Tag: herbie

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Walkman, Slumberkins, Free Lunch

Conditions

cold, clear, frosty, 40 degrees

Warm up

• SSH x 20
• scissor arms x 10
• 3rd grade exercise x 10
• Hillbillies x 10
• Windmills x 12

Mosey to track by way of 51st

The Thang

• Partner exercises
  • 200 dips total – partner runs up stairs one time
  • 400 squats – partner does 15 yd bear crawl and 15 yd crawl bear back
  • 150 rows – partner does 10 big boys
  • 100 merkins – partner runs around grass at flag pole

MoM

• box cutters x 12
• frozen freddy mercury’s x 20

COT

Adventure

I shared about how I want to think more about how to introduce adventure/novelty into the lives of the people around me. I tend to think about adventures as a tool for getting myself out of ruts, but not about the needs of the people around me that I’m leading or supporting. Attending Fall Camp ancestral skills gathering helped me see some ways that my “wildest” child could get out of some of his behavioral ruts by being in a new space/environment.

Walkman shared about how he thinks about planning the spaces/events that his daughter will experience. Slumberkins talked about wanting to get himself and his children outdoors more, maybe camping or skiing. Free Lunch shared about realizing that his family had just experienced a big adventure in moving to a new house.

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: StrayCat

PAX: Kiwi, Slash

Conditions

Wet, dark and cool but not raining

Warm up

• SSH x 20
• Halo x 10
• Picklebomber x 7
• Oil Derrick x 8 each side
• A few Hardstyle big boys

Mosey to track

The Thang

• 50 yd crab walk
• 50 yd bear crawl
• 10 rows
• 10 diamond merkins
• run up stairs to the top of the south side of the field
• 10 jump squats
• Run up and down all the bleachers and stairs at the Facility
• Repeat for time

Run back to the Flag and do three Superman Back Extensions for a 10 count each

COT

Work and Family Balance

I shared about how I regret all the time I’m spending away from my family and F3 for work commitments. I shared how my health has suffered from not being in my normal routine, and how much I miss my Family, friends and F3.

I have a lot more work and trips coming up this year, but I’m determined to continue to work out while traveling. I’ll need some accountability with this. I’m also determined to set better boundaries at work to prevent this from occurring in the the future.

AO: Gaunlet

QIC: Lumbergh

PAX: Herbie, Free Lunch

Conditions

A bit damp, a bit gloomy, a perfect day for a beatdown

Warm up

• SSH x 20
• 3rd Grade Exercise x 15
• Slow High Knees x 15
• Monkey Humpers x 10
• Scissor Arms x 15
• Windmill x 15
• SSH x 20

Mosey to track (lined up with the end zone)

The Thang

Round 1

• Run 400 meters
• Bear Crawl 25 yards (side bear, side bear opposite way, crawl bear)
• 25 Peter Parkers (first 2 rounds stay down, second two rounds do the merkin and knee to elbow in the up position)
• Rinse and repeat for a 100 yards

Round 2

• Split Leg Lunge Walk 25 yards (side lunge, side lunge opposite way, reversal lunge)
• 25 Bonnie Blairs (50 easy count)
• Rinse and repeat for a 100 yards

Round 3

• Broad Jumps 25 yards
• 25 X-factors (50 easy count)
• Rinse and repeat for a 100 yards

COT

Measures of Accountability

Standards

True Accountability starts with a Standard, which is an objective measure of performance or behavior. To be Effective, it must be inarguable. If it contains any subjective wiggle-room then it is not a Standard.

A good example of an objective and inarguable Standard is the LBZ, a man’s daily weight and FUPA as provided by his properly calibrated bathroom scale and two-dollar tape measure. My pants might lie to me and the mirror will tell me what I want it to say, but there is no bargaining with the LBZ–it is either higher today than it was yesterday, or it isn’t.

Enforcement

Enforcement is an external force that applies a Standard. A Standard without Enforcement is like a nail without a hammer. It avails nothing. Enforcement requires the intercession of another person to measure one’s actual performance or behavior against the Standard he previously agreed to set for it. No man can hold himself Accountable. If that were possible people would not need Accountability to maintain desirable performance and behavior. We would all just simply straighten ourselves out and fly right. While self-correction might work for a moral failure it can’t work for a Blind Spot. A Blind Spot is a nail that needs a hammer.

Without Enforcement, a man’s Blind Spots will lead him to continually lower his own Standards to meet his own declining performance until both meet at the bedrock of his life. Knowing that, the HIM relies on Enforcement to arrest this free-fall as early as possible so that he may get back on track as quickly as possible. This requires another man to cover your Blind Spots for you by watching you step on the scale or inspecting your computer to see what you’ve been looking at.

Lately, I’ve been approached by several PAX for several reasons, advice, complaints, distaste, support, etc. My point with the message today, is to remind all of us our mission to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership. We must first trust each other to support each other, we have to honor positive intent but also need to be very clear what our personal goals are and how they might differ than the mission of F3. Accountability is given thru permission, defined by standards, and only then can they be enforced.

That’s a wrap.

-Lumbergh