Month: February 2026

Run the Hill

Pax:
Ukulele
Echo
Spaulding – Q

Long jog up hill and around the top

Suicide to lights (2 lights and up to the top)
Sprint up walk down

Jog up and around circle but stay up top

Reverse suicide start at the top
Walk down sprint up

Jog around circle back to the bottom

Suicide – start with 1 burpee and 1 burpee at each turn run hard the whole time

Slow jog up and around circle stay at the top
Reverse suicide
Walk down back petal up

Run circle and go to the bottom

Merkin hill run
Run the hill three full times and you must complete a total of 60 merkins
Stop and do any amount of merkins at any time

Leadership Ruck BackBlast

Pax
Guardian
Deliverance
Photon
Tarnished
Meatloaf
Flo Q

Welcome
Mission
Principles

Rucked to the Maple Street dock discussing the importance of humor with family friends and coworkers

COT

2/21/26
Fortress

Pax:
Thor(q)
Wario
Huckleberry
Flo
Guardian
Fat Amy
Photon
Meatloaf
Stark
Tarnished
Spaulding
Deliverance

Warm ups
Stretching and a group murph

Workout:
Broke into 3 teams. 1 team per sled.
1 pax pushing sled to cone and back.
Rest of team doing set exercises.

Once the pax got back, switch until all pax has been on sleds.

Round 1:
First cone/BBS
Second Cone/Bonnie Blairs
Third Cone/Merkins

Halftime: Another group murph

Round 2
First Cone/LBC's
Second Cone/Boy Bands
Third Cone/Burpees

Finished with Howling Monkeys to 40.

Backblast: February 14th, 2026

AO: The Fortress – Grace Church – Perrysburg, OH

PAX:
Photon – Q
Bevo
Coconut
Deliverance
Gold Star
Guardian
Longhorn
Meatloaf
Tarnished

Workout: What's Your Love Language?

FNG’s: N/A

Mission and Principles:
F3: Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
Mission: To plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
The core principles of F3 are that it is always:
1. Free of charge
2. Open to all men
3. Held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
4. Led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary. You versus you. Modify or stop an exercise if you need to. The most important thing is that nobody gets hurt.
5. Ends with a Circle of Trust
Credo: Leave no man behind but leave no man where you find him

Warm-up: In Cadence

Side Straddle Squirrel Jacks: 10
Arm Circles Forward (4 is 1): 10
Arm Circles Reverse (4 is 1): 10

The “Thang”:

Learned about the 5 love languages, one language at a time.

1. Quality Time: PAX performed 100 burpees for time. Goal was a quality time. Early finishers picked up the 6 until the 11 minute timer.
2. Physical Touch: PAX partnered up by weight and performed a modified 11s until time. Exercises were partner squats on one end and plank-jack paddy-cake on the other end. MOT were either wheelbarrow or partner carry to the first light post.
3. Acts Of Service: At the start of the 10 minute timer, all PAX started AMRAPing SSH in cadence indefinitely. As long as a PAX was performing SSH, they were still awake. The second each PAX had to take just one rep off, it signified them falling asleep. Once a PAX fell asleep, he was transported into his own personal nightmare. The nightmare was that individual PAX’s least two favorite exercises. AMRAPing and switching when necessary. That’s it. You fall asleep and you are forced into performing your two least favorite exercises for the remaining time. There was only one way to escape your own nightmare…to be woken up and freed by another PAX who performed an act of service to you and jumped into your place in that particular nightmare.
4. Receiving Gifts: Q gave gifts to the rest of the PAX…the tires. PAX split into two teams and performed tire flips a la the 2025 Battlefield convergence. Buy-in was three perfect merkins before running to the tire and starting to flip. Max of two men on the tire at one time. One done with the tire flips, PAX ran back to start and performed buy-in reps again. Team who flipped the tire down and back to the light post was the winner.

Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 9
Name-O-Rama

The Six – Tarnished

LDP3

Ball of Man

5. Words of Affirmation: PAX went around the COT clockwise and gave a word of affirmation to the man on his left until every PAX had an opportunity to speak. We speak out so often about our families and communities, but rarely give praise to each other. It was a fantastic reminder of what our PAX bring to the table and to each other each and every post.

Spreadsheets from the Gloom: BB was written 6 days late, so I can’t remember the weather. It was cold though…but not for long. This was a burner. Nothing like starting off a beatdown with 100 burpees and ending it with tire flips. Add 600 SSH and partner carries in between and you’ve got yourself a winner.

Two winners really…there was a playlist:

“A Kiss To Send Us Off” – Incubus
“Heartshine” – Mother Love Bone
“Love Rollercoaster” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
“High On Your Love Suite/One Mo Hit (Of Your Love) (Medley)” – Rick James
“Love’s Dance” – Earth, Wind, & Fire
“State Of Love And Trust” – Pearl Jam
“Heart-Shaped Box” – Nirvana
“Lover, Leaver (Taker, Believer)” – Greta Van Fleet
“Love Foolosophy” – Jamiroquai
“What Is Love” – Haddaway
Overall, the love language theme went well. Only thing I would change would be the nightmare portion of the Acts of Service. Not enough time during this beatdown to explain it adequately. It’s better held for a full beatdown. The rest was awesome, though. Loved the partner 11’s…would also make a great full beatdown in the future. And you can never go wrong with tires.

Words of affirmation was icing on the cake. Honored to have the rest of the PAX buy-in to that and take part so honestly.

2/7/26
AO: The Battlefield
Workout: Swamp Battle V.2
PAX:
Thor(Q)
Djibouti
Crawdad
Shepherd
Jersey
Gold Star
Fat Amy
Doogie
Wario
Norm
Lonzo
Marcy
Arcy

Mission, Principles and Disclaimer given

Did some quick warm ups like SSH, Chainbreakers, etc.

The Thang: Break out into 2 even teams.
Part 1:
Everyone runs to the end of the parking lot and back. Complete work. First team to have 3 finish the work and touch the sled can start pushing sled around the island for points. 1 point every time it goes around.

EVERYONE else moves into part 2 to try to finish first. You can only move on if you completed at least half of the work from part 1.

Part 2:
Both team start doing 10 reps of an exercise and putting a chip into their bucket.When they run out of chips, they can sprint to the sled person and tag them. That ends the round.
Points:
1 point for every time the sled goes around
3 extra points if the offense touches sled first
-2 points if the defense finished first

Exercises per round:

OYO Work:
Swapped between Merkins, BBS, Jump Squats, etc.

Team Work:
Monkey Humpers(4×1)
Suicides
Jungle Bois
LT. Dans

NOR & COT

2/20 – Rabbit Hole
"Levels"

Q – Viper

PAX:
Doubtfire
Rudy
Fat Amy
Footloose
Waldo
Echo
Purdy
Gold Wing
OSHA
Flat Stanley
Manchester
Lonzo
Norm
Sven
Stu

The Thang:

Warm up:
SSH
Chain Breakers
Potato Pickers
Imperial Walkers

Mosey to the hill

Format:
Do an exercise in cadence (two count) until failure to see what level you're at (beginner, intermediate, advanced, elite). Once you hit failure, start running the hill until the last man standing hits failure. Repeat with a new exercise.

Exercises performed (with numbers for each level):
Squats – 16, 57, 113, 178
Merkins – 18, 41, 68, 99
LBCs – 19, 55, 102, 155
Lunges – 10, 38, 73, 113
Supermans – 8, 28, 53, 81

CoT:

6 – Purdy

Prayers – Snowbird, Binford, Echo

20 February 2026 Backblast: Bob Ross and Southie posted. Attempted a Murph workout.
End with COT.

Meatloaf – Q
Spaulding
Bourbon
Carmen San Diego

Section 1 AMRAP

5 burpees
10 Merkins
15 Squats
20 Flutter kicks 2:1

Session 2 Ladder

+5 Mountain Climber 4:1
+5 Speed Skaters 2:1

Session 3 Minute to Win it

Jungle Boys
SSH
HRM
Big Boy toe touch
Carolina Dry Docks

QIC –
Stark
PAX –
Djibouti
Lonzo
Shepherd
Doogie
Warhammer
Flat Stanley
Arcy
Fat Amy
Viper
Crawdad
Mercy
Huck
Rudy

The Thang
No reps, no running, no rucks, no blocks, no weight, no burpees…but a smoke fest!

5 cones setup which creates 4 sections. Pick from white board any animal movement to do between sections.
Animal movement options:
1.) Bear Crawl
2.) Crab Walk
3.) Frog Jumps
4.) Bunny hops
5.) Starfish walk (cartwheel)
6.) Lateral Bear walk
7.) Murder Bunny (no block)
8.) Alligator Walk

Choose your own adventure each time down the sections. Must switch animal movement between each section. Once at the end you karaoke or skip back to start. Once there put a ball from bucket into your teams bucket. Once the balls have all been moved from center bucket to each teams bucket the round is over.

We did 3 rounds and the score was 20 to 21 every time. Very matched teams.

We did one round of all 14 against the clock to move all 41 balls before 8 mins ran out. Time won, but it was close.

Last round was a marathon with all 14 Pax trying to move all balls out AND back in 15 mins. Time won again but it was close.

COR, NOR, Wipers was the 6.

Always an Honor
Always my Pleasure
~Stark

Split pax into 2 groups. Had 41 golf balls in bucket.

Backblast – February 19, 2026
AO: The Armory – Waterville Library – Waterville, OH
PAX:
Geppetto – Q
Bourbon
Vespa
OSHA
Footloose
Rudy
Huckleberry

Workout: Mirror Mirror at The Armory

No FNG’s so right into F3 Mission and Core Principles:
F3 – Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
Mission –Plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
The core principles of F3 are that it must:
Be free of charge
Be open to all men
Be held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
Be led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary. You versus you. Modify or stop an exercise if you need to. The most important thing is that nobody gets hurt.
End with a Circle of Trust
Credo: Leave no man behind but leave no man where you find him.

Warm Up:
In Cadence: (20) SSH, (15) Hillbillies, (20) Moroccan Night Clubs

The “Thang”:

Segment One: 5–25 Ladder

Ascending Ladder
5 Burpees
10 HR Merkins
15 Squats
20 Big Boy Situps
25 Calf Raises

At Wall: Run Two laps
At Armory: Run parking lot down and back twice

Descending Ladder:
25 Calf Raises
20 Big Boi Sit-Ups
15 Squats
10 HR Merkins
5 Burpees
Repeat the Ascending Ladder, Run, and Descending Ladder Three Cycles
Segment Two: Switch up exercises

Ascending Ladder:
5 Inch Worm Merkins
10 Imperial Squat Walkers
15 American Hammers (4=1)
20 Peter Parkers
25 LBC’s

At Wall: Run Two laps
At Armory: Run parking lot down and back twice

Descending Ladder:
25 LBC’s
20 Peter Parker’s
15 American Hammers (4=1)
10 Imperial Squat Walkers
5 Inch Worm Merkins

Repeat the Ascending Ladder, Run, and Descending Ladder Three Cycles

Called Viper at 6:05 and the PAX at The Armory and The Wall did a two-minute (120 count) plank hold together.

Ended with:
Count-O-Rama
Name-O-Rama
The “Six”: Footloose. EH’d by Mercy. Named because he has the privilege of being a pastor’s son. Keeps showing up because he knows Rudy will be there. 😉

Announcements – Toledo/BS CSAUP on Feb 28th. Battlefield closed. Fortress open.

Ball of Man – Prayers for Charlotte, Jan, Wario, Gulliver, Bourbon, and Snowbird. God help us to be mirror images of your Son. Amen.

Spreadsheets from the Gloom: Viper and I decided on this idea based on some of the friendly Mumblechatter in January about which Thursday AO is “the best”. Thank you Viper for quasi Co-Q’ing with me. Thank you Vespa and Longhorn for leading such great AO’s at The Armory and The Wall respectively.

“Mirror Mirror” Playlist:
Criteria: Have Mirror in the lyrics or title, have twins within the band, have a band name with repeating words or “twins” in the name.

Me, Myself and I – DeLaSoul (lyrics)
The Impression That I Get – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (band name)
Mirrors – Justin Timberlake (song name)
It’s My Life – Talk Talk (band name)
Rearviewmirror – Pearl Jam (song name)
Kyrie – Mr. Mister (band name)
Hold Me Now – Thompson Twins (band name)
You Should Be Dancing – Bee Gees (twin brothers)
Cannonball – The Breeders (twin sisters)
The End. – My Chemical Romance (song lyrics)