Asylum AM – Page 24 – F3 Knoxville

[genesis] Hammertime

November 17, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: genesis
Q: Single (Ryan Chambers)
PAX: Mountain Ice, Brick
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP: Cherry Pickers, Willy mays Hayes,

THE THANG:

5 Rounds

10 – Sandbag Curls
15 – Sandbag Bent over Rows
10 – Sandbag Clean and press
15 – Sandbag Florr Press
20 – Sandbag Flutterkicks (2ct)
200m Ruck

Last two rounds cut reps in half and alternate
the ruck with farmers carry and front carries.

MARY: Ruck lap around parking lot.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: See Slack

COT: this Men’s mental health month check on a brother!

[virtuous-leadership-school] Q4.5 Failure – Leave Right

November 16, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Borg
PAX: Mermaid, Baby Boomer, Scratch-off, Pool Boy (Jacob Thress), Drano, Borg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: Dunkin Coffee and stories and prayer.

THE THANG: Using failure to grow.
– “When you own it, you tell me I can trust you.” – Scratch-Off
– The response to the failure needs to match the failure and the audience.
– The sting of failure can redirect a person to reality – against their “logic”, tendencies, learned responses…
– Fear over a situation we are close to can result in a wrong emotional reaction.

COT: The entire session.

[halls-otb] Let’s get moving

November 13, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: halls-otb
Q: Mountain Ice
PAX: Mr.May, Samuel Rievley Mic Drop
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP:
SSH, windmills, imperial walkers, hillbillies, thai fighters

THE THANG:
One PAX runs 50yds and performs perscribed exercises as the other two begin walking with sandbag weights (50lbs sandbag, 45lbs jerry can). When PAX reach 50yds, swap weights and different PAX runs next 50yd sprint. Continue pattern for 20mins.

After 20, PAX completed weighted indian shuffle exploring the various workout spots afforded by the park and postulated on workouts to come.

MARY:
Various core-based exercises to finish out time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Nothin’ new

COT:
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
-Greek parable referenced by Borg
Even though we are not old men, we should be aware of the trees we have the option to plant and nurture knowing we may never see the mighty expanse they may someday cover.

Skunks and Rabbits

November 12, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Cat Gut (Mike Davis)
PAX: P3, Rainbow, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Aquafina, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Hands, Pac-man, Tropicana
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: SSH x 30, jog around parking lot, lunge with BAC, Bernie up Baby Everest -6 tempo squats, run curb to curb with merkins at each side (10 down to 4).

THE THANG: mosey to top of skunk hill with CMU. Partners — do 11’s on skunk hill— merkins at bottom and squats on top. After each set of squats on top one partner grabs CMU and does murder bunnies to first light and does 10 thrusters while partner runs to second light and does 20 merkins and 20 big boys. Alternate with partner.

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: Recommend reading “The Story”, the Bible as one continuing story of God and His people. 31 chapters covering Genesis to Revelation using text of the NIV Bible to read like a novel.

[halls-otb] Halls Ruck

November 10, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: halls-otb
Q: Otis
PAX: Spellcheck, Otis, Samuel Rievley
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP: Q shows up late

THE THANG: Ruck to neighborhood behind Marco’s

MARY: Clayton Loop

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: We discussed a quote from Jon Tyson that he said to his son. “I’m not trying to help you be a good man, I’m trying to help you be good at being a man.”

We listed characteristics that men have and discussed what a man is. There is all kinds of talk of this in the world and on the internet right now. My challenge is to seek being as Spellcheck said, a Godly man first. Seek direction and insight in God’s word first.

Who is good? What is good? What is a man? The world and its wisdom is complicated but yet easy. Following Jesus is simple, but a lot of times hard.