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THE YARD · OCT 25, 2025 Backblast! You can't out-Merkin a BigMac.. but you Q: Float Bridge · 8 PAX WARMUP: - 25 SSH - 10 Windmills - 15 Imperial Walkers - 10 Moroccan Night Club - Mosey 1 lap around the parking lot THE THANG: 1. Improvement contest -> Record the results 1. 1 minute Merkins 2. 1 minute Big Boy Situps… OCT 23, 2025 Backblast! Nice New Pavement at WEP Q: Splinter · 9 PAX WARMUP: Run to the top of Main Street and take a left and head to the WEP amphitheater. Then some windmills and Moroccan nightclubs. THE THANG: run around the nice new pavement at WEP. When you get back to the… RING OF FIRE · OCT 22, 2025 Backblast! Met at the ROF for a little bit of this 5 PAX Normally, I'm the type of PAX that likes to create routines where you complete a lot of reps of a few different exercises when I Q a workout. Decided to switch it up a bit, and as my man JWOW like to say, we did a… OCT 20, 2025 Backblast! Modified Laredo - Cowboy Up! 4 PAX 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… THE YARD · OCT 11, 2025 Backblast! Spicy Light Pole Accumulators Q: Old Bay · 9 PAX WARMUP: SSH Imperial Walkers Squatches (like Squats, but spoken in correctly by the Q) Imperial Squat Walkers Maybe so more... THE THANG: Mosey to start of light poles along back entrance. Exercise revealed from an… RING OF FIRE · OCT 8, 2025 Backblast! King of The Ring October Edition Q: Splinter · 3 PAX WARMUP: Get Cindy and take her to the stadium THE THANG: 5 rounds of 5-minute AMRAP. Only complete revolutions counted in the score. If you were not finished by the time the timer went off, it's like it didn't happen… OCT 7, 2025 Backblast! 13 YR Anniversary Convergence Q: Band Camp · 89 PAX 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… RING OF FIRE · OCT 1, 2025 Backblast! The Bert Q: Headspin · 5 PAX WARMUP: Walking lap around the band parking lot THE THANG: 50 Burpees 5 yards Murder Bunnies, 95 yard Run 95 yard Run, 5 yard Redrum Bunnies 100 Push-Ups 10 yards Murder Bunnies, 90 yard Run 90 yard Run, 10 yard Redrum… SNAKE PIT · SEP 30, 2025 Backblast! KB Complex Q: Goose · 8 PAX WARMUP: Grandpa Jacks SSH Windmills THE THANG: Each of the following rounds were performed AMRAP style for 9 minutes 5-5-5-5 - All single arm then switch 5 Rows 5 Deadlifts 5 Swings 5 Reverse Lunges 4-6-8-10 4 Pullovers… THE YARD · SEP 27, 2025 Backblast! What to do on a bench or with a wall??? 7 PAX WARMUP: The regular exercises, all in cadence THE THANG: Various exercises using a bench and a wall, completed various rep counts, some in cadence and some oyo. Bench Work: Bulgarian Split Squats Taint Touch Squats Step… VARSITY · SEP 26, 2025 Backblast! No rain, just The Thunder Q: Esso · 8 PAX Chest/shoulders workout: - Merkins - Seal jacks - HR merks - Moroccan night clubs - Derkins - Overhead claps - Incline merkins - Donkey kicks Back: 5 sets of 5 pull-ups Cardio - 20 LBCs IC / hill run - 15 Bomb jacks /… SEP 25, 2025 Backblast! Don’t Carry Your Burdens Alone Q: Warning Track · 10 PAX Theme: How are you carrying your burdens? Think about these things: How the weight of your burdens feels as you physically move around. How hard would it be to carry multiple burdens at a time? How hard would it be to… KITCHEN SINK · SEP 24, 2025 Backblast! Improve VO2 max per Dr. Attia’s 4 by 4 Q: Brawny - The Fort · 10 PAX WARMUP: - Down Dog with Calf stretch’s - Laying Pigeon L/R - Stabilizers L/R THE THANG: Go all out on workout sets and push yourself into Zone 5 - 4 minutes of Clusters x 4 minutes sandbag loaded walk. - 4 minutes of… CURRAHEE · SEP 23, 2025 Backblast! FYF: The Red Rocket Chronicles Q: darkhelmet · 9 PAX 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… THE ARMORY · SEP 22, 2025 Backblast! Baker Mayfield is not Pence Q: Bonsai · 9 PAX WARMUP: SSH, merkins, squats, Broga THE THANG: Untraditional 11s. At first I wanted to go all the way through from 10 to 1, but YHC quickly realized I wouldn’t be able to make it so I modified as needed. We worked… THE YARD · SEP 13, 2025 Backblast! Honoring the OGs-13 years of The Dort Q: Short Sale · 11 PAX WARMUP: mosey to front of FMMS. All exercises done IC, 13 reps. SSH, squats, Mtn. Climbers, MCs THE THANG: head to the bottom of the entry hill & grab a coupon. 20 curls, run up and back, 20 tri extensions, up & back… KITCHEN SINK · SEP 10, 2025 Backblast! No one asks me to carry heavy things. Q: 3D · 6 PAX WARMUP: A variety of warmupy things. Maximus could have done windmills the whole time. THE THANG: Everyone carried a ruck or weight vest, sand bag and KB. Did. Big loop of the car line and then stopped in the parking… VARSITY · SEP 5, 2025 Backblast! Fish Tales with Birdcage Q: Italian Job · 9 PAX We had 9 at varsity (2 for IronPAX, 1 proctor, and 6 for a Cindy beatdown. Here’s what we did: Warmup - 10 Low Slow Swuats - 10 Mountain Climbers - 10 Windmills Mosey to get a cinderblock - 10 Manmakers - 15 Curls - 20… BUSHWOOD · SEP 3, 2025 Backblast! Birdcage Lifts off Q: Rosie · 12 PAX WARMUP: SSH for 50 Windmills, Merkins, cherry pickers, low slow squats, THE THANG: 30 Burpees, mosey to corner Bear crawls and Merkins alternating for 40 yards Lunge 30 yards, Run to the hill 5 rounds of 10 squats, 5… AUG 28, 2025 Backblast! substi-Q at the pond Q: Badlands · 27 PAX My boy Poppins blew out his hammy doing something in the shower... sounds wild... so I figured PAX could chase me around for 45 minutes instead. Pledge at 5:14 brief disclaimer and LFG Out and back route up main street… RING OF FIRE · AUG 27, 2025 Backblast! Legs and core plus broga Q: TINSEL TheFort · 10 PAX WARMUP: Windmills, Moroccan night clubs, low slow squats, mosey to benches, number of pax x 2 for step ups on the benches THE THANG: Leg web :leg: :spider_web: 1 squat, 4 cal raises; 2 squats, 8 calf raises… progressive… AUG 21, 2025 Backblast! Minnow Pond - 8/21/25 Q: Keith Crockett · 17 PAX 17 at Minnow Pond for 3.5ish miles and a bounty of plank jacks, HR merkins, jump squats, and flutters. Route: Confederate, Country Club Dr, Academy, Monroe White, repeat 2x. My message: Who is watching you? Is it… RING OF FIRE · AUG 20, 2025 Backblast! ALLTHUMBS!!! 11 PAX Arrived early to pick up Cindy and her friends ( just more Cindys ). After the party favors were loaded in the truck I drove to the band practice lot, needed 25yard spacing, why reinvent the wheel. As I was setting up… AUG 14, 2025 Backblast! Rain Was Right On Time Q: Stang · 13 PAX WARMUP: Run To Business 21 THE THANG: Thought we would have a dry morning but Mother Nature had heavy rain in store for us. It started pouring exactly at 0515 and lasted to about COT. Some pole dancing was on tap for my…