AO: The Wood
When: 07/24/2023
Number of Pax: 24
DR Names:
Number of FNGS: 0
FNG Names:
QIC: Deja Vu
Introduction
Deja Vu led the pax in a timed 4 station Team Dora that was designed to induce stress and failure of the Team accomplishing the task at most of the stations despite maximum physical effort.
Warm-O-Rama
Good mornings – Nice and slow
Motivators from 6
Calf Stretch
Tappy-Taps
Abe Vigodas
The Thang
Pax were split into 3 groups of 8 and rotated through 4 stations on 7 minute intervals. Each station had a 5 Burpee buy-in per pax and a total number of required reps for each a strength and core exercise.
Station 1: 1000 Curls for the Girls and 500 Big Boys
Station 2: 1000 Overhead Press and 600 LBC
Station 3: 1000 Chest Press and 400 Leg Lifts
Station 4: 800 Goblet Squats and 600 American Hammers (1-count)
Circle of Trust
This workout was designed so that the stations would be extremely difficult to complete.
Leadership is about recognizing and being prepared to act when the moment presents itself despite any distractions or stress.
It’s one thing to talk about Leadership while sipping coffee but it’s something else to show up in the gloom and unexpectedly find yourself on a team, they ask you to lead, the team has a task to completeor you will fail. And you’re on the clock.
Boom! Go! Lead!
So now you’re trying to assess the team to figure out how to take advantage of the strength of your Clydesdales and the endurance of your gazelles and you have to manage to your six and you’re trying to divide 1000 by 7 but your heart is sending all the oxygen your lungs can bring it to your fatigued muscles instead of to your brain. And then you only have 1 minute left and there is still so much left to do.
The fourth component of “Q Source Leadership Development Process” is Failure. We learn more from our failures than from our successes. Don’t plan to fail for failures sake, but don’t crumble from failure when it happens. Just embrace it, learn from it, grow from it. Do better next time there is a moment presented.
Today your team may have completed one or two of the stations, but nobody completed all of them. Get maximum benefit by thinking back: “What could we have done differently?” “How could I have done more to help the team?”
By learning from the failure, you’re better prepared for the next moment.
A few weeks back, Picasso shared a story about going to a running event for his kids. At the end, there was an opportunity for the parents to run a race. He looked around and concluded that clearly he was going to win this race. Bu then he recognized the moment and realized if he wins the race, no one wins the race because he should win the race. He’s a gazelle. So instead, he talked to another dad about his goal for the race. He ran with this guy helping him set a pace, coaching him, cajoling him, pushing him, teaching him. That guy one the race and set a new PB. Picasso took a moment with no winner, a moment most would have missed, and created two winners instead. I would say that was invigorated male community leadership.
Aye!
Bonus CoT: 90% of success is just showing up. YHC tells all FNG’s “Welcome. Just keep Showing up.” You also give that success away. You 24 Pax my this a successful VQ for me by showing up today.
Naked Man Moleskin
In February of this year, I tried to do a burpee in my living room and could not. My FNG post was 5/13. Today I did 20 burpees just as the buy-in to be able to do the hard shit.
Progress is measured in small increments at a time. Accomplishment is the accumulation of all that progress over time … as long as you keep showing up.
Final note: If you’re over 35, never trust a fart. Right La Russa?