Backblasts

DATE: 2023-03-03
AO: Farm
Q: Matthew – Running Man
PAX: Infinity
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP
Itty bitty arm circles
beet pickers
Don quixotes
Willy Mays Hayes

THE THANG
Burpee circles
Squats while: each person does 10 burpees
LBCs while: each person sprints across the field and back
Mericans while: each person does 10 Bonnie Blairs
SSH while: each person does 10 crunchy frogs
Shoulder taps while: each person bear crawls 20 yards and back Sit ups while: each person takes 20 lunge walks forward and back REPEAT EACH EXERCISE.

MARY
Supermans
Flutter kicks
Crunches

COT
Lent isn’t a tradition in our faith, but I like the idea of consciously giving up something or starting a new good habit.

Pope Francis challenges us to think about fasting as something more powerful than we normally consider it, describing it as “learning to change our attitude towards others and all of creation, turning away from the temptation to ‘devour’ everything to satisfy
our voracity and being ready to suffer for love, which can fill the emptiness of our hearts.”

DATE: 2023-03-03
AO: Patriot
Q: CableGuy
PAX: Tea Party, Strange Brew, Bone, Anchor Man, Flipper, Big Short, Ice Tea, Shake ‘N’ Bake, Patchouli, My Space, Wallace, 2 percent, Booking, Maguire, bogey, Lazlo, Lucius, Smokey, Major Payne FNGs: Walkman
COUNT: 21
WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walker, Hillbilly, Arm Circles, Cherry Picker, WM Hayes, DDog/Cobra Kai, Fellowship Lap THE THANG:
Thang 1:
Assemble with coupons on the goal line for the following rounds, punctuated by EMOM (every five minutes) 5 Kraken Burpees: 10 Burpees / MB 10 yards / 10 Burpees / BM back
20 Overhead Press / MB 20 yards / 20 Overhead Press / BM back
30 Bonnie Blairs (hard way) / MB 30 yards / 30 Bonnie Blairs (hard way) / BM back 40 Body Weight Squats / MB 20 yards / 40 Body Weight Squats / BM back
50 Merkins (broken into sets) / MB 10 yards / 50 Merkins (broken into sets) / BM back Thang 2:
Lurpee to the 50 and hold
Bear Crawl to the goal line
Jog back home
Thang 3:
Ring of fire high plank / 3 ‘no cheat’ Hand Release Merkins
MARY: LBC, Toy Soldier, Freddie Mercury
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ruck, Dad’s Camp, get in there
COT: Sometimes you gotta say, WTF? My son and a couple friends said it yesterday and went sky diving – they got back to ARL in time for sports. Every now and then, say F it and go do something cool.

DATE: 2023-03-03
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: 3 mile
PAX: Magoo, Poe, Kodiak, citrus, Legacy, Fish Fry, sticks, Mr. Hand, Jag FNGs: attache
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: SSH, arm circles, imp walkers, cherry pickers, WMH, down dog, up dog THE THANG:
Mosey to yorktown coliseum
Stops along the way: 10 merkins, 10 calf raises,= 10 squats, 10 monkey humpers, lunges (varied counts to introduce chaos and annoy/confuse pax) Intermittent sprints
At coliseum. 3 sets of 10 each
Box jumps + dips
Decline merkins + Step ups
20 bulgarian split squats
In between sets … group A does SSH IC then plank group B runs to stairs, 10 aussie pushups Jog back to Horizon with stops (burpees and merkins); intermittent sprints ANNOUNCEMENTS: dadscamp, backpacking trip, Grow Ruck
COT: order and chaos; we strive for order in our lives – schedules, calendars, to-do lists … our souls also crave chaos. For me, it’s playing basketball like a maniac. I realized recently that it feeds my soul. As we end our winter hibernation, aspire to be wild in some aspect of your life (while respecting the laws of society 🙂

DATE: 2023-03-01
AO: Compound
Q: Zeus
PAX: Poe, Peanuts, Roddick, Snake (Will Harris), citrus, Doodles, Hightower, Popeyes FNGs: Wapner
COUNT: 10
WARMUP: SSH, Cherry Pickers, Arm circles, Willie Mays Hayes, Downward Dog, Kobra Kai, 3 other stretches THE THANG:

Thang 1: 12-8-4
12 Merkins into 12 Bigg Boyz, 8 Merkins into 8 Bigg Boyz, 4 Merkins 4 Bigg Boyz. Partner up. Mosey and to all four corners of the soccer field and do the 12-8-4. Each partner takes turn on count. Thang 2:
The timer completes a modified Marine inspired fitness course: Four light sticks spread apart on field.
#1 light stick – Farmer carry two thirty-five pound dumbbells 15 yards and drop off at #2 light stick. Execute 15 step ups at nearby cement step. Bear crawl to #3 light stick. Sprint to #4 light stick and execute 5 burpees. Run back to light stick #2 and shuffle while farmer carrying dumbbells back to light stick #1. (Person calls out exercise for the rest of PAX to do while they wait for their turn. Lots of cheering was to to encourage person doing obstacle course) please note: Snake never put down the dumbbells. He used them k. The step ups, bear crawl, sprints and burpees. Respect!! MARY: Lots of Ab exercises
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Popeyes is hosting a PAX get together. See his announcement posted on each channel. Grow-ruck. Hightower will be stepping down as Nantan. See his farewell letter posted on F3 channel.
COT: Thanks all for coming out. Thanks all that DM’d, texted and held me in their thoughts while I was out for two weeks with a virus. My cousin Lynett DuPree recently suddenly passed away. She was an actress. Had roles on the following shows: Law and Order, Scandal, How to get away with murder, NYPD Blue and Shameless, and Grace and Frankie just to name a few. Our families were very close and I will miss her. Her death reminded me of the Passage James 4:14 that talks about how our lives are like a vapor. We are here for a moment and then we vanish never to return. I encourage each of you to live your life like Lynette, with zeal and love for the people on this earth. For we never know when our time will come. Amen

DATE: 2023-03-01
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: Gherkin
PAX: Disco, sticks, Mr Haand, Purple Rain, Kodiak, Median, Trifecta, 2 percent, SPINAL TAP FNGs: Attache
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:
Side straddle hop
Imperial Walkers
Arm Circles
Cobra Kai
Side Lumbard Twist (right and left)
Cherry Pickers
Willie Mays Hays
Safe at Home (Michael Phelps)
Mosey to the baseball diamond

THE THANG:
Practice running, throwing, fielding and hitting

Running
Everyone performs an exercise while each of us take turn running the bases. Perform 4x with LBCs, Squats, Merkins & Lunges

Throwing & Fielding
Pair up and stand about 10 yards apart. Throw a ball to your teammate. When it is caught, perform a burpee. If it is dropped, perform 10 merkins. Repeat until completed 25 burpees.

Repeat above but throw your teammate ground balls and perform a mountain climber burpee when the ball is caught.

Batting Practice
Everyone takes a turn being the batter. The batter tosses the ball in the air and hits it. Everyone runs to the ball and the batter leads the group in 20 reps of an exercise. If the batter misses the ball, the group does 10 merkins and the batter tries again.

MARY:
LBCs, V-ups, Zelensky twists

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
I forgot um. Somebody please post them below.

COT:
Words of wisdom from the great Baseball Philosopher, Yogi Berra: The future ain’t what it used to be.

It was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I’ve had a couple of those.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is

I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

Never answer an anonymous letter.

I never said most of the things I said. Then again, I might have said ’em, but you never know.

If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

That’s how I kept myself positive, by not getting all negative.

Baseball is a game of confidence, and over coming failures and fears. That’s what life’s about too.

It ain’t over ’til it’s over.