The BackBlast:

AO:

paragon

Pax Names:

Preacher, Misty, Almost, Red Hat, Good Hands, Dandy, Garfield, Panhandle, Tebow, Tinder, Grylls, Ma Bell.

Number of Pax:

12

FNG Names:

Number of FNGs:

0

Intro:

Last night YHC stayed up till midnight filling basketballs with sand and I affectionately named them maBalls. Today I introduced maBalls to the boys at Paragon and I think everyone was a little intimidated at first, but strangely excited to get their hands on them.

Warm-o-Rama:

SSHs
Weed Pickers
Windmills

The Thang:

YHC only made 11 balls so I was halfway hoping we'd have 11 or less PAX to make things easy. Hey, what do you know? We have 11 exactly! But then Grylls showed up and ruined everything. What's new, amiright? Ok, so now we have 12 PAX. My plan B for this scenario was to break up into 2 groups and swap the balls after each circuit. But the PAX were so eager to have one of maBalls to themselves, they came up with a plan where they'd each take one turn with no balls. Way to go PAX!

No time to waste, we headed down to the track where I had a cone at each "corner" of the track, plus a bonus cone at the far side 50 yard line. We started at the near side 50. The plan was to run to each station while carrying maBalls over your head and do an exercise with them upon arrival.

Station 1: American Hammers with balls.
Station 2: Squats with balls.
Station 3: bonus – Roll the dice and do 30 reps of whatever you get. (balls depending on exercise)
Station 4: Burpees with balls.
Station 5: Started with Carolina Dry Docks then changed to Overhead presses with balls.

Repeat until 30 (ahem, 45) minutes is up.

COT:

Prayers for Silverado's wife who has had a blood clot and tumor. Drumstick's wife who has shingles in her eye.

Naked Man Moleskin:

YHC had never planned an entire routine with coupons so this was a genuine experiment and today's pax were my guinea pigs. Overall I heard enough wailing and gnashing of teeth, that I think it was a success. It's amazing what you can do if you have enough balls to do it. Panhandle did an excellent job staying ahead and motivating everyone. Clearly he though this was his beatdown. I think he has control issues. Tinder's ball sprung a leak so I had to instruct him on how to hold it. I think he secretly was trying to ditch the weight by pouring out the sand. But who am I to judge? I don't judge anyone. – Except Grylls.