Author: backblasts

Date: 2026-07-11
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Homie ,
PAX: Big Mac, Tortuga, Homie, Da Vinci, LeMond, Sparrow, Stock boy, Panhandle, Archive FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WOR: 50 SSH, arm circles, abe vigodas, stretch

The Thang:
1: Mosy around Lake Ellyn and enjoy the lovely smell
2: DORA style partner exercises – down and up the steps on the south side of the school while working on 100 reps of: – block rows
– BBSU
– skull crushers
– Box cutters
– Chest press
– Box squat
– Merkins
– Lunges
– merkins (some people actually did it twice!)
– Tricep dips
– blockees to finish.
Mary: Tortuga killed us with 100 flutter kicks; portage and Carmen San Diego mercifully just led stretches

Moleskine: show up!

Tags: Tar Pit, Big Mac, Tortuga, Homie, Da Vinci, LeMond, Sparrow, Stock boy, Panhandle, Archive

Date: 2026-07-08
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Panhandle ,
PAX: Too Big To Fail (TBTF), C.Clark (Indy), Beaker, Portage, Panhandle, Chuck FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
Conditions: warm

WOR: goofballs, abe vigodas, arm circles

The Thang:

Set of 5 exercises with designated reps. Pax do the cycle of exercises and then run a lap around the track. Reps decrease differentially (except the blockees).

Curls: 50/42/34/26/18/10
Merkins: 40/34/28/22/16/10
BBSs: 30/26/22/18/14/10
Lunges: 20/18/16/14/12/10
Blockees: 10/10/10/10/10/10

Moleskine: always play the long game in parenting

Tags: Tar Pit, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), C.Clark (Indy), Beaker, Portage, Panhandle, Chuck

Date: 2026-07-11
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Bloomer ,
PAX: LouGee, White Noise, Cheese, Cookies, Bloomer, Has Been, Hypotenuse, Arnold, knuckleball, Lugee’s older boy, the count, swish FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
Conditions: pink sky this morning

WOR: side straddle hops, across the field and back

The Thang: frisbee

Moleskine: leave no man behind believe no man where you find him.

Tags: Flat Earth, LouGee, White Noise, Cheese, Cookies, Bloomer, Has Been, Hypotenuse, Arnold, knuckleball, Lugee’s older boy, the count, swish

Date: 2026-07-10
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Cottontail ,
PAX: Stock boy, T-bone, LeMond, Endo, Noodles, Samsonite, Cottontail, Panhandle, Toto, Tortuga, Shamwow, Hypotenuse, Durty Nelly (Atlanta), Comp, Ricketts FNGs: 2 Comp, Ricketts
COUNT: 15
Conditions: nice

WOR: goofballs, SOYO

The Thang: 4 rucked North and got eaten by mosquitoes, the rest ran North

Moleskine: longevity is nice but when you have a quality life: who are you impacting, what is the legacy you are leaving?

Tags: Ground Zero, Stock boy, T-bone, LeMond, Endo, Noodles, Samsonite, Cottontail, Panhandle, Toto, Tortuga, Shamwow, Hypotenuse, Durty Nelly (Atlanta), Comp, Ricketts

Date: 2026-07-10
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Cheese ,
PAX: Swish, Krampus, LouGee, Pine tar, White Noise, Oompa, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Jolly, Y2K, Big Mac, Cheese, Panda Express, Bloomer, Has Been, Cookies, chopsticks, knuckleball, waffles, headtop FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
Conditions: Warm and Humid

WOR: SSH & Down and Back

The Thang: Ultimate Frisbee

Moleskine: What are you reading?

Tags: Flat Earth, Swish, Krampus, LouGee, Pine tar, White Noise, Oompa, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Jolly, Y2K, Big Mac, Cheese, Panda Express, Bloomer, Has Been, Cookies, chopsticks, knuckleball, waffles, headtop

Date: 2026-07-09
AO: Mastodon
Q: Endo ,
PAX: Stock boy, Ankles, Endo, Archive, Tortuga, Falsetto, Dumpster, Cookies, Knuckleball FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
Conditions: muggy

WOR: motivators to music that didnt work.
Parking lot plyos.

The Thang: one pax did a parking lot lap riding the “chopper” bike and towing 110 lbs of coupons. Other pax did various exercises. Rotated so each pax got to ride the chopper once. The chopper was acquired by Endo when Semi-pro’s son ended up with it after a bigger and better hunt. Semi-pro said “no way are we keeping this” …

Coupon carry to the SHOP

Played the game Flip 7, F3 style… each number card had an exercise associated which all pax had to do. I learned some ways to streamline for the future. Starting card requires no exercise.
Banking points requires all pax do 20 of the current card exercise.
Busting requires all pax do 20 of the previous card exercise (not the bust card).
(We did 5 burpee penalty for busting, but i’m thinking no penalty as the team already loses all points and dont want to discourage going for it!) Flip 3 card – only the last card determines the exercise (unless any card busts)
Losers do a bearcrawl manrise and winners do a regular manrise, but we ran out of time for that. Congrats to stock boy, dumpster and archive(?) for the come from behind win!

– see picture on reply section for the exercises we used in the game. Next time, we’ll use coupons!

Moleskine: mentioned 4 tenets of leadership development that i heard at honeyrock camp on pickup day. I talked about grounded identity.

Tags: Mastodon, Stock boy, Ankles, Endo, Archive, Tortuga, Falsetto, Dumpster, Cookies, Knuckleball

Date: 2026-07-08
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Audible ,
PAX: Stock boy, Crack, Cheap Shot, Samsonite, Audible
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
Conditions:
Warm and clear

WOR:
SSH
Abe V.
Stretch OYO

The Thang
All Rucked

Moleskine:
You can always say more…later

Tags: Ground Zero, Stock boy, Crack, Cheap Shot, Samsonite, Audible

Date: 2026-07-07
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Panda Express ,
PAX: Snatch (F3 Northwest HWY), Krampus, Shiplap, DQ, Pine tar, White Noise, Oompa, Y2K, Jolly, Bloomer, Cheese, Spielberg, Panda Express, Hypotenuse, Has Been, swish, frogger FNGs: None
COUNT: 17
Conditions:

WOR: ssh

The Thang:
frisbee
Moleskine:
have fun

Tags: Flat Earth, Snatch (F3 Northwest HWY), Krampus, Shiplap, DQ, Pine tar, White Noise, Oompa, Y2K, Jolly, Bloomer, Cheese, Spielberg, Panda Express, Hypotenuse, Has Been, swish, frogger

Date: 2026-07-07
AO: Mastodon
Q: Falsetto ,
PAX: The wet burrito, Stock boy, LeMond, Endo, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), C.Clark (Indy), Beaker, Big Mac, Falsetto, Audible FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WOR:
– SSH ICx20
– Abe Vigodas IC x10
– Tin Soldiers ICx10
– Mountain Man Poopers ICx10
– Arm Circles, foreward/backward IC x10
– Seal Claps ICx10, Overhead Claps ICx10, Moroccan Nightclubs IC x10 – World’s greatest stretch 2x each leg

Farmer Carry Coupons to Cooties
-switch with partner every 15 strides

Thang 1: HardCORE workout**3 rounds
10 Supermans IC “up-2-3-down (count)”
20 American Hammers IC
30 sec side plank both sides

“Fight Fire with Fire”- Kansas
“All the Love in the World”- The Outfield

Thang 2: “Hold the Line!”
– 1 min bar hang, 1 min Asian squat
– 1 min bar hang, 1 min Asian squat
–
“Hold the Line”- Toto

Farmer Carry Coupons to top of Hoffa
-switch w/partner every 20 strides

Thang 3: Tabata (40s work 20s rest)
8min-8 exercises
**Bernie Sanders/Bear Crawl after completion

MAD BOMBS
Mountain Climbers
American Hammers
Dips
Blockees
Overhead Claps
Merkins
BBSU
Squats w/ coupon

Farmer Carry Coupons to Hamptons
switch w/ partner every 20 strides

Thang 3: Spitoon-o-Rama
– 100 Curls
– 100 Overhead Press
– 200 One-arm rows

Until time, repeat as necessary

Moleskine:
Back to the Basics in life:
Love God, Love others.
It’s not more complicated than that, but it’s also not as easy as that!
Loving ourselves seems to easily come first. True love is sacrificial. It’s easy to love things that are lovely. Challenge: Today choose AGAINST yourself. One sacrificial act

Tags: Mastodon, The wet burrito, Stock boy, LeMond, Endo, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), C.Clark (Indy), Beaker, Big Mac, Falsetto, Audible

Date: 2026-07-06
AO: Downrange
Q: DQ ,
PAX: Stock boy, Airpump, Dumpster, DQ, Portage, Lakers
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
Conditions:
– Weather perfect for SANDEEBALLZ conditioning

WOR:
– SSH
– At the tiny soccer field, went back and forth with the following: – Jog
– High knees
– Butt kickers
– Karaokee
– Squat reverse shuffle
– Spiderman lunge
– Drinky birdies

The Thang:
We conditioned our bodies for SANDEEBALLZ. We worked on two primary physical components of the sport: – Rotational strength / stability
– Mode of transportation

Rotational Strength / Stability
In order to play SANDEEBALLZZ without hurting your back, you need a strong trunk to handle all the rotation and EXPLOSIVENESS that the game demands. With the core engaged, we performed controlled exercises targeting the muscles involved in these movements.

We rotated through a set of 3 exercises following a tabata 20s / 10s format. We went 5 rounds through each set of exercises

Set 1
– rotational swings
– rotational swing lunges
– cross leg / wide leg situps

Set 2
– inside out cleans
– outside in cleans
– american hammers

Resources for these exercises:
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Hd8RbuBGY
– https://ultimatesandbagtraining.com/ultimate-sandbag-training-rotational-exercises/ –
Mode of Transportation
There are many legal ways to move in a match of SANDEEBALLZ. We split up and each went to half field and back with each of these legal movements: – Sandbag throw
– Bear crawls
– Murder bunnies
– Reverse murder bunnies

We finished with 5 sandees each OYO followed by some brief yoga / stretching.

Moleskine:
If you have a basement, how will it handle a storm when the power goes out? My wife and I spent much of our July 3rd bailing out water to (successfully!) avoid a flood until we could get our hands on a generator. We were very fortunate to have been home! Otherwise we would have had flooded.

Planning and purchasing materials required for installing a battery backup sump pump for when we’re not home became my weekend priority. Get yourself one if you don’t have one already!

Tags: Downrange, Stock boy, Airpump, Dumpster, DQ, Portage, Lakers