Unibráu (Nick Robinson)

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February 25, 2026 BackBlasts

AO: shamrock
Q: Lizzy
PAX: Booster, Flower Pot, slappy, Free Fall, Eliza, Mermaid, Drano, Otis, Natty, Unibráu (Nick Robinson), Mountain Ice, Spellcheck, Honeydew, Anchorman, Stitch, DoorKicker (Jud), Squatter, Dumpster Dive, Shotgun
FNGs: None
COUNT: 22
WARMUP:

THE THANG:

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

What’s In Your Cup

September 9, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Crash Dummy
PAX: Pele (Jon Lindberg), Unibráu (Nick Robinson), Mr Jinxy, Lilydipper, Drum Major, Lizzy, Curveball, Brick, Abacus, Franzia, Shogun
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP: Imperial Walkers – 10, Cherry Pickers – 5, SSH – 20, Tempo Squats – 10, Baby Arm Circles FWD – 10, BKWD – 10. Stretching.

THE THANG: 1st POC: Run to the rocks at Pickett’s Charge. Grab a rock. Tempo Goblet Squats – 20 Reps. Rock Swings – 25 reps. Squat Thrusters – 20 reps.
2nd POC: Bros Bowl. Run to the top. 25 Incline Merkins. Run to the bottom. Big Boys until the 6 arrives. Rup up. 25 Decline Merkins. Run down. 30 LBCs. Then American Hammers till 6 arrives.
3rd POC: Run to the Caribbean. Battle buddy. Wheel Barrell to the next island (switch partners as needed). Bear Crawl to next Island. Lunge walks to the end. Hold Plank until the 6 arrives.
4th POC: Run to the small pavillion near Caribbean. Everything in cadence. Bench Pullups – 15 reps. Dips – 15 reps. Wall sit.

Run up Cardiac then back to AO.
MARY: None

ANNOUNCEMENTS: GoRuck Event in Nov. Marine Corps Mud Run 9/27.

COT: A Buddhist monk asked his students: “If you’re carrying a cup of coffee and someone bumps into you, why did you spill the coffee?”
Each of his students replied, because someone bumped into me.
“No. The reason why you spilled the coffee is because that’s what you were carrying in your cup.”
If you were carrying water, you would have spilled water.
Then he said something profound.
He said, “Whenever life shakes you, whatever you’re carrying is going to spill out.”
So, if you’re carrying fear, jealousy, anger, greed, that’s what’s going to spill out.
But if you’re carrying love, compassion, kindness, empathy, that’s what’s going to spell out.
So, each day, you should pause and think to yourself, what am I carrying in my cup today?

[genesis-ruck] Q2 2025 GORUCK BFF Test

May 5, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: genesis-ruck
Q: Steam
PAX: Unibráu (Nick Robinson), Single (Ryan Chambers)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP
– Rockettes: 10×4
– Baby Arm Circles-F: 5×4
– Baby Arm Circles-B: 5×4
– Stretch what you need OYO

THE THANG
GORUCK’s Baseline Functional Fitness Test (BFF)
– 1-mile timed ruck
– 2 minutes of sandbag burpees
– 200m timed suitcase carry
– 2 minutes of hand-release merkins

MARY
– Ruck up Moto Hill, around the pool, back down to the flag
– Core 4: 25×4 LBCs, Flutter Kicks, American Hammers, Gas Pedals
– Stretching Cool Down: The IT Department, Money Stretch, arms/chest, Willie May Hayes, Cherry Pickers

COT
May the 4th Be With You
(Pic below)

A different take on this phrase rather than just the Star Wars lens. A buddy of mine sent this to me yesterday and I loved it.

Star Wars highlights with broad strokes this idea of “good vs. evil” and “lightness vs. darkness” and there are an incredible number of parallels for us in our daily walk as believers.

Daniel 3
“And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell bound into the burning fiery furnace. Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in haste. He declared to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.” He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.””
‭‭Daniel‬ ‭3‬:‭23‬-‭25‬ ‭ESV‬‬
bible.com/bible/59/dan.3.23-25.ESV

Walk around as freed, unbound men – knowing there is always another with you.

Pavillion Playground

March 20, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: dogpound
Q: Lightweight
PAX: Earmuffs (Dan Studt), Einstein, Unibráu (Nick Robinson), MudPuppy, Madoff
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:
We did
THE THANG:
7 exercise Circuit
Rounds 1-3
Kb Swings, Lunges, Merkins, Squats, Bbs, Presses
Med ball Slams

Rounds 4-6
Rows, iron mikes, Dips, flamingos, hollow rocks, Curls, twists

Lap after 3rd and sixth

MARY:
Flutters, lbcs, ring of fire squats

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Have Ridge

COT: make sure you are vetting the influences on your kids.

Paul Newman’s Sourdough Pepperoni Pizza

March 14, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Abacus, Unibráu (Nick Robinson), Tropicana, Sawdust, Cinco (Scott McGuire), Farley, Bunny, Hands, Rainbow, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), P3, Double Wide, Love’s, Hot Tub (John Muller), Newton
FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
Matlock (Bill Maddox) was kind enough to share the Q this morning as he and Gene Steratore bought Dick Vitale’s breakfast at Denny’s this morning in preparation for next week’s Bracket Q. Don’t get caught not knowing what Lipscpmb’s mascot is!

Great having Unibráu (Nick Robinson)and the legendary Abacus back out with us.

7 Motivators, some stretching, and we moseyed. We’re all bulletproof until 2035, thank you junk science, and then halfway through getting our shoulders blasted, our buddy Bob led us in some paper/rock/scissors. Bob’s a real one.

My goal was to channel my inner Double Wide and do some sprinting but all too soon I realized it’s Cinco (Scott McGuire) who is uncatchable and P3 who you can’t even see, he runs so far ahead. We have some impressive sprinters among us.

We wandered over to the cloud and your Q’s personal policy is to do whatever Cat Gut (Mike Davis) says. So we went all the way to the Dark Webb. It’s a long journey. I actually thought the Dark Webb would make even Hot Tub (John Muller) be out of breath but I heard him talking about hot tubs, which makes me think we need to have a Q where we can only mumblechatter about what we’re named after.

Some Pavalon work and back to the AO for the Friday main event (cashing out of course) and we were all ready for the weekend.