Back-Blast – Page 107

Ruck. That’s it.

September 6, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-farm
Q: Gibbler
PAX: Lightweight, Waxjob, Gibbler, I-Beam, Mayberry, @Charger
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: Ruck Time

THE THANG: Ruck through Turkey Creek for 3.6 miles. We slowed Waxjob. Motivated by coffeteria. We discovered a new bagel shop. Two times. We’re disappointed it wasn’t open.

MARY: nope. Beach season is done.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: all the things happening this weekend.

COT: go team

[cv-lostpearls] Billy Madison Ruck

September 5, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-lostpearls
Q: Otis
PAX: Bail Bonds, flyball, Mooch, 30 second warning, Astrophizzy, Bucky, Otis
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: Just take off

THE THANG: ruck over to the elementary school, pass the middle school and head to the high school

MARY: n/a

ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 3rd Anti-trafficking campaign coming October 5th

COT: Form vs Game
Game in our culture is a willingness to try, to jump in, to have a go. Game in fighting is a little different. It’s a willingness to be punched in the face, to embrace the pain and fear, to lean into the fight and not cower in fear.
The church today trains people in forms, but it has lost the concept of game.
We have Bible form, prayer form, fasting form, serving form, volunteer form,
community form, but what we don’t have is game. So little of what we talk about
on Sundays shows up in real life.
People have forgotten that the point of practice is not the practice itself but to
prepare us to follow Jesus in the real world.

Our discipleship today is often nothing more than the form.
We train and train and train but never do. We read and read and read but never obey.
Resonance is not the same as obedience.
Agreeing is not the same as acting.
Listening is not the same as doing.
Jesus seemed to be baffled by the emphasis on a form-only based discipleship in His day.

““Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.””
‭‭Luke‬ ‭6‬:‭46‬-‭49‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Pickleball relay

September 5, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-farm
Q: Aladdin
PAX: Pew-pew, Lightweight, Aladdin, Choir Boy, Oil check
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
SSH
Windmills
Rockettes
Squats
Merkins

THE THANG:
Pickleball relay
5 station race, with pickleball in bucket finish
2 rounds
Then finished with wall ball

MARY:
None

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

SEVENS

September 5, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-equalizer
Q: Mouthwash
PAX: Cheney, Snowbird, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Mouthwash, Utah
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: ssh, tempo squats, Tn rocking chairs, tie fighters, little bit of this and that

THE THANG:

7’s at bathhouse — pull-ups and v-ups
7’s at splashpad — dips and squat jumps
7 of diamonds around track
– diamond merkins
– Monkey humpers
– Crunches
– SSH
– Cdd’s

MARY: little stretching

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

John 10:11-18

[11] I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. [12] He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. [13] He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. [14] I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, [15] just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. [16] And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. [17] For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. [18] No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”

Don’t Cheat Yaself…

September 5, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: shamrock
Q: Free Fall
PAX: Charmin (John Willis), Mermaid, Craps, Squatter, Anchorman, Crawlspace, Drano, Eliza, Gringo, Honeydew, Lizzy, Stitch, MacGruber, Ted Fisher aka Brown Squirrel
FNGs: 1 Ted Fisher aka Brown Squirrel
COUNT: 15
WARMUP:

– SSH’s
– Neck rolls
– Windmills forward/backwards
– Baby arm circles in cadence – forward & backwards
– Side stretch
– Cherry pickers
– Toe touch
– Down dog

THE THANG:

Mosey to CMU pile

Partner up – total reps, partner runs the island, hold high plank until everyone is done after each exercise

– 100 CMU Curls
– 100 ‘mercans
– 100 CMU Overhead tri-cep extensions
– 100 CMU law mowers
– 50 goblet squats

Mosey to field

On the sideline. PAX do exercise, then all run across field (sprint/jog pace), everyone hold al gore until all are across, then next exercise.

– 20 Big Boy Sit-Ups
– 30 LBCs
– 15 American Hammers (IC, 4-ct)
– 15 Freddy Mercuries (IC, 4-ct)
– 20 Leg lifts (IC)

MARY:

20 Hello Dollies (IC)

– Hello Dollie’s
– Jane Fondas
– Leg Extensions

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ask Lizzy

COT:

“We call Abraham “father” not because he got God’s attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn’t that what we’ve always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, “I set you up as father of many peoples”? Abraham was first named “father” and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, “You’re going to have a big family, Abraham!” – Romans 4:17-18

“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered King Nebuchadnezzar, “Your threat means nothing to us. If you throw us in the fire, the God we serve can rescue us from your roaring furnace and anything else you might cook up, O king. But even if he doesn’t, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference, O king. We still wouldn’t serve your gods or worship the gold statue you set up.” – Daniel 3:16-18

Our God is capable of making something out of nothing. In fact, He loves to show up when we’ve got nothing left. BUT, “even if He doesn’t,” may we still be men enough to hold true.