Backblast: Winning the Uphill Battle

by backblasts, posted in Uncategorized

Date: 6/13/2023
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @LouGee, @The wet burrito, @Gummi Bear, @Captain Crunch, @Rosetta, @Pool Boy, @Stock boy, @Tortuga, @Jolly, @SAGA, @Da Vinci, @Sparrow, @Spokes, @Samsonite, @DQ, @Big Mac, @Panhandle, @Bloomer, @Hancock, @Ankles, @Falsetto, @Gunga, @Airpump, @LeMond
FNGs: 0
Q: @LeMond
Total: 24

  • Warmorama: 5 mins

    • 15 Goofballs

    • Motivators from 7

    • Windmills

    • Side leg raises

    • Bat wings

  • Pre-Thang

    • Coupon thrusters, passing back and forth between partners

    • Total of 50 between each partner.

    • Bucket Brigade Lunge (20 4-count)

      • With Rock or other coupon in hand, backwards lunge and twist towards the front leg. Alternate legs and direction…like in a bucket brigade.

    • Next, man rise up the hill to top of Hoffa.

    • Each group heads down with one coupon.

  • The Thang: Movement up Hoffa

    • Pax divide into groups of 3 with one Pax heading ⅓ of the way up the hill to do coupon exercise while other 2 Pax move up hill.

    • Switch with a different Pax taking coupon up ⅔ of the hill. Repeat.

    • Switch with remaining Pax taking coupon to top. Repeat.

    • 10 blockies at top of hill

    • Mode of transportation — Coupon exercise

    • inchworm merkin — arm curls

    • lunge — overhead press

    • Imperial Walkers — dips

    • inchworm shoulder taps — goblet squat

  • Mary

    • Big Boy Situps with legs held by coupon

    • Grip, Rip, and Roll (GRRs)

    • American Hammers holding coupon

  • Moleskin

    • Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

    • M. de Treville, the captain of the Musketeers, was therefore admired, feared, and loved; and this constitutes the zenith of human fortune.

    • Ask yourself: what constitutes the zenith of human fortune?