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Fitness. Fellowship. Faith.

Free Outdoor Morning Workouts To Build Community Leaders

Does a bear shit in the woods?

  • When: 20190303
  • QIC: City Slicker
  • The PAX: Defib, Suds, Meister, Sakrete, High Stick, Reynolds, Repo, Wreck-it Ralph, Bueller, Hot Tub, Hollywood, Floppy, Pretzel, Dr. Octopus, Wee Woo, Old Flame (R), Bubble Head (R)


2019-03-04 by City Slicker Leave a Comment

Mission:  F3’s mission is to plant small workout groups that are free of charge to all men.   We improve fitness and leadership in the community through regular scheduled workout groups where participants rotate leadership.

Conditions: 59 degrees, foggy

The Thang: 18 PAX took to the mean streets of Nexton and battled the fog/pollen all while getting their desired miles. Some rucked (tied together), others ran and one rode.

Moleskin:  Plenty of memorable moments and quotes all while sitting around and drinking hot coffee.

  • “Yo Hot Tub, the center of my left knee cap hurts when my foot hits the pavement.” – Sakrete- This brought laughter from everyone who heard and a shaking of the head from Hot Tub.
  • “I don’t know if a bear shits in the woods, but an Old Flame does”. – Old Flame upon arriving back to Starbucks down a shirt due to dropping a cannoli.

Filed Under: The Creamer Tagged With: Bubble Head, Bueller, City Slicker, Defib, Dr. Octopus, Floppy, High Stick, Hollywood, Hot Tub, Meister, Old Flame, Pretzel, Repo, Reynolds, Sakrete, Suds, Wee Woo, Wreck-It Ralph

A lot of fog, a hangover and a long road to nowhere

  • When: 20190224
  • QIC: City Slicker
  • The PAX: Sofia, Stringbean, Borland, Benefits, Redo, Flanders, Pretzel, Hot Tub, Candy Striper, Hollywood, Bee Wax, Floppy, Wee Woo, Suds, Reynolds, The Colonel (R), Peg (R), Major Dad (R)


2019-02-25 by City Slicker Leave a Comment

Mission:  F3’s mission is to plant small workout groups that are free of charge to all men.   We improve fitness and leadership in the community through regular scheduled workout groups where participants rotate leadership.

Conditions: 54 degrees, visibility of .001 miles due to fog

The Thang: 19 PAX showed up, got miles by either legs or bike and drank coffee. Would have been nice to hit 20……Thanks Sakrete 🙁

Moleskin:

  • Sakrete’s HC at 12:30 a.m. the day of would have made the PAX count 20, but he (for once!) made the smarter decision when the room started spinning and avoided a DWI. Just another fartkrete!
  • The fog was heavy and visibility was low, but Pretzel, Major Dad and Redo were troopers and got miles in on the bike!
  • No one fell today.
  • Peg, Floppy, Wee Woo and I got lost. Looking on the map after the run though, it looks like in the future there will be many more routes for us….hopefully!
  • No creatures were sighted that were spoken about.
  • Reynolds came for coffee. His foot has been bothering him since the GORUCK Light on the 16th. Prayers for healing!
  • Shortcake wasn’t there and neither was DT.

Filed Under: The Creamer Tagged With: Bee Wax, Benefits, Borland, Candy Striper, City Slicker, Flanders, Floppy, Hollywood, Hot Tub, Major Dad, Peg, Pretzel, Redo, Reynolds, Sofia, Stringbean, Suds, The Colonel, Wee Woo

The story of Dog Balls

  • When: 20190210
  • QIC: City Slicker
  • The PAX: Wee Woo, Space Cowboy, Myrtle, Candy Striper, Android, Waldo, Pretzel, Show Me, Borland, Icebox, Floppy, Wreck-it Ralph, Reynolds, Hollywood, Hot Tub, One Bar, Stringbean, Grits (R), The Colonel (R), Professor Klump (R), Bubble Head (R), Dog Balls (FNG)


2019-02-11 by City Slicker Leave a Comment

Mission:  F3’s mission is to plant small workout groups that are free of charge to all men.   We improve fitness and leadership in the community through regular scheduled workout groups where participants rotate leadership.

Conditions: A brisk 39 degrees in the wind tunnel of Nexton

The Thang: 23 PAX got their miles by running or rucking

Moleskin:  Welcome FNG David Evatt, now known as Dog Balls. While getting named, Dog Balls proceeded to tell us about how his dog got famous – his balls! He was at a party and photo-bombed a picture and his dog instantly became an internet legend. He didn’t know the picture was online until his friend texted him telling him it is on Reddit. Click picture below for some incredible comments.

Photobomb level: Dog balls from funny

Filed Under: The Creamer Tagged With: Android, Borland, Bubble Head, Candy Striper, City Slicker, Dog Balls, Floppy, Grits, Hollywood, Hot Tub, Icebox, Myrtle, One Bar, Pretzel, Professor Klump, Reynolds, Show Me, Space Cowboy, Stringbean, The Colonel, Waldo, Wee Woo, Wreck-It Ralph

Ruck Escalator

  • When: 20190204
  • QIC: Wreck-it Ralph
  • The PAX: Wreck-it Ralph, Gruber, Reynolds


2019-02-11 by Wreck-It Ralph Leave a Comment

The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: 50’s- Cool and comfortable.

FNGs: None

COP:  None

The Thang:

During the mile loop stop for PT:

Start with 20 reps, then 18, etc.

Overhead Press

Triceps Extension

Curls

Squats

Flutter Kicks

Mary: Not today

Numberama: 2

Namerama: Wreck-it Ralph, Gruber, Reynolds

Pledge and COT

Announcements:

Devo: none

Moleskin:   Keep working on the Mile a day challenge. It’s tough to make the time in the day every single day for what’s important, but you’ll be better for it.

Filed Under: Magnitude Tagged With: Gruber, Reynolds, Wreck-It Ralph

Cheetah’s return to Magnitude

  • When: 20190208
  • QIC: Cheetah
  • The PAX: Reynolds


2019-02-08 by Cheetah Leave a Comment

Intro: It’s been some time since the sheepdog. YHC needed some ruck workouts tinder his belt to prepare for the upcoming ruck next week so here we go.

FNGs: None

Weather: Not bad

No warm up

Thang: Mosey to Palm tree area nearish the front of the park.

Each palm tree increase the rep by one. Lunge walk in between.

Round 1: Ruck Curls

Round 2: Lulus

13 reps was the highest rep count done per exercise.

Return to flag

MARY:

15 Box Cutters IC

Plank till time

Numberama 2

Namerama Cheetah, Reynolds

Pledge Prayer Announcement

Moleskin: Glad to have some company this morning. Sorry Reynolds that you dropped your keys🤣I can’t control that pain.

Filed Under: Magnitude Tagged With: Cheetah, Reynolds

Cold Creamin’

  • When: 20190127
  • QIC: Sakrete
  • The PAX: Professor Klump (R), Recount, Repo, The Colonel (R), Grasshopper, Benefits, Flanders, Pretzel, Major Dad (R), M&M (R), City Slicker, Bubblehead (R), Wreck It Ralph, Reynolds, Ramen, Bueller, Muscadine, Stringbean, Hollywood, Peg, Shrute, Suds, Floppy


2019-01-29 by Sakrete Leave a Comment

The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: Cold

FNGs: Disclaimer given.  Get miles don’t die.

COP:  OYO

The Thang:

Run.  Ruck or Ride.  Or walk.  The Creamer doesnt judge

Mary: I’m not sure she was working

Numberama: 23

Namerama: Professor Klump (R), Recount, Repo, The Colonel (R), Grasshopper, Benefits, Flanders, Pretzel, Major Dad (R), M&M (R), City Slicker, Bubblehead (R),  Wreck It Ralph, Reynolds, Ramen, Bueller, Muscadine, Stringbean, Hollywood, Peg, Shrute, Suds, Floppy

Pledge and COT Loud and proud!

Announcements:

Opportunity to volunteer for P 200 and help F3 Summerville in the process.  Stay tuned for more information from Nantan

Moleskin:   YHC showed up with hopes of bicycling.  Those hopes were quickly dashed when I sat down on the bike and the back tire deflated quickly.  Placed the bike back in the back of the truck and attempted to run.  Had some pretty serious pain in my knee.  Decided to just walk.  Recount arrived with plans of biking also.  He got up to about 2 MPH and the coldness got to him.  He joined YHC on a walk.  We walked a mile.  Then we insured the coffee was hot and ready for consumption. Everyone else came to get multiple miles and did so then joined us for coffee.  It was cold outside but we accomplished things.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Benefits, Bubblehead, Bueller, City Slicker, Flanders, Floppy, Grasshopper, Hollywood, M&M, Major Dad, Muscadine, Peg, Pretzel, Professor Klump, Ramen, Recount, Reynolds, Shrute, Stringbean, Suds, The Colonel, Wreck-It Ralph

The Walk of Gloom

  • When: 20190114
  • QIC: Sugar Mountain
  • The PAX: Renolds


2019-01-25 by Sugar Mountain Leave a Comment

F3 is a national network of free, peer-led workouts for men. Our mission is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Weather: 40 ish Dry

FNG: None

COP

TTT x 10 IC

Don Quixote x 10 IC

Squats x 20 IC

Arm circles x 10 IN both ways

The Thing 

The Walk of Gloom 

Every 1/4 mile we do an exercise 

Hand release murkins x 20

MakhtarN’Diaye x 20 IC

Hand Clap Mirkins x 20 IC

Big Boy Murkins x 20 

Mary

Flutter kicks x 40 IC

Heal Taps x 20 IC

Iron Cross x 20 IC

Snow Angle x 20 IC

Pledge

BOM


Filed Under: Magnitude Tagged With: Reynolds, Sugar Mountain

January’s PAX Mountain

  • When: 20190111
  • QIC: Pax Mountain
  • The PAX: Wreck-it Ralph, Dri Prime, Reynolds


2019-01-24 by Wreck-It Ralph Leave a Comment

The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: 40’s- great for rucking

FNGs: none

COP:  none

The Thang:

Pax Mountain is the monthly fitness yes for Magnitude. It involves 20 flutter kicks, run to the parking spots just past the fire hydrant, bear crawl around a parking space (bear square), 20 Merkins, bear square again, 20 WWI sit-ups, run back to the yield sign near the circle and rinse and repeat. This is an AMRAP circuit until time expires.

This months scores are as follows:

Dri-Prime- 700

Wreck-it Ralph- 700

Reynolds- 630

Mary: None

Numberama: 3

Namerama: Wreck-It Ralph, Reynolds, Dri-Prime

Pledge and COT

Announcements:

Devo: None

Moleskin:  

Filed Under: Magnitude Tagged With: #f3counts, Dri-Prime, Reynolds, Wreck-It Ralph

They’re only planks!

  • When: 20190104
  • QIC: Wreeck-It Ralph
  • The PAX: Dri-Prime, Reynolds, Gruber, Wreck-It Ralph


2019-01-24 by Wreck-It Ralph Leave a Comment

The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: Cool, not bad.

FNGs:None.

COP:  Show up ready to go!

The Thang:

Teams of (2) PAX grabbed logs. Move out at a brisk pace.

Every 6 minutes stop to perform some log PT:

Inclined Plank hold- 30 Sec

Declined Plank Hold- 30 Sec

Left side Plank hold

Right Side Plank hold

Log sit-ups- x5 on Q

Q-Sack log from No parking sign to the storage.

Mary: No time

Numberama: 4

Namerama: Wreck-It Ralph, Dri-Prime, Reynolds, Gruber

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Battle of the Bulge T/L 2/16

Devo: None

Moleskin:   Dri-Prime stated ‘They’re only planks!’ at the beginning of the work-out. He regretted that statement on the way home!

Filed Under: Magnitude Tagged With: Dri-Prime, Gruber, Reynolds, Wreck-It Ralph

A Voluntary Combination of Two or More People

  • When: 20190116
  • QIC: Reynolds
  • The PAX: Reynolds, Fish N Chips, High Stick, Chum, DeFib, Sugar Mountain, Splinter, Greenbags, The Colonel, MaBell


2019-01-16 by Splinter Leave a Comment

Scripture:
From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Ephesians 4:16


Socratic
1. Is man’s natural desire solitude or combination?
2. Are there different types of groups that people form?
3. Are there any types of groups that are more important than others?


Synthesis


Man is by nature a group-forming animal
A Group is a voluntary combination of two or more people. There are three distinct types of Groups that are relevant to the QSource: communities, organizations and teams.
The specific reasons that lead people to combine and the manner in which they come together are both immaterial to this very broad definition. Nor are there any formational requirements to meet the definition of a Group beyond a tacit agreement between the members to voluntarily combine. Group membership is never coercive.
Some Group-types (like a corporation or county government) have complex formational requirements and structural barriers that make entry and departure more difficult, but that does not make them any more Group-ish than two men who simply start meeting for coffee every two weeks to talk about whatever is on their mind. Two or more people + voluntary combination—that’s all that is required to meet the definition of a Group.
We seek strength in numbers for a variety of different reasons, but the most elemental is that life itself, while technically possible as a singleton, is not practical without combination with others. Loneliness is our subconscious yelling at us to go find a partner because we are not supposed to live like that. It’s dangerous.
An illustration of this elemental need to combine is portrayed in the movie Castaway. Tom Hanks plays Chuck Noland, a man shipwrecked alone on an island in the middle of the Pacific. Initially he is consumed with learning the basic survival skills for which modern man has no direct need (like starting a fire or spearing a fish in shallow water) but which make the difference between life and death for a modern man cast out into the wilderness alone. After many failures, Chuck is triumphant at the ignition of his first fire. Dancing around the flames, he does not for the moment hear the voice of loneliness yelling at him.
But, flashing forward four years (after a self-administered root canal with a hockey skate almost kills him) we are presented with a different man. Lean and competent at survival, Chuck spears a fish with one quick flick of his wrist. But now there is no dancing. The camera focuses in on a face consumed by worry illustrating how Chuck has been worn down by his loneliness. In fact, we come to find out that he has been experimenting with means of suicide because he knows he is only one unlucky fall away from dying slowly and painfully from a broken leg. Life alone is dangerous, too dangerous to be worth the risk.
We learn of this realization from Chuck’s “conversations” with a volleyball upon which he has finger-painted a face. So deep is his need to be part of a Group, that Chuck creates a co- member in his mind with whom to combine, who he calls Wilson. Ultimately, the Group (Chuck and Wilson) decides that the risk of death on the deep blue sea on a rickety raft is worth the slim possibility of finding other people. The ocean is dangerous, but not nearly as dangerous as life alone on the island.
Chuck’s willingness to push his boat out into the surf and abandon the safety of his island dramatically depicts the human drive to leave a condition of temporary security in search of a more advantageous position. Group membership provides Advantage: a superior condition achieved by Movement. Just as Chuck had to move from the island to find civilization, a lonely man must move outside of himself toward another man to form a coffee-Group. Reasonable minds can debate which type of Movement is more difficult.
Man is hard-wired to seek the Advantage incumbent in Group membership. Different Group-types provide different Advantages. A book club provides fellowship for literature enthusiasts. Reading is a solitary endeavor but literature can be enjoyed in combination to mutual Advantage. The provision of legal services only requires a single law license, but lawyers combine into law firms for the Advantage provided by association with other practitioners. Although they are vastly different, a book club and a law firm are both Groups that provide Advantage for their members.
F3 being a leadership Group, we are primarily concerned with the composition of Groups from the perspective of how they are best led. All Groups (whether they have two or two-million members) must have a Leader. And, that leadership (specifically, how it is best exercised) varies with respect to the Group-type being led. Thus, while both book clubs and law firms must have Leaders, the manner in which they are most successfully led is not the same at all.
The three Group-types that must be led to Advantage are the community, the organization and the team


COMMUNITIES


The first Group-type is the Community, which is two or more people that voluntarily live in close Proximity. A Community is defined by the geographical Proximity of its Members, not by immutable characteristics such as skin color or gender.
Communities are concentric. A family is a Community whose Members live in the same house and in the closest possible Proximity. A neighborhood is a Community of families in which the Members live in relatively close Proximity. A cluster of neighborhoods form a town, which is a Community with Members living in more distant Proximity. A collection of towns form a county, which is a more distal Community—as is a state, the nation and ultimately the world.
Leaders have the most impact upon the Communities that are at the center of their Proximity circle. Thus, a father is much more important to his family than is the governor of the state or the president of the nation. The governor and president are important, but they are less Proximate. The father is more Proximate.
The Governor of North Carolina is very important to his own family and less so to mine because I live two hundred miles away from the capital. Although we are both white middle- aged male lawyers (as I write this), I’ve never met the man and neither have my children. Our lack of Proximity means that we are not in Community, despite the external characteristics that we share.
Ultimately, the Advantage provided by all Communities is the same, to respond to the human need of its Members to dwell in Proximity to other people for their mutual Advantage. We form Communities because we are naturally driven to do so. If human nature were otherwise, we would all be hermits. Chuck Noland would have happily lived out his life on the island spearing fish and discoursing with Wilson instead of risking his life to find Proximity with another human.
The requirements of Community Membership are largely passive. The implicit agreement that forms a Community arises from where the Members live, not what they do there. As a result, little is required of a Community Member other than to generally abide by its laws and mores so that the Group’s peace and harmony can be maintained. A healthy Community is one in which its Members have as much safety as they believe they need and the opportunity to be as significant as they believe they want to be.


ORGANIZATIONS


The second Group-type is the Organization. An Organization is two or more people that voluntarily combine for the accomplishment of an articulated purpose. Unlike Communities, the Members of an Organization are defined by their shared mission not their Proximity. Thus, they need not all (and generally do not) live or work together.
There is some obvious overlap between a Community and an Organization. For example, the residents of Idaho constitute a Community, while the employees of the governing apparatus of the State of Idaho are Members of an Organization. Idaho-the-Community and Idaho-the-Organization have some crossover. The governor of Idaho is by definition a member of the Governance in Idaho-the-Organization, but he is also a Leader in Idaho-the-Community if he has impact on its Members, but then only concentrically, starting with his own family and moving outward.
While this Community/Organization crossover exists, it is limited. A Leader must keep clear the distinction between the two types of Groups because they are completely different organisms. Communities do not need organizing (they exist only to be, not to do) and Organizations do not need community (they exist only to do, not to be ). Thus, it is illogical to call a man a “community organizer”. No such thing can exist and would be unnecessary if it did. What does exist (and what is sorely necessary in both Communities and Organizations) are virtuous Leaders.
While the health of a Community can be assessed by the degree of peace and harmony in which its Members dwell together, Organizations are defined by the Effectiveness with which they accomplish their Mission. Viewed through the lens of Effectiveness, there are three types of Organizations: Lizards, Bullfrogs and Leeches.
A Lizard is an Organization that is dedicated to the Effective achievement of its Mission. In fact, a Lizard’s Leaders do not believe that their Organization exists for any reason other than to realize its purpose. Whereas an Organization that is dedicated to maintaining something that has been previously achieved is an institution, the Lizard is forward-looking. It seeks change through Movement. Its Leaders are Disruptive. A Lizard is is by definition a movement rather than an institution. Because Leaders are critical to a movement, Lizards must have a vibrant
Governance is the person or people who (by election, appointment or fiat) control the managing apparatus of a Community or Organization.

leadership development process. Within the universe of Organizations there are very few Lizards.
The majority of Organizations are Bullfrogs. Unlike a Lizard, a Bullfrog is an institution with the primary goal of the continuity of its own existence. Maintaining what was previously accomplished only requires a Governance of managers, not Leaders. Bullfrogs, immobile institutions that they are, do not need Disruptive leadership because they are not going anywhere. The only challenge that tomorrow may bring to a Bullfrog is the continued maintenance of the slow-motion dance required for it to stay firmly planted on yesterday’s lily- pad.
Because it is Governed by managers rather than Leaders, creates nothing and expends its resources on existential continuity, the Bullfrog is continually in danger of morphing into the third type of Organization, the Leech. A Leech looks less like an Organization than an enervated mob that only survives by feeding off of Bullfrogs too overcome by their own lethargy to shake them off. Within the dispirited ranks of a Leech it is every man for himself because individual continuity ultimately trumps Organizational continuity. A Leech has neither managers nor Leaders, only survivors. It is a failed and purposeless institution that is crumbling from within.
All Organizations exist on a normal curve of Effectiveness that extends from Lizards on the last deviation on the left to Leeches on the far right. In the middle, representing the mean, reside the Bullfrogs that comprise the majority of all Organizations. This Organizational Effectiveness curve only provides a snapshot of current conditions, because Organizations (like their Members) are dynamic not static. They are constantly changing in ways so small that they may be hard to see, but that nonetheless cause them to move along the continuum.
Ultimately, and unfortunately, Organizational movement is almost wholly rightward— towards Leechdom. Thus, an Organization that was a Lizard yesterday becomes a Bullfrog today and may tomorrow be a Leech, unless someone intercedes to Disruptively influence Movement to Advantage.


TEAMS


The final Group-type is the Team, which is two or more people who combine to perform a specific mission for the benefit of a Community, an Organization or both. Teams may be formed at the direction of the Governance of a Community or Organization, but they more often arise organically under the leadership of a Member who identifies a Problem and sets out to solve it.
The primary difference between a Team and an Organization is that Team Members are in close Proximity while Organization Members may never even meet. The primary difference

between a Team and a Community is purposefulness—a Team exists to do something while the Community exists to be something.
Because the Proximity between Team Members is not for the purpose of peace and harmony but to to achieve Advantage, Team Membership is defined by active contribution made to the Team’s Effectiveness not passive conformance to its rules and mores. Unlike the Member of a Community, the Member of a Team must do something rather than just be something to enjoy good standing.
While Communities and Organizations can thrive regardless of their size, a Team must be big enough to accomplish the Mission yet small enough that its teamwork is vibrant and uninhibited. It is within Teams that people have the most opportunity to lead. Thus, Teams are necessary to the leadership development process of any Group.


Dynamic Teams are the heart of healthy Communities and Effective Organizations


At its most Effective, a Lizard is little more than a network of Teams that work efficiently together to solve the Organization’s Problems and advance its articulated purpose. Similarly, a healthy Community is embedded with Teams that form to serve and enhance the peace and harmony of its Members. Ultimately, dynamic Teams are the product of strong Community and Organizational leadership, which encourages their formation and rewards their efforts through well-aligned incentives.
Whether a Leader is concerned with the health of his Community, the Effectiveness of his Organization or the dynamism of his Teams (or all three), the QSource provides a framework for him to more skillfully influence of Movement to Advantage—which is the heart of leadership.

Spur
1. Man is by nature a Group-forming animal
2. The three Group-types which must be led to Advantage are the Community, the
Organization and the Team
3. Dynamic Teams are the heart of healthy Communities and Effective Organizations

Prayer Requests:


Chum- talking about Middle School student who just recently committed suicide.
High stick- talking about his friend Matt who is dealing with cancer High stick – talking about co-workers dealing with government shutdown and being furloughed or working without being paid.
Defib- talking about his marriage and their recent counseling.
Defib- talking about his friend who has cancer. Defib- talking about his knee -decision to get surgery or not
Reynolds- his neighbor John recently found out had pneumonia and was in the hospital

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Chum, Defib, Fish N Chips, Greenbags, High Stick, Mabell, Reynolds, Splinter, Sugar Mountain, The Colonel

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