Warmup after short mosey
Competitive Games:
Bear crawl tag team around great lawn
rest of team imp walker
Jump rope 500 reps
switch when stops or missing
Waiting pax big bois
Rifle carry coupon tag team 3x round great lawn
run with coupon pax
Frisbee relay
drop? Return to start and do 5 burpees
You can play defense
Soccer
back and forth til goal
Tug of war
Lagniappe:
jack webb descend
Mary
April 22nd conditions great: sunny, cool, nice breeze and 11 pax decided to be present….at least one (Rudy) heeded the request to bring a block – YHC had 1 too so that would do.
Mosey Gr Lawn – circle up
Scantron stretch then
10-20 of each
SSH
ABSLOWGODA
MNTMANPOOPERTOGOODMORNING
MNT CLIMBERS
4 rounds
5 merkins – 20 Peter Parker
5 merkins – 20 Mnt Climber
5 merkins – 20 Parker Peter
5 merkins – 20 Plank Jacks
Line up at speaker
Red Barchetta – if you’ve done it before then you know otherwise you’re probably not showing up enough or spending too much time Uptown.
Some mumble chatter about the Q’s Sox having some potential reference as to “Christmas” so YHC was happy to please.
Line up on the “red” line for a Christmas Tree and a present – 5 of each building on each other with a short mosey between each round ending with 10 burpees.
1 – merkins
Run
Then repeat 1 now 2 – Vups
Run
Then repeat 1, 2 now 3 – Bobby Hurley
Run
Repeat 1,2,3 now 4 – LBWC – got to show up to know
Run
Repeat
1,2,3,4 finish with 10 Burpees
Grab the blocks 2 lines mosey to fountain while passing the block overhead to pax behind, once “safely” passed of go to the back of the line. Once all arrive at the fountain
365 –
3 somewhat cadence counted burpees
6 box jumps or modified alternating step ups
5 rounds
1 minute recovery
Rudy was asking for yet YCH is simply out of shape and decided to take a simpler direction to grab the 2 blocks and head to the tree field.
Again 2 lines over / under for 3 trees all on the team does 5 burpees and back – losing team does another 5 burpees
Circle up 1 5 minute round of “silence” where Q leads by example – just do what he does. In the F3 ball busting mindset this may “seem” like an eternity!
Count of 1,2 1,2 harder for some than others 2 teams were formed now same 3 trees block bridge pull (or throw) 5 burpees at mid point and back losers again have a penalty.
Mosey block pass back to the flag.
What 3 minutes? We Indian Merkin Ladder
7:30
COT
We are truly blessed!
Leave no man behind, but leave no man where you find him
Warm up in the Peristyle – Imperial Walkers, Grass Grabbers, Abe Vigoda, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters, Arm Circles, 8 Count Body Builders.
Leave No Man Behind – We separated into three groups. Group one carried the 80lb sand medicine ball (“Aponi”), 60lb sandbag (“Sandy”), and a 40lb sandbag (I didn’t catch the name) towards the Foundry. In contrast, the other two groups moseyed a certain distance, then performed three burpees and swept back to meet the group with the coupons. This was repeated as each group took turns carrying coupons or running/Burpees/sweeping the six until we arrived at the Foundry.
Foundry – keeping our groups, we had stations of merkins, pull-ups, lunges, and the timer of running to the walking path and performing three burpees. Those looking for additional work performed the timer with sandbags. We completed three rounds.
Tool Wall – using the one group carries and two groups sweep we moved to the tool wall for some calf work.
Great Lawn –Again, alternating groups with coupons, we moved from the Tool Wall to the Great Lawn for some mary and then back to the flag with a bit of time for some burpees.
COT – Welcome down range Carpool (Northshore, now Woodlands Tx) and Chick (San Antonio, now Chicago), and FNG Clouseau, and welcome back Kotter to Kimchi.
Notes
Aponi (as suggested by ChatGPT) – “Aponi,” which means “butterfly” and is associated with healing and transformation in several Native American cultures. The name is often given to girls with the hope that they will grow up to become healers or medicine women.
TClaps to Mahatma for performing lunges with Aponi and KimChi for his triumphant return.
Conditions: Cloudy, 75 degrees, Humidity 88%, Wind 5 m/h from SSE (disappointingly dry.)
Pax: Almonaster, Boge, Catfish, Cheetos (FNG), Eagle Fang, Heisenberg, Igor, Java (FNG), PVC, Revit, Roach (FNG), Rudy, Spalding, Thighs, Tool, Triple, Vagabond, YHC
The Cantores were out last night, predicting a monsoon this morning. Excited to get wet, YHC laid out the swim trunks and took the Q. As previously established, YHC has little faith in the Pax’s desire to overcome conditions. So I started planning a workout for somewhere between 2-4 pax. I arrived at the flagless meeting point a customary 2 minutes early shocked to find more people than I could count on my hands….much less keep up with during the workout.
The Thang
• Mosey to the far side of the mediocre lawn and circle up for the warm-up: SSH x 25; Imperial Walkers x 20; Don Quixote x 10; Merkins x 10, Peter Parker x 15; Parker Peter x 15; Tempo Merkins x 10; Squats x 15; Lunges x 20; Low Slow Squats x 15
• Mosey to the Foundry. Plank and wait for the six
• Bernie Sanders (Hang in there as long as you can) – Partner up. Pax 1 does hangs starting above the bar and then below the bar for as long as possible. Pax 2 makes there way through BLIMPS. When Partner 1 can take no more – flap jack. Keep flap jacking, always picking up where you left off on BLIMPs until time is called
• Start the mosey to the Football field stopping for 10 Catalina Wine Mixers
• Continue mosey to Football field stopping under 610 for clock merkins (6 @ 12:00, 5 @3:00, 4@6:00, 5@9:00)
• Continue mosey stopping in a mess of grass for 15 sumo squats
• Arrive at football field and bear crawl 100 yards Then partner up and sled bear crawl back, switching on Q’s command. For sled bear crawl think the sled you push in football practice. One pax bear crawls while other pax stands in front of him pushing against his shoulders, providing resistance. We made it about 50-75 yards
• Mosey to the parking bollards and balance for the six. Not a lot of participation on this one.
• Start the Mosey back to the flag, taking a dangerous shortcut under 610 for the barefooted among us. Pausing at the Indoor Pickle Ball courts for some semi-balls to the wall
• Continue mosey stopping for some alternating step ups by the Children’s Museum
• Continue the mosey stopping for crunchy frogs.
• Reach the flag 2 minutes early and finish up with penguins and 100s
NMM
• YHC was not prepared for the number of Pax this morning. Maybe there are heartier guys in F3 NOLA than I thought. It’s hard to lead a bunch of dudes all over City Park. Pro-tip: Start the warm-up with SSH and then proceed to rotate in a circle counting each guy as the Pax count the numbers. I am pro, so I did this. The problem was the number was too high for me. I got lost somewhere around 14 or 15.
• Why do you need to count the pax? Because you need to make sure everyone stays with you, especially if you plan to cover a lot of ground, as I hoped to.
• I had no clue how many people were with us. I thought there were 17 in the beginning, but then we had an even number at the Foundry? Then Tool left and we had even numbers again at the Football field? Was it because there was a Vagabond wandering aimlessly around the park, sometimes with us, sometimes not? Was it Almonaster that showed up 55 minutes late? Was it because Tool disappeared? Or is it because YHC has trouble counting once the numbers get into the double digits? I don’t know, but it was not good. I think I got all the FNGs back to the flag. There were only 3, so I could manage that. For all I know, there may still be someone out there. I also don’t have much faith in the pax ability to navigate City Park solo. Maybe if the Renaissance guys could take a drive around the park tomorrow just to make sure?
• Roach wasn’t too excited about his name. Don’t worry Roach, we came up with another one at coffeeteria. We will gladly change it next week if you want. It’s up to you.
• The sled bear crawl is my new favorite exercise.
• The barefoot movement is afoot. Three au naturale pax today. That makes 4 for the week.
• The indoor pickle ball courts need some work. The smell is reminiscent of the WPM stairwell. A number of pax warily stood by the street refusing to enter the grounds. It was telling of how much of their trust I had earned 45 minutes in.
• I wish we could have had a photo shoot there though. The graffiti had Stone Mountain written all over it.
• Less than half way through the workout The Boge started chirping in my ear about getting back to the flag on time. Everytime we stopped for a COP he reminded me that I needed to consider the distance back and the time remaining. I later learned that The Boge was watchless. Does he just have an innate sense of time or was it his familiarity with the Q that caused his anxiety?
No one signed up to Q so YHC took the Q and designed some leg work for the Pax
Upon arriving there was an FNG in attendance EHd by Triple.
The pre-workout chatter included conversation of Friday night football scores including Brother Martin’s 7-3 homecoming victory over Jesuit and apparently a John Curtis victory over Rummel. That led into discussion of Mahatma committing to Bogey on Friday to post this AM, but ….
Mahatma where art thou was then the chatter
Warmorama followed by 7 of diamonds fun with 25 step up buyin every round and staying at Peristyle & Great Lawn
Round1. 7 burpees each corner of great lawn – run long sides, lunge short side… circle the 6
Round 2 14 star toe taps each corner after buy in , run long sides, back lunge short
Round 3 – 21 HR merkins, run long sides, lunge short
Round 4 – 28 SSH – stay by peristyle and side lunge across bricks at request of Triple Shift
Thanks as always
At 0600 YHC noticed no one had signed up to Q either workout in New Orleans so I took Mothership and took a quick “minute” to decide, based on recent broken windows how to protect our cars.
We gathered at our normal spot and did a minute each of warm ups with Slow Vigodas followed by grass grabbers and Imperial Walkers.
We then moseyed about 20 yards towards the peristyle and specifically to 4 sets of benches with two pax per bench.
With the continued theme of these thugs taking less than a minute to break into cars, we would do the following for one minute each
First evolution – legs!
1. L leg step ups
2. R leg step ups
3. L leg Bulgarian split squats
4. Surprise… R L BSS
5. Bobby Harley’s…
6. Monkey Humpers
7. L leg forward lunges
8. R leg forward lunges
9. L leg backward lunges
10. R leg backward lunges
At this point, my quads were already feeling the leg focus but Frac was complaining he wasn’t sweating and the ladies in the peristyle were working harder than we were, YHC did not allow the Mumblechatter to distract than plan so we did a rinse and repeat to focus on legs for this 1st evolution.
Next a Tabata with …. ONE MINUTE of work and 15 seconds of rest and the goal was for the Pax to work for the entire minute in each of the 10 rounds. 10 rounds of 1 FULL minute of burpees followed 15 seconds of rest was the plan but modifications seemed to be the plan of most Pax
Next evolution…. SHOUKDERS
Another Tabata EASING up on the Pax so only 45 seconds of work and 15 seconds of rest…
1. Hindu Merkins
2. Mountain climbers
3. T—Merkins
4. Shoulder Taps
5. Angle grinders
Rinse & Repeat
Last evolution
Only 30 seconds of work, 15 seconds of rest
10 Rounds
Burpees
Thanks for allowing me to Q. Sorry it was too soft. 😜
Warmorama – SS, AbVagoda, and Arm circles
Mosey to rock pile, walk rock to exercise field
Tabata workout: 1 minute on 7 secons rest:
BB sit up, Soldier crawl(SC), BP rock, Lunge, Squat, Lunge, Curl rock, SC, Mtn climber, SC, tricep rock, Lunge, Flutter kick, Lunge, Shoulder press rock, SC, Mexican bean jump, SC, BP rock, Lunge, Merkins, Lunge, Squat rock, SC, BB sit up
Walk rock to rock pile, mosey to flag
COT
A Foggy Morning Beatdown was enjoyed by 11 Pax in the friendly confines of Pontiff Field. We started with a warm-up of Side straddle hops, grass grabbers, Hillbilly’s, Abe Vigodas, and arm circles. Moseyed to the field with our rocks for a little “It’s all about the Benjamins workout 25 chest press, 25 walking lunges (with coupon) 25 chest press, 25 lunges back to the start, planking for the 6. 25 Curls, 25 walking lunges (with coupon), 25 curls, 25 lunges back to start, planking for the 6. 25 shoulder presses, 25 walking lunges (with coupon), 25 shoulder presses, 25 walking lunges back to start, planking for the 6. 25 kettle bell swings, 25 walking lunges (with coupon), 25 kettle bell swings, 25 walking lunges back to start, planking for the six. Then we moseyed over to the parking lot and did a farmer’s carry relay race. Unfortunately, the pax had trouble counting 1,2,1,2,1,2, so we ended up with 6 2’s and 4 1’s, so the 1’s took the race. Each pack took a relay turn farmer carrying 2 coupons the length of the parking lot and back while the remaining pax did rock work and Mary – chest press , LBC’s , Shoulder press, box cutters, curls, American hammer. Losing team was supposed to do 20 burpees, but we ran out of time, so we’ll make those up next time. Back to flag for COT.
