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AO: shamrock
Q: Mermaid
PAX: Band Camp, Stitch, Tailhook, slappy, Flower Pot, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Dumpster Dive, Free Fall (Justin Whitaker), Anchorman, Mermaid, Draino, Inconceivable
FNGs: 1 Inconceivable
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
SSH -13
Cherry Pickers – 5
Merkins – 3
Runner’s Stretch
Arm Stretch
Tempo Squats – 9
THE THANG:
Divide into 4 groups of 3
Each group gets one band and one block.
There are two stations with exercises at each one, and you perform the assigned exercise until the third guy gets to you as he acts as the timer.
Station 1: Thrusters, Blockees, Bench Press, Squats, Lunges, Split Squats, Curls
Station 2: Merkins, BBS, Diamond Merks, Vups, Wide Merks, American Hammers, Carolina Dry Docks, Plank
MARY:
Flutters – LBC’s 10 reverse ladder down to 5. Variations of Jane Fonda’s, Snow Angels, Pickle Pointers, Pickle Pounders
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Camping & One Knox
COT:
Let’s normalize vulnerable.
I talked about pornography and ways that helped me deny that temptation. It starts with not watching people kissing in movies. You probably wouldn’t watch people make out in public, so why tune in digitally? When confronted with these scenes, fast forward or swipe through them. Consider preventing your mind from chasing the rabbit down that hole. It has worked to help me not look at pornography in over six months.

Matthew 16:24 Paraphrase: Deny yourself, pick up your cross and follow me (Jesus).

Where do you need to deny yourself so that you can follow Jesus?

It’s All Fun & Games

AO: asylum-am
Q: Sawdust
PAX: Double Wide, Tropicana, Cinco (Scott McGuire), Matlock (Bill Maddox), TRC/Crab legs, Rainbow, Hands, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Bunny, Gibbler
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP:
– SSH
– Stretch
– Tempo Merkins
– Cherry Pickers
– Abe Vigodas
– Rockettes (Bunny-style)
– Tie-Fighters
– X-Wings
– Burpees (Because Bunny wasn’t sure if he was warm)
– Route 66 with Squats up to the Asylum

THE THANG:
Two (2) Teams Competing for most Exercises Complete. One team would run based on the roll of the dice, while the other did exercises. When the run team returned, the teams switched.

The Rollin’ & Runs:
1. Space Needle
2. Asylum Building
3. Whole Big Circuit
4. Down to the Overlook
5. Upper Parking Lot
6. Tree Run

The Exercises:
– 10 – Burpees
– 15 – Seal Jacks (4 – Count)
– 20 – LBCs (4 – Count)
– 15 – Peter Parkers (4 – Ct)
– 10 – Sumo Squats (4 – Count)
– 15 – Hello Dollys (4 – Ct)
– 20 – Merkins
– 15 – V-Ups
– 10 – Lt. Dans
– 15 – Gas Pumpers
– 20 – Side Crunches (10 EA)
– 15 – Boxcutters (4 – Count)

MARY:
– Matlock (Bill Maddox)’s Dante’s Core
– Cat Gut (Mike Davis)’s Boat-Canoe

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Book Club after BOM
– Anderson County Starfish Coming this Summer

COT: Do not expect to Rise to the Occasion, but Fall to your Level of Training. Focus on training in your life; spiritually, physically & mentally to be prepared for any eventuality.

Happy Burpee

AO: asylum-am
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Rainbow, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Double Wide, Cosmo 2, Gibbler, Hands, Bunny, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Kentucky, Tropicana, Love’s, Newton
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
51 SSH, one for every year since Ray Stevens’ The Streak was the #1 song in the land. Look how far we’ve fallen as a culture.

Today was a day for reflection, for the frank acknowledgment of aging, and for tripping over hidden rocks in a wet parking lot. Kentucky I am sincerely sorry about the rock and I hope you are not too badly hurt. I do hear good things about the NHS though, should you need them.

10 Happy Burpees per guy while the partner counted out loud. The counting part sounds dumb until you do your ten and realize you sincerely cannot move your arms after 10 of these things. The counting was my birthday gift to us all.

We got up to some shennanigans in between the burpee torture sessions, and finished with a couple of trips up baby everest. All in all, and alongside the great Matlock (Bill Maddox), I am #rekt.

BOM: observations on a life of faith

Out and Back

AO: shamrock
Q: Eliza
PAX: Mermaid, slappy, Stitch, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Lizzy, Voodoo, MacGruber, Anchorman, Skidmark, Eliza, Flower Pot, Gringo, Mocha
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP: Cherry pickers, various stretches, baby arm circles

THE THANG: Divide into 2 teams. There are 6 stations placed randomly around campus. Each station has two envelopes containing exercises for Team 1 and Team 2. Each team rolls a die, finds the corresponding number clue has to
Travel to that location, complete the exercises and return to the flag. Repeat until all 6 stations have been hit.

Station 1: under the overhang where we meet when it rains: 25merkins, 25 mtn climbers (2ct), 25 LBCs, 25 flutter kicks (2ct)

Station 2: picnic pavilion: 20 step ups each leg, 25 dips, 25 big boys, 20 swing pull ups

Station 3: CMU pile: 25 curls, 25 overhead press, 15 swings, 10 blockies

Station 4: at the church door: 15 imperial squat walkers, 10 lunges each leg, 10 friendship merkins

Station 5: Jesus statue: 15 step ups each leg, 60 second walk sit, 25 Freddie Mercurys (2ct) 15 plank jacks

Station 6: shamrock on the 50 yard line: run the bleachers 1 time through.

Final station at flag : 2 burpees each
MARY: no time

ANNOUNCEMENTS: hardship hill, one Knox soccer game 6/13

COT: what does it mean when someone says “you have a lot of potential?” What are some things that keep you from reaching your potential? How do we fight our way around those obstacles and start living up to our potential?

A always B be G getting up

AO: asylum-am
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Cinco (Scott McGuire), Rainbow, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Hands, Charmin (John Willis), Cosmo 2, F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Kentucky, Love’s, Pac-man, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Steak Knives (F3 Cape Fear)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
Were it not for the presence of a most welcome visitor I might have forgotten the disclaimer, so thank you Steak Knives (F3 Cape Fear) . I will repeat the disclaimer here in case anybody missed it this morning:
-F3 is not responsible for your injuries; Charmin (John Willis) is.
-Asylum is the first and longest continually operating F3 AO in the continental United States, and is statistically comprised of the best looking Pax
-The Q Source is an ongoing collaboration between Matlock (Bill Maddox), Cosmo 2, edited for clarity by @Tecmo. It is Asylum’s gift to F3 Nation.

Disclaimer out of the way, we warmed up with an appropriate pre-birthday Q number of SSHs. Steak Knives (F3 Cape Fear) got the Junk Science to take back to the fine men of Wilmington NC, may they all enjoy 10 more years. Shoulders blasted, some light stretching.

Like all my attempts to be like Double Wide, I couldn’t quite measure up, but we sprinted and walked down the winding path and route 66ed our way back, Sweep Or Be Swept. I hope my future grandchildren appreciate all the getups I did for them.

ATMs to finish, as is only right.

For the BOM I thought about three friends of mine and their experiences of faith – not having any and wishing they did; having some for a time and then rejecting it; and having it land on them through a disaster, and being brought to life by it. Prayed for Paul’s procedure today, and for Cinco (Scott McGuire)’s road trip. And for my friend Carol.

What a pleasure to be out in it with you guys this morning. Thank you!