Author: backblasts

Date: Monday, 06/12/23
AO: #ao_ground_zero
PAX: @Sparrow @LeMond @LouGee @Pool Boy @TBTF @Topham@Bones @T-bone @Shiplap @Beaker @Stock boy @Jolly @Hershey @Falsetto@Toto @Banks @Panhandle @Gunga @Airpump @Samsonite @Cottontail @The wet burrito @Double Dip @Blackout @Golden child@Tortuga @Gummi Bear @Rosetta @SAGA
FNGs: 0
Q: @SAGA
Total: 29

Date: 06/15/23
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Cottontail @arnold @Blackout @dent @Airpump @Maniac @Ankles @Hershey @TBTF @LouGee @SAGA @Da Vinci @Spokes @Hancock @T-bone @Pool Boy @Stock boy @Big Mac @Gunga @DQ
FNGs: 0
Q: @DQ
Total: 20

WoR

• SSH
• Head rolls
• Arm circles
• Lunge with side bend
• Calf stretches

Thang 1
PAX went to Hoffa for some Dora. With a partner, take turns running up Hoffa and completing the exercises:

• 50 BBSU with shoulder press
• 100 dive bombers
• 150 coupon swings

Thang 2
PAX moved on to the picnic tables for tabata-style (20s work / 10s rest) exercises of the following:
Set 1. 8 rounds (complete each exercise 4 times)

• Table thrusters
• Goblet Squats

Set 2. 8 rounds (complete each exercise 2 times)

• Incline plank rows – Left arm
• Incline plank rows – Right arm
• Gravediggers – Left arm
• Gravediggers – Right arm

Thang 3
PAX went to Cooties for some Mary:

• Bird dog
• Dead bug
• Oblique v ups – Right side
• Oblique v ups – Left side

Moleskine
Embrace discomfort. That’s how you grow, when you’re doing something uncomfortable. I’ve learned time and time again that just consuming knowledge doesn’t help me grow in that area. Consuming knowledge is comfortable, and doesn’t do much to really grow me. Applying that knowledge in action is what leads me to grow.

CoT

• @Airpump’s friend’s family coping with death
• @Da Vinci’s event today
• @Stock boy’s niece dealing with pregnancy postpartum issues

Date: 6/15/2023

AO: #ao_dark_room

PAX: @Toto, @Banks @Jolly @Panhandle @Crack @Tortuga @Captain Caveman @Rosetta @Noodles @Best In Show, @joshlarson9 @Tarzan, @Flushy, @LeMond @Sparrow @Beaker

FNGs: 1, Tiny (@joshlarson9)

Q: @Beaker

Total: 16

WOR:

Move around playground area and complete:

SSHs, x25

Frankenstein’s, x15

Tappy taps, x15

Squatting bat wings, x15

The Thang:

Divide into 8 pairs, grab a sand bag (or 2 :coupon:) per team and mosey to hole 1 of the dg course. Rules: First disc in the basket wins the hole. Each team must complete 10 burpees to earn a throw. Each team member, and the weight, must make it to the disc before each throw. The winning team on each holes gets three "rewards". 1) they carry the 120# bag for the next hole, 2) they add 5 burpees per throw for the rest of the game, 3) they call the exercise that all must complete before we start the next hole.

We completed 3 holes. Exercises called were: 30 American hammers (hole 1), 11s on Hacksaw Ridge-merkins/squats, Jolly, ic, x1.

End with 30 s of plank.

Moleskine: From The Wingfeather Saga

This excerpt refers to Artham, who was the protector of a king and who a series of bad choice found himself locked in a cage and turned into a half-bird, half-man creature:

"The voices in his head that cried coward and weakling drew back into the shadows. He knew he was those things but feared them no longer. Then another voice spoke. It called him throne warden and protector and uncle, and at last he believed it.

A surge of power ran hot through his bones. With one final shove, the cage splintered into pieces … Bent steel littered the floor.

Artham P. Wingfeather stood in the center of the debris, bloodied and panting, eyes ablaze."

Our transformation begins and ends with us believing God’s voice that speaks over us the names of son, father and brother, and empowers us to break free of the cage of our shortcomings, which we know to be true.

This makes me think of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s words in Life Together, "[My] own heart is uncertain, [my] brother’s is sure." Speak words of truth and transformation into your brother’s heart.

COT: @Flushy’s co-worker Jake who lost his uncle, @Crack’s sister and sister-in-law in their respective recoveries.

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?

Date: Monday, 06/12/23
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Jolly (respect) @Shiplap @Katniss @Panhandle (respect) @Bloomer @Dr. Phil @LouGee (respect) @Falsetto @Ankles @Da Vinci @Airpump @Gunga @Bones (FNG) @Hancock @Rosetta @Blackout @Rainbow Bright @Pool Boy @Stock Boy @Sparrow @8-Track @DQ @Big Mac @Samsonite (respect) @Tortuga (respect) @SAGA
FNGs: 1 @Bones
Q: @SAGA
Total: 26

Date: Sat, 06/10/23
AO: #ao_TarPit
PAX: @T-bone (respect) @Pool Boy @ Wet Burrito @Falsetto (FNG) @SAGA
FNGs: 1 @Falsetto
Q: @SAGA
Total: 5

Backblast: Mix `N Match
Date: 6/8/2023
AO: #ao_dark_room
PAX: @Toto, @Beaker, @Best In Show, @Captain Crunch, @Tarzan, @Flushy, @LeMond
FNGs: 0
Q: @LeMond
Total: 7
* Warmorama: 5 mins
o SSHs
o Windmills
o Imperial Walkers
o Bat wings
o Mountain climbers
* Pre-Thang
o Guardian run around 0.5-mile loop.
* Next-Thang
o Absolutions progressively to 6, setting down cones
* Around the cones without coupons ( 2 rounds)
o 5x Merkin Jacks
o 5x Merkin PopUps
o 5x Regular Merkins
o 5x Merkin Extensions
o 5x Burpee Lunges
o 5x Frog Jump Burpees
o Movement around the cones
* Alternate run forwards and backwards
* Around the cones with coupons (2 rounds)
o 5x blockies
o 5x burpee block jump overs
o 5x No surrenders, holding coupon
o 5x Leg lifts with coupon
o 5x Thrusters
o 5x Goblet Squats
* Round1: Alternate rifle carries and murder bunnies.
* Round 2: murder bunnies and bunnie murders
* Mary
o Flutter kicks holding coupon
o American hammer holding coupons
o Lizard Dance
* Moleskin
o “Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.” Mark Twain

Backblast: Ultimate Date: Saturday, 6.3.23
AO: #ao_flat_earth
PAX: @Panhandle @T-bone @Rosetta @DQ @LeMond @Jolly @Bloomer @Banks @Cheese @Crack @K-pop @Zombie @Gummi Bear @Sparrow @8-Track @lasso @Archive
FNGs: 0
Q: @Banks
Total: 17

Date: 05/20/23
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Captain Crunch@Blackout@Stock boy@Short Circuit@Hawkeye (FNG) @Outnumbered (Down Range) @Samsonite@Bloomer@Judo@TBTF (Q)
FNGs: 1
Q: @TBTF
Total: 9WoR – Motivators, AbeVegodas, Good Mornings, Tappy Taps, T-Bone BurpeesThang 1 –
mosey/Scout Run (nice and slow) the Archive mile looking for places to do pull ups, do ~10 pullups per stop and crossing bridges with feet up on the railsThang 2 –
BOMBS/Charles Bronson combo – routine consists of doing an exercise, sprint/push across field (~50 yards in our case), bear crawl up Hoffa and touch the fence, mosey back to the starting point and rinse and repeat until we make it through all exercises; exercises at the starting point were: Burpees x25, OH claps x50, Merkins x50, BBSUs x50, Squats x506MOM – We ended with Mary on top of Hoffa in Ring of Fire fashionMoleskine
Encourage you to think about the value of hard work and what your efforts have provided you in your life. Reflect on what makes you happy, how you got there, and how you can maintain that happiness.CoT – I should have posted sooner as I do not recall all that we prayed for but God heard us (there were 5 but I only remember 2)

• Prayed for Brother/Brother-In-Law of the Year @Crack and his M for everything they have gone through helping their family in times of need. Also prayed for his sister/sister-in-law for continued progress in their situations
• Prayed for @Captain Crunch and his hopeful ability to get away to Iceland with his wife

Date: 05/27/23
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @T-bone (Respect)@Maniac@Stock boy@Samsonite@Short Circuit @@TBTF (Q)
FNGs: 0
Q: @TBTF
Total: 6WoR – Motivators, AbeVegodas, Good Mornings, T-Bone Burpees, stretch OYOThang 1 – Billy Madison routine with coupons and at the COOTES (for the pull up bars). Routine consists of doing a building set of exercises then running around the playground stopping half way at the picnic tables and doing 5 picnic table presses and then back to the COOTES for the next round, we started with the first exercise (1 burpee) then ran the "lap", then the first exercise again and layer on the second exercise (2 Blockees) and run the "lap", the third round you layer on 3 Coupon Swings in addition to the 1 Burpee/ 2 Blockees and so on until you eventually get to the end which consistent of all 12 exercises
1 – Burpees
2 – Blockee
3 – Coupon Swings
4- Coupon Lunges (2 is 1)
5 – Pull-Ups
6 – Goblet Squats
7 – OH Presses
8 – Merkins
9 – BBSUs
10 – Derkins
11 – Coupon Curls
12- SSHWe finished up with a burn out round of coupon curls and derkinsMoleskine
It is the beginning of Memorial Day weekend and we discussed "Freedom isn’t Free"CoT – I should have posted sooner as I do not recall all that we prayed for but be sure that God hears us and remembers better than me

• continued prayed for @Crack as he continues to help his family get through some tough times and @Tortuga as he is expecting some hopeful good news on his knee
• prayers for @Maniac as he works through some financial challenges