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Backblast: Workin’ hard
Date: Saturday, 8/26/23
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @TBTF, @Jailbreak, @Carmen, @Captain Crunch, @Noodles, @Ankles, @Maniac
FNGs:
Q: @Stock boy
Total: 8WoR: SSH, arm-circles forward, arm-circles backward, overhead claps, seal claps, Abe Vigodas, stretchesThangs:

1. Traveling west, then north, then east along the path, turning south at first bridge, 16s: 15/1 – 1/15 Squrls (Squat-Curls)/Merkins.
2. Partner up for Dora: 100 Overhead press, 200 BBSUs, 300 skull crushers, 400 goblet squats

Moleskin:
Be intentional to interact with your loved ones, remembering that, later in life, you’re more likely to regret not spending more time with them than anything else.Prayers:
@Captain Crunch for life/work balance, @Noodles to adjust to taking son to preschool.

Date: 8/24/2023
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Hancock, @Rosetta (respect), @Da Vinci, @Tortuga (respect), @Jolly (respect), @BuzzKill, @Katniss, @Bloomer, @Stock boy, @Aloha, @Bo-Peep, @Cottontail, @Panhandle (respect)
FNGs: 0
Q: @Hancock
Total: 13

Conditions: 80 and humid. It’s a hot one.

Warm up: SSH, merkins, flutter kicks, arm circles, arm stretch, mount climbers, leg stretch

Thang 1: Run around baseball diamond and come back, line up in order of return, split evenly into teams. Winner gets to use 🏆 on Slack next to their name.

Event 1. To Hoffa. Manrise relay at top, BBSU at bottom. Win for team @BuzzKill

Event 2. First team to complete 120 burpees and 200 goblet squats wins round. Win for team @@Bo-Peep

Event 3. First team to complete 300 merkins and 300 LBC’s. Win for team @BuzzKill

Event 4. Coupon brigade from base of Hoffa to fence. 2 curls and then pass it on. Win for team @Bo-PeepBREAK. All join for two rounds of Guantanamo’s.

Event 5. Pax carry. Base of Hoffa. Each Pax will be carried to and from @@Hancock’s coupon and the light post. Win for team @Bo-Peep

Winning 3-2 is Team @Bo-Peep! Go ahead and put those 🏆 as your Slack status!

Moleskin: "Relationships don’t thrive under the pressures of our modern day schedules. All of life’s important relationships thrive under the condition of carefree timelessness. Learn to waste time with the people you love." -Matthew Kelly. And, Mark Driscoll (can’t find the quote) encourages the audience one sermon to “blow some money, make some memories” on the experiences you have with your loved ones. CoT: prayer for @Rosetta’s M and father-in-law, prayer for students starting the school year this week

Backblast: Beast Blocks

Date: 8/22/2023

AO: #ao_mastodon

PAX: @BuzzKill, @Beaker, @Captain Crunch, @Stock boy, @Maniac, @Hancock, @Oompa, @LeMond

FNGs: 0

Q: @LeMond

Total: 8

• Warmorama: 5 mins

  • 20 Goofballs

  • 20 Frankensteins: leg to opposite leg

  • 10 Abe Vigodas

• 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

• Pre-thang

  • Grip, Rip, and Roll (GRRs): 20

  • World War III sit ups: chest press, then shoulder press: 10

• The Thang: The Beast

  • The BEAST is 6 exercises, performing 6 reps at 6 stops. 4 lines (lined field or cones). Start at first line, sprint to second and do 6 reps, then to third and do 6 reps, then to fourth and do 6 reps, back to third for 6 reps, back to second for 6 reps, back to start line and complete 6 reps. Hold Plank until all finish.

  • Exercises:

    • Merkins

    • Thrusters

    • Squats

    • Merkins on coupons.

    • American Hammer

    • Blockies

• Extra: Pax did lunge walks with coupon rotation to 3rd line of cones, then murder-bunnies to last line.

• Mary

  • Flutter Kicks

  • Australian Snow Angels.

• Moleskin

  • Write down your massive to do list goals, even if you can’t get to them.

  • Then ask God for guidance.

Backblast: Back to School
Date: Wednesday, 08/16/23
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Panhandle @Tortuga @Shiplap @SAGA @Captain Caveman @Bo-Peep @Banks @Manhole @Cheese @TBTF @Jolly @Ankles @Pool Boy
FNGs: 0
Q: @Panhandle
Total: 13Conditions: GorgeousWarm-Up:

• SSHs
• 10x Windmills IC
• Arm circles/seal claps/overhead claps
• Jog 1 lap around the track while explaining the thang

Thang 1: Hare and Tortoise
Pair up with coupons for 5 laps around track doing a "hare and tortoise" (one does reps while the other carries the coupon until the first catches up). Exercises were:

• Lap 1: 5 burpees/farmer carry
• Lap 2: 10 outlaws/rifle carry
• Lap 3: 10 merkins/curl carry
• Lap 4: 10 BBSs/overhead press carry
• Lap 5: 10 squats/farmer carry

Thang 2:

• Dora (25 thrusters, 75 bent-over rows, 25 blockees)
• Flutters – 52 reps IC

COT: @Bo-Peepand his M as their 2.0 is coming soon.MOLESKIN: Sometimes, the best thing you can do is to just take care of the ordinary things in life and work. Gotta grind through things to succeed. (edited)

Backblast: Butt kicker
Date: August 15, 2023
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Panhandle @DQ @Airpump @Bloomer @Tortuga @Big Mac @Shiplap @Spokes @Cheeks
FNGs: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 9

WOR: ssh, traveling ssh, skips, copperhead merkins, and with one hand on block

Thang 1: 5 Stations – merkins, dips, bbsus, burpees, lunges (2=1)
Round one: 5 reps each
Increase by five reps each cycle.
First three PAX done with a cycle carry their coupon the rest of the thang and add the coupon to a station. If they are one of the first three on another round, they add the block to a second station, etc. @Big Mac ended up adding to at least four stations.
one hand on the block merkins, switching hands each rep
dips with the coupon on your lap
bbsus with the block touching the grass above your head and by your feet
block over burpees
weighted lunges
After the round of 30, the top three finishers added the block to every station and dropped to 25 reps.

Mary: 50 4-count flutters, IC

NOR
COT with @LouGee and the 5:30 crew.

Date: Saturday, 08/12/23
AO: #ao_flat_earth
PAX: @Pool Boy @Cheeks @AirPump @BuzzKill @Sparrow @Cottontail @Beaker @The Wet Burrito (respect) @T-Bone (respect) @Banks @Spokes @Cheese (respect) @Tortuga (respect) @Hershey @Stock Boy @Crack @LeMond @Panda Express @Rosetta @Velveeta @Jolly (respect) @Archive @DQ @Da Vinci @8-Track @Gummi Bear @SAGA
FNGs: 0
Q: @SAGA @Tortuga
Total: 27

Conditions: gloom descending but not the temps

WOR: @Tortuga led us in some side-straddle-hops & rotating goof-balls

1 THANG: seventeen played ultimate

OTHER THANG 1: large loop run around Ackerman fieldhouse with two stops for burpees and merkins / rinsed and repeated and depending on winners and losers some more burpees were accomplished

OTHER THANG 2: picking up Benjamins at the corners of the field: 20 burpees…run to next corner, 40 merkins…run & 60 squats…run & 80 LBCs…run & 20 burpees

OTHER THANG 3: Are we there yet? Race to Little Baby Hoffa and prizes on top included 20 merkins from @BuzzKill & 20 declining dying cockroaches (2 is 1) from @ Sparrow

OTHER THANG 4: run around Little Baby Hoffa and spring up the straight away w/5 burpees on top…do it again w/10 merkins on top…do it again w/15 squats on top…lung back down to recover

OTHER THANG 5: mosey back to flag and begin run on large loop…went part way and sprinted back

MARY: BBSU

ANNOUNCEMENTS: #2nd-F event this afternoon/evening @Banks’s house

COT: thanksgiving for this PAX and our times together

MOLESKIN: Facilitate God’s promises into practices.

A good posse road off into the sunrise to stop for some peaches @The Wet Burrito’s house and make it to Mastodon in time for the afternoon show!

Date: 8/11/2023

AO: #ao_flat_earth

PAX: @DQ @Jolly @LeMond @Rosetta @Hershey @Velveeta @T.B. @Fuzzy@Crack @Tortuga @Gummi Bear @TBTF @T-bone @Cheese @Double Beef ‘n Cheddar @Spokes @Shiplap @Banks @Bo-Peep @Panda Express @8-Track @Bones @Big Mac

FNGs: 0

Q: @Jolly

Total: 23

WOR:
SSH, lap around field

Thang:
Ultimate Frisbee,

Moleskin:
Let your close relationships know how important they are to you.

COT: Praise/Prayers for @T.B.’s M’s new job.

Backblast: Intervals!!
Date: Wednesday, 08/09/23
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Panhandle @Noodles @Splits (FNG Welcome) @Tortuga @Da Vinci @Rosetta @Shiplap @SAGA @Crack @Captain Caveman @Big Mac @Bo-Peep @Banks @Manhole @Cheese @Katniss @Stock boy
FNGs: 1
Q: @Banks
Total: 17Conditions: GorgeousWarm-Up:

• 7x Motivators
• 10x Windmills IC
• 10x Mountain Man Poopers IC
• Picking Daisies
• 15x Merkins IC
• Jog 1 lap around the track while explaining the thang

Thang 1: Intervals
YHC decided it was time to do some interval training. The purpose of intervals is to intentionally spike the heart rate, and then give time for recovery to bring your heart rate back down. There is an opportunity to take it easy, but if you give your maximum effort, it will be a great workout!

• Interval set 1: We broke up the track into 4 parts where you would walk, jog, run and sprint. All PAX completed 4 laps at their own pace and then held plank for the 6.
• Interval set 2: We did 5 rounds of EMOM consisting of 10 burpees
• Interval set 3: Same as number 1, but we did 3 laps

Thang 2: We did squats to the song "Flower" by Moby3 MOM: I had the PAX lead some Mary

• @Panhandle gave us 51 flutters IC
• @Crack gave us 20 American Hammers IC
• @SAGA gave us 20 Crunches IC

COT: @Bo-Peepand his M as their 2.0 is coming soon. @Noodles and everyone else who is getting ready for school next week.MOLESKIN: There are only 2 things you control in life, your attitude and your effort. Make sure you give your all in these areas and good things will happen!

Backblast: An "Easy" Black Diamond
Date: August 8, 2023
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Panhandle @DQ @LouGee @Bo-Peep @Airpump @Bloomer @LeMond @Tortuga @Beaker @Big Mac @Bones @Shiplap
FNGs: 0
Q: @Shiplap
Total: 12WOR: Black Diamond EMOM (35 SSH – 8 Burpees) for 6 minutes, Abe Vigoda x10, MMP x 10, Arm Circles x 10, OH Press IC x 20, Curls IC x 10Thing 1: 3 Stations – 2 exercises at each station.Station 1 – 10 reps – pullup and burpess
Station 2 – 20 reps – atomic merkins and Thrusters
Station 3 – 30 reps – dips and bonnie blairs (hard way)After each round Station 1 dropped by a rep, station 2 by 2 reps, and station 3 by 3 reps. No one got all the way down to 1, 2, and 3 reps on the stations. A good sweat was hadMoleskin: You sett the tone at the beginning of everything you do. Whether that is a beatdown, hard conversation, getting the kids dressed. Be mindful of the tone you are setting.

Date: Friday, 08/04/23
AO: #ao_ground_zero
PAX: @Noodles @Stock Boy @Cheeks @Air Pump @Blackout @Cottontail @Pool Boy FNG (Gold Rush) @Big Mac @SAGA
FNGs: 1
Q: @SAGA
Total: 10

Conditions: the fog rising out of the marsh and a few PAX up and early to greet the day.

Warm-Up: goof balls, squats, mtn. climbers, leg stretches

The Thang: some ran, some rucked, some scholar walked – all had a good time …

Moleskin: Be present to who is around you. A stranger can become a person who unexpectedly adds to your life and yours to theirs. #thanksJohn