Backblasts

Backblast: Belle Ringer, IPC week 2
Date: 9/14/22
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Tortuga @LeMond @SAGA @Big Mac @T-bone @Jolly @wet burrito @Da Vinci @Carsten Schumm (First Gear) @Panhandle @Bo-Peep @Spit Valve
FNGs: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 12

WOR: arm circles, Michael Phelps, etc. OYO

The Thang:
Belle Ringer
Format: AMRAP for 45 minutes
Set-Up: Make a 5-point star with each point of the star being 25 yards away from the center.

Five Blockees. Rifle carry to cone 1 and perform 10 “We’re Not Worthy”. Farmer carry back to center.
Five Blockees. Rifle carry to cone 2 and perform 15 Goblet Squats. Farmer carry back to center.
Five Blockees. Rifle carry to cone 3 and perform 20 Overhead Triceps Extensions. Farmer carry back to center.
Five Blockees. Rifle carry to cone 4 and perform 25 KB Swings. Farmer carry back to center.
Five Blockees. Rifle carry to cone 5 and perform 30 Curls. Farmer carry back to middle.
Each round is 125 total reps.

@Big Mac got in 632 total reps. @Jolly was right on his tail.

Workout was completed with a background of non-stop nineties music. Thank you, @T-bone.

COT: Prayers for Ivy, and Tbone’s neighbor with cancer. Praise for the job offer coming @LeMond’s way today. We look forward to hearing how sweet the deal turns out!

Moleskine: Write a note to your wife. It’s easy, and encouragement is so important for our M’s. Post-its and pens were distributed and utilized.

Backblast: Enter the Nineties
Date: 9/13/22
AO:#ao_mastodon

PAX: @LeMond @poolboy @pinkdrink @spokes @saga @maniac @T-Bone @Tortuga @patdown @panhandle @hancock @majorette @jolly @davinci
FNGs: 0
Q:@Davinci
Total: 14

This week we enter the Nineties with a workout set to the early Nineties album Siamese Dream.

Warmorama to “Disarm” follow the leader

Jacobs Ladder:  9 burpees

1. Lunges and LBCs
2. Hand Release Merkens and American Hammers
3. Squats and Flutters
4. Side straddle hops and BBSU
5. Wide Merkens and Leg Lifts
6. Bonnie Blairs and Crunchy Frogs

Jacobs Ladder:  3 burpees 

Moleskin: In his book Christ is Time which puts Nineties music into conversation with theology, my friend Mark Edwards says, “I have learned more Christian theology from what Nietzsche rejects than from what most professing Christian theologian affirm…”

Commenting on the lyrics “Today is the greatest day” he contrasts two ways of making that claim.

First, he cites Nietzshe:

“If some day or night a demon were to sneak after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you, ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more, and there will be nothing new in it …’ How well disposed you have to become to yourself to love to crave nothing more fervently…”

But instead of this Mark counsels not the idolatrous seizing of time, but gratitude for it:

 “When Christ is encountered, when one repents of trying to be the Übermensch at the center of all history, when one sets aside one’s own master plan and simply follows the Rabbi down uncharted roads, then one begins to understand that this life, our lives, her life and indeed my today is a gift of the crucified and resurrected Lord of Time, who is Jesus of Nazareth.”  (p. 150).

COT: Prayers for Maniac, Naomi, Lemond.

Backblast: IPC Week 1
Date: 9/7/22
AO:#ao_tar_pit
PAX:@Tortuga , @Spit Valve@T-bone@8-Track@Panhandle@wet burrito@Jolly@SAGA@Big Mac@Sparrow@LeMond @firstgear
FNGs: 0
Q:@Tortuga
Total: 12

Care Bear Squared
WOR: ssh, goof balls, copperhead  air squats, arm circles
The Thang
Four cones in a square, 25 yards apart.
Start at cone 1, bearcrawl to cone 2 and perform 25 air squats.
After the squats, bearcrawl to the left to cone 3 and perform 25 merkins.
After the merkins, reverse bearcrawl to cone 4 and perform 25 big boy sit-ups.
After the big boy situps, bearcrawl to the right to cone 1 and perform 25 burpees.

AMRAP for 45 minutes

COT: prayers for @LeMond’s job search, @T-bone’s 2.0 in Costa Rica, Sweet Treats turns 23.

Moleskine: Philippians 4:6+7: Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, with prayer and petition, with thanksgiving present your requests to God.  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard you hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Luke 6:25: Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Proverbs 18:6: A fool’s lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.

Date: Monday, 08/16/22

AO: #ao_mastodon

PAX: @jolly @spokes @sparrow @lemond @big blue @tortuga @gilligan @panda express @panhandle @saga @hancock

FNGs: 0

Q: @Hancock

Total: 11

Conditions: Humid, but not horribly hot

The thang: Murph.

Run ~1 mile around AO

Strive for 20 rounds of: 5 pull-ups, 10 merkins, and 15 squats per round, or until time is called

Run ~1 mile around AO

Plank for 30 seconds

COR/NOR/COT:

Prayer for Gilligan’s mom

Moleskin: We think having fun and doing what you want, whenever you want is freedom. But, you are robbed of the choice to do better things for yourself.

Date: 8/31/22
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Tortuga , @Katniss @T-bone @8-Track @Panhandle @wet burrito @Jolly @SAGA @Giggles
FNGs: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 9

WOR: goofballs, mountain climbers, arm circles, slow merkins
The Thang:  Hauled coupons to far side of the track and lined up.
Coe – 5 rounds:

20 thrusters

20 merkins

Brenton – 3 rounds:

100 foot bear crawl out

100 foot burpee broad jump back

Perform 3 burpees and then 5 broad jumps

Coe – 5 rounds:

20 thrusters

20 merkins

Final finisher was under 30 minutes.  Perfect thruster form was hard to maintain over the course of 200 reps.

Moleskine: From Kirk Franklin:
“The biggest fear is that the resurrection was not complete.
The biggest lie is that this life is all that there is.
And so we live in a fear of believing that God’s work is not complete.
The problem of not having confidence in the resurrection is that we don’t know that in the end we will live again.
But I want you to know that the pain you face is temporary.
The cancer  you face is temporary.
The disease  you face is temporary.
Because every believer that’s washed in the blood of the lamb will live to live again.  How many of you know that this is not the end for the child of God?
This is only just the appetizer for the main meal.”

This life is only just the Warm O Rama for the main Thang.  Live in that freedom.

COT: Prayers for @Banks and his surgery today,  @SAGA‘s 2.0, Stupe, going through some hard things, and Tortuga’s 2.0, Anna, at college with Covid.

Date: Tuesday, 08/30/22
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @LeMond @Tortuga @Panhandle @Da Vinci @Pat-Down @Majorette @Spokes @Jolly @Big Mac @wet burrito @Maniac @T-bone @Giggles @Hancock @Pool Boy @TBTF @Gummi Bear @Captain Crunch (AJ) @Beaker
FNGs: 0
Q: @Beaker
Total: 19

WOR: A quick lap around the parking lot, 15 ic mountain man poopers, 15 Moroccan night clubs, 20 bat wings, Michael Phelps oyo, 10 tappy taps, mosey to Hoffa with coupons.

Thang 1: My take on a Dirty MacDeuce
Pax complete a set of 3 exercises ic, 12 reps to a four count cadence, then recovered with a redrum. We completed four sets (and 3 redrums) and then moseyed to the baseball diamond.

Sets 1 and 3:
Curls for the gurls
Air Thrusters
Flutters with coupon extension

Sets 2 and 4:
Bent over rows
Monkey humpers
American hammers with coupons

Thang 2: 7 of Diamonds
PAX start at a base/plate, bear crawl to the next one, complete 7 diamond merkins, and repeat until the bases have been circled. We did not get to rounds 2-4. Mosey to Hoffa, pick up coupons, and return to the "flag."

Mary: 2 minutes of boat canoe in the parking lot.

Moleskin: Your role as husband and father is a unique gift. No one else has the access and ability support your M and 2.0s like you do. This a gift to you, and to them. Use it wisely when it is the least natural.

Date: Monday, 08/29/22
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Sparrow @T-bone (respect) @Low Tide @Shiplap @LouGee @Pool Boy (FNG WELCOME!) @LeMond @8-Track @Tortuga (respect) @Big Mac @Jolly (respect) @Da Vinci @Katniss @Panhandle @Archive @SAGA
FNGs: 1, @Pool Boy
Q: @SAGA
Total: 16

Warm-Up: Mtn Climbers / Mtn Man Poopers / Arm Circles / Stretch OYO

The Thang:
Some ran
Some played pickle ball
The men did a beatdown with coupons: Redrum / lamppost journey – riffle carry to a lamppost & do 10 curls + 10 goblet squats and then rifle carry back to the previous lamppost and complete one blockee = 1 round…continue this sequence but add 1 blockee each time to come back – did the short loop until complete (ended with 10 blockees and a ton of curls and goblet squats while we burned our shoulders with endless riffle carries)

Mary:
52 Flutter Kicks in cadence
20 LBCs OYO

Announcements:
Announcement 1: Check #fat-camp for the joys of Nancy
Announcement 2: IronPax begins on Wednesday!

Moleskin: Keep moving forward – make your falling backward a way of moving forward – you are never alone, remember the PAX

Date: 7/9/2022
AO: #ao-mastodon
PAX: @Sparrow, @Deaddrop (2.0), @Eggdrop (2.0), @Bumble, @Jailbreak, @Maniac, @Jazz Handz, @TBTF, @Hancock, @Crack, @Noodles
FNGs: 0
Q: @Noodles
Total: 11

Unintentionally, the beatdown today was very IronPax like. There was chatter inquiring about IronPax and what it was. Hopefully, this beatdown answered some questions and motivated some PAX to challenge themselves in the coming month.

Warm-Up: Motivators x7, Arm Circles Forward/Backward, Michael Phelps, Yoga Squat (Malasala) position.

Thang 1:

Designated 400 meters around baseball field. The Pax completed the following:

Round 1: Merkins, Overhead Press, Burpess, Squats (x10 each), 1 lap (400m)
Round 2: Exercise Reps (20x each), 2 laps (800m)
Round 3: Exercise Reps (30x each), 3 laps (1200m)
Round 4: Exercise Reps (40x each), 4 laps (1600m)

MoM: Cobra to Upward Dog x10, Bird Dog x10, Two-Knee Twist Right/Leg

CoT: Prayers for @Bank’s and @SAGA’s health and recovery from injuries. @Jazz Handz’ friend and his health. @Maniac’s block party and establishing community with neighbors. Prayers for anything else that I may have forgotten.

Date: 8/25/22
AO: #downrange Camera Park, as of yet unnamed AO, though AO Instagram is a front runner in my mind.
PAX: @Crack @Jolly @Toto @bumble @Noodles @Beaker
FNGs: 0
Q: @Beaker
Total: 6

Warm-o-Rama:
Motivators (ic, x7), Arms across chest (oyo), Michael Phelps (oyo), Picking daisies (ic, x10)

Thang 1:
Burpee mile on the long trail. 12 burpees at every ~0.25 miles. 48 burpees total

Thang 2:
Break into groups of 3. One PAX starts at the Cooties, one PAX starts at the picnic tables with exercises, one PAX starts at the picnic tables for running. PAX 1 runs to the ninja warrior course, completes the course and then runs to the cooties to replace the PAX there.

At the cooties the PAX complete:
100 pull ups
300 merkins
500 lbcs

At the picnic tables the PAX complete:
200 table presses
400 dips
600 step ups

Moleskin: Try new things and take up new challenges.

COT: @Banks‘s knee, @LeMond‘s and @bumble‘s job search, @Crack‘s new class

Date: 08/25/2022
AO: #ao-mastodon
PAX: @Pat-Down, @Tortuga, @Archive, @Da Vinci, @Big Mac, @Katniss, @SAGA, @Majorette, @Panhandle, @Hancock, @Giggles, @Spokes, @Sparrow, @LeMond
FNGs: 0
Q: @LeMond
Total: 14
Pax braved the darkness and steady rain to mightily handle some coupons and spend time with Flora, Dora’s lazy, mean sister.
1. Warmorama:
* Windmills
* Tappy Taps
* Happy Jacks: 3 sets
* Arm circles
2. Pre-thang: at base of Hoffa
* 10 Absolutions
3. Thang 1:
* Partner coupon pass with thruster: 25 total
* Dips on picnic benches
* Bulgarian split squat on benches
4. Thang 2:
* Flora 1-2-3
a. Dora’s lazy, mean stepsister. All pax partner up, and grab a coupon, preferably of the 35 lbs CMU size (concrete masonry unit). 100 Merkins – P1 does 10 with feet on coupon. P2 holds plank with feet on his coupon. Flapjack.200 LBCs – P1 does 20 LBC holding coupon high on chest. P2 holds legs 6″ off ground, and extends arms w/ coupon over chest. Flapjack. 300 Goblet Squats – P1 does 25 goblet squats. P2 lowers to bottom of goblet squat w/ coupon, and holds. Flapjack.
b. Man rise to top after each round.
5. Thang3: Jack Webb and Mary
* Jack Webb push ups, each Pax leads 5
* Flutter Kicks
* Lizard Dance
* Writing Alphabet
* Swimmers
* Boat hold
* Rotating plank hold
Moleskin
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”
– Bible, Luke 6:37.