BackBlasts

We had record PAX turnout today with 20 to the new St. John AO. It should be a great location going forward with plenty of room for activities. I apologize but I didn’t write the workout prior to the Q so I made some of it up as I went and probably forgot some.

 

PAX: Scarecrow, Blue, Oilermaker, HHH, Spur, Editor, Fonzie, Skymall, Lights Out, Jaws, LaLoyd, PacRat, Muck, Casper, Mr. Incredible, Coors, Drill Bit (FNG), Optimus (FNG), Caesar (FNG), Barricade (QIC)

Warm Up:

SSH x 15 (IC)

Perfect Merkin x 10 (IC)

Perfect Squat x 10 (IC)

Thang:

Mosey to the amphitheater for brief introduction to workout.

Trail lap and meet back at bottom of theater.

Zig-zag run up and back down theater seating. Meet at bottom.

Amphitheater Gauntlet: 

Level One: Burpees x 10 (OYO)

Level Two: 10 regular merkins, 10 Decline, 10 incline

Level Three: 10 Box jumps

Level Four: 10 of something

Level Five: 20 Step ups (10 each leg)

Level Six: 30 Squats

Trail Lap

Jacob’s Ladder on Amphitheater:

WWIIs/Merkins (10-1, 1-10)

Amphitheater Pyramid:

Level One: 10 Burpees

Level Two: 20 Merkins

Level Three: 30 squats

Level Four: 40 SSH

Level Three: 30 Squats

Level Two: 20 Merkins

Level One: 10 Burpees

Mary

LBCs x 25 (IC)

Low Flutter x 23 (IC)

Hello Dolly x 10 (IC)

ABC’s

Mountain Climber x 25 (IC)

Moleskin:

Great work (and I mean it) by everyone. I think the new AO will work out nicely. It was awesome to have three FNGs out. Keep coming! This was a tough workout and everyone really pushed through.

Sunspot shared a text with Fonz and I last night commenting on how amazing the growth has been in the six months since he left. I hadn’t really thought about it much until he sent that and he’s right. It really is great what we’ve built by everyone posting. To break a record at an AO that didn’t exist until 1/1/2018 is pretty special.

PAX:

Bert (QIC), The Mick, Titanium, Scarecrow, Thor, Lights Out, Spur, Casper, PacRat, HHH

Warmup:

SSH x 20

Bean Pickers x 10

Windmills x 10

Big Arm Circles (Forward and Reverse) x 10 OYO

The Thang

Bataan Death March

Deck of Doom – each PAX draws a card from the deck and the group must perform the number of reps associates with that suit.  Suits were: Spades – Merkin; Clubs – Burpees; Diamonds – SSH; Hearts – LBC; Don’t know the total of what we did but it seemed like Spades were the most common card as we did a lot of Merkins, followed by Diamonds.

Line up on parking lot – run lot line ladders, increasing merkins by 1 with each line and increasing WWII sit-ups by 2 upon each return. We completed 55 merkins and 110 WWII sit-ups in total with this exercise.

Dan Taylor – begin with 1 squat and 4 alternating leg lunges.  Increased squats by 1 and multiplied leg lunges by 4 each time. In total we completed 15 squats and 60 alternating lunges.

Colonel Trautman – PAX partner up; partner 1 does 3 pull-ups; Partner 2 does 10 merkins and holds a chillcut plank at the top of the hill. Partner 1 runs to the top of the hill when done and the partners switch.

Mary

LBC x 20

Low Flutter x 20

Freddie Mercury x 10

 

Great job to everyone that posted today.  Everyone powered through the workout without much mumble chatter.  Also, nice job to HHH, PacRat, Titanium, The Mick, and Lights Out for doing this and the Beast back to back.

Finally, I just have to mention PacRat.  He is a force of nature, although I am sure if you are reading this I don’t have to tell you that. Today he did an hour long ruck, completed this Q with a ruck, completed the first lap+ with a ruck, and still finished first, beating the young marine who was there because he wasn’t supposed to be beaten.  You truly are an inspiration to me and to all of us and definitely make me want to elevate my level of performance.

It was an honor and a pleasure to lead you guys today and until my next Q – SYITG!

 

Bert

 

Pre-Beast Workout

PAX:

Lights Out (QIC) Editor, Coors, Fonzie, Muck, HHH, LaLoyd, Campbells, Casper, Oilermaker

Warmup

SSH X20IC

Imperial Storm Troopers 20xIC

Big Arm Circles both directions 10x IC

The Thang

Get 2 Small tires out and grab 10 Blocks

Center of Grass area we crab walked to the house and then ran to Flag and Back

Partner Tire flips for about 60 feet down and back

Other Pax did 20 WWI with Blocks till there Turn and 15 Burpees.

This was repeated till all PAX done.

Run Back to Flag and Back

Bear Crawl to House and Back and with the snow we were able to Bear Crawl slide back down the hill.

Push-ups x30

Mosey to Pull up bars and do 10 Pull-up’s

Partner up grab a log and do a complete lap of the church and return log to home.

Head to North Hill do Lunges up and down the hill masking sure the back knee touch’s the ground

Tunnel of Love

We had time to Repeato

Crab Crawl

Tire Flips

WWI with Blocks

Burpees

Push-ups

Return Coupons Home and Mosey to the Flag

Mary:

LBC 25x IC

Low Flutter 25x IC

Moleskin:

Guys This was a harder workout then I thought due to the snow and slop.

The Tire Flip’s were Brutal in the Muck and Snow (sorry Muck no pun intended)

Hopefully for those that tackle the real Beast it will be less sloppy.

Great Job by all Casper continues to Impress us all. Muck is getting faster on his runs which is awesome.

Guys Thanks for all the patience today I tried to keep a rhythm which I think went ok. Also I think the easiest thing we did today was the Log Carry gave us all a time to catch our Breath.

For Now

Lights Out

 

 

 

 

 

BACKBLAST: 4/12/18 The Hub AO: Time to take your medicine

PAX: Coors, Casper, Mr. Incredible, Lights Out, Spur, HHH, Bert, Pack Rat, The Doctor, Oilmaker, Tank, Muck, Editor, Campbells, Blue, LaLoyd, Scarecrow, Fonzie and Atticus.

The Thang / Warm-up
Wow – 19 PAX showed to run and do push-ups. It was a repeat-o workout. Run to front entrance, do 5 push-ups. Run to back entrance, do 5 push-ups (and repeat) until time expired. Most ended between 2.5 and 4.2 miles. Great job Brothers!

Moleskin
You can thank Blue for the inspiration for today’s workout. He is now training for a half-marathon and needs to get some mileage under his belt.

A lot of us don’t like to run (looking at your Barricade) and avoid Monday, Wednesday and Friday runs. So, today you had to take your medicine since the run came to you. You are welcome.

My next Q – I promise, no (or little) running.