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  • Got TAXES??? Here’s a Beatdown

    With the new, recently constructed, tax payer funded workout equipment at the Mandeville City Hall playground, YHC decided it was time to take full advantage of it’s convenient location. Funny thing is, this new equipment is about 15 lunge walk paces (we found that out today) from where Shooter plants his American Flag and where we form our COT, so it’s almost as if the equipment was meant for F3 Northshore. And this hasnt been lost by our group, as nearly every week we have utlized it and have even joked about who it was intended for.

    WARMARAMA

    SSH, HK, BK all IC x 15. Lunge walk to end of cars (thanks, EiEi, for parking nearly to East Causeway Approach)

    THANG

    Off we go…our routine 5k through the gloomy streets of Old Mandeville and Sunset Point.

    POST THANG

    We all pay taxes, RIGHT? Ok, let’s enjoy the fruits of our labor. PAX lunge walks about 15 paces to F3 Workout Equipment at the Mandeville City Hall.

    PAX rotates through all of the equipment. Presses, Pull-ups, Merkins, Freak Nasties, Knees to Chest…heck, I dont even know the name of those things we were using, but it felt good.

    MARY

    Putins x 20 IC, Crunchy Frogs x 10 IC, Freddy Mercs x 20 IC.

    Countoff, COT, and thanks to Zoolander for praying us out.

    Many thanks to the men of F3 Northshore for following my lead and always inspiring me to become a better man.

  • Back At It

    Ah, it’s exciting to be back to the month of January. A new year, another chance to join a run challenge I’ll almost immediately regret. A new year, another chance to see Shooter post to a 16º beatdown in shorts and sans gloves. And of course, a new year, another chance to don a tank top and claim the hammer at the upcoming Ivan.

    But first, there’s work to do. The PAX as a whole is incredibly strong these days and YHC has some serious catching up to do. One lesson that has crystallized for YHC the past two weeks is how hard it is to actually build something and how easy it is to let it fall apart. Nothing new, of course. It applies to nearly everything – relationships, spiritual life, career, fitness, etc. Deep down, though, YHC honestly thought that hey, I might be able to leave the PAX for 5 months and return, still able to knock out 500 merkins and run 10k’s.

    That, of course, is not the case.

    And so, humbled, YHC eased back in with my first Q in a few months. The scramble is one of my favorites, and seemed a great place to start.

    Warmorama: Toe Touches, Seal Jacks, IW’s, all 20x IC. Lunge w/ twists through the parking lot, and then off to the races.

    Ran the traditional route, with one exception – Chewy thought it’d be a good idea to run the loop in the opposite direction, considering the new year and all.

    Once back, YHC led the PAX over to the monkey bars, except, hey – there are no longer any monkey bars at the city hall playground! This is what happens when you’re gone for a bit. After some searching, we found a weird, arched-web piece of playground equipment near the back that kinda/sorta worked for our needs:

    Partner up, P1 knocks out 10 burpees and 10 pull-ups, P2 does scorpion kicks. Flapjack.

    Next, P1 knocks out 20 Australian pull-ups while P2 is doing 180º jump squats.

    Finally, a quick mary of Hello Dolly’s, Flutter Kicks, and Rosalita’s (all 20x, IC). COT and Shooter prayed us out. Guys, a sincere thanks for the opportunity to lead, it’s always a pleasure to get stronger with this group of men.

  • Changing Directions

    Very gloomy Gloom at The Gipper this morning, but that didn’t stop the veteran PAX who took their red pills and showed up ready to make themselves better. In fact, most of the PAX, at least those tuned into this month’s ISI challenge, participated in a little foreplay by putting in a mile run before the beat down. The mumble chatter emanating from the Southshore about the Krazy Ivan seems to have galvanized the Northshore PAX in defense of the Freedom Hammer.

    Change of pace with our warmup this morning, using the simulated train platform at the trailhead for a dynamic warmup of skips, lunges, shuffles, carioca, freestyle, backstroke, ascending strides, and backpedals.

    Mosey to the front of the Justice Center for a passing game. We counted off and then bounce passed a tennis ball to one another in order while moving constantly within a square. Mastering the basics quickly, the PAX progressively added levels of difficulty, i.e. leaving the square after a pass to perform a SSH before coming back in to receive a pass, etc. YHC was impressed with the PAX’s dexterity. We seem to be getting better at these games. Or maybe just more tolerant of stupid ideas. At any rate, we dropped the ball less and consequently performed fewer penalty exercises than past attempts.

    Mosey to the side of the Justice Center for some Mary. Box cutters and then dynamic side planks, 20x IC each exercise.

    Recovery walk to back of the Justice Center for some agility drills and ramp action. First up was a 10 yard acceleration from cone to cone immediately followed by a sharp backpedal to the starting position. A couple rounds of interspersed with some Wile E Coyote, an exercise learned on a visit to Metro Charlotte consisting of a suspended “walk” laterally up a ramp by placing feet and hands on the railing. No one face planted so that was a plus.

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    Then we hit agility round 2 with an X drill…sprint diagonally to a cone, shuffle laterally to a cone, and then turn and sprint to another cone. Mixed bear crawls up the Justice Center ramp with this one.

    Mosey back to the trailhead for two quick rounds of dot drills, essentially two foot hops in a diagonal and lateral pattern. Then another round of Mary with box cutters, Jane Fonda circles, alternating Supermans, and long flutter kicks, all IC 20x.

    Countorama, nameorama and Shooter prayed us out. Thanks for showing up men and thanks for letting me lead.

  • Happy New Year, F3 Brothers!

    Happy New Year, F3 Nation! 7 PAX posted in the Gloom ringing in the New Year at Grandmother’s House, not too long after the last fireworks were blasted into the Gloom of the night sky.

    WARMARAMA

    SSH, Arm Circles, Good Mornings all IC x 10.

    THANG: Move to far end of covered area, partner up. One man runs to stairs, goes up and down, and returns while his partner is doing an exercise (shoulder taps, T Merkins, one leg hops). Rinse and repeat.

    Bear Crawl to stairs, run up stairs and back down. Lunge walk to stairs, and do Defensive lineman squat walk, then run up stairs and back.

    Mosey to Lafite St bus stop where the PAX did 3 sets of 10 of the following: Box Jumps, Derkins, Freak Nasties.

    Mosey “through the woods” (hence the name, Grandmother’s house) to the Tunnel. Partner up again. First partner jogs down and through tunnel, sprinting up the far side. At the far side, PAX turns around and comes back, while partner is doing the following exercises for the two sets: Flutter kicks, Al Gore (5 secs, 5 secs rest).

    Mosey back to Trailhead to close things out.

    Count a rama, COT. Thanks to Jose for praying us out.

    Thanks for getting up early with me guys, following my lead and for the camaraderie over the past year. Thanks also for joining me for some F2 at Cafe Du Monde. It was good times, good company. I always enjoy that as much as the beatdowns.

  • Where Yat?

    Dec 31st means out with the old in with the new… but first we need to know where were at to know where were headed. todays beatdown was based on our previous endeavor of the go ruck challenge and basically the marshes reason for existence. How many merkins, big boy sit ups, and pull-ups can you do in one minute of time along with a timed mile run 😉

    WARMARAMA

    20 ssh ic

    20 toe touches ic

    20 high knees ic

    20 windmils ic

    20 mummy kicks ic

    20 good mornings ic

    20 little arm circles forward ic

    20 ” ” backwards ic

    THANG

    partners keep count and accountability during

    1 min of merkins

    partners switch

    1 minute of big boy sit ups

    partners switch

    1 minute of pull ups

    partners switch

    1 mile timed run to the lakefront and back

    MARY

    20 lbc ic

    20 fred mercs ic

    10 leg lifts ic

    20 flutter kicks ic

    15 hip ups left ic

    15 hip ups right ic

    cot

    bom

    the manny prays out

    thanks and Happy New Year to all you go getters!!!

  • Returns welcomed with or without receipts!!

      With plenty of rain in the forecast the Q opened the garage anticipating a wet post, yet to his surprise it was only the sound of swirling winds, which left a path of blown over garbage cans spewing garbage throughout the streets and early dismantling of Christmas decorations hanging from the rooftops as I journeyed to the AO.. Anticipating a possible return of other PAX who have not posted in sometime (Turtle), Q was excited arriving to the headlights of regulars like Veteran (Steve), post record setter (Ringo) and 2 Scramble essentials in Garfield and Water Pik.. Planted the shovel flag and started the chatter amongst the PAX.

      Began our warmup with

      10 IC Good mornings, Windmills

      15 IC Toe Touches, SSH followed by lunge twist inward and outward for 25 yards. Burgundy arrives as we wrap up the warmup to start our journey..

      Moseyed our standard route through the debris filled streets of ole Mandeville. With steady winds and severe gusts we still managed a respectable time of less than 30 mins. Arrived back for 10 mins of work which consisted of the PAX taking to our 6 while another completed 5 pull-ups as we rotated around to each man. R/R 3 series that included LBCs, Flutter kicks and Crunchy frogs. Closed with 1 min of Merkins.

      Circled up for count, announce, COT

      Reminded everyone of the upcoming Crazy Ivan, which should prove another domination by the Northshore representing and preserving the Hammer 🔨 trophy!!

      Also Water Pik put it out to the PAX for some F2 following his Q next Tuesday at Grandmas House on New Year’s Day!! We will converge at the Cafe Du Monde following the beatdown for some coffee and beignets to start the New year right!! That is of course for any man willing to delay their New Years resolution of tasty warm fried dough coverd in powdered sugar 😋😋…

      YHC prayed us out.

      Appreciate the commitment through the holiday week F3 brethren and Returns are always welcomed!! New year = New choices

      👍🏻👊🏻✌🏻 Till the next Gloom!!

    • Like Finding Candy Corn in My Advent Calendar…..

      …. as I was totally confused, by the crowd that posted at the Gipper this morning. New faces, and faces I have not seen in awhile. Then some regulars missing.

      Here is how it went:

      Disclaimer

      Warmup; All 20xIC, side straddle hops, good mornings, high knees, arm circles, seal jacks, arm circles, imperial walkers, mummy kicks, hill-billys, toe touches

      Over to the rock pile: grab a rock ( or giant boulder if your name is Butt Splice or Shooter) for; rows, overhead presses, curls, forward presses, elfs on the shelfs.

      Over to the Taj-Mahal parking lot for a ladder shuffles, forward, reverse and both laterals,

      To the front of the Taj-Mahal for a merkin ring-of fire.

      Mosey to the Justice Center parking garage for backwards lunge walks and sprints up the ramps. once on top did a few one minute exercises followed by run-arounds.

      No Mary today, as we went overtime

      Butt Splice prays us out

      Thanks for letting me lead today. I had a ribald good time.

    • Christmas Wing (What Time Is It Now?)

      I’m ready to step up for what I love. No Q for Christmas? I got this! Get back before 2.0s spring from their beds (hopefully not from my clatter)… Mission Impossible!

      YHC arrives with time to spare to see Jose and Manny warming it up. Garfield pulls up with a minute or 2 to spare – where y’at Mr. Shoota?!

      I’ll be both frank and Bushwacker, this beatdown feels like days ago, plus my wife’s aunt plied me with enough Natchez, MS version of “Amber Wind” cocktail that my memory would not be submitted into evidence at a trial at this point. That being said, I’ll do my best to recollect what was a mighty effort on today’s PAX.

      WARM O RAMA

      x10 IC:

      Toe Touches

      Imperial Walkers (Enter Shooter)

      Windmills

      Air presses

      New and, Burgundy may say, improved Fire Hydrants

      THANG

      Mosied to end of brick columns at the other end of the stairs. In 2 groups, one from each runs half way and does 5 _______, continues to the end and does 5 ______, runs up the stairs and down and does 10 ______, then half way back and does ______. Meanwhile remaining PAX is doing _______.

      Merkins, Squats, Freddy Mercuries

      (recall confusion disclaimer)

      Dive Bomber Merkins, Mountain Climbers, LBCs

      Peter Parkers, jump Squats, Heel Touches…

      Burpees…aaaahhhhhh??? What time is it?

      Mosied to the bus stop for:

      10xs Freak Nasties, 12xs In n Outs – all x3

      Mosied back to the stairs for some Bunny Hops and 3-step strides up n down.

      COT

      Jose the beast prayed us out and QIC made it back with 30 minutes to spare on 2.0 #1 stirring! Thanks you gents for showing up (NOT BUTT SPLICE) and for following my some what wingin’ it lead.

      MERRY CHRISTMAS!


    • Christmas Vacation

      Christmas Vacation

      Thanks to the holiday season giving many PAX a respite from work the Milestone Marsh was hopping in the pre-dawn gloom of Christmas Eve day. A big welcome to all the PAX for coming out early on a Monday morning.

      CONDITIONS

      46°; 51% humidity; 6:54 AM sunrise

      DISCLAIMER

      The experienced PAX knew YHC’s rank amateur status.

      THE WARM UP

      All exercises done IC

      • Split jacks X15
      • Toe touches X10
      • Abe Vigodas X10
      • Ray Finkles X10
      • Steve Earles Copper head squat finished with hill billy X 10
      • Good mornings X10
      • High knees X15

      Every time Catherine revved up the microwave, I’d piss my pants and forget who I was for about half an hour or so.

      THE THANG PART 1: Getting Stronk

      YHC sees Northshore PAX getting mad strong, so he thought he would keep the trend of lower rep, higher difficulty movements.

      4 rounds
      Pull up sets x6
      Single leg squats X6 each leg

      1 minute recovery after each set

      YHC wobbled some on the single leg movements, but the assembled PAX were rock solid, straight vertical. Backdraft even rocked some of the pistol-style movement.

      It wouldn’t be the Christmas shopping season if the stores were any less hooter than they – HOTTER than they are. Whew. It is warm in here, isn’t it?

      THE THANG PART 2: Let the beat drop

      PAX did some work with 5 drop sets focusing on the lower body. Each set consisted of 15 knee tucks, 15 jump squats and 15 air squats done in succession with no rest. YHC was gassed at the end of these but the PAX grinded out each of the 5 sets with style.

      Surprised, Eddie?… If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am now.

      THE THANG PART 3: The big, big finish

      PAX finished in fine form with the following fun and games.

      • Gecko crawl across the court
      • Boo-yah merkins (Q was tired at this point and the cadence / count confused the heck out of the PAX)
      • Clapping merkins
      • Single leg hops / Marios
      • Snow board hops
      • Grand finale, 1 minute of hanging knee raises

      Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?

      CountORama, NameORama, and COT

      YHC prayed us out.

      MOLESKIN

      Merry Christmas y’all

      Carve the turkey, turn the ballgame on Make Bloody Marys 'cause we all want one Send somebody to the Stop 'N Go We need some celery and a can of fake snow A bag of lemons and some Diet Sprite A box of tampons and some Salem Lights Hallelujah, everybody say cheese Merry Christmas from the family

      Thanks F3-bros, for the fellowship, the beatdowns and for being willing to follow my lead.

    • Let’s MOSEY

      With no World Cup Soccer themes or any other ideas for a “LOVE FEST Beatdown” dancing in my mind, YHC figured it would be a good time to work off some of those holiday calories that invariably crop up at this time of year.  So, with a big crowd (T-Claps guys) on the day before Christmas Adam, here’s more or less how it went down:

      To get the blood flowing, we did a brief round of SSH, HK, and BK to warm up.  all IC x 15.

      Mosey Eastward, Circle up for some harder hitting exercises before the main course.  Smurf Jacks IC x 20, Monkey Humpers IC x 20, Shooter’s Burpos OYO x 10.

      Now it was time to MOSEY again, however, this time we went westward.  It was back to the corner of Marigny and Lakeshore Dr for some RACES…(Yes, Bushwacker, you heard that correctly).  YHC divided the PAX into two random groups, and each group took turns racing around the first block of Marigny St (around the circle).  While one group was running, the other group did a continuous exercise.  Rinse and repeat x 3.  The exercises were T-Merkins, Squats, Shoulder Taps.  After some pretty intense running, it was time to MOSEY again…this time we went Eastward, all the way to the PULL UP BARS beyond the outfield fence at Harbor Field.  And that distance may have been a little farther than YHC had remembered, as the PAX thinned to a barely connected group.  Once the PAX re-assembled, it was time for some pullups.  As each man did a set of up-to 5 pull ups (apologies to Zoolander and The Hammer, both of whom can clearly can pop out around 20), the remaining PAX did and exercise.  First it was Imperial Walker Squats, then it was Mack Taraji’s, and last it was, Flutter Kicks.  After 3 rounds, and some really cold hands, we MOSEYED back to the flag for a brief set of Mary.  COT, and YHC prayed us out.  Welcome to our FNG, One Eye.  Thanks for letting me take the lead today and pushing me to greater heights!

      Barely Legal, Bolt, Bubba, Bushwacker, Coconuts, Garfield, Jose Mourinho, Mathlete, Maverick, One Eye (FNG), Shooter, Toto, The Hammer, THE Manny, Tanked Up!, Zoolander