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[cv-brickyard] Helping your Partner with their wood

August 2, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-brickyard
Q: Bail Bonds
PAX: Gmail, Gordie, flyball, Appleseed, Hamm, Floppy Disc, Jim Norris, Herbie, Bail Bonds, Gutter ball
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP:
SSH, OH Claps, Seal Claps, Tie Fighters, Cherry Pickers, Tempo Squats, Lateral Lunges, Mucho Legos, Tempo Merkins, Flutter Kicks

THE THANG:
Partner logs
While one does logs the other does exercise, 5 minute sets, then rotate to the next station.
1. Log Flip down and back and Catalina Wine Mixers
2. Log Roll down and back and Bobby Hurleys
3. Log Sledge Hammers and Run a boogaloop
4. Log Curls and Bear Crawl down and back
4. Rifle Log carry down and back and Burpees
5. Log Sled down and back and LBCs

MARY:
Shoulder taps, 50 2-count, but then another bonus 50 after 0700 to finish the monthly challenge!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Dad Camp 8/15 – 8/17
F3 Knoxville 10 year Anniversary Convergence 11/8 at Asylum

COT:
Read the quotes from the Order of Man podcast. Look at the image attached.

Our foundation should rest in God. Jesus is the cornerstone and our rock.
While we can loose gains in our physical and mental strides, we can also lose our spiritual growth and may even start to drift. S it says in Hebrews, we need to be weeening off milk and moving to solid foods in our spirit. My challenge, look deep and assess if you can hear the Holy Spirit when he speaks. Do you obey? Or do we tend to make our own decisions?
I pray we find and use discernment and wisdom in our spiritual growth.
If you need help, or have questions about your spiritual life and growth, ask. There are men looking to sharpen each other!!

Hebrews 5:13-14 NIV
[13] Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. [14] But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

[cv-brickyard] Drifting

July 26, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-brickyard
Q: Simmons
PAX: Spellcheck, Hamm (Jamie Suarez), A-Rod (Nate Peterson), Herbie, Mountain Ice, Appleseed, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), fast-n-easy (Nate Votta), Otis, Floppy Disc, Simmons, Recoil (Blake Conley)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP: SSH, toy soldiers, tempo squats, ohc, chinooks

THE THANG: Run. Every 1/4 mile do 5 burpee, 10 merkins, 15 BBs, 20 squats.

MARY: Hello Dollies, Box cutters

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: Most people don’t RUN from God, thy just drift.
But as for me, how good it is to be near God! I have made the Sovereign Lord my shelter, and I will tell everyone about the wonderful things you do.” – Psalm 73:28 (NLT)

“Don’t Drift!”

A few years ago, a family from Ohio had one of those experiences that parents have nightmares about. It was their first trip to the ocean, and they were enjoying the sun, the beach, and the waves. Their 8-year-old son Declan was playing in his cute little inflatable unicorn pool in the sand at the water’s edge. They were having the time of their lives. They turned their heads for just a moment, and when they turned back around, they saw that Declan and his pool had been pulled into the water by a strong wave. Before they could get to him to pull him back, the current had pulled him out past the breakers, where they couldn’t reach him.

Frantically, they began to yell for help. Water Rescue was quick to the scene and got a boat out to Declan to bring him back. By the time they reached him, he was a half mile from shore! He was terribly frightened, but otherwise fine. And two greatly relieved parents hugged him like they were never going to let go.

It doesn’t take long to drift away. Not from shore, and not from God. The Psalmist reminds us that we need to stay CLOSE. With a thousand things pulling at our hearts, it’s easy to get caught up in stuff and never even realize we’re drifting away from Him. We don’t mean to. We just get careless. We get busy and stop spending time with Him. We get caught up in our jobs, our hobbies, our friends, even our church “activities.” All GOOD things. But we lose touch with God. We stop leaning into Him, learning from Him, holding onto Him. Before long, we start doing things out of our own strength, out of our own wisdom, and out of our own purposes. Then, we have that startling moment when we suddenly realize we’ve lost touch with Him. Now we’re in trouble, and we have no idea how we got so far away. The answer? We drifted. We simply took our eyes off Him, and the waves of life carried us away. Now we’re crying out for help.

Don’t flirt with disaster. Don’t be careless with your life. There’s a BIG ocean out there that can hurt you in a thousand different ways. Stay close to God. Keep your eyes on Him and keep your life, your job, and all you do tethered to His Presence. You need Him more than you know. If you have drifted away, cry out to Him. God loves you like those parents loved their child. He will come to you, wherever you are, and bring you safely back to shore. So be careful out there today. Enjoy your life and all the good things God has laid at your feet. But stay close to Him. Most of us don’t run from God. We drift. That’s God’s Word for you today.

[cv-brickyard] Today is brought to you by the number 11

July 15, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-brickyard
Q: Appleseed
PAX: Herbie, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), Appleseed, Floppy Disc, Gordie, Recoil
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:

SSH, this/that, tempo squats, windmills, cherry pickers

THE THANG:

Mosey planters
11s. Dips and inclines

1 min wall sits

Mosey to bleachers
11s Squats and monkey humpers

Mosey to field
11s. Merkins and BBS
Run to 50 yard line in between

MARY:

Captain Thors, ring of fire

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

You don’t need to throw out logic to have faith. God gave you a brain for a reason. Check out “red pen logic”. On YouTube.

June You vs You 5k

June 21, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: brickyard
Q: Otis
PAX: Gordie, Mountain Ice, Herbie, Spellcheck, Bail Bonds, Gmail, flyball, FixerUpper, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), Otis
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP: cherry pickers, Thai fighters, side straddle hops and a few stretches

THE THANG: mosey to the track, Mountain Ice sets up the running tunes. We start the run at the back 50 yard line, 5k is 12.5 laps. After we finish we move to the end zone and do either card deck or partner rock paper scissors until time to mosey back to AO.

MARY: no time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
convergence on 7/12 at the project
F3 dad camp 8/15-8/17
Brickyard flag handoff coming soon

COT: Careful of what you give attention to
“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4‬:‭8‬ ‭

All the things we watch, listen to and even the types of conversations we have influence us. It influences how we think and eventually how we act, even if it’s unintentional. Usually this starts out as slow and subtle, so we need to be on guard and vigilant for ourselves and our families.

Backyard EMOM

April 22, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: brickyard
Q: Gmail
PAX: Herbie, flyball, Cliff
FNGs: 1 Cliff
COUNT: 4
WARMUP:
SSH, Temp Squats, Imperial Walkers, Seal Claps, OH Claps ….
THE THANG:
Start 6 min EMOM timers. Start a new set every 6 minutes.
25 thrusters + 800m
Clydesdale mod: 25 thrusters+400m+25 Merkins
MARY:
no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill
COT:
*see pic in comments