Date: 2026-06-05 AO: Bomber Q: Strutter , PAX: Shy Guy, CubCadet, Vector, Puzzlah, Pep, Papa Bear, Topps, Strutter, Tim the Toolman, Chunks, Steampunk FNGs: COUNT: 11 CONDITIONS: Beautiful morning. WARMUP: Thanks CubCadet THE THANG: Not 4 corners, 5 corners. Corner 1 squats/std Corner 2 merkins/std Corner 3 squats/s&d Corner 4 merkins/asst Corner 5 Mahktar N’Deaye Modes of transport between corners: Broad Jump Burpees Duck Walks Lunge Walks Bernies Assorted methods including Boo-Boo Bear Crawls, Standard Bear Crawls, and Sprints. 3 rounds of each. All exercises were done in cadence. MARY: 55 LBCs IC MOLESKINE: Thanks for being on the show. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Strutterfest ’26 COT: Squatter family, coach. PLAYLIST:
Downtown Rodeo 🤠 🐎
Date: 2026-06-03 AO: Titan Q: Toothless , PAX: Papa Bear, Pole Dancer, Makita (Anderson Fader), Tim the Toolman, Spinal Tap, Vector, Pep, Hipster, Toothless, CubCadet, Shelby, Steampunk, FNGs: None COUNT: 13 CONDITIONS: Pleasantly cool, a welcome break from the oncoming onslaught of humidity and heat
WARMUP: Active warmups e.g. skips, shuffles, karaoke, etc.
THE THANG: Downtown Rodeo :face_with_cowboy_hat: :racehorse: Head to the field where the first event is set up
Event 1: Barrel Race Relay PAX split into two groups. Groups perform exercises AMRAP until all PAX have completed the barrel pattern. Incorrect pattern results in a restart for that runner. First group to finish wins, winners do 5 burpees and losers do 15.
Round 1 – Prisoner Squats Round 2 – Merkins Round 3 – WWI’s
Event 2: Stampede Bear crawl sharks and minnows, as in bear crawl across the field and try not to get tagged by the bear crawlers who are it. Number of taggers (ideally) increases each round along with the difficulty. Last man to be tagged wins. 2 rounds.
Event 3: Climbing Pikes Peak The Manitou Incline is a set of 2768 railroad tie steps gaining 2000ft of elevation in a mile. Let’s climb it. 2768 divided by the number of PAX. Roughly 200 double count mountain climbers each.
Event 4: Quarter Horse Dash The namesake of the Quarter Horse comes from it being the fastest breed at or below that distance. Conveniently, a lap around the Parthenon is exactly 1/4 of a mile. So, PAX run a lap with someone calling finish times. Continue to run laps and beat your times else be faced with AMRAP exercises. Some PAX made it 3 laps before heading back for time.
MARY: Dealers choice til time, starting with 10 bucking broncos aka donkey kicks
MOLESKINE: Barrels relay was mostly successful, but at least one of the PAX messed up the pattern on each of the rounds which ended up being the deciding factor in the race. Bear crawling sharks and minnows from the Stampede event was a hit with everyone, especially CubCadet and Vector. The 200 mountain climbers were surprisingly difficult once getting to the higher counts. YHC was toast for the Quarter Horse Dash, but Spinal Tap must have sandbagged because he was almost 10 seconds faster on the 2nd and 3rd laps!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: – 7/11 convergence! – Come to bomber for Strutter’s birthday kickoff – Keep checking Slack for more fun announcements!
COT: YHC encouraged the PAX to be grateful for their health & the ability to workout, as health is easy to take for granted until you don’t have it. Prayer requests were shared, ball of man was convened.
PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5RpkZbLODArnaWvGQy9QZq?si=15faca6db7c9424c
WARMUP: Active warmups e.g. skips, shuffles, karaoke, etc.
THE THANG: Downtown Rodeo :face_with_cowboy_hat: :racehorse: Head to the field where the first event is set up
Event 1: Barrel Race Relay PAX split into two groups. Groups perform exercises AMRAP until all PAX have completed the barrel pattern. Incorrect pattern results in a restart for that runner. First group to finish wins, winners do 5 burpees and losers do 15.
Round 1 – Prisoner Squats Round 2 – Merkins Round 3 – WWI’s
Event 2: Stampede Bear crawl sharks and minnows, as in bear crawl across the field and try not to get tagged by the bear crawlers who are it. Number of taggers (ideally) increases each round along with the difficulty. Last man to be tagged wins. 2 rounds.
Event 3: Climbing Pikes Peak The Manitou Incline is a set of 2768 railroad tie steps gaining 2000ft of elevation in a mile. Let’s climb it. 2768 divided by the number of PAX. Roughly 200 double count mountain climbers each.
Event 4: Quarter Horse Dash The namesake of the Quarter Horse comes from it being the fastest breed at or below that distance. Conveniently, a lap around the Parthenon is exactly 1/4 of a mile. So, PAX run a lap with someone calling finish times. Continue to run laps and beat your times else be faced with AMRAP exercises. Some PAX made it 3 laps before heading back for time.
MARY: Dealers choice til time, starting with 10 bucking broncos aka donkey kicks
MOLESKINE: Barrels relay was mostly successful, but at least one of the PAX messed up the pattern on each of the rounds which ended up being the deciding factor in the race. Bear crawling sharks and minnows from the Stampede event was a hit with everyone, especially CubCadet and Vector. The 200 mountain climbers were surprisingly difficult once getting to the higher counts. YHC was toast for the Quarter Horse Dash, but Spinal Tap must have sandbagged because he was almost 10 seconds faster on the 2nd and 3rd laps!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: – 7/11 convergence! – Come to bomber for Strutter’s birthday kickoff – Keep checking Slack for more fun announcements!
COT: YHC encouraged the PAX to be grateful for their health & the ability to workout, as health is easy to take for granted until you don’t have it. Prayer requests were shared, ball of man was convened.
PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5RpkZbLODArnaWvGQy9QZq?si=15faca6db7c9424c
The Knoll
Date: 2026-05-26 AO: The Knoll Q: Sooie , PAX: Roadkill, Juicy J, Papa Bear, Sooie, Chains (Ryan Johnson), morning stār, Bumblebee (2.0) FNGs: None COUNT: 7 CONDITIONS: The heaven’s showered tears of mirth upon our gathering and the temperature was just warm enough to keep us from becoming hypothermic.
WARMUP: – Head rotations OYO – Shoulder rotations OYO – BAC 16x – BBAC 16x – Don Quixote 6x – Motivators from 5 – Slow squats (so Chains (Ryan Johnson) could join us before we proceeded to the main event)
THE THANG: BUILD-A-BURPEE 5 Cones, spaced 10 yards apart. Home cone = Burpee Assembly Station Cone 1: Squat Cone 2: Groiner Cone 3: Merkin Cone 4: Jump Squat
PAX lined up in a queue (line) and took their turn in the burpee building event. Run to cone, perform exercise at cone, run back, add it to the burpee assembly. We descended a ladder of reps from 5 amidst much rain and much mumblechatter.
MOLESKINE: Reflected on personal meditations from Pslam 107.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Summer Bash TBD
COT: Prayers lifted. PLAYLIST: pitter, patter of rain on Roadkill’s hood.
WARMUP: – Head rotations OYO – Shoulder rotations OYO – BAC 16x – BBAC 16x – Don Quixote 6x – Motivators from 5 – Slow squats (so Chains (Ryan Johnson) could join us before we proceeded to the main event)
THE THANG: BUILD-A-BURPEE 5 Cones, spaced 10 yards apart. Home cone = Burpee Assembly Station Cone 1: Squat Cone 2: Groiner Cone 3: Merkin Cone 4: Jump Squat
PAX lined up in a queue (line) and took their turn in the burpee building event. Run to cone, perform exercise at cone, run back, add it to the burpee assembly. We descended a ladder of reps from 5 amidst much rain and much mumblechatter.
MOLESKINE: Reflected on personal meditations from Pslam 107.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Summer Bash TBD
COT: Prayers lifted. PLAYLIST: pitter, patter of rain on Roadkill’s hood.
Bomber
Date: 2026-05-08 AO: Bomber Q: Spinal Tap , PAX: Vector, Papa Bear, DintyMoore, CubCadet, Black Lung, Pep, Spinal Tap, Sherlock, Topps FNGs: None COUNT: 9 CONDITIONS: perfect
WARMUP: the usual
THE THANG: DORA strengthening the :peach: Bear crawl or lunges while the others did 100 Fire hydrants 200 single leg glut bridge 300 squats
Deck of Death: merkins, star jumps, burpees, Carolina dry docks, and reverse lunges
Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Juicy J half marathon tomorrow! Holy smokers next week
COT: Squatters wife, grapes son, vectors son to hopefully pack and be a responsible adult, etc
Thanks for letting me lead!
PLAYLIST:
WARMUP: the usual
THE THANG: DORA strengthening the :peach: Bear crawl or lunges while the others did 100 Fire hydrants 200 single leg glut bridge 300 squats
Deck of Death: merkins, star jumps, burpees, Carolina dry docks, and reverse lunges
Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Juicy J half marathon tomorrow! Holy smokers next week
COT: Squatters wife, grapes son, vectors son to hopefully pack and be a responsible adult, etc
Thanks for letting me lead!
PLAYLIST:
Shakira’s Search & Rescue Q
Date: 2026-05-05 AO: The Knoll Q: Shakira , PAX: Half Lyfe, Roadkill, Papa Bear, Malibu, Shakira FNGs: None COUNT: 5 CONDITIONS: Perfect with a side of ideal
WARMUP: Willie Mays Hayes, low slow squats, merkins, motivators, and warming up our brains with a discussion of proper cadence counting
THE THANG:
1. CPR (Chest, Press, Raise): 5 minutes of increasing reps. Combination of 3 Arm exercises with SBs. Starting position like doing curls and done all together in a 6-Count cadence: 1 = “C”url, 2 = Overhead “P”ress, 3 = Tricep “R”aise (i.e. extension), 4 = back to OHP position, 5 = back to Curl position, 6 = back to resting position.
2. CPR stations and choking first aid: – 2 PAX lunge walk with babies and perform choking first aid – 1 PAX performs compressions on mannequin – 2 PAX do weighted squats with SB
3. 911 & AED run 1. 2 PAX do 9 weighted squats & 11 curls, followed by 9 JLos & 11 plankjacks 2. 3 PAX run with SBs to retrieve the AED
4. Sand Bag Brigade: Pass two sand bags overhead in a line. Capped off with bear crawl and 90 second plank.
MOLESKINE: “In times of trouble, Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” — Mr Rogers. Let’s be people who step up in times of trouble.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Juicy J Half!
COT: Prayers for family, travel, and transitions to summer. Continued prayer for all those experiencing health challenges, especially Squatter’s wife
PLAYLIST: Songs with bpm 100-120
WARMUP: Willie Mays Hayes, low slow squats, merkins, motivators, and warming up our brains with a discussion of proper cadence counting
THE THANG:
1. CPR (Chest, Press, Raise): 5 minutes of increasing reps. Combination of 3 Arm exercises with SBs. Starting position like doing curls and done all together in a 6-Count cadence: 1 = “C”url, 2 = Overhead “P”ress, 3 = Tricep “R”aise (i.e. extension), 4 = back to OHP position, 5 = back to Curl position, 6 = back to resting position.
2. CPR stations and choking first aid: – 2 PAX lunge walk with babies and perform choking first aid – 1 PAX performs compressions on mannequin – 2 PAX do weighted squats with SB
3. 911 & AED run 1. 2 PAX do 9 weighted squats & 11 curls, followed by 9 JLos & 11 plankjacks 2. 3 PAX run with SBs to retrieve the AED
4. Sand Bag Brigade: Pass two sand bags overhead in a line. Capped off with bear crawl and 90 second plank.
MOLESKINE: “In times of trouble, Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” — Mr Rogers. Let’s be people who step up in times of trouble.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Juicy J Half!
COT: Prayers for family, travel, and transitions to summer. Continued prayer for all those experiencing health challenges, especially Squatter’s wife
PLAYLIST: Songs with bpm 100-120
May the Westeros Be With You
Date: 2026-05-04 AO: Westeros Q: Vector , PAX: Papa Bear, Shy Guy, Pep, Spinal Tap, Vector, bluemule, CubCadet, Tim the Toolman, Natural Ice, Squatter, Topps FNGs: None COUNT: 11 A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (well, in Missouri in 1977), YHC was 7 and his parents took him to see Star Wars (not “Episode 4” or “A New Hope” – in my day we just had one trilogy and we liked it). Needless to say, it was incredible and unlike anything young soon-to-be-named-Vector had experience. After many sequels and countless $$$ spent on action figures (which I still have in my collectable Darth Vader head container), it remains a strong childhood memory (despite later diversions into midachloridians and Jar Jar). So to celebrate May the 4th/Star Wars Day, the PAX re-enacted that first SW movie. So let’s go shoot at whomp rats and get going . . .
CONDITIONS: Crisp and bright, like a two sun sunrise on Tattooine.
WARMUP: Stormtrooper Hops, Imperial Walkers, Little Yoda Arm Circles, Tauntaun claps, Overhead force presses, Reverse Little Yoda Arm Circles, Jar Jars (Michael Phelps)
THE THANG: #1 Take the Droids to the Old Man: Coupon Rows and Burpees (for R2 and Ben) for 22s (double because Artoo . . . )
Break to do the Kessel Run — not sure anyone made it under 12 parsecs
#2 Find a Pilot: Ring of Fire with coupon presses — all made it and were deemed worthy pilots
#3 Rescue the Princess: Lunges (for Leia) and Star Jumps in a round of 11s (representing the 11 live action released SW films — sorry, Mando – your film ain’t out yet so doesn’t count)
#4 Attack the Death Star Ring of Fire with merkins and advance into circle with each rep.
Mary: Force flutter kicks, Bounty Hunter Boxcutters, Death Star Dollys
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check Slack – Holy Smokers, Juicy J marathon
COT: – Prayers for Squatter and his M and 2.0. While the workout and theme was done in fun, life can be serious. We lift up Squatter and his family — know that you have many brothers here to offer payers, support, love, anything you need.
RANDOM NOTES: – Appreciate the level of SalPal’s SW nerdom – Appreciate bluemule noting halfway through the work out that there was no way we’d get through all of the movie plots in time (Hmm, Empire next week?) – Glad I could feed Natural Ice’s Weird Al fandom once again with 2 deep cuts – It ain’t easy to plan a full playlist with SW themed songs, but I did have the disco version of SW theme that went to number one on the charts (it was 1977: all we had was disco, Star Wars and cocaine . . . )
PLAYLIST: Star Wars Main Title – John Williams/London Symph Orchestra Cantina Band – John Williams/London Symph Orchestra The Saga Begins – Weird Al I’m the Droid (You’re Looking For – Nerf Herder The Imperial March – John Williams/London Symph Orchestra Star Wars Theme – Meco Yoda – Weird Al Chewbacca – Supernova Return of the Jedi – Alex Jean The Empire Strikes Back – Meco Dual of the Fates – John Williams/London Symph Orchestra The Throne Room/End Titles – John Williams/London Symph Orchestra
CONDITIONS: Crisp and bright, like a two sun sunrise on Tattooine.
WARMUP: Stormtrooper Hops, Imperial Walkers, Little Yoda Arm Circles, Tauntaun claps, Overhead force presses, Reverse Little Yoda Arm Circles, Jar Jars (Michael Phelps)
THE THANG: #1 Take the Droids to the Old Man: Coupon Rows and Burpees (for R2 and Ben) for 22s (double because Artoo . . . )
Break to do the Kessel Run — not sure anyone made it under 12 parsecs
#2 Find a Pilot: Ring of Fire with coupon presses — all made it and were deemed worthy pilots
#3 Rescue the Princess: Lunges (for Leia) and Star Jumps in a round of 11s (representing the 11 live action released SW films — sorry, Mando – your film ain’t out yet so doesn’t count)
#4 Attack the Death Star Ring of Fire with merkins and advance into circle with each rep.
Mary: Force flutter kicks, Bounty Hunter Boxcutters, Death Star Dollys
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check Slack – Holy Smokers, Juicy J marathon
COT: – Prayers for Squatter and his M and 2.0. While the workout and theme was done in fun, life can be serious. We lift up Squatter and his family — know that you have many brothers here to offer payers, support, love, anything you need.
RANDOM NOTES: – Appreciate the level of SalPal’s SW nerdom – Appreciate bluemule noting halfway through the work out that there was no way we’d get through all of the movie plots in time (Hmm, Empire next week?) – Glad I could feed Natural Ice’s Weird Al fandom once again with 2 deep cuts – It ain’t easy to plan a full playlist with SW themed songs, but I did have the disco version of SW theme that went to number one on the charts (it was 1977: all we had was disco, Star Wars and cocaine . . . )
PLAYLIST: Star Wars Main Title – John Williams/London Symph Orchestra Cantina Band – John Williams/London Symph Orchestra The Saga Begins – Weird Al I’m the Droid (You’re Looking For – Nerf Herder The Imperial March – John Williams/London Symph Orchestra Star Wars Theme – Meco Yoda – Weird Al Chewbacca – Supernova Return of the Jedi – Alex Jean The Empire Strikes Back – Meco Dual of the Fates – John Williams/London Symph Orchestra The Throne Room/End Titles – John Williams/London Symph Orchestra
Titan
Date: 2026-04-29 AO: Titan Q: Esposa , PAX: Pep, Hipster, Papa Bear, CubCadet, Esposa, Saigon Sam FNGs: None COUNT: 6 CONDITIONS: Crisp and the Ground was wet with puddles
WARMUP: Espoga= (Yoga+Bro) Esposa/Thunderburpee
THE THANG: Playground led by DR Saigon Sam. Dips, step ups, pull ups
4 corners Around Parthenon 25 dry docks 25 LBC 25 drop squats 50 plank jacks High skip Karaoke left Karaoke Right Bernie 25 merkins 25 aqua man’s 25 Bonnie Blair 50 Hill Billy’s
MOLESKINE:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ruck see Hipster tampalibra
COT: Prayers for Frank, Kevin new life
PLAYLIST: LA Riots inspired with it being April 29th 1992
WARMUP: Espoga= (Yoga+Bro) Esposa/Thunderburpee
THE THANG: Playground led by DR Saigon Sam. Dips, step ups, pull ups
4 corners Around Parthenon 25 dry docks 25 LBC 25 drop squats 50 plank jacks High skip Karaoke left Karaoke Right Bernie 25 merkins 25 aqua man’s 25 Bonnie Blair 50 Hill Billy’s
MOLESKINE:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ruck see Hipster tampalibra
COT: Prayers for Frank, Kevin new life
PLAYLIST: LA Riots inspired with it being April 29th 1992
Westeros
Date: 2026-04-27 AO: Westeros Q: Michelin Man , Vector PAX: Michelin Man, Grape, Papa Bear, bluemule, Vector, DintyMoore, Pep, Floss FNGs: None COUNT: 8 CONDITIONS: spring has sprung
WARMUP: back and hip exercises
THE THANG: see the pic
MOLESKINE:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
PLAYLIST:
WARMUP: back and hip exercises
THE THANG: see the pic
MOLESKINE:
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Titan
Date: 2026-04-22 AO: Titan Q: Papa Bear , PAX: CubCadet, Pep, Stumbles, Papa Bear, Vector, Tim the Toolman, Sherlock, Scoop FNGs: None COUNT: 9 CONDITIONS: Sunny
WARMUP: Pre-stretch legs and arms
THE THANG: Inventoried a variety of trees throughout the park, in recognition of Earth day! Sharing fun facts, like Dawn Redwood was thought to be extinct until rediscovered in a remote valley in China in 1944, and completing an exercise before moving onto the next tree!
MOLESKINE:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Prayers for Stumbles retreat presentation on Friday; Ongoing prayers offered for Squatter, his wife and daugther
PLAYLIST: Sounds of nature
WARMUP: Pre-stretch legs and arms
THE THANG: Inventoried a variety of trees throughout the park, in recognition of Earth day! Sharing fun facts, like Dawn Redwood was thought to be extinct until rediscovered in a remote valley in China in 1944, and completing an exercise before moving onto the next tree!
MOLESKINE:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Prayers for Stumbles retreat presentation on Friday; Ongoing prayers offered for Squatter, his wife and daugther
PLAYLIST: Sounds of nature
The Knoll
Date: 2026-04-21 AO: The Knoll Q: Pebbles , PAX: AAA, Pebbles, Papa Bear, Roadkill, Sparrow FNGs: COUNT: 5 CONDITIONS: Warmish
WARMUP: Side straddle hops Bacs Bac bacs Windmills Slow squats
THE THANG: Sandbags were available
Curls X10 Overhead press X10 Dips X10 Square X10 Bent over rows X10 Lt. Dan’s X10 Step ups X10 Russian twists X10 Run 100m
Repeat until you puke. Nobody puked
MOLESKINE: My college coach would end every team meeting by saying “Take care of yourself first, then take care of others.”
At the time I thought it selfish but now realize it’s the proper order of things. You can’t be effective unless you have you have your own act together.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check slack
COT: Prayed for the PAX
PLAYLIST:
WARMUP: Side straddle hops Bacs Bac bacs Windmills Slow squats
THE THANG: Sandbags were available
Curls X10 Overhead press X10 Dips X10 Square X10 Bent over rows X10 Lt. Dan’s X10 Step ups X10 Russian twists X10 Run 100m
Repeat until you puke. Nobody puked
MOLESKINE: My college coach would end every team meeting by saying “Take care of yourself first, then take care of others.”
At the time I thought it selfish but now realize it’s the proper order of things. You can’t be effective unless you have you have your own act together.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check slack
COT: Prayed for the PAX
PLAYLIST: