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DEC 15, 2025
Backblast! First Responder Tribute Trifecta
WARMUP: - SSH x20 - Merkins x10 THE THANG: Officers Jeff Shelton & Sean Clark Officer Sean Clark Sean Clark was a man of quiet strength and deep compassion, raised in Charlotte’s Pawtuckett neighborhood. After serving…
DEC 1, 2025
Backblast! Gobbler Challenge
WARMUP: skipped it THE THANG: Honored Richard Sheltra Firefighter Pineville-Morrow Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue North Carolina Age: 20 Year of Death: 2016 Year Honored: 2017 Richard Michael Sheltra Richard was…
BLOCK PARTY · NOV 25, 2025
Backblast! Apparently “another” Pendulum
WARMUP: Some THE THANG: Pendulum on Monroe White St. 5 Bombjacks in the middle: 25 Merkins at the top of the hill. 25 Seal Jacks at the top of the other. Decrease by 5 each round then back up. MARY: some ANNOUNCEMENTS…
AMERICAN JACKAL · NOV 24, 2025
Backblast! Rosie’s magical bean ride
WARMUP: SSH, Low slow squat, windmills, imperial walkers, merkins THE THANG: Line it up! 40 Yards of MOT, 60 yards sprint 1. Bear Crawls 2. Lunge walks 3. high knees 4. broad jumps 5. bear crawls In between rounds, 15…
NOV 13, 2025
Backblast! Unexpected Opportunities
WARMUP: Disclaimer and Pledge duly pronounced THE THANG: 1 mile loop (rectangle) with an exercise at each corner. Up Massey, right on Harris, right on Ardrey, right on 160 Burpees x10 Hand release merkins x10 Apollo ono…
AMERICAN JACKAL · NOV 10, 2025
Backblast! The Impossible Mile
WARMUP: barely THE THANG: impossible mile 400m Bear Crawls 400m Lunge Walks 400m Burpee Broad Jumps (no one got past this) 400m sprint MARY: nah ANNOUNCEMENTS: Operation Love, Christmas Party, Bethel COT: Yes So this…
LAZARUS · NOV 6, 2025
Backblast! Small white sacks
WARMUP: SSH, low slow squat, navy seal burpees THE THANG: Mosey to front of movie theatre 7’s - navy seal burpees and box jumps. Run across parking lot in between Run to the hill by the Biergarten. Partner carry up…
BUSHWOOD · NOV 5, 2025
Backblast! 6-count Burpees in German
WARMUP: - SSH / WM / IW / running with burpees THE THANG: - JackWebb 1-4 - 4-corners: bells, blocks, wheels and sandbags (timer) - brief broga MARY: - Thunderstruck the right way ANNOUNCEMENTS: - read newsletter COT: …
AMERICAN JACKAL · NOV 3, 2025
Backblast! Complicated not Hard
WARMUP: 105 SSH in Cadence THE THANG: - Bear crawls and jump squats - Lunge walk and merkins - Hill run + 6-count burpees in cadence - Hill run + LBC in cadence - Derkins, dips and incline merkins 3 minutes of Mary
OCT 31, 2025
Backblast! Miyagi's Reign Begins
WARMUP: Yes THE THANG: Slapshot Gave us the opportunity to do 100 burpees with a run EMOM. miyagi Chipper 100 - Merkins - Squats - BBS - Flutters - Dips - Lunges 100 reps of each, broken up however the PAX wanted. MARY…
SWEEP THE LEG · OCT 27, 2025
Backblast! Trick or Treat at Sweep the Leg
We Monster Mashed 3 miles with 10 studs doing our best to hit the cul de sacs for all treats and no tricks. Here’s what we did: Warmup - 10 Low Slow Squats (IC) - 10 Imperial Walkers (IC) - 10 SSHs (IC) The Thang Mosey…
THE RANCH · OCT 23, 2025
Backblast! Pain and suffering with a happy ending
WARMUP: - Moroccan nightclubs - Windmills - Cherry pickers - Imperial walkers Mosey to benches and do a W.A.S.H. - 50 hand release Werkins - 50 American Hammers - 50 Step ups (25 each leg) - 50 Hip thrusts THE THANG…
BLOCK PARTY · OCT 21, 2025
Backblast! What’s your WHY?
WARMUP: Yes THE THANG: Mosey to Print Shop Partner Dora 25 - Pull Ups 50 - Dips 75 - Squats 100 - LBCs *Partner run around the building Mosey to lot at top of lot at Watson and Monroe White 5 burpees Mosey to COG lot…
AMERICAN JACKAL · OCT 20, 2025
Backblast! Happy now Time Machine?
We worked the pile. Stayed golf friendly. Forged our own Legacy
DAWN PATROL · OCT 16, 2025
Backblast! Kingsley Apparatus and 2 FNGs
WARMUP: SSH, WM, CP THE THANG: Thang 1: 40 Step-ups, 20 Erkins, 10 Derkins Thang 2: From the front entrance at Kingsley (near RT 160), we made our way around the Kingsley Loop. At every light post : 3 burpees At every…
OCT 16, 2025
Backblast! Zipper backwards
WARMUP: run to new Arbis parking lot, plank for the 6, then 10 burpees oyo. Run 2 blocks straight on Spring st, plank and do 10 Merkins OyO. Run down two More blocks on Spring and plank then 10 mike Tysons. Run down to…
SWEEP THE LEG · OCT 13, 2025
Backblast! “No Mercy” Monday @ STL
WARMUP: NONE THE THANG: 19 men took off at quickly for No Mercy Monday. After a quick mosey to South State Bank, we fired up the legs with 5 Bonnie Blairs to get loose. From there, we charged down Dave Gibson Blvd to…
OCT 7, 2025
Backblast! 13 YR Anniversary Convergence
WARMUP: THE THANG: Here is my weinke - Assassin We had about 12 runners and 6 ruckers tackle the tundra of the paved loop around the schools. Starting at the front door we headed around the back, past the shop, past the…
OCT 2, 2025
Backblast! Don't Get It Caught in The Zipper
WARMUP: Run up to old hot dog place parking lot corner of Main and Clebourne, plank then wait for the group to explain the thing. THE THANG: THE ZIPPER - Ran to end of Springs St to Summersby, then took a right to…
BLOCK PARTY · SEP 30, 2025
Backblast! Burpee Fest
WARMUP: mosey to top of Massey for a nice 8 min warmup with all the fixins. THE THANG: Indian run up and down massey Mosey to church parking lot for burpee broad jumps Mosey to Monroe White street for merkins at bottom…
CURRAHEE · SEP 23, 2025
Backblast! FYF: The Red Rocket Chronicles
9 (or maybe 10 and I can't remember who the 10th was) found a safe space while Mark Nestel's dog microaggressed a bunch of them with his red Rocket at Currahee... - Ruby Slippers flew in 10 minutes early to be 5 minutes…
SEP 18, 2025
Backblast! Uphill both ways
WARMUP: THE THANG: ran to academy and whiters intersection. Ran up the big hill to parking lot, 10 hand release merkins Back down to intersection, 10 butterfly sit-ups Up the opposite hill to the Baptist church driveway…
COLOSSEUM · SEP 16, 2025
Backblast! No Barkley, No Peace
Roughly, this is what was done: Run to the back of the school. Here's the series... run to the 3rd light pole out back - Grab a rock, here’s the sequence - 15 curls, run two light poles, 15 flutters, run back - 15…
AMERICAN JACKAL · SEP 15, 2025
Backblast! Commitment to the Jackal
YHC was honored to head to the East Side and deliver a beatdown at AJ. The weather is fantastic for F3 and I enjoy seeing some new faces (Sunkist). It also gave me an opportunity to create a tough workout, which I…