Author: backblasts

Date: 2025-06-25
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Tortuga
PAX: Dungy, Da Vinci, Panhandle, Big Mac, Stock boy, Katniss FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: motivators, copperhead merkins, batwings

The Thang: At the base of the big hill,
Every 30 seconds, complete the reps or the hold, increasing reps or time of hold each round to failure.
Once a PAX fails, he Bernies up the hill until the six catches him. The six doesn’t Bernie. Turn around at Main St. Plank with wider hands each round,
Air thrusters,
Partner patty cake (the six did hand release shoulder taps instead), Al Gore 15 seconds, adding 2 seconds each round,
Partner bbsu, pairs sit toe to toe, cross hand slap on the up

Stretching

Moleskine: on a scale of one to ten, how confident are you that you would go to heaven if you died in this parking lot this morning? One being a surely not, ten being without a doubt.

Think about it.

If your number is one through nine, you think it has something to do with you. You think you can earn or lose your salvation. You can’t.
Ephesians 2:8+9 says “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
Friends, if you have placed your faith in Jesus, you are a TEN! Trust the promises of God.

COT: Dungy’s son turns 35 today, war torn countries.

Tags: ao_tar_pit, Dungy, Da Vinci, Panhandle, Big Mac, Stock boy, Katniss

Date: 2025-06-24
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Lakers
PAX: LeMond, Mr Roboto, Da Vinci, Panhandle, SAGA, Ankles, Stock boy, Flower Boy FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WOR:
SSH
Arm Circles
Tappy Taps
Various Leg stretches that let to much groaning

The Thang:
25 reps of all exercises, in cadence (2:1)

Suicides across four tennis courts

– Lying side leg raise, a.k.a. Jane Fondas
– Side lying outward knee kick, aka Donkey Down
– Single leg pickle pointer, flapjack

Suicides

– Pickle pointers
– Mountain man pooper
– Alternating Donkey Kicks

Suicides

– Freddie Mercury
– Walking lunge
– Backwards run

Suicides

– Quick feet
– Calf raises
– Cocoons
– Side jackknife

Suicides

– Hip lift on the side, flapjack
– Heel touch, a.k.a. window wipers
– Little baby crunches

Cool down

Moleskine: From Q Source, Q3.12: Courageous men are needed in community. We are not just facing our own fears, but the fears of those around us. HIMs will stand tall in the chaos and say this is the way forward, follow me.

COT: Panhandle’s friend- brain surgery, Mr Roboto’s mom – health

Coffee was enjoyed!

Tags: ao_mastodon, LeMond, Mr Roboto, Da Vinci, Panhandle, SAGA, Ankles, Stock boy, Flower Boy

Date: 2025-06-24
AO: downrange
Q: Beaker
PAX: Beaker, Buttons, Marshall, Saggin’, Bam Bam
FNGs: None
COUNT: 1
WOR: Stretching and a lap

The Thang:
Coupon exercises, 20 yd sprint, body weight exercises, sprint back. repeat.

Coupon jump squats and jump squats (x4)
Weighted lunges and Bonnie Blairs (x3)
Thrusters and Monkey Humpers (x2)
100 yd sprint
Thrusters and Monkey Humpers (x2)
Weighted lunges and Bonnie Blairs (x1)

Caeleb Dressel’s golden abs
20 toe touches
20 heal touches
20 flat crunches
10 leg lifts
20 4-ct flutters

repeat with 15 of each (still 10 leg lifts)
repeat with 10 of each
repeat with 5 of each (still 10 leg lifts) and 20 streamline flutters

Moleskine:
Watch you tongue.

COT:

Tags: downrange, Beaker, Buttons, Marshall, Saggin’, Bam Bam

Date: 2025-06-24
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Shiplap
PAX: Big Mac, BigBlue, Bloomer, Cheese, DQ, Oompa, Shiplap, TBTF, Jack, Jolly FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WOR: SSH, down and back on your own

The Thang: 5v5

Moleskine: focus on the daily habits and not the results

COT: T-bone pastor, BigBlue finger

Tags: ao_flat_earth, Big Mac, BigBlue, Bloomer, Cheese, DQ, Oompa, Shiplap, TBTF, Jack, Jolly

Date: 2025-06-24
AO: ao_dark_room
Q: Noodles
PAX: Manhole, Framed, Crack, Toto, Noodles, 0
FNGs: 1 0
COUNT: 5
WOR: Motivators x7, Batwings x15, Runners’ Stretch, Arm Flutters x15

The Thang:

Coupon Pulls x25
Lap 1 – Broad Jump Burpees
Coupon Pulls x20
Lap 2 – Lunges
Coupon Pulls x15
Lap 3 – Bear Crawl
Coupon Pulls x 10
Lap 4 – Run

Moleskine: Isaiah 43:18-19, ““Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams to in the wasteland.”

When you are at a low point, God does not forget about you. He continues to sharpen you and provide for you. Even when you don’t see it.

COT: Thanks for the beautiful morning and for the energy and motivation to get up and do the easy thing. Prayers for our nation so that God brings forth a sense of unity. For God to provide our leadership with clarity and positive guidance.

Tags: ao_dark_room, Manhole, Framed, Crack, Toto, Noodles, 0

Date: 2025-06-23
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Panhandle
PAX: T-bone, Tortuga, Jolly, Panhandle
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WOR: SSHs, good mornings (10), abe vigodas, arm circles

The Thang:

1. Chase. PAX pair up with one farmer carrying coupons while the other does 10 BBSs, 15 merkins, 20 squats. Go around the lake.

2. Five Alive: jump squats, hand-release merkins, leg lifts, hand-release merkins, bonnie blairs.

3. Station Circle: bent-over rows, BBSs, curls – timer was blockees.

Moleskine: in Christian theology, Hope is not the same thing as optimism or wishing for a good outcome. It is, rather, the recognition that things have already been accomplished.

COT: the pastor who married us (Bill Choate) is having brain surgery today for a tumor that has impaired his ability to read and write; wars in the middle east and Ukraine (and elsewhere).

Tags: ao_tar_pit, T-bone, Tortuga, Jolly, Panhandle

Date: 2025-06-21
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Mr Roboto
PAX: Cheap Shot, Stock boy, TBTF, Falsetto, Ankles, The wet burrito, Audible FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WOR:
Batwings x10
Tin Soldiers x20
Hip Flexors x20 (Not sure if there’s an F3 name…Vaudevilles?) Pickle Pointers x20
SSHs x20

The Thang:
3 rounds of 2 sets of 5 cycles

First Round – Lower Body – 60s work, 20s rest
Star Jumps
Reverse lunge to knee drive
Goblet squats wth a pulse
Reverse lunge + curtsy lunge, right side
Reverse lunge + curtsy lunge, left side

Second Round – Upper Body – 50s work, 15s rest
Merkin to downward dog
Shoulder taps
BBSUs
Tri dips
Freddie Mercurys

Third Round – Cardio – 40s work, 20s rest
Burpees
Thrusters
Apollo Ohnos
Toe taps
Bonnie Blairs

Moleskine:
When you correct your kids for something they do (tone of voice, rudeness, etc.), it helps to do a quick mirror check every so often to make sure you aren’t modeling that behavior.

COT:
3rd-f event today

Tags: ao_mastodon, Cheap Shot, Stock boy, TBTF, Falsetto, Ankles, The wet burrito, Audible

Date: 2025-06-21
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Da Vinci
PAX: Da Vinci, LeMond, Natty Boh, T-bone, Tumnus, Portage, Archive, @grunge FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
Warmorama to Bluegrass (and throughout workout, including my personal top ten Chuck Norris jokes)

The Thang:
http://k.i.ss/.

100 curls
400 m run
90 merkens
400 m run
166 burpee spittoon for the number of Texas Rangers

80 curls
400 m run
70 merkens
400 m run
166 burpee spittoon for the number of Texas Rangers

60 curls
400 m run
50 merkens
400 m run
166 burpee spittoon for the number of Texas Rangers

40 merkins
400 m run
30 curls
400 m run
85 burpee spittoon for the age of Chuck Norris

166 ab reps (various) to close

Moleskin: Chuck Norris phenomeonon survived cancel culture perhaps because deep down we all need heroes.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/06/let-your-sons-grow-up-heroes-boys-men-fathers-day/:
To put it bluntly, we have created a cultural climate in which the only way to become a hero is to first become a victim. There are many incentives in our culture to imagine oneself as a victim but fewer for imagining oneself as a hero. And boys and men have largely been scripted as victimizers, not victims; oppressors, not liberators; villains rather than heroes. None of these realities are healthy messages for boys to imbibe.

Name some heroes. Introduce boys to concrete examples of heroic lives worth living. Let your sons imagine that they can grow up to be heroes.Among heroes I’d list https://anglicancompass.com/st-alban-protomartyr-of-great-britain/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialshare.

COT: Prayers for babies on the way, M’s, peace.

Tags: ao_tar_pit, Da Vinci, LeMond, Natty Boh, T-bone, Tumnus, Portage, Archive, @grunge

Date: 2025-06-21
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Banks
PAX: Tortuga, Cheese, Jolly, Banks, DQ, T.B., Candyland, Chippy FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WOR: ssh

The Thang:ultimate

Moleskine:do the hard things

COT:

Tags: ao_flat_earth, Tortuga, Cheese, Jolly, Banks, DQ, T.B., Candyland, Chippy

Date: 2025-06-18
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Tortuga
PAX: Da Vinci, T.B., Panhandle, SAGA, DQ, Stock boy, Katniss, LouGee, Falsetto FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WOR: Silent SSH IC to 21. DQ failed to stop in rhythm which resulted in 5 penalty burpees. Repeated and succeeded. Copperhead squats, batwings, mosey around the school

The Thang: Poison Pill
Teams race with a jug of water and some chalk.

W.A.M! Work, Add, Mosey

At the top of one of the eleven marked staircases, teams did the WORK that was written there in chalk, ADDed a new exercise, then
MOSEYed to a new staircase.

Repeato.

When there was work to do, each PAX on the team did 10 reps of one, 20 reps of another, and 30 reps of the third. If there were only two exercises listed, they did 10 and 20 reps. Just one = ten reps. If there was no work, no reps (which only happened if your team was the first to get there.)
If there were already three listed when the team arrived, they did all three, erased them with the water, and wrote a new one.

Scoring – five points for completing all marked staircases, one point for each time you erased a set of three after completing said set.

One team unfortunately switched the order (Add, Work, Mosey), only scoring three points. Stock boy’s team completed all staircases plus one erase, scoring six points. SAGA’s team did the same but picked up a second erasing with their last staircase finishing with a whopping seven points and the satisfaction of beating Stock boy.

5MOM: flutter kicks, Panhandle cadence to 75, crunchy frogs, standing side crunches, stretching.

Moleskine: Be true to your teeth, or they’ll be false to you.

COT: Prayers for resolution to the wars being waged around the world.

Tags: ao_tar_pit, Da Vinci, T.B., Panhandle, SAGA, DQ, Stock boy, Katniss, LouGee, Falsetto