THE SCENE: mid 70s, partly sunny, humid as heck after the storms
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
Welcome to F3, Fitness, Fellowship and Faith. F3 is a free workout program designed to improve fitness, share some camaraderie, and foster male leadership in the community. I’m Pele and I will be your Q today. I am not a professional, and I do not know your fitness level or injury history. Please push yourself, but modify the workout as necessary to avoid making any existing injuries worse. The goal is to get better together!
WARM-O-RAMA:
-30 Split Jacks (4-ct), 15 each leg, in cadence
– 10 Windmills (4-ct), in cadence
– 10 Plank Jacks
– 20 Grady Corns (4-ct), in cadence
- 10 Steave Earles, (4-ct), in cadence
- 10 LBCs small and wide (4-ct), forward and backward in cadence
Run to tree down the road, 5 squat jumps, Bernie back
THA-THANG:
TABATA 1 (20 seconds exercise, 10 seconds rest, 4 rounds = 2 minutes per exercise x 5 exercises = 10 minutes per round)
- Plank Jacks
- Mountain Climbers
- Catalina wine mixers
- Bottle Openers
RUN DOWN STAIRS, OVER TO BASE OF SUMMIT, UP SUMMIT, BACK TO BAT HOUSE. At EACH “CORNER” DO 15 SMURF JACKS
TABATA 2
- American Hammers
- Gas Pumps
- Wide Flutter Kicks
RUN LOOP, DO 15 BOBBY HURLEYS
TABATA 3
RUN LOOP, DO 15 DESONSTRUCTED BURPEES
MARY:
No time for Mary today.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 strong. Pop a top not tagged.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Fellows, it’s been a difficult past couple of weeks for our AO. We recently, had to part ways with a brother, and that’s just not something we ever want to do. I have to admit I lost a lot of sleep over it. And the situation made me consider the fine line between holding someone accountable versus judging someone. We try to do the former in F3, but stay away from the latter, but sometimes that’s a tough distinction.
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines accountability as an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions, while judgmental is defined as “characterized by a tendency to judge harshly”. After thinking about it a little more, I came up with sort of my own definition of these terms… accountability is holding someone responsible for norms, traditions, rules, etc. that are broadly accepted by a group, while being judgmental is passing judgment on whether someone measures up to your own PERSONAL ideas or notions.
As I’ve expressed in Slack, I feel it’s VERY important to refrain from publicly passing judgment on our fellow brothers, because when you do so it inevitably causes rifts. Disagreement is fine, but if you have something you object to, I think it’s always best to have a private discussion about it.
Before parting ways, the former member of our group first passed judgment on our AO in terms of how we uphold the Second F (Fellowship), then passed judgment on an individual in terms of his interpretation of the Bible and his message, and finally, in a parting message to me, passed judgment on me (and, more broadly, our entire group) in challenging our religious beliefs, patriotism, and leadership.
Although I’m not perfect about it, I try to refrain from passing judgment on others. I have my own belief system, and sure, I appreciate seeing qualities in others that follow a similar system, but I try not to denigrate or think ill of those who have other beliefs. But let’s face it… we all judge others, and on a pretty regular basis. It’s part of our DNA, as far I’m concerned. But there’s a difference in making that determination of judgment internally, and publically attempting to coerce others to conform to your perception of how things should be. The latter is something that I feel we need to avoid in F3, which was intentionally formed as a very inclusionary group of men. If you were here a few Saturday’s ago, we had a Guest Q from Chattanooga that emphasized F3s core mission: to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership. That’s it. There are certain components to every F3 workout, and one of those is the Word, followed by the Ball of Man. I can honestly say that I have personally disagreed with at least a small portion of just about every Word, but also that is OVERHELMED by the amount of wisdom and perspective that I have received.
In closing, I found a couple of statements that I thought really hit the nail on the head when it comes to being Judgmental :
Judgment is the basis for separation, which is the ego’s goal. When we judge a brother or sister, be it in thought or action, we create a sense of separation.
You will save yourself and others years of stress, anger, disappointment and resentment if you allow your brothers and sisters to follow their own hearts. If your brothers and sisters know that they can come to you for advice without criticism and judgment attached to it, you will forever be their sounding board. However, if you end up judging and criticizing their efforts and decisions they will put up walls every time you question or try to advise them.
– James Blanchard Cisneros, Author of You Have Chosen to Remember: A
Journey from Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 91-92
Born in Geneva, Switzerland. He grew up in Caracas, Venezuela and obtained his B.S. and MBA degrees in the United States. James states “My grandfather served in WWII as a colonel in the United States Marines, my father was a Vietnam Army veteran. After the Vietnam experience, my father wanted to break the cycle and protect us from a future draft. So he arranged for my brother and myself to be born in Geneva, Switzerland (a neutral nation), so that we could choose to refrain from the next conflict if that was our choice.”
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.
MOLESKIN:
Great to see Sparkler out there, and Pop a Top killed it in his second workout.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Speedway launch Saturday at 6 am, Convergence July 2!
