Author: backblasts

Date: Thursday, 08/22/24
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Jolly (respect) @Rosetta (respect) @Stock Boy @DQ @Tortuga (respect) @Toto @TBTF @Archive @T-bone (respect) @Jailbreak @Linc @SAGA
FNGs: 0
Q: @SAGA
Total: 12

Date: 08/16/24
AO: #ao_flat_earth
PAX: @Hershey @Tortuga @Jolly @Cheese @Swish @TBTF @CHiPs @Panda Express @LeMond @Krampus @Samsonite @8-Track @Spokes @DQ
FNGs: 0
Q: @DQ
Total: 14

WOR

• SSH
• Back and forth across the field however PAX desire

The thang
Ultimate! A fun, competitive game ending in a tie. Trophies for everyone!

Moleskin
Keep short accounts. Confess sin quickly. Don’t let the impact of unrepentant sin fester in your relationships.

CoT

• @Cheese and all students / teachers / staff as a new school year begins. May God’s presence be in our schools, and may the kids know truth and know they are loved.

Backblast: 5-Alive and Well

Date: 8/15/2024

AO: #ao_dark_room

PAX: @Beaker, @Framed, @Manhole, @Crack, @LeMond

FNGs: 0

Q: @LeMond

Total: 5

• Warmorama:

  • Motivators from 7

  • Tappy Taps

  • Mountain Climbers

  • Monkey Humpers

  • Arm circles, both directions

• Pre-thang:

  • Aiken Legs: 20 Squats, 20 Box Jumps, 20 Lunges (10 each leg), 20 Split Jacks (10 each leg forward).

  • Plank for 6

• 5-Alive with coupons

  • Merkins off coupons

  • Curls

  • Salt Shakers

  • Swings

  • American Hammers with Coupon

  • Partners: One Pax farmer carries coupons; another Pax does 3 burpees and then catches up.

• Moleskin: Jack London Book the Sea Wolf

  • In the story, Van Humphrey notes that while the ship is under rifle fire, his leg is shaking but Captain Wolf’s is not.

  • Not fleeing for cover, Van Humphrey concludes that he is braver than than captain, who

  • Give yourself credit for taking on tasks which are difficult for you even if they may not be for others.

Date: Tuesday, 8/13/24, 05:30 am

AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Samsonite, @Linc, @Sparrow, @Lib, @TBTF, @Jailbreak, @Low Tide, @Cottontail, @Mr Roboto
Q: @Stock boy
FNGs: 0
Total: 10
WOR: Copperhead merkins, copperhead squats, arm circles, Abe Vigodas.
Thang1: 16’s – 15 curls and 1 coupon press to 1 curl and 15 presses.
Thang2: Tabata – 6 rounds, 45 seconds on, 15 off of pull-ups/chin-ups and merkins/derkins
Thang3: Tabata – 6 rounds, 45 seconds on, 15 off of BBSUs and planking shoulder taps
Moleskin: Try to give your family your full attention when they talk to you; it is easy to only half engage with them, but you may be missing out on true connections with them that you’ll regret eventually

COT: @Jailbreak’s neighbor Dan with heart issues, @Lib’s marriage, @Low Tide’s lost keys (we found them!)

Backblast: Second String Q

Date: 8/8/2024

AO: #ao_dark_room

PAX: @LeMond

FNGs: 0

Q: @Manhole, @Beaker, @Lakers, @Manhole, @LeMond

Total: 5

• Warmorama:

  • Motivators from 7

  • Copperhead squats

  • Copperhead merkins

  • Windmills

  • Arm circles forward, backward

• Pre-Thang at Shelter

  • 10 stair merkins, while partner holds wall sit

  • Repeat once

  • 60-sec balls-to-the-walls

• Squat Workout

  • Low Squat, bringing both hands to touch the ground.

  • 1 rep, walk a couple of steps forward

  • 2 reps, walk a couple of steps forward

  • Continue to 15 reps

• Head to Hacksaw Ridge

  • 7s of blockees and thrusters at top

  • Rifle carry down

• One-legged coupon curls.

• Mary:

  • 20 4-ct flutter kicks

  • Box cutters

  • Freddie Mercuries

  • American Hammers

• Moleskin (repeated from Tuesday at #ao_mastodon):

  • For most of us, our natural, reflexive reaction is to try to move away from pain. But avoidance will not serve us; it only brings us more anguish in the long run. The response that will serve us best is to feel. As author John Green (2012) wisely put it, pain demands to be felt.

  • Our first reaction to pain or discomfort is to try and fix it. It feels too warm so I crank up the A/C; I have a headache so I take acetaminophen. Sometimes, we can open to the pain/discomfort and learn.

Date: 8/6/2024

AO: #ao_mastodon

PAX: @Stock boy, @Samsonite, @Linc, @Falsetto, @Da Vinci, @LeMond

FNGs: 0

Q: @LeMond

Total: 6

• Warmorama: 5 mins

  • Goofballs

  • Monkey humpers

  • Imperial Walkers

  • Arm circles forward, backward

  • Side leg raises

• Leave coupons at path junction

  • Rifle carry to the path junction

  • Guardian run to pool house with burpee for last Pax

• Pre-Thang at Pool House

  • 100 Rocky Balboas

  • 10 stair merkins, while partner holds wall sit

  • Repeat once

  • 60-sec balls-to-the-walls

• Parking Lot Mike Tyson Squat Workout.

  • 1. Start with 10 cards and line them up about 3 inches apart.

  • 2. Squat and pick up the first card, then move to the next card and place the first card on top of the second card.

  • 3. After which, you squat twice more to pick up each card individually, before moving to the third card.

  • 4. Walk to the third card and squat twice to stack each card, then squat three times to pick up each card before carrying the cards to the fourth card, and proceeding with the pattern.

  • 5. You will continue this pattern of individually stacking and picking up the cards until you move through all 10 cards in the line.

• Guardian Run back to path junction

  • 7s with blockers and table presses

• Mary:

  • Murder bunnies to base of Hoffa, man rise to top

  • 20 4-ct flutter kicks

  • Lizard Dance

  • American Hammers

• Moleskin:

  • For most of us, our natural, reflexive reaction is to try to move away from pain. But avoidance will not serve us; it only brings us more anguish in the long run. The response that will serve us best is to feel. As author John Green (2012) wisely put it, pain demands to be felt.

  • Our first reaction to pain or discomfort is to try and fix it. It feels too warm so I crank up the A/C; I have a headache so I take acetaminophen. Sometimes, we can open to the pain/discomfort and learn.

Date: 8/10/24, 7:00am

AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @TBTF, @Samsonite, @Mr Roboto, @Linc
Q: @Stock boy
FNGs: 0
Total: 5
WOR: SSHs, copperhead squats, copperhead merkins, Abe Vigodas
Thang1: Extended WOR: In order, each PAX picks a warm-up exercise, then all run a lap around the parking lot. These included tin soldiers, imperial walkers, copperhead squats, and goofballs.
Thang2: Moving clockwise around the park, at each lamppost, each PAX in order picks an exercise in cadence for 10ish reps, and then mode of transport to the next lamppost. Many exercises were done including SSHs, LBCs, BBSUs, star jumps, jump squats, merkins, diamond merkins, American hammers, flutter kicks, planks, Freddie Mercurys, crunchy frogs, Abe Vigodas, mountain climbers, mountain man poopers, plank jacks, side lunges, one legged squats, goofballs, and probably more. Modes of transports included broad-jump burpees, bear crawls, backward crab crawls, forward crab crawls, Bernies, sprints, one foot hops forward, one foot hops backwards, lunge walks, scout lunge walks, skipping, plank drags, simple moseys, and probably more.
Moleskin: I challenged PAX to try to do something nice for the M without them having to ask (nag) you to do it. I ended up working in the garden with my M for a few hours today.

COT: Prayed that God would bless our upcoming week.

Date: 8/10/24

AO: #ao_tar_pit

PAX: @LeMond @Da Vinci @SAGA @T-bone @Beaker

FNGs: 0

Q: @Beaker

Total: 5

WOR: Motivators, windmills, stretching, batwings

Thang

‘1/2 mile’

Moving around the lake counter clockwise Pax completed exercises in the following pattern.

1 of the stationary exercise, 4 of the moving exercise; 2 of the stationary exercise, 8 of the moving exercise; up to 8 and 32. After the completion of one set of exercises, PAX moseyed to the PAX who made it the furthest and held plank or Al Gore. Then on PAX lex a round of Mary before moving to the next set of exercises.

Exercise sets were:

Mountain Bears

Mountain climber (2 is 1)

Bear crawls

Dan Taylors

Squats

Lunges (1 is 1)

Flat Tires

Partner derkins

Wheelbarrows

Broadbees

Burpees

Broad jumps

Crab Dip

Crab walk

Dips

Duck Humpers

Monkey humpers

Duck walk

Moleskine: Becoming an expert at a skill and developing your craft is good, but there is much value in the humility, frustration, and excitement of learning completely new things and skills.

Date: Thursday, 8/8/24, 5:30am

AO: #ao_ground_zero
PAX: @Samsonite, @Cottontail, @LouGee, @T-bone, @Ankles, @Tortuga, @Low Tide, @Linc
Q: @Stock boy
FNGs: 0
Total: 9
WOR: SSHs, arm circles, Abe Vigodas, runner’s stretch
Thang: Wheelbarrow DORA. We started with 4 pairs and @Stock boy started as ‘it’: he had to run the wheelbarrow and its load up and down Hoffa. At the bottom, he swapped in for whomever was doing reps in pair 1. That person did the wheelbarrow Hoffa run and then swapped with the repping PAX in pair 2, repeating for pair 3, pair 4, then back to 1 and so on. DORA consists of:
100 thrusters
200 skull crushers
300 kettlebell swings
400 curls
500 goblet squats
Moleskin: Practice doing hard things willingly (beatdowns, cold showers, etc.) so that you’ll be ready to do necessary hard things when there’s something valuable at stake.
COT: Tortuga’s M who will be starting a new treatment for her back.

Date: Wednesday, 08/07/24
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Lib @CHiPs @Squeaks @Spit Valve @NATTY @Cottontail @Panhandle (respect) @Da Vinci @Sparrow @Samsonite (respect) @Tortuga (respect) @SAGA
FNGs: 0
Q: @SAGA
Total: 12