Backblasts

DATE: 2022-11-18
AO: Patriot
Q: Lucius
PAX: 2 percent, Anchor Man, bogey, Booking, CableGuy, citrus, Fish Fry, Flipper, Ice Tea, Jag, Jenner, My Space, Shake ‘N’ Bake FNGs: Slides (DR Austin TX); Smoky (Slack Denier(?))
COUNT: 16
WARMUP: Rolling warm-up included SSH, Don Quioxtes, Cherry Pickers, LBACs, Downward Dog, Cobra Kai, Childs Pose, Moroccan Night Clubs, Michael Phelps, 8-Count Body Builders.

THE THANG:
8 MILE: Ascending ladder of 8-Count Body Builders EMOM, while carrying three light coupons around the track for 1600 meters. This ladder went to 10, resulting in 55 8-counts for all.

BEARMUDA TRIANGLE: PAX split into teams, then bear-crawled the 35 yards between vertices of the Bearmuda Triangle. While rolling 4-6 foot sections of telephone pole. Teams at the vertices rested with rest exercises — BWS, Alternating Shoulder Taps, and Air Presses — then took their turn bear-crawling. Because we had so much fun with the 8-Mile, PAX only had time for 140 yards of bear-crawl.

MARY: Some of the PAX did LBCs and Planks. Others just walked around and chatted.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– JBL 5K tomorrow at KOC.
– Turkey Trot on Turkey Day
– Holiday Bowling at America Bowl

COT: As we move into the holiday season, rekindle traditions, and celebrate with family and friends, take time to think about the importance of routines. Routines–physical, mental, and spiritual–help us navigate the holidays. Don’t throw them out on the way to the eggnog bowl. Mindfully maintain and strengthen them, so they can strengthen you.

DATE: 2022-11-18
AO: Farm
Q: Infinity
PAX: Sparky, Matthew – Running Man
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
Warm-Up: WMHs, Beet Pickers, Don Quixotes, IWs, Grady Corns, Mtn Climbers, and Downward Dogs.

The Thang: Chest, Legs, & Shoulder exercises
AMRAP variations of the following:
– Merkins
– Squats/Lunges
– Shoulder Press

Included some burpees somewhere in there.

Mary: Flutter Kicks, American Hammers, and Nolan Ryans

CoT:
Doctrine and Covenants section 58, verses 26-28:
“For behold, it is not meet that I should command in all things; for he that is compelled in all things, the same is a slothful and not a wise servant; wherefore he receiveth no reward. Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness; for the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.”

We are meant to be creatures of action, not to passively wait for something to happen to us. Go out and do good things.

DATE: 2022-11-17
AO: Olympus
Q: Obadiah
PAX: Glee, Peanuts, Nano, Rambler, Hightower, Pop Fly
FNGs: Rollingstone, Doodles
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: SSH, Burpees, Hillbillies, burpees, WMHs, burpees. Cherry pickers, burpees on account of insolence, tardiness, disrespect and unnecessary chatter THE THANG: 30 min mile…

Every lap on the turn

10 burpees
20 Merkins
30 lbcs
40 squats

Modifications were made. On lap 4 at the core corner we got Mary in…flutterkicks, Freddy Mercury, penguin taps, ww2s

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Turkey trot
COT: I commend Pathway to Freedom by Alistair Begg to you. It is a take on the criticality of the Ten Commandments and living a free life, unencumbered from slavery to a reckless life or a rigid existence. A well examined life through the lens of the 10 commandments.

DATE: 2022-11-16
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: Magoo
PAX: 3 mile, Disco, Gherkin, Mr. Hand, SPINAL TAP, Jag, Median, vplaxico, Kodiak, 2 percent, Jenner FNGs: Atache
COUNT: 13
WARMUP: WMH, Cherry Picker, Don Quixote
THE THANG: 6 X (4×4) tabata.
No Surrender/Shoulder Press; Rollover merkin/KBswing; jump squat/coupon drag/imperial walker/blockie; Dairy Maid/bear crawl, break dancer/coupon jacknife 50 curls
MARY: body saw a la @kodiak, Big boys
ANNOUNCEMENTS: meeting at Audacious Aleworks tonight at 7
COT: Will your grown children be proud of you, and if so, why?

DATE: 2022-11-16
AO: Patriot
Q: CableGuy
PAX: Bone, My Space, Ice Tea, Spokes, bogey, 2 percent, Big Short, Legacy, Ken Ditzel, Anchor Man, Einar Olsen, Wedding Singer FNGs: Shocker, Kvetch
COUNT: 16
WARMUP: Five burpees, SSH, Imperial Walker, Arm Circles, Down Dog, Cobra Kai THE THANG: Escalator:
5 x Burpee, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, then a lap.
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, 25 x Mountain Climber IC, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, 25 x Mountain Climber IC, 30 x Coupon Chest Press, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, 25 x Mountain Climber IC, 30 x Coupon Chest Press, 35 x BWS, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, 25 x Mountain Climber IC, 30 x Coupon Chest Press, 35 x BWS, 40 x SSH IC. MARY: LBC, Toy Soldier
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 2nd F gathering tonight; bowling in December
COT: When I think about my professional life and to a slightly lesser extent personal – I always had the most respect and found most worthy of emulation those who were kind of in on the joke … above it all, above pettiness, not willing to jump in the pool. Be that person who is a calming influence and a rock to others through chaos. When others are losing it – you are not.