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JAN 14, 2025
Backblast! Daytona 500 with all the smells
WARMUP: SSH Windmill Butt kickers High knees Soccer hips Broga THE THANG: Daytona 500 5 exercises 25 reps each for 4 laps Merkins Squats SSH Calf raises LBCs Total of 500 reps when completed and roughly one mile. With…
FLIGHT PLAN · JAN 13, 2025
Backblast! A construction free jog.
WARMUP: A little stretching for those who arrived before 0515 THE THANG: jog - a construction-free zone was found. Yes….really…construction-free Leave Starbucks and take the road past the front of the library and go…
THE ARMORY · JAN 13, 2025
Backblast! Decending Ladder of Fun
WARMUP: 20 SSH, 10 Hillbilly Walkers, 10 Cherry Pickers, 10 Moroccan Nightclubs Mosey to center of parking lot THE THANG: Round 1: 5 Manmakers, 10 American Hammers, 15 Skull Crushers, 20 Swings, 25 Curls, 30 Lunges, 35…
JAN 13, 2025
Backblast! Hang on tight
WARMUP: one dialed back round of the workout THE THANG: Hero WOD for Danish Army Sgt. Rene Jakobsen. Called for 7 rounds of 400 m run, 21 walking lunges, 15 pull ups and 9 burpees. We did 8 rounds and finished it with a…
TRAINING GROUND · JAN 12, 2025
Backblast! Training Ground Carry
WARMUP: Nope THE THANG: 6 PAX shared (3) 60lb sand bags while the 7th man nursed an injury while wearing a weight vest, of course. Make our way over to the WEP parking lot and down the trail weaving our way to the…
KITCHEN SINK · JAN 12, 2025
Backblast! Toss and Carry
WARMUP: 10 merkins. Lap around the lot to go through the workout. THE THANG: A big lap around the soccer field with four stations. Each station had 30 reps of an exercise and then one partner would toss the bag while…
THE YARD · JAN 11, 2025
Backblast! Slippery on Deck
Three pax posted to The Yard after the ice-pocolypse. Started with mosey run and then: Warm up: SWIMLAPPs: all in cadence: SSH 15x, windmills 10x, Imperial Walkers 10x, Moroccan n/c 10x, low slow squats 10x, big arm…
ALCATRAZ · JAN 11, 2025
Backblast! Iditarod Training
WARMUP: ground work, non ground work THE THANG: line drills, pull-ups, wall work, dog sledding using Esso’s hotel routine, broyoga MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT:
THE FORT · JAN 11, 2025
Backblast! DORA meets Murph
WARMUP: SSS x25 Cherry picker x20 Imperial Walker x20 THE THANG: DORA 100 burpees 200 merkins 300 squats 400 LBCs 500 flutter kicks 300 calf raises Ran around WEP parking lot island while partner did reps Ran over 2…
VARSITY · JAN 10, 2025
Backblast! Snow Date With Cindy
WARMUP: SSH, Mosey THE THANG: Choose a Cindy, short move to location 1 for 45 seconds on/15 seconds off of the following: curls, squats, plank, triceps; Move (farmer carry) approximately 400m to location 2 for squats…
THE HIVE · JAN 10, 2025
Backblast! Ring around the Rosie
WARMUP: Broke the rules by adding a mosey to a kettlebell workout. THE THANG: 7 minutes of 15 thrusters EMOM 2 Rounds of : single leg Romanian Dead lifts Flutters Merkins Curls for the girls Lunges Bent rows each arm |…
DAWN PATROL · JAN 9, 2025
Backblast! Sure you don't want to just grab a coff
WARMUP: Goofballs Low slow squat Low slow merkins Let's get outta here, it's cold THE THANG: 4 corners around Kingsley loop: 2 rounds, 20 reps each of Corner 1 - Upper Body Merkins Derkins CDDs Corner 2 - Leg Day Squats…
LAZARUS · JAN 9, 2025
Backblast! The Frozen Rosie @ Lazarus
WARMUP: The usual suspects: Side straddle hops, merkins, cherry pickers, moroccan night clubs THE THANG: Mosey to the garage. At each light post the PAX remembered all the core principles but took punishment anyway. At…
THE COACH'S BOX · JAN 9, 2025
Backblast! 30/30 Hominy Time - Blind Melon soundtr
30/30 Format. Q for first 30 minutes 1st F: Hominy Q for second 30 minutes 3rd F: Bitcoin WARMUP: - Mosey a lap - Side Straddle Hop - Big Boy Situps - Imperial Walkers - Windmills - American Hammer - Plank THE THANG…
JAN 9, 2025
Backblast! Choose Hard
WARMUP: Run to bandshell at WEP THE THANG: We did laps around WEP with an accumulator thrown in for fun. When returning to the bandshell after each lap pax did the following starting with the first exercise and then…
SOUL TO SOLE · JAN 9, 2025
Backblast! 5K ruck with 5 Strong HIMs
WARMUP: THE THANG: 5K Loops composed of the big and little Kingsley loop with some movement reps in between MARY: None ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel church, newsletter, dam to bar COT: always stays in COT
BUSHWOOD · JAN 8, 2025
Backblast! Hootie & the Bushwood
WARMUP: - Mosey a lap - Side Straddle Hop - Big Boy Situps - Imperial Walkers - Windmills - American Hammer - Plank Soundtrack: Hootie & the Blowfish. Album: Cracked Rear View. THE THANG: 80-160-240 Dora - 80 Merkin …
RING OF FIRE · JAN 8, 2025
Backblast! Q-School Jan 2025
WARMUP: Yes, and kept us close cause FTC showed up at 5:22am. This happens when there's more ice on vehicles. If you're gonna run off, do it knowing that a guy could show up late and you'd be leaving him. THE THANG…
DAWN PATROL · JAN 7, 2025
Backblast! Phi Slamma Bama
WARMUP: The first 10 mins of the ruck THE THANG: We continued the ruck for another 35 mins covering the Alabama route rolling back down Main St and then up around the Pharmacy and back home. No official Strava results…
SEABISCUIT · JAN 7, 2025
Backblast! A return out east
WARMUP: Jog THE THANG: Jog and Run some more into Massey - and out and back was done by all and in a construction free zone no less. In Fort Mill, that’s saying something. The route as into Massey via Neff to Dudley, to…
CURRAHEE · JAN 7, 2025
Backblast! miles "intermediate workout"
WARMUP: windmill, cherry pickers, imperial walkers, merkins THE THANG: ruck miles with pain stations(10 x merkins, curls, overhead press, flutters and LBC MARY: american hammer ANNOUNCEMENTS: dam to dam, Valentine's day…
COLOSSEUM · JAN 7, 2025
Backblast! Under cover
WARMUP: SSH, windmills, imperial walkers THE THANG: 4 stations, 3 exercises each, 15 count first round. Leave kettle bell at end, run to start and 5 merkins at each station on the way back. Back through the stations…
SNAKE PIT · JAN 7, 2025
Backblast! Something with hyenas
WARMUP: Showing up to the small crew of misfits was honestly a treat. After the disclaimer, we started with a short and slow mosey. 30 seconds in, the mumblechatter and “complaining” was alive. The mosey was about 1/4…
THE BALLROOM · JAN 7, 2025
Backblast! Broke back mtn.
WARMUP: The usual SSH, windmills, cherry pickers other stuff THE THANG: the goal was to stay warm which we did. Mosey around the whole campus and did some exercises. pax chose a card interestingly only had 4 cards to…