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The Heaviest Ruck of All Time

March 28, 2024 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Brick
PAX: Glamper, Tenderfoot, Jeevan Kypa (Scrubs), Drum Major, Brick, Sparkler, Pusher, High Heels (Henry Ritchie), Pele (Jon Lindberg), Abacus, Steam, Assfault, Switchhitter (Tony), Crash Dummy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
Warm up
33 SSH
14 Hand release merkins
3 Manmakers
2 360 merkins
Wide plank jacks
Cherry pickers
Michael Phelps

-80lbs sandbag is going everywhere with us!
-rabbits always circle back and pick it up
-Every man must carry it once
-Next man on deck beside him for encouragement

THE THANG:

•Picketts sling shot
Battle buddy
-1 “sprint” up the first section and do the exercise and run back, partner is doing xyz
-2 second battle buddy “sprint” up to first section and do the exercise and run back, partner is doing xyz
-3 “run” up first section together and do the exercise
-Repeat for second section and so on until we get to the top

1 – 5 manmakers/ SSH
2 – 2 360 merkins/ Butterfly sit-ups
3 – 10 hand release merkins/ SSH
4 – 10 wide plank jacks/ butterfly sit-ups

Mosey to base of Everest

Bear crawl 360 together x 2
Run up incline to dead end together
Repeat

Run to base of summit
5 Inchworm merkins
Bernie summit
5 Inchworm merkins

Run to flag

MARY:

Plank until 6 is up

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
LilyDipper’s surgery went well! Praying for Recovery!

GTE volunteers needed

COT:

It took excruciating pain leading to death to cleanse us from our sin. Without His death and resurrection the Bible is just a story that sounds good. Jesus was born to die and to do hard things and endure pain, loneliness, isolation, and rejection along the way.

It’s incomprehensible to think of how heavy the weight of sin felt upon his body.

Just like we took terms today, caring that heavy sandbag, there is one other man that really caught my eye in the midst of some of Jesus‘s hardest moments of the cross.
Jesus fell to the ground under the burden of the cross. After their efforts to get Him to continue on His way, the Roman soldiers are in trouble, looking for a solution to the situation. According to Roman law, they could force a traveler to help carry the burden for a mile. They found Simon of Cyrene, seized him, and put the cross on his back to take it after Jesus.
Simon of Cyrene was a Jew who had come to Jerusalem for the Passover Feast. To hasten Jesus’ execution by crucifixion the soldiers forced Simon to carry the cross, which weighed approximately 88 pounds, a distance of three quarters of a mile from the fortress of Antonia to Calvary.
Simon is mentioned in three of the Gospel accounts: Matthew (27:32), Mark (15:21), and Luke (23:26). Each of these scriptural reports tell us something different about the man, Simon of Cyrene, and in turn, tell us something important about our life with Jesus.
First, it is not to be overlooked that Simon carried Jesus’ cross. Matthew and Mark clearly state the object Simon carried: “His [Jesus’] cross.” This might sound obvious, but it is insightful that this man, Jesus, who all the gospel writers clearly understand to be God incarnate, needs assistance at his moment of suffering. Simon carrying Jesus’ cross is our reminder of the humility of God.
God is always purposeful, and He may have directed the soldiers to choose Simon of Cyrene to carry the Lord’s cross for a portion of the way to Calvary. We must not lose sight of the fact that Immanuel (God with us), the Creator, the One who carries our burdens accepted help from a man. What a lesson in humility. And we know that part of the execution process involved shameful, public humiliation. Simon did not merely spectate; he also partook in the Lord’s advance toward crucifixion.

Simon of Cyrene, following behind Jesus with the cross, is the picture of discipleship. Christ has gone first. He has gone and is going to where we cannot. Still, we follow in his steps, bearing the cross behind him. This is why Christians today join their hearts together in song singing, “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus” written by a Christian martyr named Sadu Sundar Singh.
“I have decided to follow Jesus; The world behind me, the cross before me; Though none go with me, still I will follow; My cross I’ll carry, till I see Jesus; No turning back, no turning back.”

Leave you with one question.
What weight are you carrying for others right now?

And let’s rejoice that one man chose to not just carry the weight, but to die so that we may know Him and tell others of this love. And Sunday is coming very soon that changes the hope for all of mankind.

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February 27, 2024 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Piston
PAX: Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Steam, Abacus, Mo Rocka (Joshua Miller), Drum Major, Glamper, Sparkler, Honeydew, Duggar, Z-Bone, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Brick, Lilydipper, Title IX (Christian Prescott), Piston, 2
FNGs: 1 2
COUNT: 17

WARMUP:
Disclaimer given while holding plank
13 SSH
13 Tempo Squats
13 Tempo Merkins
5 Knox Cherry Pickers
6 Willie Mays Hayes
13 LBAC forward and backward
15 Seal Claps
Take a second to warmup anything necessary
THE THANG:
Each set add one exercise and run approximately 100 meters
5 Burpees
10 Heels to Heaven
20 Merkins
30 Dips/Carolina Dry Docks
40 Freddie Mercury’s
50 Squats
60 LBCs/Undertakers
70 Fire Hydrants (35 each leg)
80 Toe Merkins
MARY: Nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: See Slack and Brick
COT: ”But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.“
‭‭II Peter‬ ‭1‬:‭5‬-‭9‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

As men, so many times we get stuck “in routine” or “on brand”. We plateau in some area of our lives and that’s where we stay.
Can’t lose that extra 10 lbs
Can’t get that promotion
Can’t connect with my spouse/girlfriend the way I should

But one major aspect I think we miss is changing so we can get those things. To add the missing components to break through that barrier.

It’s the same spiritually. Our text talks about adding things to continue to grow and not to stagnate.

That’s why we do things like F3.

Can you HEAR the music?

February 22, 2024 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Pele (Jon Lindberg)
PAX: Pusher, Brick, CRISPR, Switchhitter (Tony), High Heels (Henry Ritchie), Drum Major, Mailbox, MD Hammer, Tenderfoot, Z-Bone, Crash Dummy, Glamper, Title IX (Christian Prescott), Kung Blue, Sparkler, Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Pele (Jon Lindberg), La-Z-Boy (Zac Smith), Lizzy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
WARMUP: -20 SSH (4-ct IC)
– 10 Windmills (4-ct IC)
-10 Grady Corns (4-ct IC)
– 10 Mountain Climbers (4-ct IC)
– calf stretches
THE THANG:
MOSEY up Baby Cardiac and to the open area next to the road.
JINXY’S FOUR AND A QUARTER. Start at bottom of hill, run to top of slope and do 25 reps of an exercise, return to starting position. R&R 4 times, totaling 100 of the exercise (all single count).
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Round 1: Bottle openers
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– Round 2: Squat Jumps
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MOSEY to Colosseum
Run around OUTSIDE circle, doing exercises at the Four “corners”
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15 Big Boys (or 30 LBCs), 15 American Hammers (2-ct)
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MOSEY to FIELD BELOW COLOSSEUM.
RECTANGLE of DEATH!!
Blue cones on Corners, Orange Cones on sides (one side has blue cone in middle). Sheets will tell you what to do and how to get to next Blue Cone. Rinse and Repeat. First one done yell RECOVER.
Corner
1: Do 20 Iron Mikes (10 each leg). Suicide using orange cones to next
blue cone.
Corner 2: Do 20 Plank Jacks, Bear Crawl to next Blue Cone
Corner 3: Do 20 Big Boy Situps, Bernie to Blue Cone ½ way down.
½ Way Cone: Do 10 PRISONER GET UPS, Bernie to next Blue cone
Corner 4: 20 Shoulder taps , EL CAPITAN to next Blue Cone
Mosey to rock pile, AMRAP with curls, presses, rows, and triceps.
MOSEY TO AO
MARY: Flutter kicks, E2Ks, Homer/Marge
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Camping this week-end, various Ruck events, Hiking workout in early March, tune in to Slack.
COT: Quote from the movie Oppenheimer: “Algebra is like sheet music. The important thing isn’t can you read the music, it’s can you HEAR it” . Faith is similar. You can check all the boxes of the rituals of your faith, but the goal is to hear the music of your Sky Q’s love in your heart and soul. It may take a while for that to happen, and it’s not necessarily connected to how may boxes you check, but it’s an incredible feeling hearing that song in you once you attune to your God. “During the quiet moments, when I still my mind and my body, I can hear the song of His love in my heart and in my soul.”

The Last Fake Gloom

December 28, 2023 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Steam
PAX: Pusher, Lilydipper, Sparkler, Tenderfoot, Pele (Jon Lindberg), High Heels, Jeevan Kypa (Scrubs), OnStar, Crash Dummy, Mermaid, Brick, Toretto, 50Cal
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
Let me throw out a date to you all: January 2nd, 2016 — this is the date a backblast by Ratchet on our website identifies the first evening workout launching here at The Asylum.
– On Thursday, January 7th, 2016 the first Thursday night workout launched here at the Asylum PM.
– 7 years later here we are ready to rock the last Thursday night workout of 2023 together.
– f3knoxville.com/2016-meet-the-men-of-f3-knoxville/

WARMUP:
– SSH: 105
– Hillbilly: 10×4
– Rockette: 4×4
– Cherry Pickers: 10×4
– Man-Maker: 5×8

THE THANG:
(Mosey to the New Pav)
1 — Nickel, Dime, Quarter
– Get a BB
– 3 POC in The Island: End curb, middle, end curb (corresponding with the # of reps: 5, 10, 25)
– All POC in The Island = merkins
– Xs in the New Pav switch every time you come back to relieve your BB
– Squats, dips, box jumps/step-ups until recovered
– Rinse and repeat with your BB until both of you have completed all 3 POC in The Island

2 — There And Back Agains
– Start at the top of The Island
– 4 POC: top, 1/3, 2/3, other top
– 25, 50, 75, 100 LBC
– Run to the POC – execute the reps for that station, run back and touch here
– When you finish the 100 LBCs at the other end, stay there
(Mosey to the base of Pickett’s Charge —> run up to the lookout at the Coliseum)

4 — The Silent Trifecta
– 30 seconds of silence while holding the squat/plank/etc
– Sprint the Coliseum loop
– Rinse and repeat for a total of 3x
– On the 2nd + 3rd time: think of someone that has made an impact on your life this year
(Run back to the ????????)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Polar Bear Plunge on 1/1/24 (checkout the #polar-bear-plunge2024 channel in Slack for more info)

COT:
Enemy Occupied Territory
(See more in message thread)

Tour de Farm

December 27, 2023 BackBlasts

AO: the-farm
Q: Aladdin
PAX: Aladdin, Sparkler, Trash Panda, Monstar
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP:
SSH
Cherry Pickers
Tie Fighters
Windmills

THE THANG:
4 workout stops throughout the AO. Went from pavilion to pavilion due to the rain. 3 exercises at each stop. SSH to the 6. Work forward then backward.

MARY:
No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill will be on Memorial Day. Planned has started. Plan on volunteering and participating.

COT:
Remember our bodies are weak but Christ is strong.