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  • I hope I never see a Cinder Block again

    With this month’s Iron Pax AMRAP Challenge being led by our F3 brethren in Greensboro, South Carolina, YHC decided the Milestone Marsh was a good opportunity to give this week’s version a try.

    Warmup: (all IC to to 20)

    SSH, Good mornings, High Knees.

    Thang:

    Here’s how it went down.  There were 4 exercises–all done with a coupon–a 25 lb cinder block.  The exercises were Curls, Thrusters, Man Makers, Kettle Bell Swings.  Each interval was timed at 4 minutes.  Each man was to do As Many Reps As Possible in the alloted time.  We did sets of 12 with a 50 yard run between each set and a two minute rest period after each 4 minute interval.

    Good luck to the crown Wednesday morning at the Gipper.  This was some serious business.  Some serious Man Making!

    Needing a reprieve from the cinder blocks we, moseyed to the Lakefront for some Mary.  Flutter Kicks, Hello Dollies, Putins, Leg Raises, Rower Situps.

    Then mosey back to the Marsh for count off, and thanks to Bushwacker for praying us out.

    Looking forward to Saturday, men!

     

     

     

  • One Coconut is all that’s needed..

    Just when I thought there would be no other men posting at Grandmas House this Gloom and the YHC could do some ISI Yoga and headback to the Sack One Coconut is rattled from the tree and lands at the post to spoil those thoughts.. No time for chatter let’s  crack this baby open and begin..

    warmup

    All IC to 15  Good mornings, Windmills, Imperial walkers, SSH, Butt kicks.

    thang

    Four Corners ascending 10,20,30,40 Burpees, Merkins, Squats and leg lunges..

    Tabata

    Flutter kicks, Peter Parker’s, Parker Peters, LBCs and closed with mountain climbers..

    quick count, announce and Coconuts led us out in prayer…

    Appreciate the post Coconuts!!

    Always enjoy the lead 💪🏻👍🏻👊🏻!!

  • Shark Week at the Scramble

    A quick warm up of arm circles and LBCs before starting the usual 5k run and a surprise at the end of the pier, an actual Shark from the Lake! Children beware.

    Run was completed in 32:00 by the official time

    Back at the playground we tried two exercises from the new Army Combat Fitness Test

    2 Min of Leg Lifts

    2 Mins of Hand Release Mirkins

    Count-off, Name-o-rama (Cudos to Spocket for the new recruit), COT

     

  • Fartekin at G-ma’s house

    6 pax met at the Mandeville TH. YHC came in hot, shoe on but not tied. No disclaimer today boys, Yhc carries malpractice insurance.

    The thang

    mosey to underpass

    circle up: my climbers x 20 ic, donkey kicks x 20 ic

    mosey down the UP, karaoke the flat, sprint the up the UP.

    Circle up: shld taps x20 Ic, heels up squats x 10 ic

    mosey down the UP, karaoke the flat, sprint the up the UP (Near miss, way to recover pelican)

    …insert crazy man barking at us, oh wait, it’s Capt sparkles with the sneak attack!

    circle up: plank R/L arm high, single leg reach to floor x 10 ic

    mosey dn the UP, Buttkick the flat,  sprint up the UP

    circle up: plank R/L arm high, single leg reach to floor x 10 ic

    mosey to the street, Fartleks to Monroe, up girod back to TH

    Circle up: scorpion kicks, lower/mid trap exercises, active HS stretch/nerve glides

    COT, name or ama, prayer from Bub.

    As always thanks for letting me lead.

    Chewy

     

     

     

     

  • SWTSeven

    With a lot of men getting in the last minute family trip before school starts back, the YHC expected a less than normal showing at the Marsh. Arriving at the AO with some fresh exercises in mind, Q discovers Coconuts at center court ready to get started as Waterpik arrives quietly like ET gliding across the moon lit sky on his TREK.. Quick handshakes exchanged and it is time to begin..

    Warmup consisted of Arm circles front/back IC 15, Peoples chair air presses 15 IC, Happy Jacks 25 IC Total, Windmills 15 IC and Toe touches 15 IC.

    Began beatdown with a Mosey down Lamarque to RIPS on the lake for the Stair Way To Seven (SWTSeven). Q gives instructions, which seemed a bit confusing at first, but this PAX having earned every bit of private education quickly interpreted and we jumped right in. Exercise consists of Burpee, incline Merkin and up the stairs with a squat at the top ascending the count till everyone reaches 7.. With a small group of men Q decided to incorporate some CORE in at the bottom while the rotations occurred.. Round 1 held plank, round 2 Flutter kicks, round 3 LBCs, round 4 Parker Peters, round 5 Peter Parker’s round 6 Freddie mercuries and final round Mountain climbers. Once complete Moseyed back to the playground area by the courts for 3 rounds of 5 pull-ups while the other 2 PAX did rower sit-ups (thank you full grown man Steve) as each man took a turn. Gathered at center court for the close.

    count, announce, COT

    Appreciate Waterpik for the close in prayer!!

    Always enjoy the accountability and fellowship gentleman, thanks for the opportunity to lead!!

    👍🏻👊🏻💪🏻

  • Northshore H8!

    There’s been a fair amount of mumble chatter emanating from the Southshore lately about the so called H8! beat down.  Never to be outdone by our Southshore brothers, the Northshore PAX decided to turn up the volume to 11 this morning with a modified version of the H8!   After the standard disclaimer and a warmup of SSHs, Seal Jacks, Toe Touches, Imperial Walkers, Front to Back Lunges, Lateral Lunges, and Windmills, all IC and with rep counts from 10-20, YHC led fourteen men westward on the Mandeville Lakefront to the launch pad for 40 minutes of suffering.

    The PAX started the clock and their first lap with one Merkin.  This one Merkin was the centerpiece of YHC’s diabolical plan to make the Northshore H8! .01% better than the Southshore version.  YHC’s poor reading comprehension and math skills actually made it a lot harder, however.  YHC misinterpreted Hawg’s Friday afternoon briefing, realized his mistake 1 lap into the H8!, but by that time the horses were out of the barn and it was too late to recall them for revised instructions.  Anyone who has Q’d a beat down know how that works.

    At any rate, after that first Merkin (which was terrific across the board by the way), the PAX bear crawled 35 yards, ran out and back for .4 miles round trip, bear crawled 35 yards back to our starting point and then performed 8 burpees and 8 Merkins within each burpee to complete one lap.  This last part is where YHC mangled Hawg’s instructions.  We should have performed descending Merkins instead of 8 Merkins for each burpee, i.e. 36 instead of 64.  Too late.  The die was cast, as mentioned above, and there was nothing to do but get on with it.

    So we did, completing as many laps as possible in 40 minutes, dropping the number of burpees and Merkins by one on each lap.  Whether it was the extra Merkins or our lack of fitness relative to our Southshore brothers, we’ll never know, but no one completed 8 laps in the prescribed 40 minutes.  The PAX cheerfully embraced the suck, however, which is something.  Even when the wind picked up, it started to rain hard, and the Sky Q started throwing lightening bolts nearby.

    Thanks for letting me lead this morning, guys, and welcome to FNGs Survivor and The Hammer.  See you in the Gloom.

     

     

     

     

  • Eight August fellows posted today

    short disclaimer …

    warm up: We did a lot.

    moseyed to the Taj-Mahal: We did some more.

    moseyed to the St.Tammany Parish Courthouse Parking Garage: We did some more stuff.

    We sweated a lot.

    Maverick never arrived.

    count-o-rama, Shooter did the prayer.

    Everyone who missed it, should have been there.

    We learned two new technical terms; fire hose and fire extinguisher.

    I’ll pay someone to write my black blasts, if anyone’s interested.

  • Revived Milestone Marsh

    Well after cleaning court, the pax started to roll in excited to see four of my F3 brothers come for the Beatdown.
    warm ups
    25 side straddle hops
    25 toe touches
    25 Imperial walkers
    25 mountain climbers
    The Thang
    Head over to some soft ground.
    50/35/15 = 100 three sets
    50 sit-ups
    50 Merkins
    35 sit-ups
    35 Merkins
    15 sit-ups
    15 Merkins
    15/10/5 = 30 leg lifts
    Hanging from monkey bars
    30 step ups right leg
    30 step ups left leg
    Over to Basketball court
    Bear crawl to 3 point line
    5 Merkins
    Crab walk
    5 Merkins
    Bear crawl to 3 point line
    5 Merkins
    Crab walk to end of court
    5 Merkins
    Shuttle run back to other side
    25 flutter kicks In cadence
    25 hello dollies in cadence
    25 Iron sharpens Iron sit-ups since I cant remember what they were called lol.
    2 min. Plank on forearms.
    Order might not be exactly but that’s what we did. Lol

  • Mandeville Zoo

    It Always Seems Impossible Until It’s Done.

    -Nelson Mandella

    It was this sentiment that was permeating the air like vapors of a scent distinctly from times gone by, whilst I was pondering the unlimited possibilities for Saturday at the Lakefront. It had YHC reminiscing about slightly less than a year ago when a freshly minted Bushwacker spent almost the entirety of the weekend beatdowns feeling pure misery and little faith in his ability to see the thing through to completion. It was only the strength that he absorbed from his F3 brothers, as if by osmosis, that allowed him to finish, realizing that impossible really was possible! The pain and misery faded and was quickly replaced by feelings of exuberance and satisfaction.

    In an attempt to reignite and recapture that feeling, as well as spread it amongst the PAX, it was high time we returned to Animal Planet. In homage to our esteemed brother Butt Splice, who by sheer coincidence happened to grace us with his presence, our tickets were purchased, our bags were packed, and we prepared to go on a safari of sorts.

    WARM-O-RAMA

    21s – SSH in cadence with reps 1-5 out loud and 6-21 in silence. After a failed 1st attempt, we hit 10 burpees. After a 2nd failed attempt, 50 LBCs

    High knees/Air presses –  simultaneously, IC x20

    Annie – in plank, alternate “scrubbing the floor” with right or left hand

    Abe Vigodas – x10 IC

    THANG

    QIC passed the baton to Barely Legal

    After a brief westward mosey PAX circled up for…

    x20 IC:

    Putins, LBCs, Freddy Mercurys, mountain climbers & very slow flutter kicks ( hence for to be known as Sputter Kicks)

    Back to Bushwacker with a mosey to the nearest corner (perhaps LafayetteSt)

    Welcome to ANIMAL PLANET!

    For the 1st block we bear crawled and finished with 10 burpees

    2nd block we crab walked followed by 20 merkins

    (returning to lakefront)

    3rd block was duck walk and 5 burpees

    Last block was bunny hop with 10 merkins

    More from Barely Legal

    The PAX headed back towards the shovel flag, but pulled up to the sea wall slightly short of said destination.

    Aiken Legs was on BL’s agenda:

    R1 20 squats, 20 box jumps, 20 lunges

    R2 5 derkins, 20 squats, 20 box jumps, 5 derkins

    MARY

    To be perfectly honest, YHC was so worn out and oxygen deprived at this point that I can only summon vague recollections of Peter Parkers before the golden dawning of glorious 7:30!

    COT, FNGx2, Ocho closed out our sacramental sacrifice of blood and sweat with a prayer of appreciation for all that we are blessed with.

    Many thanks to Barely Legal for bringing the pain, and to all the PAX for following our lead and embracing the suck!

     

  • Fall weather at the Scramble

    With predictions of massive heat waves by meteorologists in the forecast, one would not expect to arrive to mild temps and little humidity at the end of July. Then again nothing stops the men of F3 from posting, whether it be 100% humidity with 105 heat index or 16 degrees with iced over roads. Taking a quote from the movie Field of dreams, “if you build it, they will come!” Well we don’t build structures at F3, but when we post we build great relationships with strong men who care and share daily life as we F2 through a beatdown.. For this YHC, the fellowship is always welcomed and appreciated!!

    Made the walk through the park to the illumination of Sprockets headlights gleaming through the trees to plant the flag.. Shortly after Chewy arrives with great energy engaging in chatter of his recent 20 year high school reunion in recent past. As Sprocket and I engage in the chatter with Chewy we reflect upon how the ones we remember from back then and the paths in which they have taken may not always add up to what we thought may have been.. However, given the opportunity to take yet another breath and join these men on this beautiful Gloom only reassures this YHC to be mindful and count each moment as the blessing in which it truly is, in this journey called LIFE… Not sure where I was going with this but there it is..

    Began with IC to 15 Good mornings, Windmills, Butt kicks and SSH..

    Off and moseying through the streets of our peaceful and most serine city of Mandeville.. Journeyed our standard route with a brisk pace and mumble chatter along the way. Returning to the AO with a few to spare for some Yoga stretching to close. Q looking forward to Chewys upcoming ISI challenge in August!!

    count, announcements, COT

    Thanks to Sprocket for closing us in prayer!!

    Always grateful to Post with you men, thanks for keeping me accountable!!

    ✌🏻👊🏻💪🏻