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Backblast: Exit the Nineties
Date: 9/15/22
AO:#ao_mastodon

PAX: @jolly @saga @pinkdrink @bloomer @Janhus @spokes @poolboy @majorette @T-Bone @panhandle @bopeep @bigmac @patdown @hancock @tortuga @archive @Davinci
FNGs: 2
Q:@Davinci
Total: 19

After entering the Nineties on Tuesday, today we exit them with a workout set to the late Nineties album OK Computer, which critiques assent to computer technology, but which was only possible because of computer technology.

Warmorama follow the leader.

Jacobs Ladder:  7 burpees (at this point Da Vinci blew a calf muscle, imparting at great cost to himself the crucial life lesson of not Qing twice in the same week)

Workout with these two exercises with each song.

1. Derkens and Dutch Bazookas
2. Dips and Dollys
3. Curls & LBCs
4. Overhead Press & Outlaws
5. Skullcrushers & Scissor Kick
6. Merkens and Mary of your choice
7. Rows & Russian Twists

Moleskin: In his book The Life We’re Looking For Andy Croush makes a distnction between DEVICES VS. INSTRUMENTS

Fill your home with devices that play music, and the chance that you will maintain the habits of practice that aallow you to make music yourself, to create rather than consume, will shrink. Sign up for an unlimited video-streaming service, and somehow the time available for reading books – and concentrating on them – will seem to dwindle.

Instruments expand the capacity of human beings without shrinking other parts of us at the same time. They do so because they extend our capacities by further developing our hearts, souls, minds, and strength – further involving us in the glorious and difficult work of being persons in the world.   (140,142).

Date: 09/16/2022
AO: #ao-ground-zero
PAX: @Beaker, @wet burrito, @Tortuga, @Panda Express, @Pool Boy, @Toto, @TBTF, @Jolly, @Andrew Abernethy (Humpty), @Carl Cho (Carmen), @LeMond
FNGs: 0
Q: @LeMond
Total: 11
1. Warmorama: SSHs, Tappy Taps.
2. Run: 22 minutes down the Aurora Branch of the IPP and then ran back.
Moleskin:
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
James 1:17
COT: Prayed for the recovery of @Da Vinci

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.