Backblasts

DATE: 2022-03-12
AO: Aerie
Q: Rocketman
PAX: Chasqui
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP:

Michael Phelps x 12, IC
No Moneys x 12, IC
Side Straddle Hop x 12, IC
Imperial Walkers x 12, IC

THE THANG:

Coupon stations:

**Sandbag**

– Deadlift + squat
– Weighted lunges
– Clean
– Forward row
– Merkin + drag

**Kettlebell**

– Kettlebell swings
– Thrusters
– Russian Twist
– Side Swing
– Tricep Extension

**Bodyweight**

– Flutter kicks
– Bonnie Blairs
– Plank Jacks
– Glute Bridges
– Burpees

Tabata rounds picking out exercises in each list, breaking with a mosey, plank, or bodyweight exercises.

MARY:

Stretches again!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

2.0 friendly workout next Saturday!

COT:

This week the Endurance was found nearly 100 years after it sank in the waters off Antartica.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085432575/endurance-ship-found-ernest-shackleton

Their mission was one of exploration that turned to survival. Setbacks occurred one after another from blizzards to mountains to storms at sea. Yet they endured to the end and did not leave their brothers behind. Let their example be a reminder to us today!

DATE: 2022-03-12
AO: Farm
Q: Matthew – Running Man
PAX: Chile, Infinity, Louis, Gekko (Keith Capp)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP
Don Quixote
Beet pickers
Side straddle hops
Arm circles
Vertical side straddle hops
Mosey around the fields

The THANG
Stations:
Coupon Curls
Jump rope
Wall sit
Dips
Coupon Rows
LBCs
Lunges with coupon

MARY
Shoulder taps
Glute bridges
Nolan Ryan
Freddy Mercury
Superman
Ukrainian twists

COT
>From a friend Jared Greer:
Sometimes people flatter me with a perception that I’ve always got it together.

I chuckle at the illusion that I’m hyper-disciplined, blessed with fairy tale origins, genetically endowed with some secret gene… or my favorite, that I never eat ice cream.

It’s all a shadow of the truth.

Like all of us, my stories of triumph are tightly intertwined with a hefty measure of trials… seen and unseen.

➡️ My own personal journey with parenting, Including our biggest trial as a married couple. – the death of a child ➡️ Lessons I learned as a child of divorce and losing my Mom to cancer at 16 ➡️ How I somehow survived 100 miles in the Grand Canyon

Thought: we all go through trials at some point in our lives, which help us grow and become stronger. Be patient and understanding of people – you don’t know what’s going on in their personal lives.

DATE: 2022-03-12
AO: Olympus
Q: Faceplant
PAX: Hightower, Pop Fly, Lightyear, Rollingstone, Monk, Rambler, Zeus, Yard Sale, Popeyes, Ashe FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: 20 Side Straddle Hop, 10 Burpees, 10 Arm Circles Both Directions, Michael Phelps, Air Squats, Cherry Pickers, Down Dog THE THANG:
Ricky Bobby Around the School
5 min of Burpee Tag
F3 Poker – Divide into 2 teams. Each team comes forward to play a hand of blackjack. If either player busts, it’s 20 burpees. Otherwise, the winning card of the winning hand dictates the exercise and the count is whatever the total hand value that won was – we did clubs – wide push-ups, spade would have been triangle pushups, hearts was big boy sit-ups, diamonds was LBCs but I would do flutter kicks or bonnie blairs for that next time. Ricky Bobby Around the School
Wall sit. Each of us counted to 10. Some of us counted really slowly to embrace the suck.
MARY: N/A – Ended up skipping Mary and doing a few stretches so that our legs didn’t seize up after the wall sits. I’ll work in more Mary next time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: I don’t remember all of them. Upcoming highway cleanup (if someone could reply with that date, that would be good). Yard sale’s B-day hash is coming up COT: Small incremental improvements add up over time

DATE: 2022-03-11
AO: Patriot
Q: Maguire
PAX: Anchor Man, citrus, Poe, Bone, Flipper, Fish Fry, My Space, CableGuy, Big Short, Booking, Wedding Singer, Ice Tea, El Camino FNGs: @Talladega (FNG)
COUNT: 15
WARMUP: SSH. LBAC. Willie Mays. Cherry Pickers. Downward Dog. Cobra Kai THE THANG:

We worked our way around #Patriot in reverse order from normal. Never went more than 2 minutes without stopping.

At each stop, 5 burpees, 10 merkins and 15 squats (did it 10x on the trip).

Sometimes we did pairs and timer was running basketball court and football field suites and around front steps while partner did 5. 10. 15.

To get to each spot it was a jog, bear crawl, high knees or butt kickers.

MARY: @weddingsinger stretch and LBCs.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: ruck tomorrow. Check with @oldbay. Boneathon upcoming.

COT: Routine. We live in it daily for work and personal life. Mix it up. Change isn’t always easy but it can reinvigorating.

DATE: 2022-03-11
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: 3 mile
PAX: sticks, Yardbird, Old Bay, Kodiak, Disco, Mayberry, Mr Haand, Jenner FNGs: attache
COUNT: 10
Grab 2 coupons for fast(er) runners to keep the PAX together during the … mosey to coliseum.
Stops along the way, layering on exercises: 10 squats, 10 merkins, 10 squats, 10 – sync up with Patriot for a round of 5 burpees/10 merkins/15 squats –
3 sets of 10 each
Box jumps + dips *
Decline merkins + Step ups
In between … group A holds Al Gore, group B runs to stairs, 10 aussie pushups mosey back with 10 monkey humpers and 10 lunges
MARY: 60 LBCs, 25 flutter kicks
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Jenner shenanigames on Th 3/17 at Highlands, tri-state ruck Sat AM
COT: thanks to all the PAX who have beaten the fartsack and made Horizon such a great AO; YHC was struck by a vaguely familiar feeling as the weather warms up and COVID goes down. the feeling was optimism. hadn’t had it in awhile but glad it’s back. props to the PAX who showed up, esp during the gloomy winter days, to support each other.