Thanks to an APB from the New Orleans F3 Director of Media Communications and General Supplier of All New Orleans F3 News You Need to Know, Reluctant Yankee, the QIC was informed on Q eve of a special guest at The Birdcage this morning. Apparently it has been leaked to the media all of the hilarious mumble chatter and half-ass workouts that New Orleans F3 has kept quiet these past two years and now NOLA.com would like to run a feature on us. What better way to get the scoop but to send a reporter with video camera to film our workout. With so much on the line I was not going to let a little chest cold that had me sweating like 86 on the counting segment of Sesame Street last night keep me from posting my Q. 16 other F3 finest felt the same way. Casey Jones was so moved by a chance at a feature spot that he even pulled a Kotter.
Our kind videographer let me know that she couldn’t stay for our whole workout as she had to get to her own real physical endevour of Loyola Lady Wolfpack basketball practice. I just knew we were going to have her laughing inside at some point during the warmup.
Warm Up: Action! F3 disclaimer and away we go for a quick mosey around the golf course parking lot and back to oak alley.
- SSH IC X 30 (Featured Pax based on the glare of the camera light: QuickDraw)
- IW IC X 30 (Up-Short shot of Douille)
- Smurf Jack X 30 (Yankees untanned thighs catching the lens for sure)
- Plank position for Peter Parker X 20 -> Plank Jack X 20 -> Mountain Climbers X 20 (With the camera rolling no one was cussing)
Mosey to the Shelter for some bench work (keeping it close by for the crew):
- R leg step ups X 20
- Dips X 20 (Jadaveon in the spotlight as I think she wanted to feature as least one pax who actually looked like they were physically benefitting from the workout)
- L leg step ups X 20
- Decline Merkins X 10 -> Shoulder Taps X 10 -> Decline Merkins X 10 (A lot of knees on the ground at one point and about all our camera crew needed to see to determine we might be hopeless)
Free to be ourselves again mosey to the pull up bars for some group activities. Groups of 4 or 5 with rotation from station to station:
- Partner pull ups. 10 pull ups and then rotate with the partner for support. This station is the count. Some were sharper than others on how to pull this off.
- Bobby Hurleys
- Lunges
- Mission Impossible. The possibility of group pulling this off for the duration of the count was tough and in Q Karma the guys in the pull up group during my Mission Impossible I think were holding hands between pull ups. Oh Well.
Mosey to the levee for some 7’s as time was running a little low to pull off 11’s. By this point my cold had me sucking wind and I couldn’t even finish this- sorry. The aim was 6 burpees at the bottom and 1 incline merkin at the top with respective count down and count up. Nice job to everyone else for busting this out.
Mosey back to the flag with 4 minutes to spare for some Mary in the dirt. This would have been great footage.
- V-ups X 20
- Superman X 3 sets of 10s
- Pickle Pounders X 10
- Putin X 20 and donesky
Count-off yielded 17. Nameorama. Intentions included thanks for Yankee’s mom’s discharge from the hospital. Casey Jones works in New Orleans East and has many coworkers who were affected by the tornado yesterday and he offered their recovery as an area of special prayer. I thanked God for sparing us any causalities during the potentially deadly storms of yesterday. Thanks for the opportunity to lead!
I knew this was worth reading after the Sesame Street counting segment comment.
Awesome BB Tinkles. I am going to send this out as required reading for our Uptown guys.