The BackBlast:

Title: Recon for Traveling with Bricks 

Pax: Sandworm (Q), CSPAN, Addi Daddi, Saddle Sore, Drone

Summary: Traveled to the Art School side of the campus and did reconnaissance for a shoulder beatdown on Saturday. 

Picture Link: https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/fitness/train-like-rocky-every-exercise-every-montage/ 

WARMUP 

• SSH 
• Overhead Claps 
• T Claps 
• Trunk Twists 

Dynamic Stretch Warm Up (Note: Amphibious count was a 10 count of both sides equaling 20 movements, double count)  Gate (10 open, 10 closed)  Swing (10 Forward, 10 Backward)  Knee Bend (10 High Knees, 10 Butt Kicks)   

 THANG 

General Instructions 

• 2 bricks per person 
• water bottles in backpack 
• head to recon checkpoint 

Exercises

Stops on the way to the checkpoint 

• Other side of street after light – thrusters 
• Median triangle in street – big boy situps 
• Art School stairs – windmills 

Stairs 

1st level – lateral arm raises
2nd level – flutter kicks and forward arm raises
3rd level – squats
4th level (top) -Tommy John shoulder exercise (45-degree arm raises with back bent at 45 degrees and arms out at 45 degrees with pinkies pointing at 45 degrees) 

Other 

• Sculpture – pant raises10 right arm, 10 left arm, 10 both arms (legs slightly bent and pulling up pants from the side from just above the knee to the waste) 
• Top of stairs (level 4) – frogmen sit-ups 
•  Back to check pint at the bottom of the stairs
  pickup garb and water bottles 
• lunge up the stairs 
• go the other way back to triangle median – manmakers 
• mosey to stoplight – rest 
• mosey back to start 

COT  

Reconnaissance Discussion –  

• Bricks worked 
• The general pace was good 
• Can skip warmup to warm up on the way to get more time in motion 
• Add another stop at the bus station – Mosey about 125 yards 
• We liked the exercises we did 
• Might add star jumps  
• Bricks worked the forearms 
• We didn’t do side straddle hops because they seemed too much overhead with the bricks 

Said a prayer for families and work