Date: 6/20/18

QIC: Chappie

YHC was given the honor to Q it up at our newest AO. He was actually a little “giddy” the night before, knowing that he would FINALLY get to take the PAX to the hospital. To borrow words from Hetfield, Hammett, and Ulrich, YHC was so excited about Q’ing the new AO he “slept with one eye open, gripping the pillow tight.” (First to name that tune, sets me up for 10 Burpees in the Gloom.) So, yeah, the title of this Backblast is a little misleading, but since it got your attention…Keep Calm and read on!

Technically we did go to the hospital, but not because anyone was hurt. We simply went there for a STS (Sadclown Therapy Session). He, he! Anyway, the hospital has a great parking garage that YHC has been drooling over. With that said, 4 HIM won an undoubtedly hard-fought battle with the Fartsack and posted for the therapy session. It went a little something like this…

Disclaimer

Warm-O-Rama:

SSH – 18 IC (There’s a reason for YHC’s 18 rep count. To be shared at a later date; stay tuned)

Shell Pickers – 10 IC (Cherry Pickers with a local culture name — When in Rome…)

Sealjacks – 18 IC

Imperial Walkers – 15 IC

Smurfjacks – 18 IC

Steph Curry’s – 10 OYO (Warm-up on basketball court prompted us to move to 3-pt. line for this)

Mosey to Beebe Hospital Parking Garage

The Thang:

Mosey up first level, Prison break second level

Mosey up third level, Prison break fourth level

Mosey up fifth level to bottom incline on sixth level

Escalator by 5’s

Crawlbear to top, 5 Mexican Jumping Beans OYO, mosey to bottom of incline

Segnul (reverse lunges) to top, 10 Stagger Knerkins OYO, mosey to bottom

Fiddler Crab to top (switching on the half), 15 Burpjacks OYO, mosey to bottom

Karaoke to top (switch at the half), 20 Apollo Lunges OYO, mosey to bottom

Lt. Dan to top, 25 Plankjacks OYO, Lt. Dan to bottom (well, because its different)

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Breather for 3rdF Message – YHC shared this as a repeat from a couple a weeks prior, when it was only he and Summit who posted, the reason for the repeat speaks for itself:

My buddy Wade (F3 Nunchuk) put the EH on me early in 2016, and I remember the very first workout I ever posted for. After the warmup, in which I was trying to figure out all the new lingo (not to mention trying to do Imperial Walkers IC!), we Mosey’d to the opposite side of the AO where I was inducted into F3 with a rigorous set of “21’s”.

I was seriously out of shape, doing Merkins at one end and then LBC’s at the other. I actually never finished 21’s that day. Pretty much everyone else had completed their rounds and was waiting for me, when it was simply time to move on. But I knew immediately I’d found something I wanted (needed) to be a part of!

You see, when I was running back and forth from end to end, between Merkins and LBC’s, veteran F3 PAX were running past me or running in the opposite direction low-fiving me and saying things like : “Great job, brother! You got this man! Hang tough, keep going!” I LOVED THAT SPECIAL CAMARADERIE, especially because I was thoroughly gassed, and these guys were encouraging me to keep going! To some degree, all the encouragement was ALMOST overdone. But because of that, there was no way I could stop!

Have you ever wondered why we encourage one-another so much (instead of the opposite)? I think I discovered it a few months later when I read this in Freed to Lead: “A leader has to reward I2 (individual initiative) wherever and when ever he sees it, and take responsibility for any adverse outcomes that may result. LEADERS ALWAYS GET MORE OF WHAT THEY REWARD AND LESS OF WHAT THEY PUNISH.” (81)

That phrase and concept has had more of an effect on me and my leadership than any other principle or truth I’ve encountered, outside of Christ who is Himself the truth.

What I mean is that, for a man with a critical eye, who more easily sees what is wrong and what needs to be fixed, it has changed my whole attitude in terms of leading and relating to those whom I lead—whether it be family, the church, or in the community!

Why is this? Because as Proverbs 18:21 says, “DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE, AND THOSE WHO LOVE IT WILL EAT ITS FRUIT.”

I.e. there is life created or life diminished by the way we either encourage one another or by the way we tear one another down. Speaking life, though slightly overdone in the moment of my first F3 workout, has been experienced in every workout since. Coupled with that statement I read in Freed to Lead, it has literally proven true and produced fruit in every area of leadership in my life–not just the workouts.

Being more critical in nature, I’ve had to be intentional about “rewarding” and encouraging the behavior I see or want to see, but I can tell you that it works! Though it might seem overdone, maybe even a little superficial at times, try it on for size and see if you’re not a better, more productive, and more respected leader because of it. After all, it’s what HIM do!

“BUT ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER DAY AFTER DAY, AS LONG AS IT IS STILL CALLED ‘TODAY,’ LEST ANY ONE OF YOU BE HARDENED BY THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN” (HEB. 3:13).

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ST Session cut short (actually a little OT…sorry guys)! Full session would’ve been a reverse of the escalator (see above) but we ran out of time.

Mosey back to AO – total mosey distance according to Measure My Run = 1.75 miles

Number-Rama

Name change ceremony: Spokes changed to Cupcake, here’s the reason why…

Name-O-Rama

COT

Announcements:

• PAX encouraged to EH Lewes but also to check out other AO’s to get in more days
• F3 Mustard Seed Shirts – see the link of GroupMe, deadline July 2 (tell Chappie what you want, pay him, and let’s order together to get free shipping

Prayers:

• For Leatherman’s M
• For Chappie’s nephew, Aaron, getting another shot a Swamp Phase in Ranger School
• Something else? …YHC forgot

So, as it turned out a trip to the hospital was much needed. Sadclown Therapy Sessions continue…check out an AO near you!

Honored to lead and to workout with such HIM, special thanks to Vanilla for putting YHC on the Q Schedule.

Chappie, out!