Cat Gut (Mike Davis) – F3 Knoxville

Fence Funding

March 9, 2026 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Double Wide, Cinco (Scott McGuire), Rainbow, Waffle House (Brady Greene)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
7 motivators, Wayne Dunn, Aw-Yeahs (for you, babe), Shoulder Blaster. All to warm up for the Burpee Buy-In, which is like Rainbow’s Burpee Box but with all the fun removed. I ended up with 60, which was probably the least of anybody.

Turned a Route 66 with Get Ups for the Grand Kids™ into a Route 55, 1) because I was not man enough to do eleven more, and 2) because we needed to get to the main event which was a Double Wide Sprint Session, AKA the Italian Tune-Up. It works wonders.

Little trip up Everest to find the first and second of approximately 23 fences we had to get over. Snitch (Cory Beilharz ) speculates that they are cash extraction devices for Big Jim & friends, and he may be right.

There was some bear crawling and some Crab Walking, followed by some picking sharp little rocks out of palms. Cat Gut (Mike Davis) might still be up there had we not retrieved him. Unmatched devotion to the game.

Last sprint in the parking lot and met up with the ruckers. Story that meant a lot to me on Saturday, about God’s attention and love for us. Prayers for the bereaved and for a friend carrying an enormous burden.

Now put those dewy shoes outside to dry.

For Educational Purposes

March 6, 2026 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Tropicana, Cinco (Scott McGuire), Hands, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Cosmo 2, Fardeen Rastagar, Hands, Sawdust, Waffle House (Brady Greene)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10 but missing one welshman
Today’s Q was planned for the benefit of @Blowhole, a young Welshman eager to experience all East Tennessee has to offer. The plan was to educate him about our disputatious nature and our history of crankiness, so by not showing up he proved he fit right in.

He did miss out on a decade of health and happiness, however, when the Junk Science was offered to all present. Shoulders were well blasted then shaken out in preparation for the Cloud’s very own Jack Webb. Jack is never easy.

As we made our way to Cardiac (as is my custom) I wondered if more people than just Matlock (Bill Maddox) labor under the misapprehension that Waffle House Qs are occasionally spirit led. Nothing could be further from the truth! I plan meticulously; I just don’t have any imagination.

Prayers for our old friend who we miss having out there in the gloom; prayers for a family going through something truly awful; gratitude for our being out there together another day.

>From Between Noon and Three by Robert Farrar Capon: “…it is Jesus who is your life. If he refused to condemn you because your works were rotten, he certainly isn’t going to flunk you because your faith isn’t so hot. You can fail utterly, therefore, and still live the life of grace. You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe.
Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead – and for him who is the Resurrection and the Life, that just makes you his cup of tea.”

Thing 1 and Thing 2

March 4, 2026 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Cinco (Scott McGuire)
PAX: Casey Kasem (Jess), Cosmo 2, Rainbow, F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Double Wide, Suds, Hands, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Pac-man, Hot Tub (John Muller), P3, Gibbler, Cat Gut (Mike Davis)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 15
WARMUP:

SSH
Misc Stretching

THE THANG:

Count off Thing 1 & Thing 2

🏃 Mosey to Toilet Bowl (¼ mile)
⸻
Partner Bump Workout
Thing 1 starts halfway on route
200 Jump Squats (team)
Thing 2 jumps / partner runs → switch on bump
200 Merkins (team)
Same format
200 Big Boy Sit-ups (team)
Same format
⸻
🏃 Mosey to Muscle Beach
⸻
Pull-Up Station
Thing 1 alternate:
10 pull-ups each round
Rest while Thing 2 works
➡ Goal: 40 pull-ups per person

MARY:

No time for Hairy Mary

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 NIV
bible.com/bible/111/ecc.4.9-10.NIV

Hill repeats

March 2, 2026 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Hands
PAX: Hands, P3, Suds, Double Wide, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Casey Kasem (Jess), Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Fardeen Rastagar
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:
Silly Kenyan running warm up, SSH, mountain climbers, tie fighters, big stretches

THE THANG:
CMU’s taken to the Tail o’ the Dragon hill. Did an exercise x 1 minute, charged up the hill, jog down the tail. Repeat x5. Exercises were:
1. Curl/press
2. Lat raise/press x 3
3. Blockies
Tried to do 7’s up the hill with block swings and big boys but only got two trips in.

MARY:
Some tempo scissor kicks.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Haw Ridge.
Waffle House (Brady Greene) is coordinating the White Belt BBQ get together. We should make sure we invite Gray Cup.

COT:
The response to the prodigal and to the faithful son is the same. You are my son and I love you.

Combo Interval Week Finisher

February 27, 2026 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: P3
PAX: Double Wide, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Suds, Pac-man, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Casey Kasem (Jess), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Waffle House (Brady Greene), F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Floppy Disk
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:

Progressive Warmup

5 easy burpees
SSH

Mosey to Lower parking lot

Cherry Pickers
Runners Stretch Sequence
Up/Down Dog

Mosey to charging station
Shoulder lubricator

THE THANG:

Interval work:

2x
:40 sec on, :20 rest.
– Gorilla Burpees
– Wide to narrow Merkins
– 4 Jump lunges, 4 Star Jacks

Mosey to rose bowl:

2x
:40 sec on, :20 rest

– Broad Jump Squat 180s
– Merkin Alternating toe touches
– 10 side crunches each side, 10 V-ups

Mosey to backside bowl Pavilon

2x
:40 sec on, :20 rest

– Table Rows
– 5 Bulgarian Plyo lunges, alternate each side
– 5 Merkins, 5 heel tucks

Mosey to paver parking lot

1x
:40 sec on, :20 rest

– Incline Merkins
– Scissor Kicks

MARY:

None

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

@whitebelt wants to cook for everyone!! Let’s make it happen.

Cinco (Scott McGuire) just won a monster contract with Ford. Congrats!!

Casey Kasem (Jess) has gone viral after sharing his testimony on TikTok. Prayers and support for this new chapter

COT:

God shows us the areas of our life he wants us to focus on. We can choose to do so in faith or fear.

“Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.”