03/13/2020 - Black Panther - The Hills Are Alive with… Urkels Kryptonite?
AO: Black Panther
When: 03/13/2020
PAX:
Number of Pax: 14
Pax Names: Den Mother, Dilly Dilly, Half Price, Onesie, Parks and Rec, Pi, Small Cakes, Thomas Tank Engine, Tigers, Tourniquet, Unlucky, Vern, Woody,
DR Names:
Number of FNGS: 0
FNG Names:
QIC: TPS Report
Introduction
This really started Thursday night at Backroads. Got some late HC’s to the game over beers and strong 2ndF. Vern pounded the 8 month old beer like yesterday’s curls. Unlucky showed us what millennials can do. And Tourniquet held the audience like a Don only can.
YHC had printer troubles this morning. But like all well timed and totally pre-planned plans, showed up with 1 minute to spare.
Here we go!
Warm-O-Rama
SSH
Good Mornings
Gradycorns (for you Unlucky)
Capri Lap
The Thang
Mosey’d to the bottom of the Hill. Took off on a modified Jacob’s Ladder/Bernie Sanders. We call it Urkel’s kryptonite.
Run backwards up the hill. 10 burpees at the top. Backward lunges down the hill. 10 merkins at the bottom. Rinse and Repeat 5x.
I thought it was odd that as we finished Thang 1 the PAX spontaneously broke out in song and dance with much congratulatory elbow bumps and shouts of “huzzah”. But I wrote it off to leftover wisps of last night’s brewhaha and moved on to 21s.
Yeah – kinda hard for 14 PAX to all finish on 21 reps of SSH and no cadence count. But most expressed their gratitude and heartfelt thanks for the extra 30 (or was it 40?) penalty burpees. We eventually got it right. Then mosey’d back to lot.
We grabbed our coupons, partnered up, then one partner proceeded to sprint to the crapper at the far end of the lot like a blowout was eminent while they other did curls AMRAP. Switched out. Then when both had sprinted and curled, switched to overhead presses. Then chest presses. Went to Mary from there.
Mary:
50 (100 total) American Hammers
25 (50 total) Flutter kicks
1.5 minutes Low Plank Hold.
Circle of Trust
CoR
Annoucements. For like. Ever.
NoR (with elbow bumps!)
Prayers.
Naked Man Moleskin
To be a good leader, you need to be a good follower. I hadn’t thought of leadership quite that way when I first heard it.
But let Harvard Business Review explain:
leadership is a process that emerges from a relationship between leaders and followers who are bound together by their understanding that they are members of the same social group. People will be more effective leaders when their behaviors indicate that they are one of us, because they share our values, concerns and experiences, and are doing it for us, by looking to advance the interests of the group rather than own personal interests.
Instead of seeking to stand out from their peers, they may be better served by ensuring that they are seen to be a good follower — as someone who is willing to work within the group and on its behalf. In short, leaders need to be seen as “one of us” (not “one of them”) and as “doing it for us” (not only for themselves or, worse, for “them”).
Perhaps there was no better example of leadership like this than when Jesus himself knelt down and washed the feet of his “followers” – and did the lowly work of a servant to demonstrate his love for them.
Men – we have an opportunity here and now to lead. In our families, in our jobs, in our peer-led, free, outdoor rain or shine, “exercise group” – to lead. We are in the midst of a unusual circumstance with the virus, the fears, the uncertainty.
Are you following well? Are you listening? Are you wiling to work within the group and on it’s behalf? Are you taking on the hard, dirty work to demonstrate your love to others?
Do not aspire to be seen as a leader. Aspire to follow. Aspire to serve. Aspire to love. Then you’ll find you’re leading.