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THE ARMORY · SEP 15, 2025
Backblast! Doras in the corners
WARMUP: All Exercises called in cadence - windmills, imperial and hillbilly walkers, seal jacks, planks, down and up dogs and merkins and shoulder taps sprinkled in THE THANG: Dora’s in the corners. Each of four corners…
THE ARMORY · SEP 8, 2025
Backblast! Bells of Fury
WARMUP: mosey round church. Shuffles, karaoke high knees butt kickers SSL, merkens yoga HW THE THANG: DORA - 100 reps Curls Goblet Squats Clean press Swings Sit Ups Halos Farmers Carry 50 yards and back Finale - 7 count…
THE ARMORY · SEP 1, 2025
Backblast! Badland's 2025 KB Quota - met
Warm-Up: Side Straddle Hops (IC x 20) Arm Circles Forward/Backward (IC x 10 each) Windmills (IC x 10) Imperial Walkers (IC x 10) Main Event: 4 rounds, farmers carry between rounds for active recovery Circuit (8 moves…
THE ARMORY · AUG 25, 2025
Backblast! Slow and Intentional
WARMUP: stretch, mobility THE THANG: 3 sets 20 reps- goblet squats,deadlift, reverse lunge, overhead press, skull crushers, merkins, upright rows, lawnmowers, alternating curls. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: golf tournament…
THE ARMORY · AUG 18, 2025
Backblast! Slash Drives a Fast Car
WARMUP: yes THE THANG: KB Tabata MARY: Had a little lamb ANNOUNCEMENTS: Golf Tourney, newsletter COT: gratitude and prayers
THE ARMORY · AUG 11, 2025
Backblast! AMRAP 4 Autism Preview
WARMUP: Some THE THANG: AMRAP: 400m partner run 31 KB Squats 69 KB swings 31 OH press 69 OH DB stationary lunges 31 burpees MARY: A little ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter COT: Best part. “Marriage isn’t meant for our…
THE ARMORY · AUG 4, 2025
Backblast! Do the work
WARMUP: SSH,Windmill, Cherry pickers etc THE THANG: Partner Dora, One works and one mosey with bell: Curls, Rows, Shoulder press, big boys, bench, a few more.... X 2 MARY: bo time ANNOUNCEMENTS: News letter COT: prayers…
THE ARMORY · JUL 28, 2025
Backblast! KB Suicides
WARMUP: - Moroccan nightclub - windmill - Imperial walkers Mosey w/out bell - 20 merkins on curb in cadence, mosey - 20 low slow squats, mosey to COT THE THANG: - Lunge in front of church - Count off by 3, set up for…
THE ARMORY · JUL 21, 2025
Backblast! Swing Fest
WARMUP: Windmills, Produce Pickers, SSH, Merkins THE THANG: Workout#1 17 Swings 17 Crunches with KB 17 Sumo Squats Run a lap 4 Rounds Workout #2 200 KB swings 2 burpees every 2 minutes until the 200 reps are completed…
THE ARMORY · JUL 14, 2025
Backblast! Some % better is better than 0%
WARMUP: Slow mosey Windmills Fruit pickers Slow squats Merkins THE THANG: Mosey to wall Dips Step ups Mosey to lower lot: 1. Kettlebell swings 2. Goblet Squats 3. Kettlebell overhead Push Press (Alternate arms each…
THE ARMORY · JUL 7, 2025
Backblast! Smoked Heavy Stogies
Warm-Up: SSH – 20 IC Windmills – 10 IC Imperial Walkers – 20 IC Moroccan Night Clubs – 20 IC Low Slow Squat – 10 IC Strawberry Pickers - 15 IC Main Thang: ? Circuit 1 – 3 Rounds: 10 KB Goblet Squats 10 KB Lawn Mower 10…
THE ARMORY · JUN 30, 2025
Backblast! Four Bald Corners
WARMUP: SSH, Windmill, IW, stretches THE THANG: Corner 1 - 25 Merkins Corner 2 - 25 Squats Corner 3 - 25 LBC’s Corner 4 - 25 Monkey Humpers MARY: Yes, each called out ANNOUNCEMENTS: RYN COT: Always
THE ARMORY · JUN 28, 2025
Backblast! Sore in all the Wrong Places
WARMUP: IWx15, WMx15, HW x15 THE THANG: All number 25 unless otherwise noted 10 Burpees, Chest to Back Pullover, Back Lunge with Pass through, curl (15 each), Goblet Squat Right handed overhead carry to next station KB…
THE ARMORY · JUN 16, 2025
Backblast! 25 burpes?
WARMUP: SSH, Cherry picking, Moroccan club THE THANG: Dora-ish 8 workouts with bell 50 ea.( Squats, swings,tri extensions,Curls) run back and forth other end Burpes, SSH, Big Boys and Merkins) MARY: nope ANNOUNCEMENTS…
THE ARMORY · JUN 9, 2025
Backblast! Always a crowd pleaser…
WARMUP: Mosey’d around the parking lots and picked up Sugar Bug so he got a chance to run. Back at COT we did: windmills, cherry pickers, low slow squats, merkins, Peter Parker’s, Parker Peter’s. THE THANG: Everyone’s…
THE ARMORY · JUN 2, 2025
Backblast! 2025.23 Armory
Obligatory warmup Partner up for Dora: 100x Rows 200x OH Press 300x Swings Keep partners for 5 rounds of P1: Farmer carry both bells 60yds P2: Plank Obligatory mary
THE ARMORY · MAY 19, 2025
Backblast! Up and Down DORA
WARMUP: Intro and disclaimer. Began mosey across the street. Stopped for MNC, windmills and Non-discrpt produce pickers. Mosey to another location, then stopped IW, HBW and SJacks. Continued Mosey back to the main…
THE ARMORY · MAY 12, 2025
Backblast! Soggy Armory Pits
WARMUP: Hammy stretches, Down-dog to calf stretches, Moroccan nightclubs, Side straddle hops THE THANG: Mosey with KB to the other side of the pond - 50 Calf Raises, Mosey w/ KB 40 yards across Parking Lot, 50 more Calf…
THE ARMORY · MAY 5, 2025
Backblast! Macarena Merkinfest
WARMUP: Warmup skills were a little rusty, but we managed: SSH x15 Imperial Walker x10 Windmill… in a tornado x10 Hillbilly walkers x10 Broken Seal Jacks x15 THE THANG: Mosey to back parking lot. All of us big-backs got…
THE ARMORY · APR 28, 2025
Backblast! KB Mondays
WARMUP: ssh, merkins and morrocan night clubs THE THANG: Four rounds of mechanical drop sets. Do amrap of a movement and move right into the next. Round one - single arm press( each arm), upright row, y press and dry…
THE ARMORY · APR 21, 2025
Backblast! Recyling is good for the Pax
WARMUP: boogie nights led a warmup while I grabbed some cardboard out of the truck THE THANG: partner Dora (of course) with about a 400 meter run while your partner did varying counts of pull overs(100), dead lifts…
THE ARMORY · APR 14, 2025
Backblast! Get The Work Done - KB Style
WARMUP: Run the loop then more of the typical hits: Windmill, SSH, Merkins, Low Slow Squats. THE THANG: Hoist your bell overhead and move to the far parking lot. For this round, the exercises would be performed with the…
THE ARMORY · APR 7, 2025
Backblast! Statblast for Armory
The threat of rain caused a MASSIVE vaginitis outbreak and no one showed up. Sad, but not unexpected... In related news, it didn't rain. I wonder what these guys do when life ACTUALLY gets difficult...?
THE ARMORY · MAR 31, 2025
Backblast! Russian Hammers not welcome at Armory
WARMUP: 25 SSH IC 10 LSS IC 10 Imperial Walkers IC 10 Hillbilly Walkers IC 10 Cherry Pickers IC 10 MNCs IC Yoga THE THANG: 4 Rounds of Supersets ROUND 1: 3 sets Alternate Clean & Squat - 10 reps Overhead Press - 8 each…