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It’s Not About You

Why do we post Back Blasts?
As my dad would have said to me when I was a kid, “Because I told you to!” Obviously, that didn’t work for me then and it doesn’t work for us now as GAM, grown ass men.
I have been thinking a lot lately about the importance of the Back Blast coming off the Memphis launch, a host of new and reworked AOs and a great Nantaan call recently.
As I understand them, the Back Blast is the following:
  • A recap of the workout
  • A place to recognize those who posted
  • A way to track numbers and growth
  • A way to commemorate a break through
  • A way to commemorate someone splashing merlot for posterity
  • A way to make announcements
  • A way to document new and different exicon from the PAX
  • You’re a leader and part of Qing a workout is writing the BB
I’m sure there’s more on that from DREDD & OBT in Freed to Lead but I can’t get my hands on it right now.
All the above is great and I wholeheartedly agree with #1-8 and with the Nantaan of the Nation and the Great Weasel Shaker at WWHQ in their excellently penned Freed to Lead (which I still can’t find). But to me, the real reason we post the BB I realized today when I got a text from country code +44. At first glance I thought it was spam. Upon further inspection, it was from the one and only Scribe of F3Nashville Faulkner. So, without blabbing on, here’s what he wrote (I edited the very end)
“Been doing three F3 workouts a week by following the backblasts. Off days I run 4 miles. Miss the camaraderie and spiritual support. Tell everyone I said hey. Praying for those mentioned in backblasts, particularly the Kemps. Glad to see how F3 is growing … In this pic, I just finished Edible Arrangement’s latest Qed workout. The park I work out in mainly behind me. Hope you’re well.”


The title of this post is from the people at GoRuck.  I was constantly reminded of this over the past weekend in the 9-11 Memorial Ruck.  Ultimately, the BB isn’t about us being too busy, too lazy or too indifferent because it’s not about us and how we feel about posting the BB…it’s what someone else gets out of it.
So if not for #1-8 and for F2L, do it for the Faulkner’s, the Rooms2Go and others that find themselves DR for an extended period of time and that miss y’all, that miss F3Nashville and miss the 15 Burpess every minute for 10 minutes from that jerk Funyuns!
YHC,
BV
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Light Crowd Today

9/1/2017

Q: Ludwig

PAX: Big Stick, Third Degree, Yard Sale, Dupree, Vegemite, Ludwig, CCR, Dine ‘n Dash, Bagger Vance, Accounts Receivable

10 PAX posted on a slightly drizzly morning of 68 degrees. YHC anticipated a light turnout, and verily, it came to pass. I recycled my first Q from about a year ago with some slight tweaks.

Mosey to Crievewood Baptist parking lot for WOR.

SSH x20

WMH x10

Good Mornings x10

High Knees x10

Hop Kicks x10

LBAC x10

Seal Claps x10

Thang:

We lined up in the parking lot right at the point where you begin to go uphill.

Lunge to the top of the hill at Hogan and do 20 Deep Squats. Jog back down and plank for the 6.

Rinse ‘n Repeat but with broad jumps to the top.

Rinse ‘n Repeat but Lt. Dans to the top. Stay at the top after 20 deep squats.

Mosey to the rails.

Increasing/Decreasing pyramid

1 row, 1 merkin

2 row, 2 merkin, etc.

All the way up to 10, and then back down to 1. 100 rows and merkins each when all is said and done. LBCs for the 6.

Partner up and head to the pavilion for 5 sets of suicides.

P1 performs suicide, while P2 performs called exercise AMRAP. When P1 finishes suicide, flapjack.

Round 1 – Atomic Merkins

Round 2 – Mountain Climbers

Round 3 – Plank Jax

Round 4 – SSH

Round 5 – Burpees

Still some time left, so let’s get in some more upper body work at the playground.

3 sets each of 10 dips, 10 pullups and 10 swerkins.

Head back to the parking lot.

A bear crawl/crawl bear suicide for good measure. Real crowd pleaser.

Mary:

Flutter Kicks x30

30 seconds of low plank.

Time

Good work today men. Continue to pray for the Kemps and Wallaces, and baby Loretta. Also, all those affected by the flood in Texas and Louisiana.

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26 PAX @ Cruel Hall Friday 18 August 2017 – Jack Webbs and Hill Sprints

26 PAX post at Cruel Hall Friday 18 August 2017.

 

The 26 PAX were YHC Blue Mule, Foxtrot, Black Lung, Bagger Vance, Swampfox, Mattress Money, Vegemite, Accounts Receivable, Dupree, Yardsale, CCR, OSHKOSH, Blackwater, Due Process, Books-A-Million, Olin Mills, Big Strick, Grisham, Spring Breaker Ricki Lake, Dine-N-Dash, Nightstand, Pre-Vac, T-Swizz, Blue Dad, Mike Boss, CAPSLOCK.

 

Long mosey around the area where the buses pull in and back to start for warm-o-rama.

 

WARM-O-RAMA: Good Mornings, squats, Willie Mayes Hayes, baby arm circles forwards and backwards.

 

40 count four-count flutter kick in cadence.

 

JACK WEBB PERMUTATION ONE: One pushup. One overhead arm press. Pyramid up to ten of each. Then do the same process from ten down to one. That totals 110 pushups and 110 overhead arm presses.

 

Mosey over to the covered pavilion.

 

THANG UNDER THE PAVILION: Team up in groups of threes. Two people alternate flutterkicks and overhead arm claps while one person moves from one end of the pavilion to the other. Round one was [for the life of me I can’t remember what the first movement was!]. Round two was burpee broad jumps. Round three was sprints there, back, and there again. Round four was Lieutenant Dans.

 

Mosey down to the hill for hill sprints.

 

HILL SPRINTS: Sprint up the hill then mosey back down. Repeat three times.

 

JACK WEBB PERMUTATION TWO: One pushup. One four count overhead arm pres. Pyramid up to ten of each. That totals 55 pushups and 110 overhead arm presses.

 

MARY: 20 WW2 situps, 20 four-count crunchy frogs, 20 four-count flutterkicks, 20 four-count hello Dollys, high planks.

 

It was a pleasure leading you gentlemen and I’ll see you in the gloom.

 

Blue Mule Out