Backblasts

DATE: 2022-07-08
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: Disco
PAX: 3 mile, CableGuy, Mr Haand
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: SSH, Monkey Humpers, Imp Walkers, CP/WMH, D Dog/Cobra THE THANG:
Sprint – Klondike Gold Rush NP
KB Swings – City of Rocks NR
Coupon Canoeing – Voyageurs NP
High Step Run – Lava Beds NM
Bear Crawl – Sleeping Bear Dunes
Mountain Climbers – Denali NP
Run to the next park
Rifle Carry – Antietam
Toy Soldiers – Gettysburg
Coupon Squats – Arches NP
Chest Press – Volcanoes NP
Karaoke to next park
Coupon Rows – Grand Portage
Carolina Drydocks – Cape Hatteras NS
Backward run to next park
Grave Diggers – Lake Mead NRA
Swimmers – Rehoboth
Flippers
Derkins

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Cornhole 7/23
COT: Try a new National Park. They’re mind-expanding.

DATE: 2022-07-02
AO: Sandlot
Q: Traveler
PAX: Traveler
FNGs: Bleu Cheese
COUNT: 2
WARMUP: Fellowship lap around park, with exercises mixed in.

THE THANG:
Ladder:
Complete Exercise 1, then 30 yard out and back sprint.
Then complete Exercise 1 and 2. 30 yards out and back.
Continue until all 10 rounds complete.

1. 10 Merkins
2. 10 Copperhead squats
3. 10 Flutter kicks (IC)
4. 8 Alligator merkins
5. 10 Monkey humpers (IC)
6. 10 Burpees
7. 10 American hammers (IC)
8. 20 Carolina Dry Docks
9. 20 Bonnie blairs
10. 30 yard bear crawl

Devin Hesters: 70 yard course. PAX 1 starts back pedaling. PAX 2 does 4 burpees and then sprints. Race to the finish.

MARY: Crunches and protractors.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Merkins monthly challenge.

COT: YHC recently listened to a Jordan Peterson podcast about The Boy Crisis. Consider how we can be positive male role models for young men around us.

DATE: 2022-07-07
AO: Farm
Q: Faceplant
PAX: Matthew – Running Man, Floppy Disk, Infinity, Chile
FNGs: FNG -(Diode)
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:

Side Straddle Hops
Mountain climbers
Arm circles
Michael Phelps
Squats
Willy Mays Haze
Down Dog
THE THANG:
Ricky Bobby around the Field
*Divide in half and partner up
*50 tic toc burpees – half does one burpee, other half does burpee (that counts as 3)
*100 team merkins – one partner runs to 50 yard line and back while other does merkinfs *40 tic tic burpees
*200 team big boy sit-ups with walking lung to 15 yd line and back *300 team crunches with Carioca to 30 yd line and back
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Sept 11 event
COT: Try to think of any experience you learn from as a good experience because it taught you an important lesson.

DATE: 2022-07-06
AO: Patriot
Q: 2 percent
PAX: Ice Tea, Booking, Legacy, CableGuy, Flipper, Wedding Singer, Shake ‘N’ Bake, Tiësto, Anchor Man, Bone FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Don Quixote’s, Willy Mays Hays, Cherry Pickers, Arm Circles, Michael Phelps, Downward Dog, Kobra Kai, World’s Greatest Stretch

THE THANG: Hurpees (Hand release burpees) 25
Get the Led out – 8 rounds (goal line sprints to 50 yard line, 30 second break, rinse & repeat)
Australian Merkins – 2 rounds of 20, 1 round of 15 (because my muscled hurted on the last set) Body weight squats – 3 rounds of 20
Fyling Nuns through the parking lot (lunges while simultaneously doing arm circles) 20 Dips (Bike racks)
(Ampitheater) traveling merkins plus 4 rounds of box jumps
Back to the football field – Broad jump burpees goal line to the 50 yard line

MARY: Flutter Kicks, Nolan Ryans

ANNOUNCEMENTS: None

COT: “Leadership, at its core, is about making other people better as a result of your presence—and making sure that the impact lasts in your absence.” – Dr. Francis Frei (Harvard Business School Professor)

DATE: 2022-07-06
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: 3 mile
PAX: Maj. Payne, Jag, Mr Haand, Magoo, Disco
FNGs: Kombucha, FNG BoJacks, Armbar
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: 0600 – no Q; Jag led PAX through a series of fast-paced warm-ups
THE THANG: Major Payne recommended 5 laps around Discovery sidewalk of bear-crawls, lunge walks and sprints /// 3 mile led escalating pyramids, adding 1 exercise at every stop: 10 merkins (3 mile), 30 count squat hold (Magoo); 25 LBCs (Jag); 10 dry docks (Mr Haand); 15 KB swings, sans KB (ArmBar), 20 Ballet Dancers (Disco); 5 burpees into wide-armed merkin (Kombucha), 15 WWIIs (BoJacks) MARY: Flutter Kick (Maj Payne), Superman (Jag)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Monthly Challenge
COT: you never know to whom you bring joy just by showing up and being yourself (Kombucha)