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April Metric

May 1, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-project
Q: Tom Tom
PAX: Mathlete, Ocho, Baby Face, Munge, Biohack, TombRaider, Artemis, Nosedive
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:

Projectivators
Squats
Willy Mays Haze
Cherry pickers — loosen up those legs!

THE THANG:

YOU VS. YOU WORKOUT #4
April & October Challenge
Each AO should offer this workout at least once during the month of April and October.
Every PAX member should keep track of his own reps and submit scores on the form in the link below.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3PzswIJNrUsoNEjY53llgqp6bqH3clDy7V9I17T7hdR8M3g/viewform?usp=sharing

Setup:
Use 4 evenly spaced cones or lines, approximately 10 yards / 30 feet apart.

The Workout:
PART 1: RUN
– 10-minute timer
– Begin at Line 1:
1. Run to Line 2 (10 yards) and back
2. Run to Line 3 (20 yards) and back
1. Run to Line 4 (30 yards) and back
1. → That’s 1 rep
– Rinse and repeat for 10 minutes
– Record total reps
– 1-minute rest

PART 2: AMRAP
– 3×2-minute timer (no rest between movements)
– Count total reps (cumulative):
1. 2 minutes AMRAP Side-Straddle Hops (SSH)
2. 2 minutes AMRAP High Knees (count 1 leg)
3. 2 minutes AMRAP Mountain Climbers (count 1 leg)
– 3 minutes rest
– Record total reps from Round 1

THEN… REPEAT THE ENTIRE WORKOUT
Start over from Part 1 and repeat the full circuit. Reset your rep count.

Submit Your Scores (4 Total):
1. Round 1 Run Reps
2. Round 1 AMRAP Reps
3. Round 2 Run Reps
4. Round 2 AMRAP Reps

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Hardship Hill
Camp Biohack
Other family workouts?

COT:

Wisdom with camping
Prayer & fasting for an oppressed girl

Ultimate Frisbe

April 17, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-project
Q: Biohack
PAX: Biohack, Ocho, flyball, Baby Face, Tom Tom, Tomb Raider
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:
-Projectivator
-Tempo squats
-Tempo merkins
-Cherry pickers
-Calf stretch

THE THANG:

Ultimate Frisbee game. Everyone does a burpee on every turn over. When someone scores, they chose a heavy exercise and number of reps.

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Leadership Summit
Hardship Hill

COT:
Hardship Hill is a race that is fun and good for F3, but today I want to remind us all why we actually do it.

Hardship Hill raises money for Operation Enduring Warrior that supports combat disabled veterans. They come to the race from out of state and bring a team. Some of the veterans they serve will share their testimonies that are incredible.

Then, their able bodied team members will run the race in a Pro Mask (gas mask) that severely restricts their airflow and makes the task much harder. They do this to show us the hardships that our veterans deal with even if those wounds are invisible.

If you can’t attend the race, but want to support OEW, you can donate to them here: enduringwarrior.networkforgood.com/projects/114843-main-website-page

How to file

April 15, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete
PAX: Ocho, Baby Face, Biohack, Nosedive, Erector, Munge, TombRaider, Patch Adams, Mathlete, Tom Tom
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP:
SSH, tempo squats, LBAC, tempo merkins,
THE THANG:
On the back porch: 2 minutes max merkins – this is your income. Double check your W2 by doing your income x2 squats
Mosey to the pool wall and get your dependent info from the top of the fridge with 8 Wall-pees
Mosey to the playground and get your deductions: 3 sets of 5x pull ups and 20x BBS
Mosey to the parallel bars and let yourself down easy when you realize you’re using the standard deduction: 2 sets of 15 inverse rows and 20 Freddie’s
Mosey to the bell and do some calculations: hold a plank for 40 seconds while you calculate the percentage of your outcome, then do the reps.
– 10% diamond Derkins
– 25% step ups
– 30% dips
– 43% split squats
Take it to the post office by making a lap.
But you forgot to write the check, do 25% burpees
Now run it back to the flag
MARY:
Box cutters, basilisks, flutter kicks
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill, Forg3 Ascents
COT:
1 Timothy 6:10, Luke 18:18-27
Money is necessary, but we must be careful about our relationship with it. As Paul points out, money is not the root of evil, but the Love of money. This requires constant regrounding and cross checking. In my experience, one of the most helpful actions you can take to support a healthy relationship with money is to make giving your top priority.

Elevensies

April 8, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-project
Q: Erector
PAX: Baby Face, Borg, Mathlete, Nosedive, Ocho, Tom Tom, Erector
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
15 SSH, 10 mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 10 tempo squats, 10 harry Rockettes, 5 cherry pickers
THE THANG:
A workout of 11s.
Mosey to the steps beside the amphitheatre: merkins at the bottom and jump squats at the top.
Mosey to the playground: pull-ups at the playground and step ups at the amphitheatre.
Mosey to the East lot: burpees on one side and dive bombers on the other.
We did not complete them all.
MARY:
Plank
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up for Hardship Hill
COT:
The Barkley Marathons just finished up a couple of weeks ago with no finishers. Any long distance race requires a lot of training to be able to reach the finish line. These are endurance races, not sprints. Our lives are also not a sprint. The author of Hebrews has some words in spiritual endurance.
Hebrews 12:1-3 NASB1995
[1] Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, [2] fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. [3] For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Sin is one of those things that can slow us down and prevent us from reaching our spiritual goals. I encourage you to keep training! Build your endurance so that you may finish the race.
2 Timothy 4:7-8 NASB1995
[7] I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; [8] in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.

The Princess Bride

April 1, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-project
Q: Biohack
PAX: Tom Tom, Mathlete, Ocho, Biohack, Munge, Tomb Raider
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:
-Projectivator
-Tempo squats
-Tempo merkins
-Cherry pickers

THE THANG:
1. Run to the parallel bars
2. 20 inverse rows as we sail to the Cliffs of Insanity!
3. 10 Wallpies and go over the pool wall.
1. First one over must say the quote (I swear on the soul of my father, Domingo Montoya, you will reach the top alive).
1. Left side plank for 30 sec.
1. Why are you smiling?
2. I know something you don’t know.
3. I’m not left handed
1. Right side plank for 30 sec.
2. My way is not very sportsman-like
1. Hang from the monkey bars for 1 min.
1. Run to the bell.
2. Build immunity to iocane powder.
1. 20 dips
1. Run to K25 hill and to the top.
2. Roll down the hill towards the fire swamp.
3. Run back up and over and leap the fire geyser at the bottom.
4. Ring of fire as we battle rodents of unusual size.
5. Squatting ring of fire as we escape the lightning sand.
6. We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
7. Death march to the bell as we fall into the pit of despair.
8. Not to 50! 50 dips
9. Buddy carry halfway across the field as we take Westley to Miracle Max
1. Switch and carry back
1. If only we had a Wheelbarrow
1. Partner wheelbarrow back and forth by the bell
1. Mawage is what bwings us togetwar, today
1. Al Gore while we quote the scene (Wuv, twoo wuv also)
1. The chase! Jail break to the shovel flag. No wammies!
2. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
1. Overhead clap. In cadence. Until it hurts like you’ve been stabbed in the arms.
1. To the pain!
1. Ring of fire.

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

Ezekiel 4:4-6 & 9-12 show God telling Ezekiel to do some very hard things that don’t have an apparent immediate benefit for anybody.

Have there been times in your life, or are you in one now, where things are hard or painful and it doesn’t seem to be for any good reason at all? Remember the promises from the Bible: God is in control. He knows the outcome. He controls the outcome. He has promised good outcomes for those who love Him and are called to his purpose.

Final thoughts: watch out for that Ezekiel bread…