Author: backblasts

Backblast: Getting Wild at Tar Pit
Date: 6/22/22
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Shiplap@SAGA@Tortuga@Walter@T-bone@Big Mac@Katniss@Panhandle@Da Vinci@Jolly
FNGs: 0
Q: @Shiplap
Total: 10Warm-o-Rama: SSH x 25, Mountain Man Poopers x 10, Abe Vigoda x 10, Picking Daiseys OYOThang 1: Indian run around Lake Ellyn x 2Thang 2: Partner up. Accumulated reps like a Dora. 100 Burpees, 200 Merkins, 300 BBSUPAX 1 did exercise with a specific rep count (10 Burpees) . While the burpees were being done PAX 2 Bernie’ed around the Lake. Once PAX 1 finished the reps they rant to catch up. Once they caught up PAX 2 did the burpees starting at 11. and PAX 2 Bernie’ed – rinse and repeat until all burpees were complete. Merkins conssited of 15 at a time and BBSU was 20 reps each time. We made it to BBSU but didn’t finish.Moleskin: Don’t be so offended in this PC worldCOT: Praise for Mucho Leggo and Squirt to be home from oversees, prayers for @Katniss Grandma in law, praise for the pax (edited)

Date: Monday, 06/20/22
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Archive @Panda Express @TBTF @Jailbreak @Big Mac @Crash @Crack @Sparrow @Jolly @Tortuga @Panhandle @T-bone @SAGA
FNGs: 0
Q: @SAGA
Total: 13

Conditions: bright and beautiful
Warm-Up: Side Straddle Hops / Mountain Climbers / Tappy Taps / Stretch legs OYO

The Thang:
Some ran / some rucked / some Murphed – all had a blast

Moleskin:
We live uneven lives – level things out with patience (“it’s all going to be leveled anyway.” @Sparrow)

Prayers @Tortuga & @Panhandle 2.0s + the newly acquired 2.0 for @Jailbreak, happy birthday @Crash

Date: 6/18/22
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Crack, @Double Beef ‘n Cheddar, @TBTF, @Sparrow, @LeMond, @Captain Crunch (AJ), @Noodles FNGs: 0
Q: @Noodles
Total: 7

Conditions: Bright & Sunny, Blue Skies
Warm-o-Rama: Side Straddle Hop x30 – straight count, Right Leg/Left Leg/Center stretch. Mosey around parking lot alternating between: Wrestling Stance, Level Changes, Side to Side, Al Gores. Bat Wings x15

Thang 1: Dan Taylor Alley w/ Burpees & Single Legs

Thang 2: The Hotroom – previously the volleyball courts. Pax performed the following:

Merkin Pyramid – Inchworm to Merkin position and doing 9 merkins. Inchworm back to start position and inchworm back down to Merkin position now performing 8 merkins. Rinse and repeat for a total of 45 merkins. Jump straight into 45 squats. Entire routine is ONE Merkin Pyramid.

Ring of Fire – Bear Crawl – PAX circled up. Q called each Pax to bear crawl across to the PAX in front of them or diagonally. Each PAX went 3 times.

Wheel-barrels – PAX paired up and formed a square. One PAX held their partner’s legs while the PAX on bottom walked on their hands across to another team. The next team then did the same routine. Rinse and repeat. Each PAX went 3 times on bottom.

Prisoner Bonnies x45 – hard count. With hands interlocked behind their heads, PAX performed Bonnie Blairs.

Thang 3: Hoffa
PAX moseyed ver to Hoffa where we finished with laps up and down Hoffa.

Mary: LBCs x60, Gas Pumps x25, Plank for time

COT: Prayers for all the PAX who are fathers on this Father’s Day.

Date: Thursday, 06/16/22
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Halfman @LouGee @Jolly @Panda Express @Aloha @Hancock @Big Mac @Captain Crunch (AJ) @8-Track @LeMond @TBTF Double Dip (welcome) @Crash @Beaker
FNGs: 1 – Double Dip
Q: @Beaker
Total: 14

@Beaker drew the joker. Frisbees were put away. @Jolly whined.

WOR:
Motivators (ic, x7)
Tappy taps (ic, x7)
Michael Phelps
5 T-Bone burpees

The Thang:
-Mosey to Hoffa
-3 manrises after the 3rd manrise, return to the middle of the hill.
-Make a circle and face uphill. Perform 10 ic merkins in facing uphill (West). Perform 10 more ic merkins in each of the remaining cardinal directions: N, W, and S.
-1 more manrise, stay on the top of Hoffa.
-20 batwings a the top of Hoffa
-20 Moroccan night clubs
-Mosey to Cooties and split into groups of "4". We set up 3 stations and exercises to perform at each station.
Cooties = pullups
Swings = atomic merkins
Picnic tables = picnic table presses
One team member starts at each station. The fourth member starts at cooties. The first three members start performing reps as the last runs to the swings to relieve the PAX that is working out. The relieved PAX runs to the picnic tables they switch again. This PAX returns to Cooties to complete the cycle. Each team is responsible for 200 reps at each station.
-1 more manrise.

COT: @Crash‘s trip, @Halfman‘s father-in-law’s health

Date: 6/11/22
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Tortuga, @Panhandle, @Da Vinci, @Bloomer, @pillow mint, @Double Beef ‘n Cheddar, @wet burrito, @Spokes, @Jolly, @Gummi Bear, @LeMond, @Noodles FNGs: 0
Q: @Noodles
Total: 12

Conditions: Partly cloudy, cool breeze
Warm-o-Rama: Motivators, Tappy Taps, R Leg/L Leg/Center Stretch, Yoga Squat, Arm Circles, Michael Phelps

Thang1: PAX began with a .5 mile run around the school. Upon returning to the lot, PAX completed the following exercises:

Bonnie Hurleys x25
.5 mile
Goblet Squats x25
.5 mile
Burpees x25
.5 mile
Squats x25
.5 mile
HODORS x25
.5 mile
LBCs x50
.5 mile
Overhead Press x25
.5 mile
Monkey Humpers x25
.5 mile
Curls x25
.5 mile
BBS x25
.5 mile
Lunges x25

Mary: Supermans, Penguins, Plank

Moleskin: Being home with my 2.0 full time for the summer is no easy thing to do. It has allowed me to be more appreciative of my M and my mother in law and what they do for my son and I. Take time to appreciate everything that our Ms and other strong women do for us and our children.

COT: Prayers for Tortuga’s nephew and his journey in finding his identity and sense of direction in his life. Prayers for Bloomer’s brother in law as he recovers from a broken pelvis. Prayers for Wet Burrito’s father and recovery from quadruple triple bypass heart surgery. Prayers for LeMond’s marriage that he may find joy in all of the ups and downs and to see every challenge as an opportunity to learn and grow.

Date: 6/9/2022
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Panhandle @Sparrow @Noodles @TBTF (QIC) @Jolly @Beaker @Aloha @TreeHugger (FNG) @Crack @SAGA @Captain Crunch (AJ) @Jailbreak @Hancock @Panda Express @Spokes
FNGs: 1
Q: @TBTF
Total: 15WOR: SSH (IC), Mountain Man Poopers (IC), Abe Vigodas (IC), Tappy Taps (IC), Michael Phelps and Arm Circles (OYO)Thang 1: 100 reps using the coupon (50 curls, 25 overhead press, 25 curls)Thang 2: We did a combination of BOMBS (Burpees, Overhead Claps, Merkins, BBS, Squats) and the 4 corners workout. In this case the 4 corners were the corners of the AO. We did 25 reps of each BOMBS movement at each corner. As we moved from corner to corner we moseyed if we were going East/West and we side shuffled if we were going North/South.We would have ended with more coupon work but ran out of time.COT: prayers for @Noodles son who is undergoing adenoid surgery tomorrow, health and well-being of the PAX and larger community around us

Date: Monday, 06/06/22
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Zoro @Big Mac @Cheese (Respect) @PromKing @Dr. Phil @Jolly (Respect) @Archive @Sparrow @Panda Express @Jailbreak @TBTF @SAGA
FNGs: 0
Q: @SAGA
Total: 12

Conditions: bright and beautiful
Warm-Up: Side Straddle Hops / Mountain Climbers / Stretch legs OYO

The Thang:
Celebrating the convergence of the anniversary of D-Day (78 years ago) and my wedding (24 years ago) the PAX gathered to run/ruck around the A.O. Ran from base of Hoffa to cooties and did 24 burpees. Circled back the way we came and met up with the ruckers and circled up for 78 Squats. Continued on back to Hoffa and a manrise and ran the mile back to cooties again accomplishing three miles of running. At cooties we celebrated love and did two rounds of 10 merkins + 10 squats + 4 burpee pull-ups. Completed some Marry with rep counts celebrating D-Day and my anniversary years. Full sprint to flag to finish, but wait, we sprinted one more time to end of lot and back because love never quits.

Mary: 24 Flutters in cadence / 78 LBCs OYO

Moleskin:
Love is war – stay next to your companion and fight the good fight.

Prayers for our relationships and @Zoro’s move & @Archive’s upcoming week

Date: 6/4/2022
AO: #ao_mastodon
Pax: @Bloomer @Crack @WATER WINGS @Jailbreak @Sparrow @Pink Drink @bumble @Hancock FNGs: 0
Q: @Bloomer
Total: 8

WOR: The first challenge was getting to a.o. Mastodon by navigating around all the barricades in place for the Cosley zoo run. Many guys had to carry their coupon from a couple blocks away. We started with squats (ic) x 15 then jog around, arm circles then jog, merkins x 20 then jog, Mt climbers x 15 jog. Stretch on own

Thing: Completed a lunge and squat challenge to Will Smith’s Switch song which was painful.

Went to the Cootie for a modified Cindy AMRAP. 15 min of 5 pull ups, 10 push ups, 15 sit-ups.

Finished up with a partner exercise. One part Durwood Farmer carry two coupons around the island in the parking lot back to the starting point, well the other partner did an exercise. They would both complete the farmer carry and the exercise before switching to a new one. Exercises were step ups, burpees, calf raises, hand release push ups, planks.

We finished up with 5 min of Mary as we got pushed out of the parking lot by the 10k Cosley race runners.

COT: @Jailbreak’s M is being induced in a little over a week, @Pink Drink has a student who just had serious back surgery, @WATER WINGS’s gma just finished chemo treatment, Ukraine, all the families grieving loss in the recent shootings in America.

Date: 5/31/2022
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Nate Thom (Pit stop), @Panhandle @Jolly @Banks @Tortuga @WATER WINGS @Beaker
FNGs: 0
Q: @Beaker
Total: 7

WOR: Motivators (x7, ic), Batwings (x25), Michael Phelps (oyo), Tappy taps (x10, ic)

Thang 1a: Burpee mile (first half).

Run to the baseball diamond next to Dan Taylor Alley. Complete 15 burpees about 1/2 way there. Complete 15 burpees by the baseball diamond. Ignore @Banks who decided that 15 burpees is too many and that he knew better than the Q.

Thang 2: Seven of diamonds.Advance through the bases on a baseball diamond, complete a multiple of 7 reps at each base and home plate.

Round 1 – Bear crawl and 7 diamond merkins
Round 2 – Bernie and 14 shoulder taps (2 is 1)
Round 3 – Karaoke and 21 air thrusters (advance as a group, picking up the 6 on the way)

Thang 1 b: Complete the Burpee mile

COT: @Banks has a big day, Uvaldi survivors and families of victims, Ukraine, PAX injuries and praise for bodies that work.

Backblast – Armed Services Day
Date: 5/21/22
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Bloomer @Captain Crunch (AJ) @Pink Drink @Hancock @Sparrow @Mockingbird
FNGs: 1
Q: @Hancock
Total: 6

Conditions: 60’s, overcast, dew on the ground
Total distance travelled: 1.04 miles

Warm-o-Rama: Arm circles, Picking Daisies

We toured the AO, tying in different exercises to different branches of the US armed forces branches.

Thang 1: Marines
Zombie crawl up Hoffa
Motivators x7
Lunge down hill
The Marines motto: Semper fidelis – always faithful

Thang 2: Navy
Screaming manrise (screaming charge up Hoffa, 5 burpees at top)
Zip line & choice of merkins or BBSU’s while waiting
Navy motto: semper fortis – always courageous

Thang 3: Army
Game. Instead of “steal the bacon”, it’s “deliver the cannon.” Teams are about 60 feet apart. Once start is called, each Pax does required reps. When one Pax finishes, he goes to the middle and tries to move the table until tagged by an opposing team Pax, and both are out. Repeat rounds until table has been moved to opposing team’s side, when winner is called.
We did one round, 20 burpees, and that was enough. Maybe fewer reps would have led to more rounds.
Army motto: this we’ll defend

Thang 4: Coast Guard
Mosey to “island” area of AO Mastadon (short jog from Hoffa). Lunge for ~50 yards. Mosey back to Hoffa.
Coast guard motto: semper paratus – always ready

Thang 5: Air Force
Each Pax is to do 100 merkins and 100 BBSU’s. Do not cheat on qty of reps. Do not cheat on form. And, you may do 10 bench table presses to take off 15 merkins and 15 BBSU’s for another Pax.
Air Force motto: integrity first, service before self, excellence in all we do

Thang 6: POW
Pax were not informed about what they were asked to do, or for how long. Run up Hoffa and do Guantanamo. Q decided 3 rounds. Then, planking and recovering on Q’s command. Then mosey.
All branches were serving, but if you’re a POW, are you not still serving? You don’t know how long you will be there, if or when you will be rescued. You only know you suffer today.

Moleskin: Firefighter motto: “you go, we go.” Every branch of the military lives this out – no man left behind. The Bible tells us that, when a brother falls, we are to gently restore him. As our armed forces and our God calls us to do, that is our example, and that is what we should do.

CoT: @Bloomer’s brother-in-law is recovering from horse riding injury, but needs prayer now regarding the insurance. Ukraine. I forget if there was more we prayed for.