Minion

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