Backblasts

DATE: 2022-01-18
AO: General
Q: Lazlo
PAX: Booking, citrus, fist pump, Toolbox
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
The idea today was that cranking up a bunch of metal tunes would make the workout go by faster and take away a little bit of the pain. By that measure, it was a complete and utter failure. Eh, what can you do?

WARMUP: SSH, Imperial walkers, Hillbillies, Michael Phelps, mountain man poopers, cherry pickers Mosey to field, complete warmup with Motivators (counting down from 10)

THE THANG: starting with the new General tradition – done for the very first time of course – the Bearicides. Bear crawl to 10, crawl bear back, then to 20 and back, 30 and back, and finally 40 and back. That seemed like enough.

The main event was four rounds of AMRAP:
1) 10 bonnie blairs (hard way), 20 BWS, 30 monkey humpers, until Metallica, Enter Sandman was finished
2) 10 dry docks, 20 merkins, 30 OH claps, until Iron Maiden, Aces High was finished
3) 10 burpees, 20 groiners, 30 hillbillies (2 count) until Tool, The Pot was finished
4) greatest hits. 10 bonnie blairs, 20 groiners, 30 OH claps until Anthrax, Bring the Noise was finished

MARY: American twists, WWIs

ANNOUNCEMENTS: ARC, wreath clean up, and lots of CSAUP mumblechatter

COT: Bruce Dickinson (shout out to @citrus), lead singer of Iron Maiden, once said that if heavy metal bands ruled the world we’d all be a lot better off. Probably true. I started thinking maybe if F3 ruled the world we would be a lot better off, then realized that would be a terrible, terrible idea. We’d all wake up too early, do a bunch of hard, pointless things, and that would just be normal. You are all exceptional. You do hard things and push yourself beyond where you think you can go – and that would go away, because everyone would be doing it. Getting out in the cold at 5:30am to slog through a beatdown like today? Let’s keep that exceptional.

DATE: 2022-01-18
AO: Freestate
Q: Horshack
PAX: Winston, Deagle, Butter
FNGs: Dungeon Master
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
• SSH x 25 IC
• Chinooks x 10 IC forward and reverse / narrow and wide
• Swing Billies x 14 IC
• Windmills x 12 IC
• Two laps with karaoke on the sides
• Alarm Clocks x 10
• Michael Phelps x 11 IC
• Harry Rockettes x 16 IC
• Cherry Pickers x 13 IC

THE THANG:
Playground of Pain x 3 rounds
1. Bear Crawler sets the pace
2. Squats
3. Dips
4. Step Ups
5. Australian Pull Ups (10 count before bear crawl)

Between Rounds
1. Jacobs Ladder 5-4-3-2-1
2. Tennis-i-cides x 2

MARY:
• Box Cutters x 9 Each Way IC
• Reverse crunches x 19 IC
• Plank-o-rama IC (Butter Style – leg up on the sides)
• Dolly Flutters x 16 IC (legs spread apart) to close

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
• Switching over to What’s App
• If you’re not on Slack, let Deagle know
• Thirsty Third Thursday – Irish Inn at Glen Echo at 6:30p
• First Saturday is Feb 5th – Adopt a Road Clean up after our beatdown

COT: What a Difference a Day Makes!

On this day in 1990, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested with a former girlfriend, “Rasheeda” Moore, in a sting operation at the Vista International Hotel by the FBI and D.C. police for crack cocaine use and possession. Moore was an FBI informant when she invited Barry to the hotel room and insisted that he smoke freebase cocaine. During the videotaped arrest, Barry says of Moore, “Bitch set me up…I shouldn’t have come up here…goddamn bitch” After he was convicted and completed his sentence, Barry still had a 75% approval rating of his constituents in Ward 8. In fact, Barry won another term as mayor then in 2004 a City Council seat getting 95% of the vote from Ward 8.

On the polar opposite end of Marion Barry, YESTERDAY, we honored Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who at the time just before his death, King’s public approval rating was the exact opposite at only 25%. In 2003, a colleague of King noted sadly that his soaring rhetoric of 1963’s March on Washington is what we remember most about King today. “Brother Martin spent a fair amount of time in jail, but his worst imprisonment may be how his own nation has frozen him in that moment in 1963.”

But after 1963, King became more focused on what he termed “the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism,” the civil rights leader began calling for a broader revolution in values. Over time, King began to transform his vision of racial equality into a broader one to end the War Vietnam & military adventurism.

When he saw President Johnson’s War on Poverty was floundering, he began the Poor People’s Campaign with an “economic bill of rights,” for the federal government to prioritize helping the poor with an anti-poverty package that included, among other demands, a commitment to full employment, a guaranteed annual income measure and 500,000 units of affordable housing.

DATE: 2022-01-15
AO: Freestate
Q: Winston
PAX: Horshack, Butter, Deagle
FNGs: Dungeon Master, Novacaine (FNG)
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:
SSH, Imperial Walker, Hill Billies, El-Capitan, Bear Crawl back, El-Capitan, Crab Crawl back, 2 laps around the blacktop with karaoke/High Knees on the sides, Air Pushes, Cherry Pickers, Windmills

THE THANG:
5-10-15-10-5 reps of the following exercises (with coupons): • Curls
• Upward Press
• Kettle Bell Swings
• Blockies
• Squats

In between sets:
• Coupon-a-cide
• Two recovery laps
• Suicide

MARY:
E2K, Dying Cockroach, Reverse Crunches, BBS, Flutters Rodeo

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Next week is Thirsty Third Thursday

COT:
Welcomed Novacaine (FNG)

DATE: 2022-01-15
AO: Olympus
Q: Hightower
PAX: Zeus, Derecho, El Niño, Faceplant, Fish Fry, Hightower, Monk, Nano, Popeyes, Toolbox, YNAB FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:
YNAB ran warmups & Stretching

THE THANG:
Bring back summer! Laid out sets of cones to represent distance to Par 3, Par 4 and Par 5 holes. Pulled out score card from Nags Head Golf Links.
PAX would run the distance of the hole, Par 3,4 or 5. Then do the # of burpees for each hole, counting 1-18. In total the group did 171 burpees and ran almost 18 holes, modified.

MARY:
Nano ran quick burst of Mary

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Wreathes Out Sat, Jan 22. Check out 3F channel for more details. The ARC coming Sat, Feb 19. Check out Mother-Rucking channel for more details.

COT:
Life isn’t always pretty. To appreciate the highs, we must go through the lows. But when we come out here, in the freezing gloom, we suffer together and it isn’t so bad. Thank you to my brothers for posting and pushing themselves with me.

DATE: 2022-01-17
AO: Patriot
Q: Lucius
PAX: Bone, Big Short, CableGuy, Exile (Cherokee), Ice Tea, Jag, Lazlo, Spokes, Yardbird, Wedding Singer FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:
Intermittent Mosey through the slush; SSH; LBACs; Imperial Walkers; Windmills; Moroccan Night Clubs

THE THANG:
PAX took turns farmer carrying two 60-lb sandbags for 70 yards. Rest exercises included Air Presses; LBACs; Sun Gods; Overhead Claps; Seal Claps; Carolina Slush Docks; Alternating Shoulder Taps; Squats; Jump Squats; Copperhead Squats; Lunge Steps; and Everest Steps. Repeat 3x for 210 yards of farmer’s carry per PAX.

PAX took turns running sandbags and a log from corner to corner of a 35-yard square. Sundry rest exercises from the list above while waiting for the next coupon.

PAX passed a sandbag from PAX to PAX. Then each did a burpee. Repeat-o for more fun.

MARY:
Merkins; Flutter Kicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
* Wreath Pick-Up 1/22 – bring a hockey stick or just pick them up;
* Polar Bear Plunge 2/5 – turn Old Bay and Fish Fry into ice cubes other PAX may join, but only if they have seafood-related names;
* Abominable Ruck Challenge 2/19 – warm-up rucks 05:30 Sundays at Social Distance.

COT:
In “The Comfort Crisis,” Michael Easterbrook discusses the benefits, both physical and mental, of doing challenging things. He talks of the Misogi challenge – the practice of taking on big challenges that take one of his or her comfort zone. Doing something bold (or even CSAUP) resets body and mind. This year, do something that scares you. Challenge yourself.