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THE RANCH · DEC 4, 2025
Backblast! Jack Webb Meets Track and Field
It was a balmy morning at The Ranch but the fellowship and mumble chatter kept everyone warm. Thang: Headed over to the track for an Indian run with burpees. 4 Laps followed by a Mr. Jack Webb. Jack Webb - 1 Merkin and…
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…
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…
THE YARD · NOV 22, 2025
Backblast! Practicing Moderation in Moderation
WARMUP: SSH, CASBAH #2s, IW,HW, Baby Arm Circles fed &back. THE THANG: Squat Line Meat Grinder Teams: 2 teams, 5 men per team Space: Parking lot 40yd length Gear: • 2 identical stacks of 8 exercise cards (one per team)…
THE COACH'S BOX · NOV 20, 2025
Backblast! The Box
WARMUP: No warmups at the Box! Get after it. THE THANG: Repeat previous Rounds before doing next Round 1: 5 burpees Walk Yards 0-10 10 Goblet Squats Round 2: Lunge Walk Yards 10-20 10 OH Press Round 3: Murder Bunnies…
THE BALLROOM · NOV 18, 2025
Backblast! Sawdust returns
The Ballroom was Grand. Bassomatic, thank for pulling me out of retirement... Bassomatic, Tank, Honkey Tonk, Fogherty, and Saw dust performed rounds of: 1) 400 m runs 2) 20 Yard Shuttle Runs 3) 90 pond Sled Drag Carries…
NOV 17, 2025
Backblast! Loredo & 3-Leaf Clover
WARMUP: Short mosey through the parking lot with a few warmup exercises. Then, grab a cinderblock and bring it to the intersection by the JROTC building. Leave it there and head to the track. THE THANG: For the first…
CLYDESDALES · NOV 12, 2025
Backblast! VO2 Max training
Track workout including 2 options: Run a mile on the track then: 1. Calculate Vo2 max by running hard for 12 minutes 2. Sprint workout with race pace followed by jog (400,800, 1200 meters)
NOV 11, 2025
Backblast! Ballermann Workout
WARMUP: 15 Wind mill 15 Hill Billy walkers 15 cherry pickers 20 sumo Squats 20 Merkins THE THANG: Mosey to the fountain @arbors Bear crawl around the spring At each quarter stop to do 5 burpees Mosey to church Exercise…
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…
VARSITY · NOV 7, 2025
Backblast! Moons be gone
WARMUP: Some stretching because, well I’m old now and need it THE THANG: over to the benches, 10 dips, urkins and dirkins. To the band lot, 5 merkins (carried each time) at the goal line, MOT called to each successive…
RING OF FIRE · NOV 5, 2025
Backblast! No OYO Dora on Fire
WARMUP: Slow mosey around the student parking lot, then circle up near main entrance to school at AO Jones Blvd for 10-20 of the following: - SSH - WM - IW - MNC - Strawberry pickers Then mosey to the bus loop at corner…
COLOSSEUM · NOV 4, 2025
Backblast! 11s and Pyramids
Light yog with normal stretchy warm-ups. 11s using 2 light poles for run length. Bomb jacks on one end and flying squirrels on the other. Leg pyramid: 10 froggers, 20 squats, 30 mtn climbers, 40 lunges (single count)…
THE COACH'S BOX · OCT 30, 2025
Backblast! Modern-day Warriors
Two of us four-cornered the band lot and discussed modern-day warriors. Here’s what we did: Warm-Up - Jog around the football field - Stretches - 10 Imperial Walkers (IC) - 10 Windmills (IC) The Thang 4 Corners - Corner…
OCT 30, 2025
Backblast! Springs street spine
15 total with six runners at Minnow Pond. Remainder did rucking. Pledge and then run to former Hardee’s lot where the thang is explained as follows: Parking lot is base camp. Do 10 burpees here. Run up Springs st to its…
OCT 27, 2025
Backblast! The Whittman
WARMUP: THE THANG: Warm-Up: We kicked things off with a lap around the parking lot followed by: • 25 Side-Straddle Hops • 10 Imperial Walkers • 10 Hillbilly Walkers • 10 Cherry Pickers The Thang: Mosey to the track for…
LAZARUS · OCT 23, 2025
Backblast! Whoops! Gotta shake myself!
WARMUP: THE THANG: ran to the parking deck. ROUND 1: THE ASCENT OF FIRE (BEAR CRAWL EDITION) • Bear crawl up 2 flights • 10 merkins at each landing • Descend stairs all the way to bottom ROUND 2: THE GRINDER REPEATS •…
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…
CURRAHEE · OCT 21, 2025
Backblast! Ruckcoaster and tire
WARMUP: - SSH / CP / IW / WM THE THANG: - Ruckcoaster: modified suicides with 10/20/30/40/50 reps and beloved man-makers every 5 min. - Tire: Tire flip with various exercises MARY: - speed-Broga - Sally - 6-count…
OCT 20, 2025
Backblast! Modified Laredo - Cowboy Up!
Wasn't a coincidence that I participated in GTE-59 where we had the opportunity to complete the Laredo WOD during the event, then was DR in Houston, TX for a week - birthplace of our fallen hero, and then was asked to…
ALCATRAZ · OCT 18, 2025
Backblast! Running up the hill
WARMUP: - SSH / WM / IW / CP - mosey to pull-up bars - dips at benches - down to the hill THE THANG: - 3x hill sprint - traveling PAX with 40# bag while other PAX do exercise chosen by traveler - some broga - some more…
VARSITY · OCT 17, 2025
Backblast! My Mother-In -Law Got has Attitude (MIL
WARMUP: 1. Moroccan Night Club X 10 2. Windmill X 10 3. Imperial Walker x 10 THE THANG: - Partner workout - 40 Burpees - 60 Merkins - 80 Squats - 100 LBCs - 120 Side Straddle Hop - 4 corners - Round 1 x 5 reps at each…
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…
SNAKE PIT · OCT 14, 2025
Backblast! La Serpiente ? y el Pilón
Shared and along with Injuries WARMUP: 20 Low Slow Squats 10 Wind :dash: Mills 10 Moroccan Night Club 10 Imperial Walkers 10 Hillbilly Walkers 10 Slow Kettlebell Swings THE THANG: 3 Circuits of 9 Rounds Each 1st…