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Up 2, Back 1

March 4, 2021 Waxjob

THE SCENE: Mid 30s, nice and moony.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x25 IC
Cherry Pickers x5 IC
Cobra burpees x5 OYO
Standard burpees x5 OYO
Crabettes x15 IC
TN Rocking Chairs x15 IC
LBAC x15 each way IC
Alternate cherry pickers for a while
Shake it out
“Warmed up yet?” (no answer from the PAX)
10 burpees OYO
Don’t have time for the PAX to get the question wrong again…

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the light pole by the restrooms. There are cards set up along the path with exercises.
Start with the first card, mosey past the next card and do the third.
Then mosey back to the second card, and so on. 2 forward, 1 back.
So here’s what we ended up doing:

15 Embrace the Earth Burpees (Hand release out to the side)
Run a bit
5 hill sprints
Run a bit less
25 CDD
Run a bit
35 Box Jumps
Run a bit less
5 hill sprints
Run a bit
Bear crawl the parking lot, bernie back
Run a bit less
35 Box Jumps
Run a bit
30 BBS
Run a bit less
Bear crawl the parking lot, bernie back
Run a bit
25 Merkins
Time’s up, run back to the AO!
Got in about 2 miles.

MARY:
15x Seated Heel Taps IC
15x Curious Dollys IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 today. Just the right amount of crowded on the running path.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Psalm 37:23, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.”
The way is the thing. Of course, the destination is good, but the way is how we get to know Him. Sometimes it seems the way sucks. Sometimes we won’t get to understand, sometimes we won’t get to see why. Sometimes it seems we’re moving backward. But that’s OK, because the one who is ordering our steps knows best.
MOLESKIN:
I’m not sure which is worse: Hill sprints, or moseying back to the hill knowing you’re going to have to do them again.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Arsenal launch! Sandy Springs park in Maryville, this weekend @ 0700!

TRIP TO COLOMBIA

March 2, 2021 Judge Judy

THE SCENE: 40s and damp
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER????
WARM-O-RAMA:
OHC, LBAC(f), LBAC(b), Cherry Pickers, Windmills, Temp Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Tempo Squats, SSH
THA-THANG:
Mosey to small Hill on the East side of the Park:

COLOMBIAN NECK-TIE: PAX do varying distance runs and back with increasing colombian neck-ties upon each return to start. Each did about 13 rounds on avg.
Mosey to Playground for Aiken Legs: 20 Box Jumps, 20 Lunges, 20 Iron Mikes, 20 Squats
Mosey to CMU Parking Lot. 4 Corners: sets of 10,15,20,25 of the following exercises with CMU:
- Merkin Overs
- Curls
Line up on curb and Battle Buddy Up for DORA: 50 Burpees, 100 Flutters (4ct)

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
26 Strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Proverbs 1: The beginning of wisdom starts with the fear of the Lord. Do you fear the Lord, or man?
MOLESKIN:
N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Arsenal Launch.

Rainbow Connection

March 1, 2021 Charmin

THE SCENE: 50 with a steady drizzle. Perfect weather (to head to the Pav-a-Lon!)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER You know the drill.
WARM-O-RAMA:
We get the music started early. It’s time to celebrate Rainbow taking the shovel flag, so celebrate we shall. Did you know Rainbow was named after his favorite My Little Pony? I did! First song: “Rainbow” by Sia from the My Little Pony, the Movie Soundtrack. Did you know there was an actual My Little Pony Movie? I didn’t!

Let’s get the burpees out of the way, shall we? Burpee ladder: SSHx 10; 2 burpees; BAC-forward x 10; 4 burpees; BAC-backerds x10; 6 burpees; ISW x 10; 8 burpees; Rockets x 10; 10 burpees.
THA-THANG:
As Robert Plant belts out “Rainbow” from his Digging Deep: Subterranea album (not exactly Now and Zen), we head climb another ladder: Run a lap around the pav-a-Lon building, perform a table row and dip. Run another lap, completing 10 laps total. After each successive lap, add a table row and dip up to 10 reps each. Enjoy Kacey Musgrave singing her song . . .you guessed it, “Rainbow.”

As we finish the ladder, “Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll” by Rainbow starts blaring. Freshly energized as only heavy metal can do, we mosey at a fast clip to the Narthex.

At the Narthex, we mellow things out. We’re descending a ladder of Froggy Squats then regular squats, starting at 10 each, down to 1. It’s Froggy Squats + Rainbow celebration, so that means one song only: “Rainbow Connection” by Kermit The Frog.

The Pax wets its feet from the Narthex to the Chapel, finding a dry spot on the floor, for a Hurricane Hoedown. That’s flutter kicks x7 in seated position with hands over head, flutters x7 in reclining “power T” position, and then regular flutters x 7. We work our way down from the set of 7 to 6, then 5 . . . .to 1, while we enjoy the pop stylings of Rainbow Kitten Surprise performing “American Shoes” followed by “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” by the big Hawaiian Ukulele dude Israel Kamakawio’ole.

Seeing that the far pavilion by the baseball fields was ocupado, we stayed put for some 25s of Merkins and BBS overwhelmed by even more Rainbow “Since You Been Gone.” We mosey back in the rain to the vocal stylings of even more Ronnie James Dio and “Rainbow in the Dark” to the Pav-a-Lon, where we close out 3 minutes of high knee step ups and then 2 minutes of plank with Elvis crooning “Pocketful of Rainbows” (From the G.I. Blues movie, btw).

MARY:
I guess the planks should be here.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
A conspiracy is an agreement between 2 or more people to act in harmony toward a common end. While we think of that word in a negative context, being the AO Q has shown me it can be positive. Many HIMs at the Asylum have conspired to act together to make us all better. I’ve not been a leader so much as just a part of a conspiracy to lead. Being part of that has humbled me beyond belief. Rainbow has been part of the conspiracy for many years. Now, he’ll be the one directing us. I couldn’t be more excited for our AO than I am right now. Thanks to all for pushing me to be better every day.
MOLESKIN:
More from the Q Source: What is required for men to conspire with each other to move themselves and others toward Advantage? Trust. How do we gain trust?

1) Candor (i.e. honesty with ourselves and others);

2) Commitment (toward the common goal);

3) Consistency (showing up regularly so that others know they can count on you);

4) Contentment (demonstration of stability of emotion regardless of the situation);

5) Courage (to do what is uncomfortable – to challenge yourself and your brothers).

We have that in spades at the Asylum, men!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Please bring napkins, 55 gallon trash bags and copy paper for Hope House. Also, Saturday at Sandy Springs Park, we have a new Maryville AO kicking off!).

People’s Choice

February 10, 2021 Waffle House

THE SCENE: Balmy!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Tie Fighters, claps, squats
THA-THANG:

As Kasey Kasem used to say “The numbers keep getting smaller, and the hits keep getting bigger.”

So we did Kasey’s Kloud Kountdown: Box/Baby/Box + Table Rows, 20-15-10-5

I wasn’t going to bring Jack Webb into this, but Hands insisted, so we did.

After carefully scrutinizing the results of the F3 People’s Choice Poll, it was obvious that we haven’t visited Cardiac nearly enough, and so our duty to each other was clear.

All the way up Cardiac, dips at the top, merkins at the cone, squats at the bend, and flutters at the bottom. 20-15-10.

The results of Q’s attempt to comply with the Q/phone mandate were mixed: I brought it with me to the cloud, but I left it there. So we moseyed back to get it, then arrived at AO with juuuust enough time to finish off whatever we had left in our shoulders with some ATM.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Jesus’ entire work proceeds as does the work of a seed: it takes place in a mystery, in secret – in a way that can neither be known nor felt, but only believed, trusted.” Robert Farrar Capon
MOLESKIN:
Praying for Patty and family.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The owner of the maroon F150 who had lunch at Gus’ yesterday refused to identify himself on Slack; Matlock wants a word with you

Grainger County Christmas Story

February 7, 2021 Lillydipper

THE SCENE: Clear skies, temps in high 20’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Run around the parking lot to get warm; 20 Side-Straddle Hops; 10 Burpees; 10 Cherry Pickers; 10 Rockettes; 7 Wide Arm Circles Forward and Backward
THA-THANG:
Mosey to start of the Dragon Tail. We will run up dragon tail stopping at every other light to do 10 of the following exercises (one exercise for each run up). After reaching the top, run on trail to road, back down to lower parking lot, and back to the start of the Dragon Tail to do the next exercise. Here are the exercises:

Iron Mikes (both legs = 1)
Big Boy Sit-ups
Jump Squats
Merkins

Mosey to stop sign that is on the northeastern corner of the admin bldg. We will be moving in a route with signs giving the directions for exercises along the way and where we go next. The signs will be numbered and by cones.

Cone 1: Do 10 Burpees. Then bear crawl on sidewalk heading south to Cone 2.
Cone 2: Do 15 Dive Bombers. Then lunge on sidewalk south to Cone 3.
Cone 3: Do 10 Shoulder Taps (both shoulders = 1). Then run to Cone 4 at porch of Admin Bldg.
Cone 4: Do 20 Calf Raises on stairs and 20 Hello Dollies (4 ct.) on porch. Then run south on trail and back north on trail to Cone 5.
Cone 5: Run down steps to parking lot below Coliseum. Then run south up parking lot, around to southern end of Coliseum and north to Cone 6 which is by marble bench area of Coliseum.
Cone 6: Do 20 Bench Dips. Then run to Cone 7.
Cone 7: Do 40 Baby Crunches. Then run to Cone 8 which is on street near to the admin stop sign where we started.
Cone 8: Do 20 Carolina Dry Docks.
Rinse and Repeat.

As a group we will take a 30 second gander at Beautiful Eastern TN below us. Then we will mosey to parking lot with CMUs.

Each man grabs a CMU and teams up with a brother. We will do Doras. While one man runs to pavilion and does 10 Picnic Table Pull-ups, the other does the exercises with the CMU. Then partners switch. Each team will do the following exercises:

100 Overhead Presses
100 Curls
100 Rows
100 Squats

Put CMUs back and mosey to start of mini-cardiac. Bernie up mini-cardiac to park sign, then sprint the rest of the way to the AO.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
28 men with one FNG: John Case. He is now named Lamont. He is the father of member Mickey.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
In my work as a therapist I heard a mighty fine Christmas story from one of my patients and decided to share it to you here in February. My patient lives in a mountainous area in Grainger County, Tennessee. Some of you may have heard of Grainger County tomatoes. Most are grown in the valley of the county but some areas of the county can be pretty rugged. Here’s a little demographic news for you in regards to Grainger County. It is 94% white, 3.3% Hispanic, and probably less than 1% Black. If you are a black man, you may not want to get stuck alone in Grainger County. The patient I am talking about is a middle-aged white woman and she would tell you that.

She also told me about an African-American truck driver who was driving on a winding highway through the area she lived in on Christmas Eve. As you may recall, Christmas Eve is the day we got that snow that gave us all a White Christmas. The highway the man was driving on was curvy and slick. Unfortunately, his 18 wheeler went off the side of the road and landed in a deep ditch. There was no way to get that truck out easily. It was going to take more than one large wrecker truck to get the truck out. It being Christmas, that would take well over 24 hours.

The truck had valuable cargo and the driver was required to stay with his truck until it could be towed. So this African-American truck driver was stuck on Christmas Eve miles from his home – in one of the most rugged areas of “redneck country”. In Grainger County, if you aren’t driving a pickup truck with a gun rack inside your back window, “you probably ain’t from around these parts.” The necessary clothing for a man is a pair of jeans with a can of snuff in your back pocket.

News can spread pretty fast in a rural county and the news of the sidelined truck came to my patient quickly. She was frankly worried about this African-American truckdriver stuck in her neck of the woods. She was concerned someone might try to start some trouble with him. She wanted to go out to his truck to check on him but was worried about doing so until her husband got home. He did later that day and they went out to the area where the truck was located.

What they found was a number of “neighbors” already congregated by the truck. They also found these same “redneck” neighbors had brought the African-American truckdriver some hot dinner, hot coffee, and baked goods to snack on through the evening. People from all over were coming to make the driver feel as comfortable as he could. They even brought blankets but he had those in his cabin which he was able to keep warm through keeping the engine on. They offered for him to come to their homes but he had to stay with his truck. By the next morning the driver had hot breakfast and gifts of goodies and Christmas cards. When the truck was finally pulled out of the ditch, the driver went home with more hot food and goodies that were brought to him at lunch and dinner time on Christmas Day.

My patient went to sleep on Christmas night feeling wonderful about the residents of Grainger County. Whatever their beliefs and prejudices’, they had made an African-American stranger feel blessed and welcome. It was a Christmas that I am sure he will never forget. And, my patient, who has had a difficult year, sang “Joy to the World” a little louder on Christmas day. The air smelled mighty fresh in Grainger County and the stars shone brighter for the rest of 2020.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for the disenfranchised; for caregivers who are taking care of others and that they would have patience in that difficult task; for Ribbed and his wife, Sarah, after the surgery to remove the tumor by her spine; for Abacus’ mother who will need surgery on her leg; for those in F3 who have lost loved ones this year.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Reward at Coffeeteria!