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49 backblasts mention “PTL”
AMERICAN JACKAL · MAY 5, 2025
Backblast! Legs for lifts and curls for the girls
WARMUP: many side straddle hops and beautiful stretches THE THANG: legs first half, upper body second half, had to be there MARY: mother of Jesus ANNOUNCEMENTS: several events, read your newsletter COT: travel safety…
AMERICAN JACKAL · APR 14, 2025
Backblast! Circuit of pain & impossible mile
WARMUP: - Moroccan night club - Imperial walker - Cherry picker THE THANG: Circuit of pain round 1 - 60s exercise with 20s rest - 12 stations - Dips - Merkin - Plank Jack - Mountain Climbers - Jump rope - Goblet Squats…
THE FORT · APR 5, 2025
Backblast! AKA - the tour continues
WARMUP: Mosey to the swing & do an exercise In c cadence all the way around the park - 9 stations, 9 exercises - .6 miles. Warmup complete THE THANG: At the hill behind the restroom building - 10 squats at the bottom…
RING OF FIRE · APR 2, 2025
Backblast! Q school at ROF
Five students attended Q school, and 3 runners posted at NAFO this morning. This is what they did: WARMUP: Disclaimer and slow Mosey around NAFO parking lot. Circle up for COP THE THANG: COP: SSH x 30, windmill x 10…
THE YARD · JAN 18, 2025
Backblast! God Bless Saturday
WARMUP: SSH Imperial Walker Hillbilly Walker Low slow squat Merkins Honeymooner Downward dog THE THANG: Indian run with 3 merkins then sprint 1776 workout 17 merkins 76 squats 17 CDD 76 LBC 17 Mike Tyson’s 76 Lunges 17…
AMERICAN JACKAL · DEC 16, 2024
Backblast! Rosie’s American Jackal circle time
WARMUP: Mosey down the hill, excessively long high knees and karaokes, merkins, SSH, Windmills, Cherry pickers and Moroccan night clubs THE THANG: 3.5 rounds of: 7 exercises, 45seconds of work per exercise, then rotate…
THE YARD · DEC 14, 2024
Backblast! The Yard - Bootcamp in cadence + DORA
WARMUP: The usual THE THANG: - Exercise of YHC’s choosing in cadence + mode of transport given for 20 to 50 yds, NUR to starting point; repeat - DORA: 100 hand release/150 low slow squats/ 200 big boys | Partner runs 50…
LAZARUS · DEC 12, 2024
Backblast! Lazarus - 12DEC2024
Always a good day at the Laz. Opportunity abounds and we took full advantage. WARMUP: Usual warm-up type stuff. Windmills, merkins, that kind of stuff... THE THANG: First we pulled up behind the Greek place for a…
AMERICAN JACKAL · DEC 2, 2024
Backblast! Pain Board for the Win
WARMUP: SSH, Wind Mills, Cherry Pickers, Diamond Merkins THE THANG: Pain Board! MARY: Big boy sit-ups ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Party, Christmas Eve PAX, check newsletter COT: prayers and praises
BLOCK PARTY · NOV 20, 2024
Backblast! Seagrams and 7s
F3 block party 11/18/2024 Warmup: Windmill Cherry picker Imperial Walker Hillbilly Walker The Thang: 7s - hill on Monroe White St Burpees Tie touches 4s - Stairs FM Church of God Dips Sister Mary Catherine’s 4s - Bear…
AMERICAN JACKAL · NOV 4, 2024
Backblast! Cherry poppin Q with some corners & suc
WARMUP: side straddle hops, merkins, cherry pickers, moroccan night clubs THE THANG: mosey to lower field for some 4 corners. each corner 10 bomb jacks, 20 merkins, 30 CDDs, 40 squats, 50 flutters with MOT between…
LAZARUS · OCT 24, 2024
Backblast! Consistency and Contentment at Lazarus
WARMUP: Run to the movie theater parking lot With lots of mumblechatter in the background... SSH x 30 Windmills x 10 IW x 15 Merkins x 10 Mtn Climbers x 20 Low slow x 15 Dirty McDeuce WAM x 12 Lunges x 12 Big Boy x 12…
LAZARUS · OCT 17, 2024
Backblast! A frosty morning for Rosie’s VQ
WARMUP: Mosey 5 minutes to the spot Side straddle Hop, Cherry Pickers, The Windmill, Moroccan Nightclubs, Merkins THE THANG: 30 yard Bear Crawl, 30 yard lunges, 3 reps each / 10 Burpees before each of 40 Merkins, 40…
AMERICAN JACKAL · OCT 14, 2024
Backblast! Boot camp
Do 30 side straddle hops. Ran to the high school. Stop in the parking lot do lunge walks halfway down the parking spots, do 5 pushups, bear crawl the other half, do 5 burpees . Repeat back to the start. Split into…
LAZARUS · OCT 3, 2024
Backblast! Weather Forecast
Parking Deck workout
AMERICAN JACKAL · SEP 23, 2024
Backblast! F3 101
Mission, Principles, Eastward Expansion
LAZARUS · SEP 19, 2024
Backblast! East side continues to GET stronger
We had 10 at ao-lazarus for an East Side continuous to get stronger, with accusations FNG had splashed Merlot!!! pre explanation of Tillers F3 name (Tiller company, a fire apparatus) Followed by Yoga stretching and…
SEP 18, 2024
Backblast! Week 2 Iron Pax
Week 2 Iron Pax
SEP 16, 2024
Backblast! 75mins, a little complexity, a lot of e
The image of the board will be used as the workout details but in case others want to use this, here are a few notes to consider: - Split the group if needed. - Predetermine a good distance for the Mode of…
SEP 13, 2024
Backblast! Iron Pax 2024 Week 1 - Friday
WARMUP: Run to dropoff area: 15 SSH IC 10 Windmills 15 Low Slow Squat IC 15 Cherry Pickers IC Mosey into parking lot: 15 Imperial Walker IC 15 Hillbilly Walker IC Mosey back to start: 3 Burpees OYO THE THANG: Iron Pax…
SEP 6, 2024
Backblast! IronPax 2024 Week 0 - Friday
WARMUP: Jog around the 400m loop Warmup exercises THE THANG: Kalsu – 100 thrusters Start the 1-minute EMOM timer Perform 5 burpees As soon as you finish the burpees, start doing thrusters When the timer goes off, do 5…
LAZARUS · SEP 5, 2024
Backblast! B.O.M.B.
WARMUP: Various exercises and some stretchy things. Then we moseyed to the lower lot past the theater. THE THANG: We Partnered up. Partner 1 does exercise while partner 2 begins to lunge walk. After Partner 1 completes…
BLOCK PARTY · SEP 3, 2024
Backblast! The Grand Old Duke of York
I usually only write anything here to make Band Camp happy, since he's the only one that reads these, but I am trying to turn over a new leaf, because I do believe in the value of a BB, which is why I write my idiot…
LAZARUS · AUG 29, 2024
Backblast! We arent the 95%
WARMUP: mosey, inch worms with merkins, lunges and squats. THE THANG: lots of sprints with flutters. Zipper merkins. 7s with merkins and squats. Quick dora. More sprints. MARY: more flutters and merkins ANNOUNCEMENTS…