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DEC 23, 2025
Backblast! Holiday Pain Games at Golden Corral
WARMUP: Quick mosey to Dogtopia for Moroccan Night Clubs, Mountain climbers and merkins THE THANG: Two cones were placed in front of the closed dental office with one saying “over” and one saying “under”. Two similar…
FLIGHT PLAN · DEC 22, 2025
Backblast! Running for the Harvest
WARMUP: THE THANG: MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT:
THE ARMORY · DEC 22, 2025
Backblast! 12 days of kettle bell
WARMUP: morrocan night club, windmill, imperial walkers, hill billy walkers, plank, downward dog, honey mooner. THE THANG: latter adding a new exercise for 12 rounds. 10 x curls 10 x goblet squats 10 x calf raises 10 x…
SWEEP THE LEG · DEC 22, 2025
Backblast! Marathon Pace
WARMUP: SSH IC x 10 Squats x 10 Merkins IC x 10 Moseyed across Dave Gibson to the Ben Casey cul-de-sac and repeat above Moseyed to down through the parking lot to Patricia Ln and Dave Gibson and repeat. Reverse route…
DEC 22, 2025
Backblast! Run Run Rudolph
This ended up basically being a shield lock workout. With several of us having nagging injuries, we mainly did running today. WARMUP: warm-up lap around the track, SSH, Windmills, Moroccan Night Clubs THE THANG: The…
TRAINING GROUND · DEC 21, 2025
Backblast! Titles are required.
WARMUP: There was none. THE THANG: We logged some miles with some smiles and saw the Xmas lights 'tis the season! MARY: Hard Pass ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter. COT: The Thang was a long COT.
6@6 · DEC 20, 2025
Backblast! Do as I say, not as I do
WARMUP: waiting on Q THE THANG: choose your own adventure MARY: would have been a better Q ANNOUNCEMENTS: don’t be late for your Q COT: yes
ALCATRAZ · DEC 20, 2025
Backblast! Here, There and Everywhere
WARMUP: None until 3/4 of the way through the workout THE THANG: Mosey to pull up bars. Plank while each Pax does 5 pull ups. Mosey to pickle ball courts and do 20 monkey humpers. Mosey to wall and do: 25 dips, 20 step…
THE FORT · DEC 20, 2025
Backblast! Fa la la la….laughing all the way! ?
WARMUP: Mosey around the JWow Exercise Pavilion stopping along the way finding our secret Santa gifts :gift: THE THANG: Mosey to trail behind parking lot Partner up 2 rounds of Burpees while partner runs up hill and…
DEC 19, 2025
Backblast! Leg-Heavy, Imagine That
WARMUP: Run the entirety of the larger Teeter/Stockade lot then NUR up and back the main straightaway. THE THANG: Run to the circle at Stockbridge at the entrance to the apartments. 25 Squats & 25 Peter Parkers I/C Run…
VARSITY · DEC 19, 2025
Backblast! Varsity has graduated to retirement
WARMUP: started out with a quick mosey, went into SSH then merkins, then more running and SSH and more merkins. Ran some more, then cherry pickers, and more merkins…also did some stretches. Ran over to pull up bars. THE…
SLOW BURN · DEC 19, 2025
Backblast! An Even Thousand Reps
WARMUP: SSH, IW, Cherry Pickers THE THANG: 100 Merkins 200 LBC 300 Squats 400 Calf Raises Method: 20 reps at a time until total reps are complete. Eg 20 reps each of merkins, LBCs, Squats, and calf raises until 100…
THE HIVE · DEC 19, 2025
Backblast! Compound Kettle Bell
WARMUP: Tick-tock torso twist, right in 3cadence, Walkout merkins in 5cadence, Tick-tock torso twist, left in 3cadence, Moroccan nightclub in 3cadence, Monkey humpers in 3cadence, Inchworm to squats in 7 cadence. THE…
DAWN PATROL · DEC 18, 2025
Backblast! Rockin Around the Kingsley Christmas Tr
*** 'around' should be interpreted here as 'in the vicinity of' WARMUP: windmills, imperials, calf raises, moseyed for a bit and added some monsters THE THANG: In celebration of the most popular Christmas hit singles…
THE COACH'S BOX · DEC 18, 2025
Backblast! The skillet; Hope&Joy
WARMUP: SSH, windmill, mosey around the perimeter of skillet (football yard lines in the parking lot for marching band practice) THE THANG: Start at one end of the skillet run 10yds and do an exercise. Ladder across…
DEC 18, 2025
Backblast! Respectables take over the Pond
WARMUP: pledge of allegiance THE THANG: 1 mile lap Four corners with 5 burpees 10 merkins and 15 leg raises at each corner MARY: Dis you know?? ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas is 5 days away COT: Pray for the children
SOUL TO SOLE · DEC 18, 2025
Backblast! What is Active Recovery ❤️?
Half Way Mentioned. We are all Veterans today. WARMUP: Slow Mosey to the back of Panera THE THANG: 1st 3/4 of the Workout :weight_lifter: 10 Pain Stations with 10 Reps Each followed by 1 Lap Around the Lot; Rinsed and…
KITCHEN SINK · DEC 17, 2025
Backblast! Facing the mountains of Life
WARMUP: couple exercises to loosen up THE THANG: Ruck 3mi through Tega Cay power line hill and back with squats curls merkins built in MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Eve convergence COT:
BUSHWOOD · DEC 17, 2025
Backblast! Loop-tidy Loops At Bushwood
WARMUP: Run 1/8 mile to hill at entrance to Catawba Ridge THE THANG: Had a list of exercises that the pax completed one at a time and after that exercise was completed they ran a .17 mile loop up the hill and back. Pax…
CLYDESDALES · DEC 17, 2025
Backblast! Audible at O-Dark-Thirty
Vuvuzela sent a text around 1:30am saying he was still up and wouldn’t be able to Q. Since I was already covering site Q duties anyway, I did what any site Q should do when you have a no show Q—step up and Q yourself…
RING OF FIRE · DEC 17, 2025
Backblast! 8 Days Till Christmas
WARMUP: Side Straddle Hops, Windmills, Moroccan Night Club. THE THANG: 5 Burpees, Over Head Press (20), 5 Burpees, Curls (25), LBC'S (30) Hello Dolly's (20), Goblet Squats (20), Incline Merkins (20), KB Swings (25)…
DAWN PATROL · DEC 16, 2025
Backblast! Rockin around the Christmas Tree
WARMUP: couple loops in the AO lot with high knees, buttkickers, and karoake. THE THANG: Bucket 11 - one bucket at each end of the top lot. Pax pulled random exercises in an 11 format. Mak tar jyes and burpees were…
SEABISCUIT · DEC 16, 2025
Backblast! King’s Bottom loop
WARMUP: OYO THE THANG: We Ran Dudley to Kings Bottom Loop & Back (4 to 5.5 miles) MARY: No ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Eve convergence, Break to Dam 5k/10k, shovel flag / site changes. COT: Columbia bus crash, Salisbury…
CURRAHEE · DEC 16, 2025
Backblast! Curahee
WARMUP: THE THANG: We put on weight and walked around stopped and did some exercises. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT: Bethel mens shelter on 1/1. Prayers for our aging parents,