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You Can’t Take That Away From Me

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AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: Lulu (Greg Huddy), F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Pele (Jon Lindberg), Cart Girl (John Sadler) (Chatt, TN), Brick, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Jumbo(Carter Dickens), Choir Boy, Pusher, Mr Jinxy, Snap Glove (Sean Selos), Beaker (Manny Selos)
FNGs: 2 Snap Glove (Sean Selos), Beaker (Manny Selos)
COUNT: 15
WARMUP: Run Around the Parking Lot, 20 Side-Straddle Hops, Curly Stomps, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Windmills, 10 Tempo Merkins, 10 Tempo Squats, 5 Baby Arm Circles Forward and Backward, 5 Pterodactyls Forward and Backward.

THE THANG: Mosey up Mini Cardiac and to the benches by the trail before going downhill. From this point we will do the following: Do 20 Bench Lifts, run to first curve, do 20 Hello Dollies and run back; Do 20 Bench Lifts, run to second curve, do 20 Hello Dollies and run back; Do 20 Bench Lifts, run to 3rd curve, do 20 Hello Dollies and run back. The Clydesdales will sweep rabbits to 3rd curve after they finish the 3rd set of Bench Lifts.
Next, we will continue south on trail and do Nickel, Dime, Quarters. We will do these past the dock area. Once past the dock area we will mosey on the trail until it curves west. We will then resume with the nickel dime quarters until we reach pavilion that is near muscle beach. Here are the exercises:
Merkins
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Jump Squats
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Freddie Mercuries
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Mosey to Muscle Beach. Each man chooses two different exercise machines to do 25 reps with. After finishing, do Baby Crunches until all men have finished.
Mosey to parking lot by the soccer fields. We will go clockwise around the parking lot twice. The first time around we will sprint to one crosswalk, then walk to the next, continuing that pattern around the circle. The second time around we will Bernie Sanders to one crosswalk, then walk to the next, continuing the pattern around the circle.
Mosey to the Bidet. We will run clockwise around the inner circle, stopping at the benches to do 20 Decline Merkins. After arriving back down, those finishing first do Baby Crunches until the six arrives.
Mosey to the Caribean. We will go to the west end. From there we will sprint to the east end but stop at every island to do 2 Burpees.
Mosey toward AO parking lot but stop to get CMU weight rock by the entryway. We will do 25 Overhead Presses.
Mosey to AO.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Polar Bear Plunge on January 1, Smokies Convergence on January 4, Hot Toddy Triple Q at Asylum on January 11.

COT:
Prayers
Prayers for our brother, Sparkler, as he will be getting treatment for Prostate Cancer. Prayers for people traveling at Christmas like Crawdad and Jumbo who head toward Texas today. Prayers for those who are lamenting or suffering this Christmas. Prayers for us that we may be HIMs, keep an eye out for those who are suffering, and be an encouraging spirit for them.
Message

They Can’t Take That Away from Me
2024 was a year of loss and destruction for many people out in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina due to the almost unimaginable flooding and disaster caused by Hurricane Helene. It was horrific to see people losing their homes, their cars, their furnishings, and much of the belongings that they had saved for a lifetime.
As I approach retirement, I couldn’t help but think, “What if that was me?” Jan and I have saved part of our earnings each year through our working years, putting it in good ol IRAs. As we approach retirement we feel that we have enough savings to get by on. But what if that savings were to go away? What if our economy goes downhill and our stock market plummets? What if we lose our assets and home through some unforeseen disaster? Events like Hurricane Helene show us just how possible that can be.
There is a song that has come to my mind quite a few times related to all this. Some of you guys may know that song by Ira and George Gershwin called “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.”
Some of the lines go like this”
The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no, they can’t take that away from me
The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off-key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no, they can’t take that away from me.

Those are all things that money can’t buy. I guess that’s why the song has stuck in my mind. If I lost all my assets, what would I have? How about you guys? If you lost your possessions, what would you have? For me, I would still have the love of my wife and children. I would still be able go to my church and see my church family. As for tithing’s, 10% of nothing is nothing, so that would be fine! I would still get to see you brothers in F3. This incredible bond and experience we have is Free 99, baby! And, I would still have my Lord above. In fact, if they were to take everything I have and lay my head down in a guillotine, I might be shaking in my boots and crying my eyes out but I would still have my Lord above.

I encourage you to think about and ponder what “THEY”, that ubiquitous word for disaster in scenarios like we are talking about, can’t take away from you. As for me, I would hope I could survive disasters knowing that there are some things that money can’t buy, some things worth so much more than money or even earthly existence, some things they cannot take away from me.

Rucksgiving ‘24

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Steam , Mermaid
PAX: Jumbo(Carter Dickens), Unibráu (Nick Robinson), Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Lulu (Greg Huddy), Pusher, FixerUpper, Otis, Honeydew, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), The Situation, Spellcheck, Pele (Jon Lindberg), High Heels, F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Choir Boy, 1 downrange PAX from GA
FNGs: None
COUNT: 20
WARMUP
– SSH: 20×4
– Airplane Merkin: 10×4
– Rockette: 10×4
– Baby Arm Circles: 10×4 F
– Baby Arm Circles: 10×4 B
– Willie Mays Hayes: 6

THE THANG
Head to the BP

—BP (Big Pavilion) PT—
– 10×4 stair case incline merkins
– 1/2 — hands down to the lower level
– 3 — incline merkin down position
– 4 — incline merkin up position
– Next rep starts – going up instead
– 20×4 squat bench touches
– 20 step-ups

Head to the base of Cardiac Hill

—Man-Maker Pyramid—
– All together in cadence
– 2 man-makers at the base
– 4 man-makers at the 1st turn
– 6 man-makers at the 2nd turn
– 8 man-makers at the top

Mosey/walk back down to the base of Cardiac + come back up
– 10 merkins and LBCs

Turn it over to Mermaid at 7:30 at the top of Cardiac

Up/downs on Baby Cardiac
– Plank + Bear Crawl American Indian run style
– Al Gore + Lunge

Dora’s
– 100 squats
– 50 merkins
– 25 burpees
– Battle Buddy runs down Baby Cardiac and back

Ruck/Rock Xs in the Big Pavilion
– 12 curls + 1 burpee
– 12 chest presses + burpee
– 12 bent over rows + 1 burpee
– 12 chin-ups + 1 burpee

MARY
– Stretching w/Mermaid
– Race up Baby Cardiac
– Down + backs in the parking lot

ANNOUNCEMENTS
– Check the announcements channel for the weekly Send Me newsletter and all upcoming events

COT
Give It Away

One of the first things you see on the f3nation.com website right at the very top are the words “GIVE IT AWAY.”
– Clicking or tapping on it takes you to F3 Nation’s 2024 Year End Giving campaign, where you can see the F3 Cardinal video – which is incredibly moving.
– You’ll also see sections underneath it titled “The Why” and “The How”

“The Why”
– 66 million obese men in the USA
– 39,000 male suicides annually
– Infinite Sad Clowns

“The How”
– Numbers and info on current and new investments into F3 around the globe

And then it says this:

“F3 NATION’S MISSION AND IMPACT THROUGH GENEROSITY. WHEN YOU GIVE you are giving it away IN HONOR OF THE BROTHER who gave it to you and IN HONOR OF THE BROTHER who’ll you’ll likely never meet. DO IT FOR YOUR BROTHERS!!”
And that brings me to Rucksgiving
– This GORUCK challenge that, in my mind, incorporates all 3 Fs – Fitness, Fellowship, and Faith.
– We just worked hard – thanks for pushing yourself and the men around you
– We spent time in fellowship together, with people we care about and are part of our sphere of influence
– To whatever level of faith you may or may not have – when you were reading through the Rucksgiving event info I shared, something inside you clicked off and said subconsciously said “it’s not about me.” Faith and belief that you’re not just living for yourself and you felt led and guided to give it away.

Why? That’s what High Impact Men do.

Just like on the F3 Nation website where it says “in honor of the brother who you’ll likely never meet,” — we will likely never meet the children who our generosity is going towards from this event.

But they will feel our generosity and willingness to live out of the “it’s not about me” mindset because we had the courage to act out in faith and believe that a fun and challenging ruck event on a ridiculously cold morning could potentially make a difference in their life.

God is a generous and good God, and any and all outpouring of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control from us is because of the work He is continually doing within us.

“Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.”
‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭16‬:‭17‬ ‭ESV‬‬
bible.com/bible/59/deu.16.17.ESV

Thank you for participating in this year’s Rucksgiving! Because of this, we will get to bless multiple kids on Christmas through Angel Tree this year.

Trifecta + Bonus

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Steam
PAX: Brick, Bookman, Jumbo(Carter Dickens), Tropicana, Mia (Max), Mermaid, Eliza, Drum Major, Cart Girl (John Sadler) (Chatt, TN), Lilydipper, lebowski, Qbert, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), High Heels, Grandslam, Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), 0
FNGs: 1 0
COUNT: 19
WARMUP
– 6-Count Burpee: 10×4
– SSH: 12×4
– Mountain Climber: 14×4
– Merkin: 16×4
– Morrocan Night Clubs: 18×4
– LBC: 20×4

THE THANG
(1) Rings of Power
– 7s
– Merkins (bottom)
– Squats (top)
– 6:1, 5:2, 4:3, 3:4, 2:5, 1:6
– 6 Merkins first
– Run the inner ring

(Mosey to Muscle Beach)

(2) Muscle Beach
– Modified Murph
– 50 pull-ups/chin-ups
– 100 merkins
– 150 squats

(Mosey to Isengard)

(3) Isengard
5s
– Wall: Incline merkins
– Wall before pavilion: Box jumps/step ups
– Bear crawl up the green
– Run back down the stairs

(Mosey to the new AMP)
– 10 incline merkins
– bear crawl up to the next level
– 10 decline merkins
– crawl bear to the next level
– 10 incline merkins

(Mosey back to the flag — taking the two rucks from Eliza and Mermaid – switching between men along the way)

MARY
– Cherry-pickers
On The Curb / Down + Backs
– Karaoke
– Rockette/Zombie 1/2 way down – slow mosey the rest of the way and back
– 25%
– 50%
– 75%
– 100%

ANNOUNCEMENTS
– Lilydipper is apparently the new interim AOQ – congrats! A true Vol.
– Q101 at bluegrass-pm-otb on 8/14 led by me and Pele (Jon Lindberg).
– 9 Year Anniversary coming up in November – more details to come, but if anyone wants to be part of the leadership and planning team – DM me.
– qsource-ao tomorrow morning at 0600 at the HGTV Overlook
– Borg is on Q
– Q-3.3 — Trust (Reliance Between Team Members)

COT
open.substack.com/pub/danhenson/p/the-white-space-between-the-notes?r=392uga&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Three A’s and an F. Known as “four notes that changed the world” according to many scholars, or also known as the beginning to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. We’ve all heard it. We know it.
– Yesterday, my wife and I had the opportunity to connect with other life group leaders within the Young Adults ministry at Fellowship, and listened to Brent Crenshaw teach for a few moments. Something he said stuck out to me:
– “It’s the white space between the notes that help make the music.”
– It had never occured to me that the white space in between the notes help establish the necessary spacing in order for the composition to go smoothly. No one really ever pays attention to the white space between the notes, becuase it’s all about the notes and how they come together.
– But without the white space between the notes, the Fifth would probably sound like 30-40 minutes of notes rear-ending each other in a never ending crash. Chaotic.
– Things are happening between the notes (like space/time/rest), but we just don’t see it or forget the importance that the white space between the notes holds.

Don’t negate the work God is doing in between the big things in your life. Sometimes, it is in the quiet space in life that God speaks the loudest. It’s been true for me. With the guidance and help of the Holy Spirit, the work that is done in the white space between the notes should not be dismissed or looked over. Keep at it. Don’t give up. In other words, stay the course, keep the faith, and fight the good fight. Take this truth and run with it today!

Ping!

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Mermaid, Pele (Jon Lindberg), High Heels, Steam, lebowski, Choir Boy, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Jumbo(Carter Dickens), Borg, Toretto, Mr Jinxy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP: 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Tempo Merkins, 10 Burpees, 10 Tempo Squats, Curly Stompers, 7 Twistees, 5 Pterodactyls Forward, 5 Pterodactyls Backward

THE THANG: Mosey to the Pavilion. We will do 11s starting with 10 Picnic Table Pull-Ups and 1 Bench Up.
Mosey to the Playground. We will do 7s starting with 6 Bench Jumps and 1 Decline Merkin.
Mosey to the parking lot with the nice restrooms. We will stop to do 15 American Hammers.
Mosey to driveway that goes toward soccer fields. We will do 15 Flutter Kicks.
Mosey to the newer parking lot by the soccer fields. We will run in a Candy Cane route 1 ½ way around the parking lot, stopping at each crosswalk to do an exercise. Whoever finishes the exercises at the end of the Candy Cane first sweeps everyone back to the start. Here are the exercises we will do with each run:
20 Hello Dollies
20 Bobby Hurleys
10 Dive Bombers
10 Shoulder Taps (both shoulders = 1)
Mosey on the sidewalk that is east of the Outdoor Chapel toward the Caribbean Parking Lot. We will stop halfway to do 15 Freddie Mercurys, then mosey on to the Caribbean.
We will do another Candy Cane run, stopping at three cones to do exercises. The brother who completes the exercises at the third cone first should sweep everyone back. With each exercise we will Bernie Sanders to the first cone, Skip to the second cone, and High Knees to the third cone.
Here are the exercises we will do with each round:
20 Diamond Merkins
20 Wide Merkins
20 Carolina Dry Docks
Mosey toward AO parking lot by going past pavilion. We will stop near gate of parking lot to pick up CMU size boulder. We will do 15 Overhead Presses.
Mosey to the AO.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Two OTB sites kick off next week. The 1st is a ruck-based AO on Mondays at West Hills Park from 5:30 am to 6:30 am. The 2nd is a PM workout from 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm at Bluegrass Elementary. The KARM Dragon Boat Festival is June 15.

COT: The spirit of God is indwelling within us. It is as if God’s pure spirit drifts into our pores. Wrap you mind around that concept, of the spirit of God being within you. When I think upon it, it certainly leads me to desire to be a High Impact Man. Sometimes I feel so far away from the Spirit of God. I feel sluggish, like one feels when they wake up first thing in the morning. I might drink a fine cup of coffee and when I do, I can feel my brain cells start waking up. It’s like ping, ooh that felt good, that braincell just came alive, ping, things are getting a little clearer, ping, yeah, I am starting to get the picture. If I picture the Spirit of God within me, it’s like that good coffee waking me up. Ping, yeah, I can help my fellow man, ping, I’m going to put a smile on my face today, ping, I’m gonna tell my wife how much I love her, ping, I’m going to help that older man get up the curb, ping, I’m going to get involved in a service project, ping, I’m going to make someone’s day brighter today.
My message: wrap your mind around the Spirit of God working within you. Try to picture it and see what it does for you. Picture God’s holiness, purity and strength within you. You might just feel God sinking into your pores and waking up your brain cells. And when that happens, it’s a mighty good thing.

In Honor of PFC Clinton Riddle

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Brick, Drum Major, Pusher, Lulu (Greg Huddy), Choir Boy, Jumbo(Carter Dickens), Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Crawdad (Robbi Dickens)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:

Shoulder blaster

THE THANG:

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: