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THE FORT · JUL 19, 2025
Backblast! Ascending/descending weinke board
WARMUP: SSH/IW/HW/Stretches/MN THE THANG: Started with a lap around WEP + 25 burbees along the way. Parking lot as ending/descending weinke after exercise run to top parking lot and do burpee 1/2/3/4/5/4/3/2/1 MARY…
JUL 18, 2025
Backblast! Miyagi's VQ
WARMUP: Mosey SSH The Windmill Squats Shoulder Taps THE THANG: 3 Total Rounds of Suicide - 1 Carolina Dry Docks - 20 Air Squats - 20 Mountain Climbers - 20 Merkins - 20 Four Corners 3 Rounds Of Each Merkins and LBC…
RING OF FIRE · JUL 16, 2025
Backblast! Dora and more
WARMUP: SSH, Moroccan Night Club, Cherry Pickers, Hillbilly Walkers THE THANG: Mosey, Dora with Merkins, LBC, Carolina Dry Dock, Dora with Freddie Mercury, Burpees, Lunges, Nur, Mosey MARY: 5 minutes of various…
CURRAHEE · JUL 15, 2025
Backblast! Swampy Circuit
Like the “Jelly of the Month Club,” the humidity just keeps giving. That didn’t stop 8 of us from putting in the work. Here’s what we did. No warmup, just mosey to the crosswalk in the drop-off line under ruck - 30 yard…
THE FORT · JUL 12, 2025
Backblast! Arms & Legs So Bad It Still Hurts
Ruby Slippers and Splinter were Co-Q's for the day. We decided to split it up by muscle groups. Ruby started first with arms and then Splinter took over with legs. WARMUP: Warmup-y things. THE THANG: Ruby's 1/2: Mosey…
RING OF FIRE · JUL 9, 2025
Backblast! King of the Ring - Round 2 - The Rocket
Ring of Fire – King of the Ring Challenge Round 2 – Previous Kings are Q Oh the humidity was cranked up!! Soupy swampy hot. ZERO breeze. Excellent mumblechatter in COT while we all stretched out. Senator Tressel came in…
JUL 7, 2025
Backblast! 20yr Anniversary of the Murph
WARMUP: barely THE THANG: THE MURPH. MARY: nah ANNOUNCEMENTS: Sweaty Barry, Stuff the Bus, newslettery stuff COT: indeed
ALCATRAZ · JUL 5, 2025
Backblast! 1776 Patriot Games
10 men attempted the 1776 Patriot Games at Alcatraz this morning. Here’s what we did. Warm-up - 10 Low Slow Squats (IC) - 10 SSHs (IC) - 10 Imperial Walkers (IC) The Thang - 1776 Yard Run (1.01 miles) - 100 Merkins …
THE COACH'S BOX · JUL 3, 2025
Backblast! Tabata plus Imposter Syndrome
4 bootcampers 2 Ruckers at Coaches box. First 30 we did a Tabata 6 rounds 4 sets each round. For “rest” between rounds we’d run up and down the hill at the entrance of the high school. Each set was based off a base…
RING OF FIRE · JUL 2, 2025
Backblast! Grad Q School
WARMUP: 5 Burpees, 20 SSH, 8 WM some stretching, covered our mission THE THANG: Mosey to benches, 10 of each Urkins, Dips, Dirkins x2 covered 5 core principles Found some wall and had a seat, started going through Pax…
COLOSSEUM · JUL 1, 2025
Backblast! When in doubt, blame Schwartz...
With no announcement as to the Q for the day as of the afternoon of the night before, which is unusual for Barkley, but becoming very usual for The Fort overall, I mentioned casually that I would just take it. So…
SWEEP THE LEG · JUN 30, 2025
Backblast! C for creativity, not c for cookie
WARMUP: disclaimer and go. No messing around. THE THANG: Ran to the bank for stop 1. 5s and 10s. - 5 = hand release merkin - 10 = squats with chin up and hands touching the ground Next stop was First National bank…5s…
LAZARUS · JUN 26, 2025
Backblast! Balls and Burpees
WARMUP: SSH, Merkins, windmills THE THANG: Mosey behind the movie theatre Run to each of the 8 parking spot sections and perform ascending reps (1-8) of the below exercises, then run back to beginning (~100 yards) SSH…
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 23, 2025
Backblast! Hero WOD +
WARMUP: Jog around the parking lot, including some NUR and side lunges. THE THANG: Part 1: Police Officer Tara Christina O'Sullivan Sacramento Police Department, California End of Watch Wednesday, June 19, 2019 Police…
JUN 20, 2025
Backblast! Trials and Tribulations
WARMUP: couple thangs, stretching etc THE THANG: PT test! 2 mi. Timed run 2 min merkins 2 min big boy sit ups MARY: nah ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots of opportunities to serve this summer in the fort, couple CSAUPS, 4th of July…
RING OF FIRE · JUN 18, 2025
Backblast! Ring of Fire around the rosie
WARMUP: SSH, Imperial walkers in sync, cherry pickers, windmill, moroccan nightclubs THE THANG: 10 Hill sprints with exercises in between. We covered pull-ups, planks, Cindy presses, swings, merkins, man makers and more…
JUN 16, 2025
Backblast! Clovis with a side of Kudzu
WARMUP: brief: SSH, IW, HW, dynamic stretching THE THANG: the Clovis 15 burpee pull-ups 1 mile run 10 rounds Maximus got 5 rounds before time. The rest got less. The kudzu behind the school is threatening to take over…
JUN 14, 2025
Backblast! Finding the Way
It was raining. A storm had just rolled through. I spent 30 minutes watching the lightning strike map before the workout. The electricity faded just before 0515, leaving behind a steady rain that cut the humidity. We…
JUN 12, 2025
Backblast! What’s the Cadence
WARMUP: LOL. Just counted # of packets THE THANG: Jog to town of Fort Mill wall 15 Derkins in cadence, jog to WEP stage 20 LBCs in cadence, Jog a loop round WEP back to stage 25 Merkens in cadence, jog to Massy Hill 15…
VARSITY · JUN 6, 2025
Backblast! Primal Screaming
WARMUP: SSH, iw, hw, Peter Parker, collect cinder blocks, pull-ups and toes to bar slowly THE THANG: 25 yrd square 4 corners, 25 reps each - Merkins - Big boy sit-ups - Bomb jacks - Goblet squats with Cindy Did 3 rounds…
BLOCK PARTY · JUN 3, 2025
Backblast! Party on Massey Hill
WARMUP: 40 SSH 10 windmills 20 Merkins Mosey up Massey Hill THE THANG: DORA style, 4 rounds: One partner runs down and up Massey hill, other partner accumulates reps. Round 1: 100 merkins 150 CDD 200 shoulder taps Round…
MAY 29, 2025
Backblast! Loops of Clebourne
Minnow Pond is one of the premier AOs in the Fort. Thanks to NASA for his leadership. YHC was honored to Q the workout and bring some pain to start the day. In addition, I wanted to bring a heartfelt message to the men…
KITCHEN SINK · MAY 28, 2025
Backblast! Choosing the Hard Thing
Nine men (including one FNG - welcome SIB) started their day with the hard thing at the Kitchen Sink. We had a quick disclaimer then jumped right in – no warm-up. Here’s what we did. Grab your Ruck and Block …