Category: Backblast (Page 305 of 904)

Wednesday at the Labyrinth and it was a good day to have a good day.  Strong group of 6 got out and mixed it up.  Here’s what I remember:

The Thang:

• 10 x SSH (IC)
• 10 x Don Q’s (IC)
• 10 x Hillbillies (IC)
• 10 x Mike Tysons (IC)

Grabbed a bag from my car and didn’t wait around to show it off, ran to the next stop which was the far entrance at the maintenance building for:

Triple Triple

• Pick a parking spot
• With hands on the lines, crawl sideways to the end of the spot
• 3 x Werkins (OYO)
• Crawl sideways back to the start
• 3 x Werkins (OYO)
• Repeato for a total of 3 times

Grab up the bag and mosey into the park.  We didn’t pay the bills again, so the lights were off, so care was taken not to hit a root on the back side of the fields, heading to the picnic shelter by the turd shack for:

• 15 x Dips (IC)
• 15 x Bulgarian Split Squats L (IC)
• 15 x Bulgarian Split Squats R (IC)
• 15 x Decline Peter Parkers (IC)

What’s in the bag?  Jump ropes! YHC passed ’em out and everyone got familiar with their ropes.  No double dutch was done.  This time.  Instead, it went like this:

• Mosey to the 2nd island
  • 15 x Hand-release Merkins (OYO)
  • 15 x Superman Pullups (OYO)
  • 15 x Double Crunches (OYO)
  • 15 x Penguins (OYO)
  • 15 x Gorilla Humpers (OYO)
• Mosey back to back
  • 10 x Jump Ropes (?) (OYO)
  • This side escalates to let us know what round we’re on, so 20, 30, 40, etc.
• Repeato x 5 for a total of 6 rounds

We took a “break” after round 4 to go back to the shelter for a second round of

• 15 x Dips (IC)
• 15 x Bulgarian Split Squats L (IC)
• 15 x Bulgarian Split Squats R (IC)
• 15 x Decline Peter Parkers (IC)

We finished all 6 rounds and moseyed back, and we were only 2 minutes late!  YHC stuck around and knocked out my 20 burpees for bringing the PAX in late.

Announcements:

• JJ on Q next week (May the Fourth)

Prayer Requests:

• EZ Rider’s Family
• JJ & M married for 20 years

Enjoyed gettin the jump ropes out.  Nobody struggled with it at all.  They’ll definitely be back out.

Good stuff.  Thanks y’all.

Yabba Dabba Doo

Disclaimer

Warmup

• SSH
• Don Qs
• Hillbillies
• Grass Pickers
• 6 Burpees

Mosey around track

Grass Pickers

Mosey around track

The Thang;

10 Rounds

• 30 mountain Cross Climbers
• 10 Squats
• 10 Merkins
• 10 Freddy Mercuries IC
• 10 Shoulder Taps IC

Mosey back for COT and FNG naming

COT

Announcements

Prayer Request

YHC closed in Prayer

Welcome Beach Boy!

As always, fun to be at TRB! Thanks men for allowing me to lead you this morning. Werk was put in by all!

Over and out,

Breaker Breaker

Warm-up

The Thang

AMRAPS with The Coupon for 40 minutes

10 Lunges (per leg)

10 Curls

10 O/H Presses

10 Flutter Kicks

10 Thrusters

10 Romanian Dead Lifts (5 per side)

10 Chest Presses

10 Swings

10 Bent over Rows

10 Calf raises

Rifle carry to end of parking, drop coupon and 10 Merkins and 20 American Hammers

Start heading to the Fighting Yank to meet up with Bootcampers for COT

Announcements

Prayer Requests

YHC closed in prayer

Over and out,

Breaker Breaker

Disclaimer

Warm-up

• SSH x 10 I/C – 1 Burpee
• SSH X 10 I/C – 2 Burpees
• Don Qs x 10 I/C – 3 Burpees
• Don Qs x 10 I/C – 4 Burpees
• Imperial Walkers x 10 I/C – 5 Burpees
• Imperial Walkers x 10 I/C – 6 Burpees

Mosey towards Davis Park

Along the way, every couple 100 yards, 5 Burpees

Stop at the American Legion post for the pledge!

Onto the park and at parking lot, time to partner up for some Dora B.O.M.B.S

Partner 1 does called exercise while partner two runs lap through park. Reps are cumulative and start next exercise once called reps are completed.

Burpees = 50

O/H Claps = 100 Cadence count

Merkins = 150

Big Boy Sit-ups =  200

Squats = 250

Almost out of time so we head back for COT and name FNG

COT

• Announcements
• Prayer Request

YHC closed in prayer

Great work by all, welcome Uptown Girl, and thanks for the opportunity to lead this morning!

That’s a big 10-4

Over and out,

Breaker Breaker

Running at The Pub….hard to make that fun but we did for a little while. I played some music while JJ , Buckeye, and I chased after Waterboy and Seuss. Unfortunately Seuss wanted coffee from McDonald’s more than he wanted to stick around for COT so we missed him. I’ll try not to let that hurt my feelings….. Guess I need to run faster????

Whoopee

Warmup: SSH,gravel pickers,Squats,Merkins all x 10 IC

mosey to bottom shelter 4 sets 5 pull ups 20lbc

catch me if you can to the flag 3 burpees and karaoke

mosey to soccer field for block work with partners one does the exercise other murder bunnies across field 100 big boys,200 lunges,300 X factor

moseyed back to the flag for COT I shared a verse with the pax took prayer requests made announcements

I was trying to work some IPC stuff into the boot camp today the event makes me push my limits every year and I hope it did the same for the pax today thanks for the chance to lead again I’m looking forward to the next one

YHC arrived at the predetermined location this morning to see a few figures off in the gloom. However, on the way from the luxury sedan to the starting spot, a distraction stopped YHC from proceeding. The Thursday runner chicks were on the premises setting up a water stop for their crew, complete with individually poured cups for easy usage! YHC asked if they were doing a race, relay or whatnot and they said (imagine a highly pitched chick voice), “No we’re doing it just because…”. Wow! Why don’t we do things like that? Probably because we’re stupid guys and it’s really good for us to be on time and remember to wear clothes. Maybe that’s something to work on.

This is what happened…

Pledge of Allegiance to the flag on YHC’s phone.

No warmup, no disclaimer.

We headed toward the park with rucks (or variations of them). Along the way we stopped and did some Merkins in the number of reps using a multiple of the Panther’s position in tonight’s draft. It was at least double, hence the name of the backblast. We kept on rucking, stopping again to more multiples of some Squats, LBCs, CDDs. By the time we got through those things and a couple of laps around the park, it was about time to get back to the start. Time!

Thanks for the opportunity to lead. Next time I’ll really bring the Diablo! If you haven’t lead the Sammich’ before, I challenge YOU to get out of your comfort zone and Q it. You’ll be glad you did!

Announcements: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader event- Tuesday May 3rd at Stuart Cramer HS, all PAX are encouraged to come support our team of Roscoe, JJ, BOS and Montross!!! 

Prayer requests: Huckleberry, SMR teams, Broke gets shot Tuesday, Turtleman, Oompa, Leppard

It’s Thursday and I got the Q at Folsom this morning and I’m jumping speed bumps and sliding in hot as usual. My alarm is sounding about the time I’m halfway down road to the lower parking lot. I look up from my cloud of dust to see these men already hitting up a warmup. I jumped out and ran in to hear some trash talk about we start at 0530.  I say it’s still 0530 Mayor says something about his GPS powered sun dial as we finish up the warmup.

I tell PAX to grab a block from the back of my truck and we’re going to partner up and line up at the shovel flag near the top of the parking lot to run some DORAcides. I run back to the truck myself to grab some cones to mark my stopping points for the sprints and burpees all the time still getting crap about how we start the workout at 0530 and how setup should have been performed before hand. So I give them the rundown and tell ‘em let’s get to work.

Doracides

• 100 Overhead Presses
• 200 Curls
• 300 Overhead Extensions

1 man works

1 man runs suicides and burpees at the 3 cones

Now that all worked up warmed up and the mumblechatter has slowed down a bit let’s build a strong foundation with these blocks just like a home builder would.

10 Incline Merkins on the block Rifle Cary to first cone. Rinse and repeat for a total of 5 rounds.

Grab your partner once again for some AMRAP sets and sprints.

1 man works

1 man runs

2 working sets and 2 running sets each round

Round 1

Wide arm Negative Merkins on the blocks. Place each hand on a separate block perform merkins chest dropping below the hands and in between the blocks. This causes lots of stress and stretching on the ol’ chest and triceps. It sucks.

Round 2

Block Squats on 2 blocks this way you cant cheat the rep. stack your block on your partners. (the short sides of course) This will make you squat down into a perfect parallel squat

Round 3

Big Boys plain and simple Big Boys no block assistance needed for these

Time for some more carries this time we start with 5 Blockies and 10 Block High Pulls then Rifle Cary to each cone Rinse Repeat for a total of 5 rounds back to the Shovel Flag.

Finisher Just for Grins and Giggles I have Sarlacc call out a round of his infamous Cherry Pickers. As soon as he finished  I called 10 Block swings. This was repeated for 2 more rounds.

TIME.

Pledge, Prayers, Announcements

We ended with a circle of trust on our 6 on the blocks I pulled a word from my leadership devotional.

John 13:14 ESV If I then, your LORD and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.               As MEN WE are all called to LEAD! Not just leaders though we must be servant leaders we humble ourselves and show our loved ones, guys at work, friends at church etc… that we are willing to practice what we preach. This is one of the foundations of a true leader.

We used Blocks, our The Body, and The Word to build our foundation today. If there is a way to build and forge a strong and lasting foundation I don’t know it.

If I said these men were pushing the rock (block) this morning it would be a complete total understatement. Ya’ll picked up my slack this morning and I’m truly  thankful.

11 was the count at Folsom this morning!

Warm Up:  The usual

The Thang:

Mosey to bottom of parking lot.  Exercise called here:

Rack and Stack!

Start by running to set point for an exercise, then back to start and repeat that exercise.  Then go back to top for next exercise, then back to bottom to stack all exercises.  We ran from bottom of lot to driveway entrance of COT parking lot

10 Burpees at top, 10 Burpees at bottom

20 Lunges top, 10 Burpees, 20 Lunges at bottom

30 Merkins at top, 10 Burpees, 20 Lunges, 30 Merkins at bottom

40 Big Boys at top, 10 Burpees, 20 Lunges, 30 Merkins, 40 BB at bottom

50 Squats at top, 10 Burpees, 20 Lunges, 30 Merkins, 40 BB, 50 Squats at bottom.

Go back to bottom of parking lot for some Route 66 w/ Bear Crawl.

First line do 1 Mike Tyson.  Bear Crawl 2 spaces, then 2 Mike Tyson’s.  Bear Crawl 2 spaces then do 3 Mike Tyson’s.  Continue this until you finish with 11 Mike Tyson’s at last line .  That sucked bad!

Finished the workout with a round of Mary. Time!

Announcements

Prayer Request

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