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THE RANCH · JUN 5, 2025 Backblast! Forecast: Pain with a 100% Chance of Pe Q: Jeremy Holt - · 4 PAX Conditions: It poured all night. But as I pulled up—miraculously dry skies and just enough gloom to get uncomfortable. YHC rolled in not knowing if anyone would show after a night of monsoon-style weather. But there… THE RANCH · MAY 29, 2025 Backblast! East side no shows Q: Bonsai · 2 PAX WARMUP: THE THANG: If you weren’t then you don’t know. Cyclopse and I decided to save the wienkie and ruck instead. Great conversation with shieldlock. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT: THE RANCH · MAY 22, 2025 Backblast! Partner workout with four corners Q: Float Bridge · 4 PAX WARMUP: Overhead clap Windmill THE THANG: Partner workout -40 Burpees -60 Merkins - 80 Squats -100 LBCs -120 side straddle hops 4 Corners Round 1 - 30 reps Round 2 - 20 reps Round 3 - 10 reps Station 1 Burpees CDD Wind… THE RANCH · MAY 15, 2025 Backblast! This Shirt Stinks Q: Italian Job · 11 PAX 11 men toured the Ranch this morning to get a full body beatdown. The workout received the shirtless Change Order seal of approval, so pretty good start to the day. Here’s what we did. Warm Up - 10 Low Slow Squats (IC)… THE RANCH · MAY 8, 2025 Backblast! tire flipping good Q: Grinder · 3 PAX WARMUP: - SSH / CP / IW / WM - mosey to wall THE THANG: - Dora: 100 merkins / 200 MH / 300 LBC: jump wall, run up hill, 1 burpess and run back. - mosey to tire - tire flip: split PAX in 2 groups, traveler calls… THE RANCH · MAY 1, 2025 Backblast! Matt. 4:19 at the Ranch Q: Bass · 5 PAX WARMUP: did a little broga in honor of Sasquatch. Very much needed and appreciated. THE THANG: went to the tables for a round of dips derkins and step ups. Got deterred by some cars coming outta the back of school so we… THE RANCH · APR 24, 2025 Backblast! Sharing struggles Q: 3D · 3 PAX WARMUP: variety of warmup stuff THE THANG: jog to the front of middle school. Pick a bench. 20 step ups 10 decline or incline merkins 10 dips Run the loop in front Repeat 2 times Jog around back of school Took a… THE RANCH · APR 17, 2025 Backblast! tour de my life Q: Masterpiece · 4 PAX WARMUP: mosey then windmill, Moroccan night club, imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers, merkins, downward dog, honey mooner THE THANG: Cocain beer crawls.. jog to loop 20 x derkins, step ups, dips jog a lap with 5… THE RANCH · APR 10, 2025 Backblast! Lots of Chatter at The Ranch Q: Fishstix · 10 PAX 10 at ao-the-ranch Lap around the front of the school for warm-ups. Lots of chatter so we had some burpees thrown in for good measure. Next, we traveled to the other school entrance Dora - partner 1 performed exercises… THE RANCH · APR 3, 2025 Backblast! 44 - HBD Spectre! Q: Sasquatch · 3 PAX WARMUP: plank, upward dog<>downward dog, merkins, updog<>downdog, peter parker, updog<>downdog, parker peter, updog<>downdog, plank jacks, updog<>downdog, child's pose/prayer stretch straight/L/R, updog<>downdog Mosey… THE RANCH · MAR 27, 2025 Backblast! Counting Down from 100 Q: Old Bay · 16 PAX WARMUP: Quick COP warm-up with Imperial Walkers, Seal Jacks, and Hill Billy Walkers. THE THANG: Mosey down to oval loop in front of Springfield Middle. Near school entrance we started with a 100 reps of an exercise. We… THE RANCH · MAR 20, 2025 Backblast! Webb-o-Rama at the Ranch Q: Sugarbug · 3 PAX WARMUP: Some SSH, windmill, imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers, Moroccan nightclubs and cherry pickers THE THANG: Jack Webb style work then a lap around the middle school drop off loop. I had a long list of options… THE RANCH · MAR 13, 2025 Backblast! physical contact Q: Cadre Olaf · 6 PAX WARMUP: stretch and bend THE THANG: 20 min of St Louis Equalizer. 10 burpees with coupon 20 abmat sit-ups 30 goblet squats 40 curls with coupon 200m run Then 20 mins of self defense training. Mainly understanding… THE RANCH · MAR 6, 2025 Backblast! 11’s 7’s benches & other fun Q: Cyclops · 7 PAX WARMUP: mosey to the bus loop Exercises in cadence with burpees in between Windmills imperial walkers Hillbilly walkers Low slow squats Moroccan nights clubs holding people’s chair Side straddle hops Plank Mountain… THE RANCH · FEB 27, 2025 Backblast! Time Machine Talks Too Much Q: Time Machine · 7 PAX WARMUP: IW, MNC, HW & SSH THE THANG: Mosey to Baseball field, Urkins, Dips and Derkins, 4 sets start at 20 reps, decreasing by 5 each rep. Mosey to Middles School, J Webb, Burpees:Hammers. Lots of testimony in there as… THE RANCH · FEB 20, 2025 Backblast! Kaiser Testimony Beatdown Q: Kaiser · 3 PAX WARMUP: yes THE THANG: laps, bench work MARY: yes ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter COT: prayers THE RANCH · FEB 13, 2025 Backblast! A light shines Q: Band Camp · 2 PAX Just two of us...guess it was really rainy? Seems the fort is going soft... Let's step up WARMUP: Yes THE THANG: Run in the Rain Active Dora one partner does the exercises other partner tries to his the large rep count… THE RANCH · FEB 6, 2025 Backblast! Ranch on Roidd Q: Gary Fike · 11 PAX Saw two Ruckers take the easy path then the campers headed out to build callouses at The Ranch WARMUP: Mosey to front of school: 15 IW, 15 HW walker, 10 WM, 15 Cherry Picker. Foreplay done. THE THANG: 9s on the hill. 8… THE RANCH · JAN 30, 2025 Backblast! School Circuit Q: HarryCarry · 4 PAX Warmup: SSH, Windmills, Imp Walkers, Los Slow Squats, Peter Parkers, plank stretches --Run Thang 1: Wall sit, pax individually run out and did 6 merkins, then did muscle ups, then did wall tar jais --Run Thang 2: at… THE RANCH · JAN 23, 2025 Backblast! Testimony at The Ranch Q: Esso · 8 PAX Upper body, lower body, Mary with testimony mixed in. THE RANCH · JAN 16, 2025 Backblast! I’m Good Q: Slapshot · 4 PAX Cold but not too cold at the Ran h. Started with brief warmup then ran to the school drop off circle. At the circle we partnered up and played catch me if you can for 4 laps around the circle. To give the pax a break I… THE RANCH · JAN 14, 2025 Backblast! Cubbie Testimonial Q: Keith Crockett · 13 PAX 1/9/24 - the Ranch Bootcamp PAX Soup to Nuts HalfShell Rainmaker JWOW Birdcage Sugarbug Kielbasa Grout Kermit Harry Carey Masterpiece Mark Nestel Change Order Cubbie Warmup SSH Cherry Picker Windmill Peter Parker Parker… THE RANCH · JAN 2, 2025 Backblast! 8 for 8-block Q: Badlands · 8 PAX The Sad Clown’s New Year Resolution Ritual: Picture the sad clown: slumped in his favorite worn-out recliner, late-night infomercials flickering in the dark, fueled by stale chips and good intentions. At the stroke of… THE RANCH · DEC 26, 2024 Backblast! Burn off the Christmas sweets Q: Matt Bernard · 4 PAX WARMUP: SSH 50 Cherry picker 15 THE THANG: 2 laps around school Burpees L1 25 L2 15 Squats L1 & L2 =25 Big boy sit-up L1 25 L2 15 Mike Tyson’s L1 & L2 = 15 Chin ups L1 & L2 = 10 Dips L1 & L2 = 20 Mosey to soccer field…