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Backblast: Turtles all the way down

Date: 03/29/2024

AO: #ao_flat_earth

PAX: @Tortuga, @Velveeta, @8-Track, @Jolly, @Spit Valve, @Panda Express, @Samsonite, @DQ, @LeMond

FNGs: 0

Q: @LeMond

Total: 9

• Warmorama: 5 mins

  • 20 SSHs

  • 5 T-Bone burpees

  • Jog across field, high knees; return with butt kickers.

• Q chose teams by lining up Pax in alphabetical order and counting off in twos.

• That didn’t work so well so we swapped players when one team began to dominate.

• Moleskin:

Do small sacrifices matter?

Reflect upon the small things today. What is it that you do each day that tires you and seems boring or unimportant. Know that these acts, perhaps more than any other, present you with a glorious opportunity to honor and glorify God in a magnificent way.

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: Ultimate
Date: 03/23/24
AO: #ao_flat_earth
PAX: @DQ@Jolly@Tortuga@T.B.@Oompa@Archive@Bloomer@Gummi Bear@Panda Express@Cheese
FNG: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 10
WOR: SSH IC x10, move to the end zone and back, choose your own mode(s) of movement.

Thang – Play Ultimate.  Five points wins.  After the win, each team’s youngest two players rock, paper, scissors.  Losers switch teams.  Second game to five.  Only completed two games.

Moleskin: In a study, three groups were asked to track how much they exercised over the next three weeks.  Group A was told just that.  Group B watched a motivational video about the benefits of exercise and Group C was shown the same video and was directed to write down this sentence: “I will take part in 20 minutes of vigorous exercise on this date, at this time, at this place.”  They found that about 33% of groups A and B followed through.  91% of group C did.  Just the practice of writing down your specific intentions almost tripled your likelihood of doing it.  If there is a habit you want to do: reading your Bible, complimenting your M, stretching, etc, write down your intentions.

COT: Prayers for @T.B. who had a good interview for a new job, he hears back on Easter Monday.  Prayers for @Jolly’s M who is still struggling with the church conflict from before Christmas.

Backblast: Butt kicker
Date: 3/19/24
AO: #ao_tarpit
PAX: @DQ @8-Track @Panhandle @Spit Valve @Tortuga
FNGs: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 5

WOR: SSH ICx30, Goof Balls ICx30, Stationary butt kickers ICx30, copperhead merkins IC x10, copperhead squats ICx10, arm circles OYO

The Thang:
At the top of the hill at the front of the school:
250 hand release blockees as a group.
We took a break at each 100 to take a lap down the driveway and back up a staircase the PAX chooses.
Same with 250 outlaws, 250 uneven merkins with one hand on the coupon (2=1), 250 block bbsu with the coupon touching above your head and by your feet, 250 deep squat jumps. On the down your butt touches the coupon.

7 MOM: chest press flutter kicks ICx20, boat canoe

Moleskin: There is a study where they surveyed 600+ adults and followed them for the next 23 years. They grouped the participants into two groups: those that viewed aging in a positive light and those who were mostly negative about aging. The positive group lived an average of 7.6 years longer than the negative group. Your mindset matters. People often ask me how I stay so fit. I usually just say, “Because I work out six days a week.” It is that, but it’s also because I expect to get faster, stronger, and better. I’m not sure that’s a realistic expectation, but it does keep me stiving anyway.

COT: Prayers for @DQ’s aunt who is battling cancer.

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