Based on the video, we had 29 pax; which is awesome. Let me know if I forgot anyone. Great to see Fat Tire and Minion/Vector out this morning. It’s also great to see a handful of solid 2.0s playing and contributing; not so great seeing all of them picked before me, but it is what it is. Also, none of them got trucked by GingerBilly. Welcome Wiggy! It helps having a lot of guys brainstorming good names and talking over PacRat. He can can sling it and bring it. Reminds me of a young Bozo/Groening hybrid. We even got Lights Out to pull an MJ and come out of retirement.
T-Claps for guys doing the Bingo, but if anyone did them from 7-8 I don’t believe they count. Am I right?
Coffeeteria is always solid after an ultimate. Great fellowship!
Stay healthy and safe!
Minion
BACKBLAST: Tuesday, 07/04/23 Freedom of Choice @ Trinity
QIC: HHH
PAX: Dr. Freud, 45, Groening, Han Solo, Dr. Strange, Mr. Incredible, Scarecrow, Peyton, Einstein, FacePlant, Little Minion, Vector, Optimus, Editor, OCB, Tank, Thunder, Lights Out, Stylebender, 2005, Mad Max, Song Bird, Campbells, McQueen, Pole Cat, Atticus, 4Howa, The Mick, Bert, Trader Joe, Rusty, Class Act, Saluki, and HHH.
36 PAX & 2.0s came out and either rucked, worked out, or frisbee’d. Some even did multiple things. Below is what 8 of the PAX did.
Warm Up
Mosey from SE corner of church to NW corner
SSH (20 IC)
Bean Pickers (10 IC)
8 Ct perfect WMH (10 IC)
Burpees (4 OYO)
Mosey to SW corner
The Thang
PAX chose the exercise and who went next. We stacked exercises as we mosey’d to each corner of the church.
The Mick – Merkins (10 CC)
Bert – 5-1 Motivators
Class Act – Burpees (10 OYO)
Rusty – 8-ct good mornings (8 IC)
Trader Joe – WWIs (20 OYO)
Saluki – Squats (10 IC)
4Howa – LBC (10 OYO)
HHH – American Hammers (10 IC)
Mosey to playground
2 Rounds:
6 burpees
6 pull/chin ups
Mary
N/A
Moleskin
Great to see so many PAX come together and celebrate ‘Merica. Was going to do four sets of 18 burpees, but Class Act ruined those plans. Was also going to spell out USA, but only did U’s. Also wanted to do monkey humpers by the bleachers to cheer on those playing, but ran out of time. Classy said he burned 500 calories so not a bad little workout.
SYITG,
HHH
BACKBLAST: Saturday, 06/17/23 Extra Wait + Extra Weight @ The Hub
QIC: HHH
PAX: Tank, Scarecrow, Lights Out, Scut Farkus, Rusty, Campbells, Class Act, Saluki, Minion, and HHH.
Perfect morning for ruck and cinderblock WOD. 22 PAX across 2 AOs is solid. Missed those that didn’t make it out this morning. Here is what we did in case you want to replicate it later today.
Warm Up
SSH (20 IC)
8 Ct Good Morning (10 IC)
4 Ct WMH (10 IC)
IST (10 IC)
Hillbilly (10 IC)
8 Ct. Body Builders (10 IC)
Light pole lap: Heel Walk/Toe Walk/High Knee Skip/But Kickers/Cariocas
Parking Lot lap run or get block
Put on Ruck or Vest
Partner Up
P1: Farmer Carry
P2: 1 Navy Seal Burpee
Flap Jack until we get to front Retention Pond
The Thang
4 Rounds of the Following:
Squat Surrenders (5 OYO)
Murder Bunny Up
Inchworm Peter Parker Merkins (5 OYO)
Reverse Murder Bunny Back Down
Alternating Block Swing toss/Block Chest throw to other side
4 Rounds of the following:
Reverse Lunges (5 each leg)
OH Block Quadraphillia
Jump Squats (5 OYO)
OH Block Carry down
AMRAP Coupon Curl Walk (All the way Down)
AMRAP Military Press Walk (1/2 way)
10 Count
AMRAP Skull Crusher Walk (1/2 way back)
Partner Up
P1: Farmer Carry
P2: 1 Navy Seal Burpee
Flap Jack until we get to Pull up Bars
P1: AMRAP Bent Over Scap Rows
P2: Scap Pull Ups (10)
Flap Jack
P1: AMRAP Incline Knerkins
P2: 4-Ct Gradual Negative Pull Up (5)
Flap Jack
P1: AMRAP Block Squat
P2: Alt hand Release dead hang (10 CC)
Flap Jack
Return Blocks Home
Mosey to Flag
Mary
½ Turkish Get Ups (10 each side)
30 sec Plank
Moleskin
I believe I have only posted to 3 boot camps in the past 2 weeks. It definitely showed because I did not find this workout to be easy. The added weight definitely did not help, but I am glad we did the harder thing.
10 PAX seems small for a Saturday, but that is only because we are used to seeing 20 PAX. Truth is, we did have 22 PAX across two AOs. I know this will be a case of addition by division. Keep trying to give it away boys. F3 is a starfish!
Q Source time. Here are a couple of things I want to reiterate.
Be a sua sponte leader. “In F3, a Sua Sponte Leader is a man who has been freed to Lead. He is a Leader who exercises Individual Initiative (I2) by taking action in furtherance of his Group’s Articulated Purpose without specific instructions. He initiates Movement toward Advantage for his Group in the absence of explicit authority because he is that rare man who will Lead with or without another Leader to direct him. He is That Somebody.”
“F3 could not function without HIMs willing to be That Somebody. It is an Organization that was created in order to invigorate male Leadership in Charlotte (the Community we happened to be Members of when when it started). We did it without authority from any existing Organization or any request from the Governance of our Community–we acted on our own accord, sua sponte. The Movement we initiated was driven by our belief that dormant Male Leadership was a Problem that could and must be solved in our Community.”
Also, be a lizard and not a bullfrog. “We chose the image of the lizard to represent an Effective Organization because it is light, fast and always either in motion or prepared to move quickly. A lizard has everything it needs to survive and prosper, while being weighed down with nothing it does not need. While it is small enough to be caught in one hand, it must be mighty for (as the proverb goes), it is found in king’s palaces. The lizard represents Movement–action taken in furtherance of Purpose.
The bullfrog projects the opposite image. It is sleepy, slow and bloated. While capable of moving, it is rarely does, other then to flick out its tongue to catch more flies. While big (in reptilian terms), the bullfrog is rarely found anywhere but its customary lilly pad. The Bullfrog represents the Status Quo–the state of non-Movement.
Lizard Organizations are Effective because they exist solely to accomplish their Articulated Purpose, which is their disclosed and primary Advantage sought. If they were to do so, then their existence would no longer be required. In this way, a Lizard is a Movement to something of Advantage, not a place of Existential Continuity.
In comparison, Bullfrogs are in-Effective because their primary goal is Existential Continuity. They may (and usually do) have an Articulated Purpose that sounds much like that of a Lizard, but it’s fake. In truth, a Bullfrog’s existence is driven by nothing more than its desire to continue to exist. Rather than being a Movement to something it is an institution of something, not a Static Plateau.
A Lizard doesn’t have many rules because rules inhibit Movement. The Governance of a Lizard seeks to Incentivize I2 with Carrots rather than inhibit it with Sticks. The Sua Sponte Leaders who inhabit a Lizard don’t need rules to restrain them, they need a clearly Articulated Purpose to guide them toward the Advantage that the Lizard exists to achieve. Knowing that there may be many paths to that Advantage, the Lizard’s Governance depends upon the genius of its Sua Sponte Leaders to blaze new trails. In doing so, it relies upon relationships, not rules.
In contrast, a Bullfrog has an ever-expanding regime of rules that it uses as Sticks to Incentivize C3 and punish I2. Unlike a Lizard, it has no interest in harnessing the individual genius and initiative of its Members. Instead, it seeks obedience. For this reason, there is really no place in a Bullfrog for Sua Sponte Leaders. Why would a man who has been freed to Lead shackle himself to a Group that is determined to remain static?”
I just pulled some of the more important pieces, but feel free to read the whole thing in my Band post. We have some growth and momentum right now. Let’s try to avoid being static.
SYITG,
HHH
BACKBLAST: 05/06/23 Ultimate Frisbee @ Trinity Lutheran
20 PAX and 1 rucker came out this morning and exercised. Some even burpee’d.
BACKBLAST: Saturday, 04/08/23 Pop Quiz @ The Hub
QIC: HHH
PAX: Tank, In the Can, PacRat, The Mick, GingerBilly, Scarecrow, Spur, Lights Out, R-22, EKG, UPS, Wrangler, El Guapo, Nacho Libre, No Doubt, Kato, Optimus, Crash, OCB, Peyton, Excellent, Bob Vila, Dr. Freud, Minion, and HHH.
The first 6 PAX above and me did some prework before the beatdown. It was a little chilly, but all-in-all it was a nice morning! We had 2 FNGs and 5 down range PAX; that is pretty awesome. Hopefully, we will see those DR PAX once in a while; don’t be strangers. The 2 new FNGs live in Munster so hopefully the Dump continues to grow along with Troy. I was already working on this Q before finding out we would have all these guests, but I thought this would be a perfect workout for them and NWIND. Here is what we did.
Warm Up
Who can recite the Disclaimer? (PacRat)
SSH (25 IC)
Mission Statement (Dr. Freud)
MNC (25 IC)
5 Core Principles (Multiple responses from PAX)
Squats (25 IC)
How many Q points make up the Q Source, the F3 Manual on Virtuous Leadership?
Answer: There are 50 Q points in the Q source…
Penalty Burpees (10 OYO)
How many segments or categories are the Q points grouped into?
Answer: There are 4 Quadrants of the Q source
What does G3L stand for?
Get Right, Live Right, Lead Right, and Leave Right.
4 x 4’s (4 OYO)
Get Right
WMH OYO while reading
(The first Quadrant, or Q1.0)
A man must Get Right before he can do anything else
Definition of Get Right: The Pursuit of Proper Personal Alignment
Fitness is a man’s Right relationship with himself, Fellowship is his Right relationship with the people with whom he is in Proximity and Faith is his Right relationship with his creator, the SkyQ .
Arm Circles F/B OYO while reading
The order of the Get Right (1-Fitness, 2-Fellowship and 3-Faith) is prescriptive, not random. Although it might seem philosophically that Faith should come first and that Fellowship should precede Fitness, that just does not turn out to be true as a practical matter.
An unfit man is a slave to his lack of self-control
To be able to help others, a man must first help himself
This means a man is continually keeping his Concentrica in order and Royalty Race in check.
ABA = Always Be Accelerating.
Concentrica – The circular rings formed by a man’s most Proximate relationships.
Royalty Race – The daily battle to Accelerate the King, Queen and Jester.
3 Light pole laps at an accelerating pace (Mosey/Moderate/Race)
The Thang
Live Right (Q2.0) (Plank)
To Live Right a man must have an ultimate Purpose in mind
To Live Right requires self-sacrifice
Living Right helps a man to stay Right
“In this quadrant, a man who has and continues to Get Right shifts his perspective to other men whose boats are capsized.”
Working together we accelerate faster and go farther than alone!
Partner up, then grab coupons and carry to dumpster lot, then mosey to grab a log
Line up by the trees
Dora 1,2,3
100 merkins, 200 WWIs, 300 squats
Timer: 5 log flips and roll it back
Return logs home
Mosey to Parking Lot and circle up
After “Get Right” and “Live Right” the 3rd Quadrant of the Q source is Lead Right.
What is the acronym we should remember to be an effective Leader?
Penalty burpees (4)
AMRAP Shoulder Taps
The 3rd Quadrant tells us that to Lead Right a High Impact Male must leverage leadership skills VAPE: Vision, Articulation, Persuasion, and Exhortation.
First, he must have Vision, which is the ability to recognize Advantage and the Movement required to achieve it. If he does not know where he is going and why, then he will not be able to Influence anyone else to follow him there.
Second, he must be capable of Articulation, which is the act of describing his Vision to others. People will not abandon their Status Quo for a superior position unless they understand where they are going.
Third, he possesses the means of Persuasion, which is the initiation of first Movement. Despite their recognition that a Leader’s Vision is Advantageous, human nature is to cling to the Status Quo even it is inferior. Through Persuasion, a Leader convinces people to begin Movement and gain Momentum.
Fourth, because Movement produces uncontrollable circumstances, the Leader knows that Obstacles (Problems that impede Movement) will inevitably arise. An Effective Leader is ready to use Exhortation to incentivize his followers to breach Obstacles and maintain Momentum toward Advantage
Does anyone know the leadership virtues?
The Virtuous Leader must also cultivate the 5 C’s: Candor, Commitment, Consistency, Contentment, and Courage. These 5 habits and ethics of moral excellence enable a man to be who a leader is.
Penalty Burpees (5 OYO)
AMRAP Mt. Climbers
First, he must have Candor, which is the Habit of graciously telling the hard truth and demanding to hear it from others. For a Group’s Movement to be truly voluntarily, its members must know the truth. If their acquiescence is premised upon the chicanery of the Group’s Leader, the Outcome will not be Virtuous even if it is Advantageous.
Second, he must have Commitment, which is unwavering loyalty to the Group and unflinching determination to accomplish its Mission. Effective Leadership alone may achieve short-term results, but it takes a Committed Leader to obtain long-term Advantage for the Group.
Third, he must be Consistent, in that he is unchanging in nature, standard or effect over time. Inconsistent Leaders cannot be fully relied upon and ultimately produce inconsistent results.
Fourth, he must possess Contentment, which is the stability of emotion engendered by the consistent pursuit of Joy rather than happiness. Only a Contented man can abandon the pursuit of his own Personal Comfort.
Fifth, he must be a man with Courage, which is the Habit of setting aside fear to turn hardship into grace. While a Leader may be Effective by pretending that fear does not exist (at least in him), the Virtuous Leader accepts fear as the natural and necessary human emotion that it is and overcomes it through Preparedness and self-control.
Break into groups of 4-5 (coupons just in case)
Each PAX takes turns calling out an exercise
Plank when finished
Mosey to Flags
Mary
Ran out of time
Moleskin
During announcements, I shared what I was going to say during Mary for Leave Right.
How are they working to build a legacy?
What does legacy mean to them?
Only a Virtuous Leader can leave a Legacy
Legacy is constructed through the HIM’s development of Virtuous Leaders
Great job by everyone. I believe Scarecrow got in 7 miles, GB did 5.5, and I did 3.1 as did the ruckers. I am guessing Spur got in 7 miles or more during the beatdown. Very cool to have a triple respect amongst us this morning! What a great mix of guys this morning! The new logs sucked and the Dora took longer than expected. I was hoping to do another round of each PAX calling out an exercise and some Mary. It was a lot of talking so I will try and pare it down in the future. Learned how to pronounce chicanery and it’s definition. Not sure how that slipped passed me when I was copying and pasting. Oh well. I will do some penalty burpees as suggested right before the next boot camp.
We split up for coffee so I do not know what the Dunkin boys chatted about, but I can tell you that the fellowship team is cooking up some pretty sweet events.
Hope you like the Q because most of mine moving forward will be around a specific Q point from Q Source.
Sign up for the Hub Run and Food Bank events. Also, be on the lookout for Peyton’s MasterClass!
Happy Easter everyone!
SYITG,
HHH