips, monkey humpers, and imperial squat walkers.

    Moved to museum steps for some “hop laps”. Exercise was to hop up the steps, do 5 jump squats (Bobby Hurleys), hop back down to start point, then do 5 bonnie blairs (2 is 1). Rinse and repeat with 10, 15, then 20 counts for each exercise.

    On to the front of the museum for 8-count bodybuilders. Return to the circle point for Jack Webb, then COT.

    This was a great one, thanks to all who attended!

  • My Qs are Impetuous

    Conditions:  70 and light rain

    Our curiosity had us gather near some type of Rock ‘n Roll Series race starting at the Peristyle.  Triple Shift said it started at 6:30. I think he was trying to get a free t-shirt and some post race pastries.  YHC gave a well thought out disclaimer and we headed toward NOMA

    The Thang

    In the aforementioned disclaimer, YHC had warned the pax that we would attempt to get in some miles and that if a pax member was not interested in running miles they could peel off and join the Muscleship.  Apparently the Mothership pax came ready to run. 

    Warm-up:  Hillbillies x 20; Low slow squats x 20; Merkins (IC) x 10; BTW

    Foundry: The Democratic Convention – Pax 1 with a Bernies Sanders; Pax 2 holds Al Gore.  Flapjack when Pax 1 falls off the monkey bars.  Did roughly 3 rounds

    Football Field:  Ten rounds of Tyson – Sprint 50 yards, do 10 reps of exercise, Sprint 50 yards, do 10 reps of exercise, Sprint 50 yards, do 10 reps of exercise, Sprint 50 yards.

    • Round 1 – Burpees
    • Round 2 – Jump Squats
    • Round 3 – Diamond Merkins
    • Round 4 – Dying Cockroach
    • Round 5 – Sumo Squats
    • Round 6 – Wide Merkins
    • Round 7 – LBT
    • Round 8 – Bonnie Blairs
    • Round 9 – Carolina Dry Docks
    • Round 10 – 8 Count Body Builders

    Hustle back to flag

    NMM

    • A lot of talk about the blistering 9:30 minute mosey pace we started with. My reputation for speed precedes me.
    • BTW was NSFW
    • All agreed that the greatness of the football field we used for 10 Rounds of Tyson was well worth the long run to get there (and back).
    • Ten Rounds of Tyson was introduced at the F3 NOLA launch by Chung-Li.  We did 5 rounds that day I think.  To my knowledge this was the first time that the full 10 rounds were completed in NOLA
    • I was afraid that some pax might quit on me if I called out burpees for Round 10.  The Body Builders were well received. 

  • Tsunami 11/19

    A small gathering of 3 pax on this Tuesday morning.

    After the intro we were up and running to the parking garage for warmups:

    Sidestraddle Hop x 20

    Self Love x 20

    Mountain Climber x 20

    Merkin x 20

    After that we ran to the base of Wolfpack mountain for a BLIMP workout:

    5 burpees then run to 2nd flood landing

    5 burpees, 10 Lunges then run to 3rd floor landing.

    5 burpees, 10 Lunges, 15 Imperial Walkers then run to 4rd floor landing.

    We continued this with 20 Merkins, 25 Plank-Jacks and 30 Squats.

    From the top of the Mountain we ran down then to the next parking garage.

    From there we did 10 decline Merkins and ran to the 2nd floor. On the 2nd floor landing we did 10 V-ups then to the 3rd floor for 10 more Merkins. At the 4th Floor we did 10 V-ups.

    On the way up I picked up a coupon that was laying around.

    Then we did:

    10 overhead cinderblock presses (count), LBCs, Merkins

    10 cinderblock swings (count), dying cockroach, squats.

    After that we ran back to the flag for a quick count off and prayer.

  • 25,50,75,100….

    Lovely boil water advisory uptown morning, 7 pax assemble by the park for a countless workout.

    Start a bit of stretching then off to the middle mountain. Starting at the bottom we begin the thang:

    25 burpees then up to next level

    50 merkins then up to next level

    75 squats then up to next level

    100 lbcs then run laps while waiting for the 6

    5 hand release burpees and then down the stairs to the bottom level

    mosey to the corner of calhoun and st charles

    three 5 count jack webbs up the tiered lawn then lunge walk to the starting point

    three 10 count v-ups up the tiered lawn then lunge walk to the starting point

    mosey to the benches and oyo:

    20 dips

    20 right leg step ups

    20 left leg step ups

    20 derkins

    mosey to touch down jesus lawn for:

    round 1 ring of fire:

    5 burpees

    10 merkins

    20 dying cock roaches (which I counted so not a count free tuesday)

    round 2 ring of fire

    5 burpees

    10 merkins

    mosey the flag, count off, name-o-palooza & prayer

    Thanks for lettering me lead and placating my repetitive work out,

    86

  • 5 year CONVERGENCE!

    Well – 5 years later we are still going STRONG! I remember when we started thinking I don’t have time in my life for this group. After a week of beatdowns I knew that we had to commit to growing this group – it had already begun to change my life and they way I interact with people everyday. I know after a nasty 530am beatdown – that I can handle anything the day throws at me. Thanks to all the guys here in NOLA that keep things running so that we can continue to be a group. Thanks to OBT for taking time out of his life to get us going in the GLOOM! Looking forward to 5 more years of F3 in NOLA.

    Today the pre-run started with about 20 PAX for a run down BAYOU ST JOHN. Beautiful weather, cool air and a crisp breeze. We ran 12 min out and 12 min back so that we could arrive in time for the fun.

    KUCH – has a been a great EH’er and a nice addition to F3 NOLA. Kuch started the party off with a WARM UP circle. SSH, Imp Walkers, Arm Circles, Peter Parkers, Merks.

    Then we divided up by 5 count into teams. We did 5 burpees, 5 Lunges, 5 Merkins, 5 Squats, 5 Plank Jacks. Bear Crawl across the lawn. Run back. KUCH did an excellent job getting the teams set quickly

    5 reps. We ran out of time and had to call it after 3 reps. No team won due to the shortened KUCH set. Kuch represented NOLA well – with a pretty gnarly start to a celebratory event.

    2nd set with DURACELL – FROM BATON ROUGE

    Duracell brought out 2 coupons. 40lb cinderblocks. 2 PAX ran to the center and did 3 thrusters. We went two different directions. A slow starter but once the PAX got the hang out this one – this was a solid beatdown. Duracell had to do about 15 exercises in cadence to 20. Exercises ranged from a regular plank, to shoulder taps, to merk variations to squat/lunge variations. The highlight of this section was Mathlete’s 2.0-Bear getting that cinderblock in the right position and up. Duracell represented the RED STICK well.

    THIGHS FROM THE WANK- 3rd quarter. We started with a solid mosey over the to the lawn in by the museum. Upon arrival we see that Thighs has organized with some printed out signs a 15 min beatdown that is going to suck. At each sign there was an exercise- PAX had to complete 20 reps the first time through, 15 reps the 2nd time through. (Possible 3rd time for the fastest pax members). Exercises were:

    1. Bonnie Blaires
    2. Diamond Merks
    3. Reverse Crunches aka Gaspumps
    4. Bobby Hurleys
    5. Merkin Toe Touches (need to incorporate this more in my Qs)
    6. Freddie Mercs

    RUN back to the start line and do this again. Thighs had the teams organized in a way by street names. Due to 75 PAX that didn’t quite workout but Thighs quickly modified and let the teams fall where they were. A good quick call. Thighs demonstrated that there is nothing easy about the WANK. Those guys are tough! Great turnout by the WB.

    STEVE FROM THE NORTHSHORE- FINISHED OFF The PAX back on the great lawn. Each pax got a partner.

    You had to do your partners age in burpees, your partners weight in LBCS, and your partners months in F3 in Freddies.

    Steve had a few minutes left so he finished with some Peter parkers, and some American Hammer.

    After a 75 PAX NAME O RAMA, NUMBERRAMA – Hokey POkey finished us off with an awesome prayer!

    After the whole beatdown we gathered at Cafe Du Monde for a 5 year celebration party. Tclaps to Rudy, Tool and Gabrielle for making that happen. There were eggs, bacon, sausage, grits, biscuits, beignets and plenty of coffee!

    Thanks to our awesome Qs! IT is NOT easy to Q 75 PAX!

    So blessed to be a part of this group- cheers to 5 more years of F3 NOLA!