Author: backblasts

Date: 2025-05-01
AO: ao_dark_room
Q: Banks
PAX: Beaker, Tortuga, Jolly, Lakers, Banks, DQ, Framed, Manhole, Toto, Crack, LeMond FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WOR:
– 10x Windmills
– 30x SSH IC
– 10x Mountain Man Poopers
– 5x TBone burpees
– Stretch OYO

The Thang:
We split into two teams, one team would complete sets of BOMBS and move a golf ball into the bucket to keep track. The other team would pick up the weight and move it around the half mile loop. Then the teams swapped and the 2nd team tried to do enough reps to remove all of the golf balls. It was close, but unfortunately the good guys lost today…

Moleskine:
Persistence is critical, sometime you just need to put your head down and keep moving forward.

COT:
Praise for Spielberg and prayers for thoughtful deliberations for Beaker’s M

Tags: ao_dark_room, Beaker, Tortuga, Jolly, Lakers, Banks, DQ, Framed, Manhole, Toto, Crack, LeMond

Date: 2025-04-30
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Tortuga
PAX: Banks, Da Vinci, Crack, Ankles, TBTF, Panhandle, Dungy, Tortuga FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WOR: Motivators (7), short jog around the parking lot

The Thang:
Ten and Twenty

For each exercise do set of:
10 seconds slow work, 20 fast. X 3
Rest 60 seconds between sets

Round one:
1. High knees
2. Touchdown jacks
3. Mountain climbers
4. Burpees
5. Apollo Onos
Round two:
1. Tuck jumps
2. Ssh – full extension
3. Climber taps
4. Hops- knees locked
5. Raise the roof
Round three:
1. Jump squats
2. Flutter kicks
3. Squat hops
4. Lbc
5. heel clicks

Between rounds: holds, each to failure. Once one PAX failed all three we began the next round. One leg plank R, one leg plank L, two leg plank.
Lunge hold R, L, squat.

Moleskine:
I Thessalonians 5:11 says, “Encourage one another and build each other up.”
At ultimate frisbee yesterday, I had several crummy downfield throws. They weren’t close to their intended target. At least once a teammate yelled, “Tortuga! Short passes!” Shiplap instead, at least twice, responded with, “Throwers gotta throw,” or, “You gotta take your shots, Tortuga. Good thought.”
Be an encourager. I did make better choices throughout the game, but Shippy gave me the freedom to take risks. That’s how you get better. “If you’re not failing, you’re not trying hard enough.”

COT: Praise that Spielberg got the paperwork signed. Prayers for due process and Dungy’s nephew – direction in life.

Tags: ao_tar_pit, Banks, Da Vinci, Crack, Ankles, TBTF, Panhandle, Dungy, Tortuga

Date: 2025-04-26
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Shiplap
PAX: Crack, T.B., Banks, Spielberg, Cheeks, Shiplap, White Noise, Jolly, Bloomer, Panda Express, Hershey, Fiona, DQ, Krampus, Oompa, TBTF, Manhole FNGs: None
COUNT: 17
WOR: SSH, Down and back stretch OYO

The Thang: Ultimate

Moleskine: Life is too short to spend time with people you don’t like.

COT:

Tags: ao_flat_earth, Crack, T.B., Banks, Spielberg, Cheeks, Shiplap, White Noise, Jolly, Bloomer, Panda Express, Hershey, Fiona, DQ, Krampus, Oompa, TBTF, Manhole

Date: 2025-04-26
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: LeMond
PAX: T-bone, Homie, Beaker, LeMond, Dungy, Portage, Archive, Panhandle, Slots (downrange), Dungy FNGs: 1 Dungy
COUNT: 9
– Warmorama:
– Goofballs
– Abe Vigodas
– Mountain man poopers
– Copperhead merkins
– Full batwings
– First thang:
– Two sets of 11s on the path using park benches.
– 10 squats, 1 T-merkins, continue
– 10 bonnie blairs (two is one), 1 BBS, continue.
– Main thang:
– Mosey to start of ramp. 4 Station workout, 1st station is start of ramp, 2nd station is top of ramp, 3rd station is Q calls out exercise. 10 reps OYO at each station. If you return to the 1st station before the six is there, run back to the six and complete exercises with him so that all PAX finish at the same time.
– Station intro: 10 breakdancers, 10 American hammers., 10 box cutters, 10 monkey humpers – Stations:
– 1: bottom of ramp
– 2: top of ramp
– 3: end of spa
– 4: bottom of staircase
– Rifle carry or farmer carry, except going down stairs
– Coupon exercise:
– Flutter Kicks, holding the coupon
– Burpee set
– Chest presses:
– Burpee set
– Grave diggers:
– Instead of burpee set:
– Failure to Launch
– Mary
– Iron crosses
– Supermans
– Moleskin:
– Fox News’ Dana Perino says Gen Z is too obsessed with work-life balance: ‘There are seasons in your life when you are going to work 18-hour days’ – Jamie Dimon says, Elon Musk says.
– Former White House press secretary.
– Why should I listen to her?
– If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. – Henry David Thoreau

Tags: ao_tar_pit, T-bone, Homie, Beaker, LeMond, Dungy, Portage, Archive, Panhandle, Slots (downrange), Dungy

Date: 2025-04-29
AO: ao_dark_room
Q: Beaker
PAX: Toto, Manhole, Framed, Crack, Lakers
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WOR: motivators, windmills, picking daisies, runners stretch, merkins ic

The Thang:
Mosey to Americana Park.
Dora-style Thang with partners. One partner sprints ~ 40 yds and returns. Other PAX works on reps. Flip, repeat. Exercises:
100 hanging knee lifts
200 table presses
300 step ups

Mosey to the civic center

Stairway to heaven
climbing the stairs, do exercises at each landing including the beginning and end at the bottom of the stairs. Rep count is 4-8-12-16-20. We only got to one round of merkins before we went back. Next time, do these first.

Mosey back to the flag
Moleskine: “Nazareth moves at 3 miles per hour”

COT: Beaker’s M, Lakers’s 2.0

Tags: ao_dark_room, Toto, Manhole, Framed, Crack, Lakers

Date: 2025-04-29
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Jolly
PAX: Banks, DQ, Tortuga, Shiplap, Candyland, Cheese, Fiona, Bloomer, Gummi Bear, Jack, Krampus, Lib, Panda Express, Spielberg, Spokes, TBTF, White Noise FNGs: None
COUNT: 18
WOR: SSH, down and back

The Thang: 9v9 Ultimate

Moleskine: Take a break and recharge once in a while.

COT:

Tags: ao_flat_earth, Banks, DQ, Tortuga, Shiplap, Candyland, Cheese, Fiona, Bloomer, Gummi Bear, Jack, Krampus, Lib, Panda Express, Spielberg, Spokes, TBTF, White Noise

Date: 2025-04-29
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Stock boy
PAX: Panhandle, LeMond, Samsonite, Sparrow
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WOR:
Tin soldiers, copperhead squats, SSHs, copperhead merkins, stretches

Thang 1:
16s at the lampposts – Squrls and BBSUs, hold coupon squat or plank for the 6

Thang 2:
At Hoffa, 20 derkins at the base, murder bunny up, 15 derkins at top, rifle carry down, 10 derkins at the base, murder bunny up, 5 derkins at the top, rifle carry down.

Epilogue:
Two man-rises, and a ring of Mary

Moleskine:
I need to work on patience, anger management, and charity towards my wife.

COT:
My friend’s son battling cancer, Mr. Roboto’s brother, turmoil in the middle east

Tags: ao_mastodon, Panhandle, LeMond, Samsonite, Sparrow

Date: 2025-04-28
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Banks
PAX: Tortuga, Jolly, Beaker, Panhandle, DQ, Big Mac, Banks
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: The Usual
– 7x Motivators
– 10x Windmills IC
– 10x Mountain Man Poopers IC
– 10x Merkins IC
– Stretch OYO

The Thang:
Travis Manion WOD:
– 400 Meter Run
– 29 Squats
– Repeat x 7

Circle of pain:
– 12x Sandees (pacer)
– BBS
– Curls
– OHP
– Bent Over Sandbag Rows
– Grave Diggers
– Flutter Kicks
– We repeated a 2nd round with 10 reps for sandees and subbed out curls, OHP & Grave DIggers for Tricep Extensions, Chest Press and Derkins

Moleskine:
On April 29, 2007, experienced Iraq war veteran from the 1st Recon Battalion, 1stLt Travis Manion, and his fellow Marines were ambushed while searching a suspected insurgent house in the Al Anbar province of Iraq. As he led the counterattack against the enemy forces, Travis was fatally wounded by an enemy sniper while aiding and drawing fire away from his wounded teammates. His courageous acts allowed every member of his patrol to survive.

COT: Good luck to Beaker’s M!

Tags: ao_tar_pit, Tortuga, Jolly, Beaker, Panhandle, DQ, Big Mac, Banks

Date: 2025-04-26
AO: downrange
Q: Manhole
PAX: Manhole, 103 PAX not listed
FNGs: None
COUNT: 1
WOR: SSH IC, Abe Vigodas IC

The Thang: OCR

Moleskine:

COT:

Tags: downrange, Manhole, 103 PAX not listed

Date: 2025-04-26
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Stock boy
PAX: Sparrow, TBTF, Glowstick, Falsetto, The wet burrito, Crack, Cheap Shot FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WOR:
Imperial walkers, copperhead squats, stretches

Thang 1:
Murph for the win at COOTEEs while the main theme plays.
Trivia: What was the Millennium Falcon’s official model name? YT-1300

Thang 2:
20 blasters (coupon swings), then AT-AT (bear crawl) up Hoffa, then retreat (Bernies) down the hill. Repeat until “The Battle of Hoth” completes. Trivia: What was the type of the monster that attacks Luke on Hoth? Wampa

Thang 3:
Rotate between 20 derkins and BBSUs while the “Cantina Band” plays.
Trivia: In the cantina in “A New Hope”, a ruffian tells Luke, “He doesn’t like you. I don’t like you either.” On how many systems does he claim to have a death sentence? 12

Thang 4:
10 asteroid dodges (pull over top, left, right, and then press), then zig-zag sprint up and down Hoffa. Repeat until “The Asteriod Field” completes.
Trivia: This music, played during a flight through an asteroid field, was in which movie? Empire Strikes Back.

Thang 5:
10 thrusters, then lunge walk up Hoffa, and run back down, while “The Parade of the Ewoks” plays. Trivia: What is the name of the Ewok Princess Leia first befriends? Wicket

Thang 6:
You’re my only hope – circle of pain merkins during “Princess Leia” theme. Trivia: Who was born first:Luke or Leia? Leia

Thang 7:
20 throne sits (squats onto coupon), then sprint up and down Hoffa. Repeat until “The Emperor” theme completes. Trivia: What color is the emperor’s force lightning? Blue

Thang 8:
Celebrate with a Mary Murph (leg lifts to bar, BBSUs, flutter kicks) to “Ewok Celebration and Final”. Trivia: On what planet do those annoying Ewoks live? Endor

Moleskine:
Dream from September 2023: It was Christmas, and I was at a large gathering with extended family. I was standing at the top of some stairs, and looking down at a great room, observing the large crowd of relatives enjoying the festivities. At the far end of the large room, I saw a small girl about 2 – 3 years old, and suddenly realized it was my daughter. She looked up at me, grinned, ran across the room, and began to climb the stairs to me. When she got to the step below me, I reached down, took her in my arms, and we hugged, smiling.

Suddenly my field of vision began to narrow, as if I had suddenly stood up too fast, and it faded to black, then slowly returned. When it did, my daughter was no longer in my arms. I gasped audibly enough that everyone below quieted and stared at me. I cried out, “She’s gone!” Then it suddenly hit me that my daughter is not a toddler anymore; that I was past that point in our lives, and that she is grown. A deep sense of sorrow overwhelmed me and I began to sob.

I’ve had dreams similar to this a few times, with my other children. I realize that I long for the days where my children were young, innocent, full of wonder, and enjoyed playing with me. I regret not cherishing those times as much as I should.

COT:
Mr Roboto’s brother, Dr. Phil’s health, my friends son Nathaniel fighting cancer

Tags: ao_mastodon, Sparrow, TBTF, Glowstick, Falsetto, The wet burrito, Crack, Cheap Shot