Backblast: May 31st, 2026
AO: The Pump Station – Hood Park – Perrysburg, OH
PAX:
Photon – Q
Carmen Sandiego
Irish Hoss
Shepherd
Spaulding
Tarnished
Waldo
Workout: BURPwEEk Day 1 Part 2 – The Eclipse
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
Arm Circles Forward (4 is 1): 10
Arm Circles Reverse (4 is 1): 10
Mosey over to the bottom of the hill with rucksacks.
The “Thang”:
Goal was to complete 140 total burpee reps over an undetermined number of rounds in a choose-your-own-adventure type beatdown. First round consisted of a buy-in of one hill sprint (from bottom of hill to the halfway point) followed by 10 burpees before continuing on to the next round.
The Rules
1.) Each set of burpees had to ECLIPSE the previous rounds’ set in terms of difficulty (except upon reaching the bottom of the difficulty ladder and cycling back up to the beginning). Every time a PAX cycles back to the top of the ladder, they add +1 permanent hill sprint to the buy-in.
2.) Can skip UP one burpee level at any time by reducing the buy-in sprint total by 1 for that round, except when skipping the Dirty Man-Makers, which results in +1 sprint for that round.
3.) Can revert DOWN one burpee level at any time but must permanently increase the buy-in sprint total by 1.
4.) Each completion of a set of 10 Dirty Man Makers counts as 20 total reps towards the 140 total.
The Burpees
1.) Flying Squirrel (No Merkin)
2.) Burpee
3.) One Legged Burpee
4.) Kraken Burpee (3 hand release merkins at bottom)
5.) Dirty Man Maker (With a ruck, 3 hand release merkins at bottom & 3 squat thrusters at the top)
6.) Return back to 1.) and increase round by in by +1 sprint
Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 7
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Irish Hoss
LDP3
Ball of Man
Spreadsheets from the Gloom: 53 and dry. It’s my favorite time of year! Welcome to BURPwEEk 2026, gentlemen!
Well it’s taken 3 or 4 tries, but this was probably the least confusing run through of Burpeeclipse yet! Of course, there were questions, but we saw a couple of different approaches to the reps this run. Last year’s BURPwEEk run saw a coupld of PAX completing all 120 reps, so the rep count was increased by 20 this year with good results. Shepherd, Spaulding, and YHC were able to complete 140 equivalent reps. Spaulding ran the beatdown vanilla, Shepherd hit the Dirty Man-Makers hard, and I did a lot of skipping to reduce sprint totals.
Rev. 2 of the original Burpeeclipse playlist made its presence felt once again.
“Shadow Of The Sun” – Audioslave
“The Dark Of The Sun” – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
“Paint It Black” – The Rolling Stones
“Staring At The Sun” – The Offspring
“Blinded By The Light” – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
“Black Hole Sun” –Soundgarden
“When The Lights Go Out” – 5ive
“Eclipse” – Pink Floyd
Nothing quite like a double to start BURPwEEK off on the right foot. Lower PAX counts this year, but the participation/enthusiasm of those who showed up was high. Hard work and good company. And even a “Day 1 of BURPwEEk wasn’t that bad” comment. Let’s keep the enthusiasm going through the rest of the week.
Current cumulative BURPwEEk Burpee Totals:
• The Wait:70
• The Eclipse: 110 (30 were dirty man-makers)