• Post Type: Backblast
  • When: 11/01/2023
  • AO: The Ricky Bobby
  • QIC: Kool-aid
  • FNG's:
  • PAX: Tesla, Goose, Nutria, Roscoe
  • Warm-up
    • Side Straddle Hops
    • Gravel Pickers: Wide stance, touch ground directly below. 
    • Abe Vigoda: Wide stance, touch opposite hand to foot. 
    • Mountain climbers
  • Talladega Nights (2006)
    • Location: Track (0.2 miles)
    • Exercise: “If you’re not first, you’re last.” Burpee Catch Me If You Can Indian Run. Run single file as a group. Last person does 2 burpees then sprints to catch up. They tap the next person to begin their burpees and continue sprinting to first place where they’ll set the pace. 
    • Trivia
      • Name of the school? West River Elementary.
      • The career day scene opens with another dad talking about being a Waffle House manager. The closest WH is 1.9 miles away.
      • 13 was on the door of Reese Bobby’s 1969 Chevy Chevelle.
      • When Ricky Bobby’s dad teaches him to overcome his fear of driving, the name of the cougar in the Chevelle was Karen.
  • Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
    • Location: Parking lot
    • Reps:
      • 400, number of cases of Coors beer that had to be hauled
      • 28, based on the 28-hour trip from Atlanta to Texarkana to Atlanta.
    • Exercise: 400 count broken into sets of 100 with 28 count of merkins broken into sets of 7 in between
      • Side Straddle Hops
      • Smurf Jacks
      • Seal Jacks
      • Plank Jacks
    • Trivia
      • #2 movie in 1977 behind only Star Wars
      • Roscoe provided quite a bit of quotes and trivia
  • Bullitt (1968)
    • Location: Back side of the school
    • Reps: 
      • 7 jump squats, based on Bullitt Mustang jumps during the San Francisco car chase.
      • 10 runs, based on the 10-minute chase scene.
    • Exercise: Run up the hill, 7 jump squats, run back down the hill. 10 runs total.
    • Trivia: Mustang sold for $3.74M in 2020 in Mecum Auction.
  • Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
    • Location: Front of school
    • Time: 3:26
    • Exercise: Up and down planks with Moby’s Flower