Backblast: Bears Don’t Belong on Stairs

Date: 11/7/23

AO: #ao_tar_pit

PAX: @Bo-Peep, @Panhandle, @T-bone, @Tortuga, @Jolly, @LeMond

FNGs: 0

Q: @LeMond

Total: 6:

  • Warmorama:

    • Motivators from 7

    • Side Leg Raises 20

    • Mountain Man Pooper: 10

    • Arm circles: 10 in each direction

  • Traveling blockies:

    • 1 blockie

    • 10 murder bunnies

    • 2 blockies….

    • 10 resurrection bunnies

  • Extra Thang:

    • Smurf Jacks holding coupon: 20

  • 10-minute challenge from F3 Radar

    • 160 lunges with the coupon

    • AMRAP sit-your-ass down squats

  • The Thang: The Walls of Jericho: 7 reps of 7 different exercises.

    • 1. Overhead press

    • 2. Swings

    • 3. Side lunges

    • 4. Flutter Kicks with coupon

    • 5. Uneven merkins

    • 6. Goblet Squats

    • 7. American Hammers

    • Extra: each Pax takes a turn bear crawling down steps.

  • Mary:

    • Lizard Dance: 15 IC

  • Moleskin: Memento mori

    • YHQ attended the wake of a friend’s mother who died from cancer at the age of 84.

    • She lived a long, full life.

    • Memento mori (Latin for ‘remember that you [have to] die’[2]) is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death.[2] The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity, and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period onwards.

    • The most common motif is a skull, often accompanied by one or more bones. Often this alone is enough to evoke the trope, but other motifs such as a coffin, hourglass and wilting flowers signify the impermanence of human mundane life.

    • Politicians and celebrities could use a skull on their desks.

    • @Panhandle mentioned that Roman generals riding their chariot in triumph (a victory parade) would have a slave who constantly whispered “memento mori” in his ear in an effort to humble the general in the face of this event.