Backblast: The Arrival of the Burpee Spittoon

Date: 10.03.23

AO: #ao_tar_pit

PAX: @Jolly @Shiplap @Panhandle @DQ @Tarzan @Best In Show @Da Vinci @SAGA @Tortuga @Beaker

FNGs: 0

Q: @Beaker

Total: 10

WOR: Goofballs (ic, x40), tin soliders (ic, x15), Thunderstruck (plank during song, merkins at "thunder")

Rifle carry to the top of the hill in front of the school. If you want to put the block down, stop moving and do curls and until you are properly rested.

The Thang

20 reps each of three exercises, mosey down the driveway to the bottom of the hill, all you got back up.

Burpee spittoon to 100 (For a burpee spittoon, the PAX must accumulate 100 burpees, 5 at a time. The first PAX back to the top of the hill begins doing burpees. When they get 5, they bank them by saying "5". The next PAX to complete 5, including the original PAX, says "10", and so forth, until 100 burpees are banked.

Repeat with 15 reps of the exercises, including the burpee spittoon.

Repeat with 10 reps of the exercises, including the burpee spittoon.

Repeat with 5 reps of the exercises, including the burpee spittoon.

Go through all of the above again with the round 2 exercises.

We completed 20 and 15 reps of round 2. Round 3 was a pipe dream.

Round 1

Block over merkins (2 is 1)

Thrusters

4 is 1 American Hammers

Round 2

Standing skull crushers

Grave diggers (2 is 1)

WWIII situps

Moleskin:

Joseph Ferrari is a psychology professor at DePaul, a Catholic deacon (I got this wrong originally) and the foremost expert on procrastination. He argues that the majority of procrastination is not a time management issue, but is a fear avoidance issue. The core of the matter is a fear of failure. His estimation is that successful people fail 15% of the time. They still succeed a significant amount, but failure is not an uncommon part of their lives. Successful people accept the possibility of failure and don’t run away from this possibility.

The prescription: seek out activities where you may fail, but the stakes are low, so that you can learn that failure is not a game ender, but can be weathered.

COT: Thankfulness for the PAX, prayer for all the @SAGA is going through.