Backblast: October 23rd, 2025
AO: The Wall – Riverside Park – Perrysburg, OH
PAX:
Photon – Q
Coconut
Flipper
Isosceles
Mile High
Spaulding
Ukulele
Workout: BLIMPEES
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: N/A
The “Thang”:
BLIMPS, but better, because burpees. PAX partnered up by weight and one partner performed the reps while the other performed the MOT in a DORA like fashion. Only exception was during the P segment, where partners performed reps together when they were not performing a partner carry. Exercises, reps, and MOTs were as follows. Mosey was around the path surrounding the grass near the river, stair run was the entire set of stairs, and all other MOTs were between two cones about 15m apart.
Exercise Reps MOT
Burpees 15 Broad Jump
Lt. Burpees 30 Lunge Walk
Imperial Burpees 45 Inch Worm Crawl
Mountain Burpees 60 Mosey
Plank-Jack Burpees 75 Partner Carry
Star-Jump Burpees 90 Stair Run
Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 7
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Isosceles
LDP3
Ball of Man
Spreadsheets from the Gloom: 45 and windy. This was inspired by Geppetto/Long Horn’s co-Q during Q school where they ran a standard BLIMPS beatdown. A comment was made of the lack of burpees for the B, to which YHC mentioned that you could probably do burpees variations for every letter. So, of course, the idea had to be implemented. And implemented it was. The BLIMPEES version inverted the entire BLIMPS concept, where burpees were the constant and the MOTs were the variable, with the added twist of each letter incorporating a different burpee variation. All in all the formula and timing worked great, with one pair of PAX just finishing and two other pairs right on their heels. As for the burpee variations themselves? The Lt. Burpees were probably the worst. The bonnie blaire thrown in just destroys the legs. I understand now whey IPC incorporated BDE burpees into their beatdown two years ago. The star-jumps and imperials were grueling in their own right, significantly increasing the lower body toll during the burpees. The plank-jack variety, also know as the 8-ct. body-builder burpee, was probably the easiest and most fluid variation. Mountain variety needs the extra merkins to make it flow properly…perhaps they will be added in next time.
This playlist didn’t crash and burn like some BLIMPs of old, but was inspired by one of the greatest…the Zeppelin.
“Good Times Bad Times” – Led Zeppelin (Live: O2 Arena 2007)
“Ramble On” – Led Zeppelin (Live: Birmingham 1995)
“Immigrant Song” – Led Zeppelin (Live: How The West Was Won – 1972)
“Black Dog” – Led Zeppelin (Live: How The West Was Won – 1972)
“Over The Hills And Far Away” – Led Zeppelin (Live: How The West Was Won – 1972)
“Trampled Under Foot” – Led Zeppelin (Live: Earl’s Court 1975)
“We’re Gonna Groove” – Led Zeppelin (Live: Royal Albert Hall 1970)
This was not originally in the beatdown queue, but I always try and take mumblechat discussions and suggestions seriously and this was no exception. Not my favorite burpee beatdown, but maybe good enough to make a future BURPwEEk. Either way, it was a pleasure to lead.