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419 backblasts mention “Half Shell”
JUL 22, 2025
Backblast! Air Force Warfare Beatdown
WARMUP: SSH-20, Imp/hillbilly walkers 15-each, Cherry Pickers 12, Burpees 5, downward dog and honeymooners 2. THE THANG: Al Carmichael 10-10 workout. Merkins, Squats, BB Sit-ups, Lunges, Flutter Kicks, Carolina Dry…
JUL 15, 2025
Backblast! Hot and sweaty
WARMUP: Intro, then mosey to the church. Warm up with MNC, Micheal Phelps, Wind Mills and Non-discrpt produce pickers. Mosey to behind HT to smell the sweet aroma of the GC. Continued warms up with merkins, Plank…
JUL 12, 2025
Backblast! Burpee Ball at Alcatraz
WARMUP: lap around Runde Park then exercises in the parking lot including Imperial Walkers, Mountain climbers, CDDs THE THANG: Mozy to the little league ball field right foul pole for 7s. Merkins at the RF foul pole and…
JUL 10, 2025
Backblast! Crazy 8
WARMUP: Mosey to Grace Presbyterian Lot FNG found pax there and joined All exercises I/C Windmills Merkins Cherry pickers Low slow squats Peoples chair with Moroccan night clubs and air presses THE THANG: The Ladder…
JUN 27, 2025
Backblast! Circuit
WARMUP: cherry pickers, windmills, Moroccan night clubs THE THANG: 5 pain stations 1. Sandbag - 20 dead lift, squat, shoulder toss 2. Kettlebell - 20 curls, swings, overhead press 3. 25 merkins, dry docks, shoulder taps…
JUN 24, 2025
Backblast! Wally World Run
Nine men joined our brothers from Colosseum for a little Walmart shopping spree. Conditions were…unpleasant. Here’s what we did: Warm Up - 10 SSHs (IC) - 10 Seal Claps (IC) - 10 Imperial Walkers (IC) - 10 Low Slow…
JUN 17, 2025
Backblast! Humidity is dumb
WARMUP: Run away from the stench of the garbage truck. SSH, windmill, squats, Broga, high knees, but kickers and toy soldiers. THE THANG: Continued over to Sonic for the escalator Add an exercise for each round and all…
JUN 10, 2025
Backblast! ? Smoked Buffet of Pain ?
? Warm-Up (Appetizer – “Clean Your Plate”): SSH – 20 IC Imperial Walkers – 15 IC Hillbillies – 15 IC Merkins – 10 IC Moroccan Night Clubs – 20 IC Strawberry Pickers - 10 IC Burpee Buffet: 5 burpees OYO after every 2…
JUN 3, 2025
Backblast! Rocky Road
5 @ golden-corral for a rocking good time. We started with a lap around the parking lot and stopped for a few warm-up exercises. Next, we each picked a stone and performed the following exercises in cadence: Curls…
MAY 30, 2025
Backblast! Triangle of Trust (TOT)
WARMUP: Mozy around the parking lot followed by Moroccan Night Clubs, Merkins, CDDs THE THANG: Slowzy to the closed dental office and formed a plank line. Completed 4 plank jacks, dips, shoulder taps, and Supermans…
MAY 27, 2025
Backblast! Autobahn Virgin Q
WARMUP: 15 Wind mill 15 Hill Billy walkers 15 cherry pickers 20 Squats 20 Merkins THE THANG Mosey to the back of Harris Teeter (HT) • “Cocaine Bear Crawl” (in groups of 3): 1 round of bear crawl per person Meanwhile…
THE HIVE · MAY 23, 2025
Backblast! The Hive Shovel Flag Hand-Off
WARMUP: Happy Hour warmed us up for the impending bear down THE THANG: Round 1: 10-min AMRAP 10 x KBS 10 x KB squats 10 x KB deadlifts 10 x KB clean and jerk Round 2: 25-min of suffering PAX circle up at bottom of the…
MAY 20, 2025
Backblast! Shoulders and Shuffling
WARMUP: Disclaimer and light jog to the space between Walgreens and Jersey Mikes for COP THE THANG: COP (all in cadence): SSH x 25, Squat x 25, Mountain climber x 25, Freddie Merc x 20, LBC x 25, Windmill x 10, Diamond…
MAY 13, 2025
Backblast! Moist Men of Mystery
WARMUP: - Imperial Walkers - Pumpkin Pickers - Moroccan night-clubs - Merkins - Hold position for down dog - Honeymooners - Right side plank - Left side plank THE THANG: Indian Run around parking lot Mosey to the wall…
MAY 6, 2025
Backblast! Winging it at the Corral
WARMUP: Quick mozy then mountain climbers, Moroccan Night Clubs, CDD and for the crowd pleaser….SSH THE THANG: Due to technology issues, the scheduled Q wasn’t there so we winged it and the backblast is unlikely to be…
APR 29, 2025
Backblast! Golden Corral 042925
After selecting Option 2 (which was the wiser choice) we set off to do the business… WARMUP: Mosey to the roundabout by the apartments at the bottom of Grant Farm. Some windmills, some cherry pickers, SSH, and such… THE…
APR 15, 2025
Backblast! Fiddy Special
WARMUP: Mosey with Toy soldiers and Karaoke. Merkins and Moroccan Night Ckubs the Tesh Way THE THANG: mosey to grassy incline. 10 curtsy lunges at bottom of hill, walk backwards up the hill then 10 deep squats at top of…
APR 11, 2025
Backblast! Riding Dirty at Stockade
YHC was humbled by the opportunity to Q at the Stockade. This week I have been revisiting old BBs from Rock Hill in anticipation of my Q there this weekend. I stumbled on to the 1 year anniversary Q by Dredd and OBT…
APR 8, 2025
Backblast! Jack Webb Baby
WARMUP: mosey to ace. Totally hacked up names of most of my warmups. But, cadence was solid and we did 41 SSH’s. THE THANG: Mosey to Dunkin parking lot where some how Senator looked as graceful falling as we all looked…
THE HIVE · APR 4, 2025
Backblast! Kettlebells: The Great American Pastime
WARMUP: mountain climbers, overhead claps, merkins, CDDs THE THANG: Mozy to the adjacent parking lot where bases and cones were setup to form a baseball field. (Happy Hour’s and my son play on the same baseball team)…
APR 1, 2025
Backblast! April fools
WARMUP: mosey.. The Windmill, Moroccan Night Club, Imperial Walker, Merkins, downward dog, the honeymooner THE THANG: brick wall, 1x20 step ups each leg, 20 erkins, 20 dips. 5 sets of 3 x10 Merkins, LBC, box cutters run…
THE HIVE · MAR 28, 2025
Backblast! 1 Minute Closer to Death
WARMUP: windmill x10, cherry picker x 10 THE THANG: This may or may not be accurate. Overhead carry KB 1st Station 10 burpees 25 90/45 25 chest to back pullover 25 Curls 25 lunge with pass through Overhead Carry 2nd…
MAR 25, 2025
Backblast! Tour de odor AKA style
WARMUP: SSH Windmills Imperial walkers Hillbilly walkers Plank Stretches Merkins THE THANG: After warmups we moseyed to back of HT, Performed wall sit burpee waterfall with everyone doing 1 burpee, then 2 Mosey around…
MAR 18, 2025
Backblast! Everything but the kitchen sink @ Golde
WARMUP: Circled up at COT WMsx7inCadence, IWsx7inCadence, CPsx7inCadence, HWsx7inCadence, next moseyed to the upper parking lot by Red Bowl and ran around the lot introducing the loop the PAX would use throughout the…