F3 New Orleans

Tag: The Gipper

  • Round Robin at the Gipper – from Einstein

    With no one signed up to que, a Round Robin was to ensue.

    Moby started off the confusion with his slow cadence jumping jacks making us all look like a bunch of uncoordinated ballerinos. The warm up smoothed out as we made it around the group a couple of times.

    DarkWing called an audible and we went and grabbed the cinder block coupons. Each pax chose a coupon exercise and mixed in with a few laps, time was up before we new it.

    Moby prayed us out with intentions for BBQ’s nephew – a new kidney transplant recipient.

  • Ladder Leg Day – from Jose10k

    YHC sent out the invite last night with the whiteboard of dread to the group. Manny was the only HIM to take the red pill with me. This morning’s workout was like being in a steamy jungle gym with a splash of fantasy football chatter and LSU pride. It was a ladder workout, again. I know, I am not a creative as Steve or Russo. I stick with the golden oldies, unless we’re talking about music. 10 reps of each exercise, followed by one lap between each round. We kicked things off with step downs then lunges that made us question why we ever left bed. Then, the monkey humpers made sure our neighbors were definitely wondering what on earth we were up to. Just when we thought it couldn’t get weirder, dirkins and freak nasties cranked up the awkwardness—and the sweat. Stone Mountains had us feeling like Rocky on those steps, but less “Eye of the Tiger” and more “Why is it so humid?!”

    Burpees made an appearance, just to make sure we were sufficiently miserable, followed by American Hammers and big boy sit-ups that left us questioning our life choices. The run was supposed to be the cooldown, but with the humidity, it felt like swimming through a hot soup.

    Meanwhile, the conversation ranged from debating which fantasy football picks would lead us to victory, to lamenting LSU’s recent ups and downs. All in all, it was a morning of pain, sweat, and football small talk—a perfect start to the day!
    SYITG gentlemen.

  • The Sauna Sweat Showdown: When the Humidity Hits 110% and the PAX fights back – from Jose10k

    80 degrees and 1000% humidity at 5 am? Seriously, WTF! Hammer was crazy enough to join me this morning in the Sweatapalooza. Having two consecutive late days (not getting home til after 7:30), I went back to the good ol ladder workout. 12 reps for each exercise followed by a 1/5 mile loop. All with a coupon.
    Squats
    Lunges (2 is 1)
    Kettlebell swings
    One hand on the coupon, one hand on the ground merkins, alternate 1 is 1
    Shoulder presses
    Curls
    Triceps
    Finished up with a one mile run
    At least if the Spartan race has humidity, we’ll be prepared for it.
    SYITG
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  • Cool beatdown on a almost cool morning – from Mobydick

    The Gipper opened with a cool breeze for a change. A six man pax was on hand for guided Tabata of seven exercises and three rounds. Jose 10K and Hammer were early birds. A brief period of stretches got us started.
    YHC being the old grazer didn’t want to deprive the younger crowd of a full beat down dialed up a 1 min wo 30 sec rest Tabata of CFrogs/Squats/Crunches/SSH/Merkins/Toe touches/1min Run. Note the getting up and down between exercise by design to add another element. On your own pace guaranteed everyone got a full measure of what they needed including me.

    From the breathing and srainibg in the 3rd round mission accomplished.
    COT and prayers of gratitude for or inner strengths closed out the morning.

  • Spartan Pre Gipper Workout – from Jose10k

    Holy smokes, a cold front came through? It was in the 60s to start this beatdown. I was excited to post this morning because YHC received a text late the night before informing him that he wasn’t going solo this morning. The Hammer decided to join him in his efforts to get into better spartan shape. Grabbed the ladder workout from the back seat and off to the races. Back to school again, 1st grade, run a loop, Next, complete 1st grade and then 2nd grade, run the short loop, returning to the start. The PAX would try to graduate and get through the 12th grade!
    1st Grade – Squats
    2nd Grade – Monkey Humpers
    3rd Grade – Lunges (2 is one)
    4th Grade – BBS
    5th Grade – Flutter Kicks
    6th Grade – LBCs
    7th Grade – American Hammers
    8th Grade – Merkins
    9th Grade – Freak Nasties
    10th Grade – Carolina Dry Docks
    11th Grade – Burpees
    12th grade -SSH
    We added a coupon to make it more difficult. We only graduated 9th grade y’all.

  • My BUDDY and me!! – from Shooter

    Arrived to the Gipper with 3 Buddies (coupons) and noticed the PAX closer to the road and not in the normal AO. To no surprise, Jose 10k was already soaking wet with music playing and a white board brought from the previous A1c beat down from the week before. Now keep in mind school is back in session and the Gipper during school is usually off limits to the 10k, but I guess with the Spartan quickly approaching he has now decided to post a beatdown before the 0600 beatdown to get er done.. Much respect 10k for your persistence.
    I must also tip the hat to downrange VTach from Birmingham for not only posting at Granny’s but also posting the Gipper. YHC tried to EH for the Scramble, however the southshore will have the privilege of his presence somewhere in the Gloom on Thursday..
    Appreciate the share about the No Cheat Merkin VTach and it will soon become a standard amongst YHCs future Qs..

    Warmup
    15IC and 10IC Seal jacks, cherry pickers, Toe Touches, SSH, Butt kicks and Torso twists.

    Thang
    With only 3 buddies the PAX went to the yard to grab 4 more buddies to carry throughout Covington. We stopped along the way in the Front of the justice center, on top the parking garage and on the backside of the justice center then returning to the AO for the finale.

    Front of justice center
    5 (8)count block builders
    10 squat thrusters
    15 shoulder presses
    20 chest presses
    25 kettle swings
    Mosey to stairs bunny up up and mosey back.

    Top of Garage
    R/R exception Kettles replaced with Curls.
    Carioca down flip flopping halfway then returned with a sprint.

    Back of justice center
    Just like front.
    Bunny hop steps return to benches for jump squat benches 10 OYO.

    AO
    R/R from the garage
    Finished buddy Big boys 10 OYO, 20 2/1 windshields over the buddy and closed 20IC fludder kicks with heels right above the Buddy.

    Appreciate all the regulars in Einstien (birthday week by the way 🎉), BBQ, Barely Legal, Fletch and MobyDick.. (Turbo dog) Sonny was around but stayed close to the truck..

    Until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • The Land of the Midnight Sun – from Steve

    Jose has returned! Well, technically he was already on his third beatdown of the week (ok, as of this writing, his fourth), but for the Covington crew it was his grand homecoming. And he returned with tales of a mythical land where the sun never sets, the summer temps never hit the 60’s, and F3 doesn’t exist. Though that’s not entirely true since Jose brought the F3 with him: apparently he roped some poor bastard into doing 100 burpees / absolutions with him each day. This man never stops.

    Brief warmorama, starting in a slow Gipper-cadence and then gently ramping up.

    Then off to the rear of the Justice Center for a brief fling with Jane Fonda. We hit all three stages of Jane today (straight Janes, pulses, heel-to-knees), all at 15x IC, each leg.

    Then looped around to the front of the JC for the main event – a series of 11’s between the courtyard benches.

    Started off with the chest/shoulders: Derkins on one end, bear crawl across the courtyard to the opposite set of benches for freak nasties.

    It seemed fitting that Jose would endure this one round and then have to leave for work, as he was the only Pax present to also have posted for Shooter’s brutal shoulder beatdown Tuesday, and Hammer’s brutal shoulder beatdown Monday. (YHC was reprimanded with a: “This is why you guys need to start writing backblasts!”)

    Next set of 11’s were Bulgarians (2:1), lunge walk to opposite end, Step Ups (2:1).

    Didn’t get to the core round, which was just as well since, really, what’s the point of crab walking when Legal isn’t there to show off.

    Finally, an old Maverick classic – reverse bear crawl (or crawl bear, as the kids call it) up the courthouse steps. Followed by some calf raises, and back to the flag for an abbreviated Mary.

    COT with announcement of Duke of Hazards’ VQ this Saturday! (Moby’s response: “Some $#%@& kid in diapers telling me to do 1000 burpees….”). Then we checked BBQ’s hat-o-meter only to see that the sweat lines weren’t quite up to last week’s beatdown (though still hot enough that ol’ Sonny gave the warm air one sniff before thinking, “Nah…” and settling back into Moby’s truck).

    And finally BBQ prayed us out. Prayers for BBQ’s niece’s son, ten-year-old Charlie, who is going through a very tough time as he awaits a kidney transplant. And as always, thanks for this great group of men and the opportunity to lead.

  • That Ain’t The Way To Have Fun, No – from Steve

    With Jose away, the Pax will play – we took a break from the Purple Rain and dove into some Purple Haze on this hot and humid gloom, sweating it out to some 70’s classics (Yes, YHC had to adjust the playlist decade for the Covington crew, which skews slightly older – one day Pickaxe will hopefully be doing the same for me cuz I ain’t working out to no Drake!)

    Partnered up at the back of the Justice Center for some 100’s (not the Bushwacker kind): 100 cumulative reps of the following exercises (P1), with P2 running up the courthouse steps and doing 1 Bobby Hurley (temporarily renamed Caitlin Clarks by BBQ) before returning to pick up where P1 left off.

    Squats
    Merkins
    Lunges (2:1)
    Boxcutters
    Freak Nasties
    Alternating Step Ups
    Apollo Ohnos (2:1)
    T-Merkins
    Monkey Humpers
    Flutter Kicks
    Plank Jacks
    Rosalitas
    Crunchy Frogs
    Burpees

    Yes, I purposefully buried the burpees with the hopes that we wouldn’t get to them, which worked. Unfortunately, we did get to the T-Merkins, which gave some of the Pax PTSD from Pik’s H8! this past Saturday.

    Wrapped it up on the Monkey Humper round – knocked out 40 together before heading back to the flag. BBQ noted that starting with Randy Newman’s Mama Told Me Not to Come was just as appropriate as wrapping things up with The Allman Brothers’ Whipping Post. Touché.

    Speaking of BBQ, we checked his hat-o-meter sweat lines at the end of the workout (as has been tradition the last few times I’ve posted) and he surmised this beatdown was one of the top three most sweat-inducing. And while I’d love to take credit for such an achievement, I think if he just laid on the concrete in front of the courthouse he’d probably have sweat just as much.

    Moby also then provided a profanity-laced PSA about heat stroke, which is indeed a good reminder for all of us: Don’t be a %#@*$ idiot and mess around with that shit, get yourself some %#@*$ water. Yes sir! (Respect, respect, respect.)

    Oh, and it’s unanimous – go watch Your Honor!

    COT and Fletch prayed us out with much needed prayers for world peace. Always a pleasure and an honor to be out there with you guys!

  • Deck of Death/Doom with Coupons – from Einstein

    After a quick warmup, we grabbed the rain soaked coupons (which included some heavy monsters that Jose10K gifted to The Gipper), we deployed the deck – round robin style – with each pax drawing a card and choosing an exercise. We performed the card number of reps using the coupons. Joker draws were a lap around the city water tower triangle.
    Everyone had a good sweat going.
    Steve prayed us out.

  • Seven Part Tabata – from Mobydick

    With the heat in mind YHC chose a self paced Tabata format. After a brief warmup of SSH Arm circles and Torso twists the thang consisted of 3 rounds of 7 exercises 1 minute work and 45 seconds rest. You pick your cadence but my suggestion was to opt for slow time in tension rather than reps. Set your own cadence.doing Frogs/Squats/Crunches/SsH/Merkins/Toe Touches/LAP around the depot. Jose10k took the opportunity to intensify in his prep for Dallas and ring out another quart from his shirt. We all gave ourselves what we needed.
    COT and prayers.