backblasts
Every workout’s write-up, newest first — straight from the Q’s backblast.
175 backblasts mention “Wooden Leg”
COLOSSEUM · APR 22, 2025
Backblast! What’s a Walkin’ Merkin!?
WARMUP: Side-straddle hop, Strawberry pickers, Plank to down dog calf stretches, from plank Left arm to the sky with some hip dips, Right arm to the sky with some hip dips THE THANG: - Run 1/2 Mile - around the MS…
KITCHEN SINK · APR 16, 2025
Backblast! Rosie does the dishes
WARMUP: • 25 SSH (IC) • 10 Windmills (IC) • 10 Imperial Walkers (IC) • 10 Merkins • Mosey 100 yards and back THE THANG: Main Workout (35 mins) ? Circuit 1: Strength + Movement (12 mins) 3 Rounds – 40 seconds work / 20…
COLOSSEUM · APR 15, 2025
Backblast! Long duck walked into a bar and it hurt
WARMUP: Windmill SSH Merkins Moroccan nightclub High knees But kickers Side shuffle THE THANG: Mosey over to the playground 3 rounds of 7 reps Swinging merkin Squats Pull ups Run lap around the track Bear crawl length…
KITCHEN SINK · APR 2, 2025
Backblast! A TO B
WARMUP: - 15 SSH - 15 CASBAH #2s - 15 IW - 15HW THE THANG: We grabbed our trusty sandbags and shuffled to the first light pole “A” by COT. Destination “A TO B” even though Halfback, Wooden Leg and @3-Way were missing……
COLOSSEUM · APR 1, 2025
Backblast! I can’t feel my legs
WARMUP: - 10 Moroccan nightclubs - 10 cherry pickers - 10 windmills - 10 Imperial walkers - 10 Hillbilly walkers Mosey, stop at benches and do irkins, mosey, stop by basketball court, low slow squats, mosey to wall…
TRAINING GROUND · MAR 30, 2025
Backblast! Ruck with stairs involved
WARMUP: Got right to it THE THANG: Rick walk W/ flights of stairs MARY: got back on time ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter COT: prayers and praises from all
COLOSSEUM · MAR 25, 2025
Backblast! Badly Broken Chicken Dance
WARMUP: 12 SSH 12 CASBAH #2s 12 Walking Jacks THE THANG: Mosey to the rocks- Grab your rock and OJ to the light pole and back 1 Burpee Grab your rock and OJ to the light pole and back 2 Burpees Grab your rock and OJ to…
THE ARMORY · MAR 24, 2025
Backblast! Post Golf Trip Memories
After reviewing previous backblasts, YHC noticed that the last time I submitted a backblast for the Armory was in October 2019 immediately following a golf trip where I likely ate and drank too much. It so happens that…
KITCHEN SINK · MAR 12, 2025
Backblast! Strength in Motion, Buckets of Pain and
Pre-Workout Prep Pulled into the gloom at 4:45 AM—silent, still, and completely void of movement. With no one in sight, I set up three lanes with four stations each: • Cone 1: 5-gallon buckets filled with bricks for…
SNAKE PIT · MAR 4, 2025
Backblast! 4 Corners Kettle Bell treat
WARMUP: SSH, Windmills, Cherry Pickers,Moroccan Night clubs THE THANG: 4 corners Kettlbe bell with overhead carry to each with 25 swings, Pulls, Triceps extensions and Curls and Squats in the middle. Each round had a 5…
TRAINING GROUND · MAR 2, 2025
Backblast! Ruck around Town with a twist
WARMUP: Gear up THE THANG: 3.4 mile ruck, intermittent sand bag add with some backward hill climbs MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your Newletter. Yeager and March 14th The Hive Convergence COT: Prayers and Praises
KITCHEN SINK · FEB 26, 2025
Backblast! GoRuck's Valentine's Day Massacre
Straight from the email inbox, delivered from GoRuck's Tribe workouts, we performed The Valentine's Day Massacre-Post Mortem (or most of it, at least) WARMUP: Carry all sand bags to our starting point for a few of the…
TRAINING GROUND · FEB 23, 2025
Backblast! A Walk in the Park
WARMUP: THE THANG: Railroad Ave to Spratt St down Harris St to Walden Park Drive, back to Harris, then Jackson to WEP, around the park, back to N White St around Millstone Park, and back to COT for about 3.5 miles MARY…
SOUL TO SOLE · FEB 20, 2025
Backblast! Rucking with Pain Stations
3 1/2 Kingsley loops Pain stations at the turns of the loop, shuffles at the top and bottom lengths, discussion around jester.
KITCHEN SINK · FEB 19, 2025
Backblast! Kitchen Sink 2/19/25
WARMUP: SSH, cherry pickers, IWs, Mtn climbers, shoulder taps dynamic movements around the traffic circle THE THANG: buy in 100 squats with bag on shoulders, move to back of school (15 merkins while moving at various…
TRAINING GROUND · FEB 9, 2025
Backblast! Heavy things carried for no reason
WARMUP: N/A THE THANG: Guys paired up. One would carry and the other was off for 6 minutes at a time. They started with a coupon and once they had both carried it once, they swapped coupons with another group. Coupons…
SLOW BURN · FEB 7, 2025
Backblast! 1% better at Slow Burn
YHC was honored to be given the Q stick at Slow Burn and challenged the Pax to get 1% better this AM. You see, status quo is comfortable and safe because it is known. Showing up to an AO offers disruption because you do…
FEB 6, 2025
Backblast! I think you’ll be okay, they’re covered
The THANG: Holy schnikes, we had 18 PAX for a Tommy Boy quote run. We ran Massey, to Harris, to Audrey, to Main in a loop with Derkins, Dips, Clave Raises, CDDs, V-Ups, and Big Boys. We had runners and ruckers. COT: On…
TRAINING GROUND · FEB 2, 2025
Backblast! Prarie Doggin at Training Ground
WARMUP: None THE THANG: Three mile loop: 160 to Spratt, right at the gas station, right onto Harris St, down the hill to Harris St Park, right onto the trail that gets to WEP through the woods, to the WEP amphitheater…
THE HIVE · JAN 31, 2025
Backblast! ?️Webs and high reps ?
WARMUP: Moroccan night clubs Windmills Low slow squat Ssh Mountain climbers THE THANG: Web High pulls. Curls 1-4…10-40, yes 55 HP and 220 curls Take a lap Around the world, 4 reps each side, everyone takes a step to the…
SNAKE PIT · JAN 28, 2025
Backblast! Card game
WARMUP: windmills and produce pickers THE THANG: 2 rounds of 4 exercises by suit. 2-14 reps depending on the card you draw. MARY: none ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D relay, wine tasting dinner COT: Wives and Children
TRAINING GROUND · JAN 26, 2025
Backblast! Church Stairs, Harris Street path to WE
Tour downtown churches to find their stairs and the Harris Street’s dark path to WEP. A couple of pain stations sprinkled in.
JAN 24, 2025
Backblast! Pretty warm for 17
WARMUP: pledge THE THANG: mosey over to Academy and Monroe white Hill pendulum from parking lot to parking lot on Monroe white - 10 jump squats/squats at the top of one hill, 2 kraken burpees at MW and academy , 10…
KITCHEN SINK · JAN 22, 2025
Backblast! The Safe Sink
WARMUP: A little of this, a little of that... THE THANG: We took our rucks and sandbags and traveled to the top of gentle slope of the entrance to the school in the hopes of finding a less icy spot. We were…