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Battle Royal Team Erector vs Team Slappy

July 3, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-project
Q: Flying Dutchman
PAX: Erector, Lt. Dan, Tom Tom, Mathlete, Haggis, Nosedive, Flying Dutchman, Ocho, Baby Face, slappy, Crawlspace, Munge, Chicken Bone, Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), @Dart Gun, None
FNGs: 1 None
COUNT: 15
WARMUP:
SSH, Moroccan Nightclub, LBAC, Willie Mays Hayes, Temp Squats, Cherry Pickers
THE THANG:
Team Erector vs Team Slappy compete for most points. Start from the flag and take off to complete three steps. Step 1- one person needs to visit the Bell, the wall, the playground and the pull-up bar. The must complete and excercise and pick up an envelope with a 1 or a 2 on it depending who arrived first. While the is happening the rest of the team is running to the starting point to complete step 2. Flip cards and complete excercise until 35 are complete for the team. Round 3, continue to flip cards but add running up the stairs, do 1 burpee and the back down. Continue doing that until time is called. Excercises include: Derkins, Diamond Derkins, Wide Arm Derkins, Man Makers , Murder Bunnies, Blockees, Curls, Presses, Tricepts. Chest Press, Thusters, Colt 45, Lt Dans, Heavy Squats, Heavy Lunges, Bear Crawl, Mountain Climbers, Dips, SSH, Karate Jacks, Heavy Dolly’s, Heavy Box Cutters, Heavy Fullers, Heavy Big Boys, John Cusack, Kevin MacCallister, Bent Rows, Upright Rows, America Hammers, CMU Swings, Wall-ups.
MARY:
None
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
Read quote from the Independence Day movie and compared it to Independence Day quotes from our founding fathers George Washington, John Adam’s, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. The movie quote does get you hyped up to fight for our freedom, and the founding fathers did the same but each added something about God and Christ and our duty there. Speaking about God alongside everything was expected as they understood that without God they would not have anything. It is right, honorable and respectful to be proud of our country, flag and our Independence Day; however, we should never want independence from God. We in Christ are happy servants to a loving God and Savior.

5 years after Erector

June 24, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete
PAX: KickFlip, Rocket, Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), TombRaider, Baby Face, Erector, Tom Tom, Mooch, Lt. Dan, Mathlete, flyball
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:
15 SSH, 15 mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 10 harry Rockettes, 10 tempo squats

THE THANG:
Mosey to the stairs behind the theater. Perform 3 rounds of the following exercises at the bottom and then run to the top of the stairs after each exercise.

25 merkins, up and down the stairs, repeat x 3
25 squats, same as above
25 heels to Heaven, same as above
10 burpee bonus single round (repeat til everyone gets there)

Mosey to the amphitheater. 3 sets of 15 box jumps and 15 dive bombers.

We had to add one more thing because of the beasts crushing the workout this morning. Bear crawl up the hill and do 10 burpees and mosey back down.
MARY:
Low plank to finish the minute.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Starfish convergence on July 12th, 6 am right here at The Project!
COT:
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6‭-‬7 NASB

Scripture speaks several times about not being anxious. This is because anxiety comes out of the empty space between our lived trust in God and the trust that he deserves. When I feel anxious about my wife and her imminent labor and delivery, even though that is normal and expected, it is revealing a gap in my trust. My confidence in God’s good and Providence is incomplete, and I have taken upon myself the burden of filling the gap, covering for God. So I remind myself, and also you today, that we shouldn’t take on so much. It’s not for us to carry. Though we may well face pain and loss, he can and will make it right in the end.

[lostpearls] 7 of Diamonds MJ Style

June 23, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: lostpearls
Q: flyball
PAX: Freebird, Mathlete, Mooch, Wild Thing (2.0)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
SSH
Windmills
Ti Fighters
Hillbillies
Grady Corn
Cherry pickers

THE THANG:
Mosey to softball field

7 of diamonds:

Starting at home plate, sprint the bases stopping at each base to perform the following exercises at each one. Each time around the bases, the exercises and reps change.

– Round 1: 7 burpees
– Round 2: 14 MTC’s 4 ct
– Round 3: 21 merkins
– Round 4: 28 squats
– Round 5: 21 dry docks
– Round 6: 14 cross body MT ‘s
– Round 7: 7 burpees

Mosey to basketball court for some bone the fish, half court lunge walks, and half court broad jumps.

Mosey back to the AO.

MARY:
Squat hold
25 4ct flutter kicks
25 Superman’s
25 LBC’s 4ct
25 Box Cutters 4ct

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Forgot to mention these because I always do…

– Convergence July 12 0700 at the Project for new region kickoff
– F3 Dad Camp Aug 15-17

COT:
The greatest basketball player of all time was quoted as saying…

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan

Failure is a mindset.
Failure doesn’t define us.
Failure isn’t final.

I often tell my kids and the people I work with that I expect them to make mistakes. I want them to push themselves and if they aren’t making mistakes then they aren’t pushing themselves enough. I do not characterize those mistakes as failures.

If MJ had given up or let those failures define him, we would have been robbed of 6 championships, the coveted number 23, (today’s date by the way 6/23), the Air Jordan from the free throw line, and the list goes on and on. There have been some amazing athletes to play the game of basketball but none that matched the mindset of Jordan.

This concept of failure reminds me of a verse in Micah, one of the minor prophets in the Old Testament.

“Do not rejoice over me, enemy of mine. Though I fall I will rise; Though I live in darkness, the Lord is a light for me.”
‭‭Micah‬ ‭7‬:‭8‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Micah, just like MJ didn’t allow failure to define him. Micah kept his eye on the end goal, which was God.

No matter what happens to us here, we can persevere. Let find a way this week to have an MJ mentality.

Burn Burn Burn

June 19, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-project
Q: Tom Tom
PAX: Mathlete, Baby Face, Biohack, Ocho, Borg, 3-Peat (Carlos Rodriguez), Chicken Bone, TombRaider, Artemis, Nosedive, Mooch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:

Projectivators
Tempo squats
Elevator merkins
Cherry pickers

THE THANG:

Go to blocks

Rings of Fire
Do a ring of fire (1 2 3 2 1)
Run a ring around the parking lot

Overhead press (hold block up)
Squats (hold squat)
Heavy big boys (hold block up)
Curls (hold 90 degrees)
Lunges (hold squat)
Heavy flutters (hold block up)
Triceps (hold block up)
Blockies (hold plank)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Convergence at the-project July 12, 6am

COT:

Luke 16:19-23

There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,
who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried,
and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.

Hell is real and forever is a long time.
I need to remember this when I talk with my own friends and loved ones. Lest we forget.

John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

JUNE METRIC

June 17, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-project
Q: Ocho
PAX: Biohack, Baby Face, TombRaider, 3-Peat (Carlos Rodriguez), Lt. Dan, Mathlete, Chicken Bone
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
Willie Mays Hayes, Calf Stretches, Tempo Squats, SSH

THE THANG:
The JUNE METRIC.
YOU vs YOU
Run, walk, or ruck a 5K. Record your time. Bonus points if you do all 3.

MARY:
Held an Al Gore for 30 seconds.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius
“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” (James 1:22)

A lot men talk about what they want to be. Take it further. BE what you wish to be. Live out the change that you hope to see. Even if it’s 1% at a time, step into change.