Author: backblasts

Backblast: spiritus animalis

Date: 3/28/2024

AO: #ao_dark_room

PAX: @Toto, @Framed, @Mr Roboto, @LeMond

FNGs: 0

Q: @LeMond

Total: 4

• Warmorama: 5 mins

  • SSHs

  • Monkey Humpers

  • Side Leg Raises

  • Bat wings

• Pre-thang 1:

  • Hang from bar, partner does 20 BBs

  • Body weight support from from blocks; partner does 10 burpees.

• Pre-thang 2:

  • Bunny versus bear

• The Beast:

  • 1 Jungle Boy Squats, two spoons

  • 2 Crunchy Frog

  • 3 Alligator merkins: two is one

  • 4 Donkey Kicks

  • 5 Kraken Burpee: burpee with 3 hand-release merkins

  • 6 Flamingos: toe touches

  • Note: always jog back to start; always do the movement.

• The Beast: movements

  • Bear Crawl

  • Ape Walk

  • Duck Walk

• Extra: crab walk to and from second tree to the right.

• Mary:

  • Lizard dance

  • Flutter kicks

  • American Hammers

• Moleskin:

  • “There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

  • Nietzsche, Friedrich

Date: 03/28/24
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Samsonite @Ankles @DQ @Tortuga @Archive @Panda Express @TBTF @Jailbreak @Jolly
FNGs: 0
Q: @Jolly
Total: 9WOR

• Abe Vigodas
• Arm circles
• Michael Phelps
• 5 min EMOM 35 SSH/8 Burpees

The Thang
We made our way to the base of Hoffa and separated into 2 teams for a little bit of a competition. The competition went like this: each team completes a certain number of reps of the selected exercise and then has to get the Frisbee to the top of Hoffa and back to the bottom. Frisbee had to be thrown and caught at least once by each team member. It if was dropped on the way up it had to go back to the bottom, if dropped on the way down it had to go back to the top. Pax were also permitted to play defense against the other team.Each round one team randomly selected the exercise by spinning the magic wheel. The other team chose the number of reps. The following exercises were completed:

• Burpees
• Merkins
• American Hammers
• Curls
• LBCs
• Rows
• Thrusters
• Goblet Squats

Moleskin
When you are around other females (or males if you are at Sebastian’s in Lombard) behave as though your M is there with you.

COT

• @Anklesupcoming MRI, and 2.0’s travels
• @Jailbreak’s M and upcoming decisions

Date: 03/26/24
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Samsonite @Linc @Mr Roboto @Ankles @Dr. Phil @LeMond @DQ
FNGs: 0
Q: @DQ
Total: 7

WOR

• SSH
• Goofballs
• Arm circles
• Oblique warriors
• Worlds greatest stretch

Thang 1
20s work / 10s rest tabata. PAX rotated through the following 5 exercises 5 times, for a total of 25 rounds of tabata work:

• In and outs
• Bear twists
• Dive bombers
• Bonnie blairs
• Burpees

Thang 2
PAX partnered up at the SHOP and completed the following pairs of exercises:

1. Thrusters / Derkins – 50 reps combined between partners
2. Thrusters / Derkins (again) – 50 reps combined between partners
3. Coupon swings / Table press – 50 reps combined between partners
4. Single arm row / Deep swimmers press – 15 reps completed per PAX (ran out of time)

Moleskin
Matthew 11:28-30
Rest prevents deception from taking advantage of fatigue and elevating apathy, hopelessness, selfishness. Rest is an orienting surrender. It focuses less on controlling your fruitfulness, and puts more focus on your faithfulness.

COT

• @Mr Roboto’s son and work getting done on their porch
• @Ankles upcoming MRI

Date: 03/25/24
AO: #ao_flat_earth
PAX: @Tortuga d@Cheese @8-Track @Manhole @Samsonite @Velveeta @Spit Valve @Jolly @Panda Express @Krampus @DQ
FNGs: 0
Q: @DQ
Total: 11

WOR

• SSH

The thang
A one sided affair, but towards the end we had fans cheering and jeering on the sidelines. Word must be getting out that catching one of our games is worth the price of admission.

Moleskin
In one of my Lent devotionals, the author described a day where everything was going right. The house was in order. His family was enjoying the outdoors. Everything was right. Yet despite the perfection of this day, he still yearned more to be with Jesus in Heaven. So he prayed, and asked why am I still here? God’s response, he says, was "You’re here to learn to love". From then on, he started looking at every situation, encounter, relationship, through the lens of "this is meant to teach me to love". Let that be our primary motivation in everything we do.

COT

• @Krampus’s baby girl getting some vaccines today

Backblast: Legs, Core, and Cardio

Date: 3/19/2024

AO: #ao_mastodon

PAX: @Stock boy, @Samsonite, @Dr. Phil, @Linc, @Panda Express, @Captain Crunch, @Jailbreak, @Mad Cow, @TBTF, @LeMond

FNGs: 0

Q: @LeMond

Total: 10

• Warmorama: 5 mins

  • Goofballs

  • Monkey humpers

  • Imperial Walkers

  • Arm circles forward, backward

  • Side leg raises

• Pre-Thang near parking lot:

  • Jacked Up

    • SSH x 20 IC

    • Seal Jacks x 20 IC

    • Plank Jacks x 20 IC

    • Crossover Squat Jacks (aka Deny Terio) x 20 IC

    • Smurf Jacks x 20 IC

• Parking Lot Suicides

  • 150 Jungle Boi Squats between partners

  • One parter does squats, the other does suicides using parking lot lines.

  • Suicides: 2,4,6,8

  • Then relay race from island to island

• At baseball field

  • Prisoner Cell Merkin Burpees aka PCMBs.

  • Sprint to each base:

    • Start with 1 rep

    • Add 1 rep at each base.

    • Q acknowledges that this was too many reps!

• Head to shed.

  • Bulgarian Split Squats off of picnic tables

  • Dips off picnic table

  • Bent-over toe touches

  • Bunny vs bear.

    • 5 hops, hold squat

    • partner bear crawls, then catches up.

• Mary

  • Box cutters

  • Reach ups

  • Freddie Mercuries

  • American Hammers

• “If you treat every situation like a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.” — Dean Smith, University of North Carolina basketball coach

• Try the 5-5-5 trick: Ask yourself, “Will this matter in five days? Five months? Five years?”

Date: 03/16/24
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Stock boy @Mr Roboto @Samsonite (Respect) @TBTF (QIC)
FNGs: 0
Q: @TBTF
Total: 4
WoR: SSHs, Squats, Merkins, Abe Vegodas, Tappy TapsThangs:
TBTF Routine in full – TBTF = Tuck Jumps, Blockee, Thrusters, Frog Jumps x5 each movement at each light posts (15 light posts along route)We did 1 round of standard TBTFs and a modified round (no coupon, replace blockees with burpees and thrusters uses same movement but no coupon)We then did a small recovery mosey and headed to the flag for MaryMary – plank 30 seconds, flutter kicks, LBCs, American Hammer, plank 60 secondsMoleskine: "I used to think 10 blockees was hard until @SAGA made me do 120". Today’s moleskin was all about perspective and not letting things that seem hard (ie TBTF routine, 120 blockees, etc) prevent you from going after it.

Date: 03/14/24

AO: #ao_dark_room
PAX: @Panda Express, @LeMond, @Framed, @Frank, @TBTF (QIC)
FNGs: 0
Q: @TBTF (QIC)
Total:
WOR: SSH, Squats, Merkins, Abe Vegodas, Tappy TapsThe Thang:
Attempted to roll out my "TBTF" routine but the elements weren’t cooperating (heavy rain/lightning/thunder) so we headed for cover and created a routine in the local and yet unnamed "House Of Pain" (Gazebo/Pavillion area).We did a few rounds of TBTFs – Tuck Jumps, Blockees, Thrusters, Frog Jumps and from there we made it work with various rounds of Ring of Fire and Cardio circuits that i didn’t document but there was no let up (all PAX called various exercises and pushed each other hard)Moleskin: Life is a grind. Keep your mind right and push through. Lean on your friends for help (similar to the workout where my planned workout didn’t happen as we needed to abandon the trail and head for cover due to thunder and lightning).CoT: Manholes ankle and do not recall other requests

Date: 03/11/24
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Stock boy @Jailbreak @LouGee @Dr. Phil @Panhandle @Mr Roboto @Frank @TBTF
FNGs: 0
Q: @TBTF
Total: 8
WoR: SSH, Abe Vegodas/StretchesThangs: Murph, run, and rucks were doneMoleskine: I do not recall the moleskine but i am sure it was really goodCOT: Waited too long to post so do not recall but probably @Stockboys firneds and family working through various challenges

Date: 03/08/2024
AO: #ao_flat_earth
PAX: @Mr Roboto @LeMond @DQ @Jolly @Velveeta @Cheese @Shiplap @Hershey @Tortuga @8-Track @Panda Express @TBTF (QIC)
FNG: 0
Q: @TBTF
Total: 11
WOR: SSHs, Runners StretchThang – Play Ultimate. We had surprisingly well matched teams for simply breaking the WoR circle in half to make teams. Your Q had a particularly bad day at all things catching and throwing.Moleskin: Life is made of all the small things. Appreciate everything in front of you today.COT: Prayers for new life and next steps in life, prayers for my family as we deal with loss.

Date: 3/9/2024
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Panhandle @Da Vinci @Beaker @Frank @LouGee @White Noise (FNG) @Dolph (down range) @McDreamy (FNG) @Katniss @LeMond @TBTF
FNGs: 0
Q: @TBTF
Total:
WOR:
SSH x25, Toy Soldiers x10, Good Mornings x10, Abe Vegodas x10, Picking Daisies x10, Tappy Taps x10, arm circles
Thang:
Did a routine based on the
The plan was to do A-L-A-R-M-s around the lake stopping at each bench and performing the routine. Routine consists of an Arm + Leg + Ab +‘R’ Exercise + ‘M’ Exercise to form the acronym. I waited too long and don’t recall the exact routine we settled on (believe it was curls, goblet squats, BBSUs, Rocket Jumps, and Merkins). We got about a third of the way around the lake and realized we would not make the full loop so we turned back and modified along the way. It was hard and that was the point. Good job men!No time for Mary at the endMoleskin – the power of the pivot. In today’s workout much like life things don’t always play out the way you had planned. What matters is you can make the adjustment and get to a result.CoT – I waited too long and do not recall but know your needs are known