Dumpster Dive (Brad Burnette) – Page 2

You v You Junior

July 23, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: shamrock
Q: Stitch
PAX: Mermaid, Crawlspace, Dumpster Dive (Brad Burnette), Pool Boy (Jacob Thress), slappy, Inconceivable, Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Honeydew, Lizzy, Drano, Streisand
FNGs: 1 Streisand
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
1. Grady Corns slow
2. Tempo Squats
3. Twisties
4. Hairy Rockettes
5. Cherry pickers and lower back stretches

THE THANG:
Mosey to the coupon pile, grab a CMU

Bring around to the front long stretch and start the following with a lap down and back, and two burpees in between;

50 Bench press -> Lap and 2 burpees
45 Heavy squats
40 SSH
35 Curls
30 Dips on the block
25 OHP
20 Lawnmower Pulls (10 each arm)
15 Thrusters
10 Burpees
5 Blockees

Rack em

Played a 2 inning game of wiffleball in the Circle Lot.

COT:
Today’s Encouragement…

Thank you guys for being here. It really matters that you made the choice to get up, show up and be here at this place and time. If you didn’t do that, there would be zero connection. And I think that connection is the whole point to our existence. It’s why we were created. To have relationship.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” – Jesus teaching us something about being connected to him, from John 15:5

I’ve become more aware of this throughout my life. Much of life’s struggle and pain is magnified when I’m isolated.

I find that there is healing when I stay connected to God, through his word and truth about who I am. Through prayer and bringing myself to him. All my thoughts, my joys, my fears.

With others, in community. When we share, listen, and offer support, we can help carry one another’s burdens.

And when we do that, we can better connect our minds and bodies. We can have all the right information, know the rights and wrongs and the goods and bads, but until we learn to process and connect with what’s happened in our bodies, we are going to find ourselves stuck in those cycles and continue to open those old wounds.

I want to leave you with this too; there is not a sin you can commit or have committed in your past present or future that hasn’t already been covered by the blood and sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Anchorman’s Porta-gym

July 7, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: shamrock
Q: Anchorman
PAX: slappy, Dog Bite, Mermaid, Crawlspace, Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Flower Pot, Stitch, Dumpster Dive (Brad Burnette), Anchorman
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:
Run in place

High knees

Butt kicks

Over the gate

Tie Fighters

Cherry Pickers

Stretch

Knees to one side, then revers

Cobra / Down Dog

THE THANG:
Mosey to porta-gym
5 pound Hallelujah
2.5 or 5 pound Baby Arm Circles Forward
2.5 or 5 pound Baby Arm Circles Backward
Basketball Merkins – Alternating
10 pound Butterfly
Red band – Tricep reverse swing
Right or left arm
Yellow band-Tricep reverse swing
Right or left arm
Yellow band – step on and do butterflies
Blue band – step on, stand straight and do lawnmower pulls with both arms
Curls – CMU
Chest Press – CMU or 60 pounds
LBCs on ground or big ball
CMU chain pull

MARY:
Dealer’s choice for 3 minutes

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
Casper ten Boom, Corrie ten Boom’s father

“The Hiding Place”

Casper was known as “Harlem’s Grand Old Man”. He was faithful. Casper was a staple of integrity and stability. They often had customers and guests by the shop just to see Casper.
Part of the routine of home life and the business that Casper established and practiced in every circumstance was that all family and employees would come to work and head upstairs to the kitchen for coffee and Bible reading before work at the same time every day, and the family would end the day with Bible reading.
This was the rhythm of the home and the business, and the year-round saturation of Bible reading would prove fruitful.

Casper inspires me. I want to be like him. I want my kids to come downstairs and find me reading my Bible and invite them to join me.
We have always had the routine of praying with our kids at night before bed. They won’t go to bed without it. I treasure that, but I want more. I want to dive deeper in my faith and bring my family along. I challenge you guys to hold me accountable to progress in this and I also challenge you to find a routine. Maybe that’s F3 or something else. Invite God into your day and see what happens. Love you guys!

Our Decisions

May 8, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: shamruck
Q: Booster
PAX: Booster, The Situation, Lizzy, Dumpster Dive (Brad Burnette), Eliza, Mermaid, Flower Pot, Mocha
FNGs: 1 Mocha
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:

THE THANG: We got about 7,500 steps in

COT:

I heard Pastor Dave Stone from Louisville preach last weekend. He was amazing as he mixed humor, scripture and story-telling to share his message. Pastor Stone retired at 58 from one of the largest churches in the country as he felt his church of 30,000 people needed new, younger leadership with fresh ideas; Dave is reinvigorated by speaking at conferences, missions like KARM, etc.

“At birth, we look like our parents; at death, we look like our decisions.”

We need to live with a sense of urgency. Don’t let the good things on Earth crowd out the best thing which is Jesus. He said many of us focus on lots of things that take us away from our relationship with our savior.

“At birth, we look like our parents; at death, we look like our decisions.”

Shamrock-Crescendo

April 23, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: shamrock
Q: Anchorman
PAX: Lizzy, Crawlspace, slappy, Waxjob, Mermaid, Anchorman, Dumpster Dive (Brad Burnette), Flower Pot, Honeydew, Stitch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP:
Tie fighters
Run in circle, butt kick, high knees
Cherry pickers
Neck roll
Cobra / Down Dog
Pickle pointers

THE THANG:
Abs / Arms / Legs

25 – LBC single
25 – chest press
25 – CMU squats

50- LBC single
50 – chest press
50 – CMU squats

25 – windshield wipers
25 – tricep dips
25 – CMU Toe Merkins

50 – windshield wipers
50 – tricep dips
50 – CMU Toe Merkins

25 – Slow Freddie’s
25 – Curl presses
25 – Speed Skaters single ct

50 – Flutter Kicks
25 – Curl presses
50 – Speed Skaters single ct

Mosey to practice field and run suicides with a buddy to help push each other. Must stay together. We did every 10 yard line.

MARY:
Dealer’s choice

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Pray for Lizzy’s stepdad Ralph who is battling stage 4 cancer.

COT:

Psalm 107

Thus is a great chapter to study. It shows the progression of the human race and how followers of God will fall into sin or go through a hard season in life, cry out to God, he listens and reacts. Then we should follow up with praise and worship even when the outcome is not according to our will.

I challenge you to read the whole chapter and spend time asking God to reveal moments in your past or present that he wants you to reflect on. Write it out. Tell him how dark and hard it was. Document where you heard or felt God’s presence in that even if it was 20 years later when you felt redeemed by God.

Hearts and Farts

February 14, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: shamrock
Q: Stitch
PAX: Mermaid, slappy, Dumpster Dive (Brad Burnette), Crawlspace, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Squatter, Voodoo
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
Grady Corns
Hairy Rockettes
Hallelujahs
SSH
Mountain Climbers
20 Merkins

THE THANG:
Mosey to Coupon pile. Grab a CMU.

25 Curls
25 OHP
25 Dips
50 Bench press
REPEAT

Mosey to the football field.

25 Mountain Climbers
25 Shoulder Taps
25 2 Ct Freddy Mercury’s
50 LBCs
REPEAT

Last 15 mins – 50 yd line Ultimate LED Frisbee. Team 1 (Stitch, Slappy, Swimmies, Crawlspace) takes the victory 6-4.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: March 7th – New AO launch in Clinton.
March 28 – Escape from Haw Ridge

COT:
I recently discovered this devotional book called The New City Catechism which is introduced by Tim Keller. If you know me, you know that I have a thirst for truth and knowledge, especially when it comes to the things of God and reality. Also, you know that I’m 50 and in order to pay respect to this old brain of mine, I have to keep it in working condition. That brings me to…

Catechisms. What are they?

Catechisms are statements of faith written in the form of questions and answers. Derived from the greek word katechein which means ‘to teach orally or to instruct by word of mouth”.

This book has 52 questions and answers, for 52 weeks of the year. It’s based on and adapted from some old reformation-era catechisms, which used to be very common to practice for Christian growth and training. They are divided into 3 parts: 1) God, creation and fall, law, 2) Christ, redemption, grace and 3) Spirit, restoration, growing in grace.

For example:

Q: What is our only hope in life and death?
A: That we are not our own but belong, body and soul, both in life and death, to God and to our Savior Jesus Christ.

Q: How can we be saved?
A: Only by faith in Jesus Christ and in his substitutionary atoning death on the cross; so even though we are guilty of having disobeyed God and are still inclined to all evil, nevertheless, God, without any merit of our own but only by pure grace, imputes to us the perfect righteousness of Christ when we repent and believe in him.

So, if you are a believer why not memorize some truths and solidify the foundations of your beliefs today? Memorize the new catechisms!