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  • It’s Douille’s fault…

    YHC had a gut feeling there might be a need for a Q this morning and by 05:30 after a brief inquiry as to the whereabouts of YSR and/or Douille , it was time to Q on the fly…

    The Thang: Mosey around golf parking lot and over to bandstand area for warmup COP: SSH, Mtn. Climber, Imp. Walker, Plank Jack x 25 and 10 Burpees OYO for Seaman.

    Next,  Squaticides – – Run from first light to last light and do 20 Squats. Back to the first light and do 19 Squats. Back and forth all the way down to 1 for a total of 210. Plank for the six.

    Mosey to the shelter for some bench work. Incline Merkins x 15, LLSU x 20, Derkins x 15, RLSU x 20, Dips x 15

    Over to the grass for Voluntary Mary x 15. Approximately 15 of the pax led us through 15 reps of their favorite ab exercise before time got us.

    Back to the flag for cot w/ shoutout by YHC

    Good Times!

    Roots

    Not sure if we were 20 or 21. Missing one or two pax. Let me know who please…

  • Viva la cucaracha

    Hurt yourself, don’t hurt yourself, your Q had disclaimer issues. Least of the Pax’ problems today…let’s mosey.

    Around the horn discover Brown Bag hiding in the shrubbery then over to touchdown Jesus for the first COP: SSHx 20, MC x20, HB x20, PP x20, Squat Jacks no Smurf Jacks x 20, PP x20

    Mosey to the mountain for three lines of Indian run fun to the top.

    COP #2 with a quick change between exercises: Dying Cockroach x10 > Flutter Kicks x10 > DC x10 > Hello Dollys x10 > DC x10 > High Dollys x10 > DC x10

    Mosey over to the down ramp: 10 RT, 10 merkins the run down for 7 crossfit-merkin jump sqaut burpees, backwards up the hill twice and third time bear crawl.

    Down the stairs for a nice cool round at the benches: RSLU x20, Dips x20, RLPU x20, Incline Merkins x10, LLSU x20, Dips x15, LLPU x20 & Incline Merkins x10

    Lastly another quick round of Mary at TD Jesus: Dying Cockroach x15 > elbow PP x15 > Dying Cockroach x15 > eblow MC x15

    Back to the flag for the count, name-o-rama, welcome FNG Shrinkage & the prayer.

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  • Did I mention the ISI Challenge….

    So as 23 PAX gathered in the short-lived gloom, YHC reminded everyone that this month’s ISI challenge is 10,000 Merkins in one month.  Quite the task as that equates to an average of 333.33 merkins/day for those who are mathematically challenged.  Merkins were promised and as you will soon see,  Merkins were delivered.  After the standard disclaimer, we were off!

    Mosey around entrance to Golf Club and then to front of bandstand for Warm Up:

    • Hillbillies X 20 IC
    • Windmills X 15 IC
    • Imperial Walkers X20
    • Forward Arm Circles X15
    • Reverse Arm Circles X15

    Then short Mosey to Oak Alley for Red Barchetta (went deep in Exicon for this one).  Apparently it’s supposed to get your heart racing like a “Rush song”.

    • Start at 1st light run to last light for 100 SSH
    • Run back to starting point
    • Run to 2nd to last light for 75 Mountain Climbers
    • Run back to starting point
    • Run to 3rd to last light for 50 LBC’s
    • Run back to starting point
    • Run to 4th to last light for 25 merkins
    • Last is 10 Burpees

    I agree the routine got the heart racing, but even though I’m a fan of Red Barchetta, I think this Rush song seems more appropriate:

    Here’s to all you Working Men! Or is it Working #HIM?  BTW, where’s all the merkins?  That’s only 35 including the burpees…

    Next Mosey to Kickball Field for Merkin Ladder.  There they are!!!

    • Start on one side and do 20 merkins sprint to other side and do 19 back to starting point for 18 and so forth until you hit 1. 210 merkins total if you’re counting.  Now we’re cooking…or at least our chests are burning.

    Quite a bit of mumblechatter during this routine.  I even think I heard some comment about t-rex arms that help some of the PAX do push-ups faster… All I got to say is sometimes it’s good to be short…or short-armed.

    Next mosey to shelter for

    • Incline Merkins X15 IC
    • Right Leg Step Ups X15 IC
    • Decline Merkins X15 IC
    • Left Leg Step Ups X 15 IC
    • Merkins X15 OYO

    Next mosey to right outside shelter for

    Mary

    • Flutter Kicks x 15 IC
    • Penguins X 20 IC
    • Tin Snips X 15 IC
    • Nolan Ryans X5 each side OYO

    Mosey to Flag for Count-Off, Name-o-rama, Intentions and Prayer.  PAX, don’t forget about NOTC 2-miler this Wednesday.  Should be some good F2 and recruiting opportunities.

    So, for those counting, that’s 320 merkins to get your ISI Challenge day started.  Keep ‘em coming and Go Team Gabrielle!

    Thanks for letting me lead.

  • Wolfpack Mtn intro to the Deck of Death

    A little slow with the bb but here it is nevertheless…

    Inspired by the new for sale deck of death – and realizing that as far as I know – the Uptown crew has never lived a Deck of Death.  So I brought a deck and we did the deed on Wolfpack Mtn.

    We ran to the lower area of WPM – here we did SSH x 2o, Imperial Walker Squats x 2o, Mtn Climbers x 20 and Dying Roaches x 20.

    From there we ran to the top.

    At the TOP we started our deck of Death!  – Spades were burpees, Hearts were plank jacks, Diamonds were merks, and Clubs were Peter Parkers

    Each ACE was a lap down the stairs then up the other stairs.

    I removed the twos.  So we did 151 of each exercise.  We didn’t complete the 9 and 10 of spades so we were 19 burpees short but all other suits were completed.

    We did 3 aces but on the 4th ACE ran back to the flag.

    We had a solid PAX of 24.  I unfortunately didn’t document the PAX but I will add some names of guys I was 100% sure were there.  I will add some names if you notice your name is missing – send me a text or email F3 NOLA.

     

  • Memorial Day Murph

    Growing up, Memorial Day represented the first weekend of summer.  This was the first time we would pack up the car, hitch up the boat, and head to Lake Norfork on the eastern side of the Ozarks; a ritual we would repeat every weekend until Labor Day.  I loved Memorial Day and hated Labor Day.  Labor Day represented the end of summer, the beginning of school, and the end of fun.  Made sense that a holiday celebrating work would represent all those terrible things.  Also appropriate, Memorial Day represented freedom.  School was out.  It was time to be care-free and head to the lake.  I had a good understanding that Memorial Day represented freedom, but I never considered the cost associated with that freedom.  And that is unfortunate, because that is what the holiday is really about.

    So for Memorial Day 2018 F3 New Orleans did our best to recall the sacrifices made.  We, like many others around the nation, completed a Murph.  A Murph is a 1 mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 merkins, 300 squats and a 1 mile run, named in honor of Lt. Michael Murphy, a Navy Seal who lost his life in Afghanistan.  I have feeling the real Murph didn’t modify his pull-ups as much as I did.  Oh and he wore a weighted vest through the whole thing.

    Naked Man Moleskin

    Great showing by the Uptown and World Pax, coming together at City Park.  I was impressed.  Further confirmation that 0530 is the right time to workout on the weekdays:  November Project showed up at 0600 only to find us on the equipment.  It worked out though, mainly because the F3 Pax crushed this Murph.  We were all running our final mile by the time they needed the pull-up space.  Lucky for them, there was no showdown.  Also lucky for us Da Parish and Rudy were not around.  I’m certain they would have broken into song from West Side Story.

    Impressive times by all.  I believe Mahatma and Gabrielle completed it in about 36 minutes. We finished with Mary, culminating in a 21 gun salute of the American Hammer.

    Great way to start the week and honor those who have given the ultimate sacrifice.  Thanks guys.

  • sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you

    The PAX gathered at the AO ….

    Standard disclaimer and mosey around the track with a left turn across Magazine St, past the Audubon Zoo sign and into the green parking lot.

    Warm up COP

    5 burpees OYO , SSH x20 IC, Peter Parkers x20 IC, Sealjacks x16 IC (sealjacks are boring), Mountain Climbers x20 IC, 5 burpees OYO.

    Mosey across the parking lot and through the gates to the Southeast Louisiana Flood Control System (aka the levee). Line up on the path for 7’s. Catalina wine mixers at the bottom and 2 leg lunges at top. OYO.

    PAX moseyed to the molehill at the end of the fly soccer fields. Pair up. Partner 1 bear crawls over the mountain, down the other side, does 30 LBCs, then moseyed back around the mountain.  Partner 2 holds a low plank until 1 gets back.  Flapjack twice.

    Mosey to the fly playground, divide into rough groups of five to rotate through pullups, incline merks, decline merks, dips, and plankjacks.  Pullup group had the count of 10.

    Fast mosey to the labyrinth for quick Mary. Russian Twist x10 IC, Hello Dolly x10 IC, LBCs x10 IC.

    Times up.

    Mosey to the flag and one minute over.  Yankee is likely drafting the email of admonishment as YHC types.

    Count off and Name-O-Rama.  With such a large group today we missed an FNG, who stealthily invented his own name.  That would not stand, however, and our friendly canadian  was named “Bieber.”

    Announcements, intentions and close.

    Thanks to all for putting up with YHC’s fumbled organization on the exercises. The Pax ate the Bear, but the Bear ate YHC.

     

  • Here’s Johnny!

    YHS is back! Excited to be free of the mesh restrictions I was ready to join the Pax and get back on it. When the Q decided to Fartsack it, an FNG at the flag, YHS was ready roll, we needed a TYHAC!

    Warm up of SSH X 21, Peter Parker x 21, Mountain Climber x21, and Forward and Reverse Arm Circles

    Mosey to row bars:

    Pax broke into 4 groups doing lunges, low slow squates, monkey humpers, with Rows as count of 15.

    Mosey to a nice glade were we did Jack Webbs 1:2 reaching 11 Mericans

    Two column Indian Run to the benches
    RLS x21, Dips x 21, LLS x21, Dips x21, RLPU x 21, LLPU x11

    Back to the track where we lunged for 2 running men, sprinted for 2, lunged one more and sprint to Circle of Mary T-Box where an unglorious combination of Holly Dolly x10, Pickle Pounders x10, Box Cutters x10 and LBCs x10

    Best effort mosey to the Pull Up bars for a max effort on the bars then on to the circle to arrive at precisely 6:15

    We had an FNG who had been EH’d by NipTuck who was supposed to Q but has now taken the title as Queen of the FartSack! I couldn’t find the right lexicon for this but Peppa pointed out this was Blue Falcon moment for sure!

    Until he introduced himself, TYHAC was to be his name but the FNG announced his birth name as Raoul. This brought back a rush of vivid memories of the 1982 movie Eating Raoul, where a couple kills swingers to get a downpayment on their house. So Raoul is now known as Swinger amongst us.

  • …Featuring some Classic Hits from the World!

    So, on a warm, muggy Wednesday morning, YHC greeted 20 PAX for a classic beatdown.    With a heavy assist from Tool and Rudy, YHC decided to go through some of the classic hits from the World.  After the standard disclaimer, off we go!

    Mosey to Kick-Ball field for warm up

    • Windmills X 15
    • Hillbillies X 20
    • Imperial Walkers X20
    • Peter Parker X20

    Next a quick mosey to Soccer Field for Thang 1

    Partner Plank Slaps – partner up in plank position facing each other for

    • 50 Partner Plank Slaps 5 Burpees
    • 40 Partner Plank Slaps 4 Burpees
    • 30 Partner Plank Slaps 3 Burpees
    • 20 Partner Plank Slaps 2 Burpees
    • 10 Partner Plank Slaps 1 Burpee

    Mosey to fly, no wait the levee! (sorry seaman) for thang 2

    Everest

    • Lunge on one leg then squat
    • Lunge other leg then squat

    At the top 10 Burpees, at the bottom 10 Burpees (Thanks El Wire!)

    Mosey to first work out station on river side of park for thang 3

    Route 66 starting at running man by workout station

    • First Running Man Merkin 1x
    • Second Running Man Merkins 2x
    • up to Merkins 11X

    Mosey to Shelter for thang 4

    • RL Step Up X 16
    • Dips X 15
    • LL Step Up X 16
    • Dips X 15
    • Bulgarian Split Squats RL Up X 15
    • Derkins X 15
    • Bulgarian Split Squats LL Up X 15

    Great job counting PAX!  Funny how sharing workout space with four fellow boot campers of the fairer sex gets everybody participating.  Hope we didn’t scare them off!  I see some FiA recruiting in the future.

    Mosey to open area for “The SUCK” for thang 5

    • SSH X6
    • Jump Squats X6
    • Merkins X6

    Complete as many rounds in 3 minutes calling out each round when completed

    Stay in circle for 10 Nolan Ryans each side OYO

    Mosey to Flag for count-off, name-o-rama, announcements, intentions and prayer

    Thanks to PAX for letting me lead.

  • Three Years of Respect

    A PAX can sometimes be a deaf lot, such as when a Q makes a disclaimer and then starts to mosey: huh, huh, what’d he say?  Where’s he going?  Hey, wait, we’re supposed to be following him?

    After a clearly articulated, strong-voiced disclaimer at precisely 5:30:00a, YHC started the usual mosey to Walnut, as the PAX slowly caught up with lots of mumblechatter.  We continued a mosey to the front of Tulane, but past the wall and into the area with more room.  After all, some of the PAX were, shall we say, gaseous.  Warm-up:

    • SSHs 31xIC
    • Hillbillies 28xIC
    • Monkey Humpers 31xIC (always a crowd pleaser)
    • Peter Parkers 30xIC

    Mosey to old stomping grounds with a new twist suggested by Reluctant Yankee: at the corner of Calhoun and St. Charles in front of the oh-so-lovely tiers landscaping featuring an elegant cement carving that just happens to spell LOYOLA, the Pax broke up into four groups (some difficulty encountered, apparently dividing sixteen by four can sometimes be challenging in the Gloom).  Group One: mosey over to the three-floor outdoor staircase to go up and down twice (that’s 24 up each time for those who climbed steps by twos and 48 down for those not crazy enough to do same on the way down, for a total of 144 steps–or so); meanwhile, Group Two did merkins AMRAP at the corner, Group Three did squats AMRAM on the first tier and Group Four did Nolan Ryans AMRAP on the second tier.  The merks were definitely the most challenging.  Cycle through until each group has done all four stations.

    After a somewhat quiet 20-count by Cowbell, the PAX moseyed to and up the central stairwell for Wolfpack Mountain.  At the top, the PAX divided into two groups (again, apparently, some difficulty in dividing sixteen in half).  Group One moseyed down the stairway to the third floor and back up, while Group Two did some prayer chairs; then both groups flipped.  Rinse and repeat once, and then a Circle of Mary:

    • Russian Twists 20xIC
    • Flutter Kicks 20xIC
    • Penguins 20xIC
    • Hello Dollys 20xIC
    • Crunchy Frogs 20xIC
    • Dying Cockroaches 20xIC
    • LBCs 20xIC
    • Dr. Ws 10xIC (apparently, YHC was going too fast?  He thought it was easier that way.  Beware, next time he might do it oh so slow to keep the burn burning hot.  We miss you, Side Effects.)

    Mosey back down the ramp and back to the would-be flag to finish at, RY will be happy to hear, precisely at 6:15a.  A black dog and his man Sea Man were dutifully waiting, with a bemused smile as he watched 16 (or really 15, since Pony Boy had to peel off) PAX drip sweat into the sweet, dewy grass.  Count off, Name-O-Rama, and a closing COT.

    #Moleskin: YHC was, um, a bit more exhausted (Douille thought YHC might need to go to a hospital) when he finished his first BeatDown, led by Splash on the first Friday of Jazzfest in 2015.  #TClaps to all the PAX for giving YHC three years and one week of great BeatDowns.

    Jingle Vader

  • YSR– technologically challenged?

    BIG 25 person PAX for a YSR Q

    Warm up:  partner one does defensive slides while the other does jumping jacks.  Flapjack.

    Repeat with Parker Peters and Imperial Walker Squats

    Mosey to the Mountain.

    Run up and alternate between 5 burpees and abs of choice x 20.

    BLIMP and wait at TOP.

    Run down the stairs.

    At benches Left leg power up, incline merks, right leg power up, decline merks x 20

    Back to mountain and Indian Run up

    At TOP – Circle of Mary (not sure which exercises were done for Mary)

    Mosey back to the FLAG –FINISH BLIMP and Wait.

    Welcome back KOTTER to Pony Boy!