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In the spirit of our lovely autumn morning, let's keep this backblast CRISP. Seven pax gathered this morning in the dark and chose to battle adversity and get better. Week 8 was a good one. Although the weinke called for lighter numbers of sets, each pax was gifted a special bonus, "de-load" set to help maximize hypertrophy (and fill 60 mins of a beatdown :wink:). The morning chill must have taken the breath away from the collective pax as mumblechatter was nil through the warm-up, but oddly enough, once the Dragon Ball Z (!?) discourse got drummed up, the pax couldn't help themselves. A few notes before the recap...Flipper is a man of many talents and obscure knowledge, but rolling through the names of copious Dragon Ball Z characters was not on YHC's bingo card...Toto came in hot (on the heels of a Murder Mystery date night last night) and continued to push the pax (in conjunction with Flipper) to rep higher and higher weights - appreciate the continued encouragement...pumped to see The Worm post as he works through recovery - thinkin of you brother and oddly jealous of your upcoming Monty Python hyperbaric chamber watch-a-thon...Benny got in early and came correct today - great to see your continued progression in this odd hobby of ours...Blanks and Beaker showed up large today. Still not sure I've heard Beaker unleash a "Wooo", but I heard Blanks did the less heard of vicarious "Wooo" on behalf of another pax which was a delightful as it sounds. Appreciate the enthusiasm you both bring each week! Ok, let's get into the recap... WARMUP: Swings (10x), prying squats, hi-pulls (5x), synovial circles, one-handed swings (10x), slingshots (7x e/w) THE THANG: 1) EZ Complex (3 sets) - Swings (3x) - Hi-pulls (2x) - Clean/squat/press (1x) - Repeato other side 2) Double Cleans (3 sets) - Double cleans (5x) 3) Double Front Squats (3 sets) - Shockingly, we did double front squats (5x) 4) Double Floor Press (3 sets) - Double floor press (6x) 5) Gorilla Rows (3 sets) - Gorilla rows (8x e/s) 6) Heavy Bell Work (3 sets) - Heavy swings (10x) - Lawnmower rows (5x e/s) - Merkins (10x) 7) Carries! (4 sets) - Single-bell OH carries for 2 sets (down to the second tree); then we racked it up and back MARY: ...squeezed in a 10 sec. plank before the bell ANNOUNCEMENTS: - :calendar: F3 Events: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bSr64ar_zIEsBfyjBoZFynLx663Zr9h0ODqs1mbuKyw/edit?usp=drivesdk - :pray: Prayers for Flipper's M and the Worm as they both work through recovery. Also, prayers for those on the Waxhaw brew ruck event - stay steady, friends :beers: - :scroll: "What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him." – Viktor Frankl COT: O' Tannenbaum took out the joint pax in the COT

Coach Bobby Finstock lives by three famous rules in the movie Teen Wolf (1985): • Never get less than twelve hours of sleep. • Never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city. • Never go near a lady who has a tattoo of a dagger on her body. As Coach Finstock famously puts it: "Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese."

10.23.26 - New Year, New Us Pregame: Quite a few surprise shows this morning to get us upwards of 20+. Some were too flippant to commit, others were not in the text chain, & others still refuse to get iPhones. All of the above are considered non-excused & subject to disciplinary action. Weather was nippy, ideal conditions for frESPY winner Betty to start showing off all of his cool apparel. The Game: Teams appeared to be relatively even on paper. NOT SO FAST. Toad, Fly With Me & Misty came out absolutely humming. Mrs. Doubtfire & Marta exchanged haymakers all day. Spy wanted in on the Marta action, getting a nice turnover on a lackadaisical pass attempt. Marta’s sharpness noticeable increased from there, returning the favor a few plays later, with a bonus flagrant sack tap seen & heard by a few witnesses. Only 1 noted mispronunciation of Bevo, a nice improvment from recent weeks. Yellow stormed out to a 6-1 lead early. Red needed to find a way to stop the momentum. Out of timeouts, red found the solution with Biden allegedly cutting Aioli’s cleat, causing him a flat tire & halting game play. With Aioli sacrificing his availability in the effort to stop momentum, the strategy proved to be a good one with red immediately going on a run of its own to tie it 7-7. Lead by a recently invigorated Shank (fueled by getting zero first place votes for MVP in the recent frESPYS voting), yellow went hammer down & responded with a run of its own. The final score appeared closer than it was, with yellow cruising to a comfortable dub to start the year. Spy, Fly With Me, Fruity & Bevo were members of the exclusive #4mileclub this morning. Postgame: Prayers for Zippers family, as his father-in-law passed unexpectedly last night. Prayers for Hitch’s aunt who may need a heart transplant. Yellow 16-14 Fruity Pebbles Betty Fresh meat Pink Eye Shank Marta Toad Bevo Hitch Zipper Crawdad Red: Spyglass Yeti Aioli Peaches Wario Smokey Mrs. Doubtfire Cayman Fly With Me Misty Biden