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Twin Peaks

QIC: VSquared
Date: 01/10/2019
PAX: Back Pew, Black Hat, Candu, Care Bear, Cowbell, Dirk, Free Candy, Geyser, Hobo, Iron Butt, Laces Out, Pink Panther, Prosciutto, Ringwald, Roadhouse, Sunshine, Uncle Fester, Venus
AO: Hill City

Conditions:

Not raining (and 28 degrees).

The Disclaimer

This is a free, volunteer, peer-led workout.
I am not a professional.
I have no knowledge of any injuries or fitness considerations.
It is each person’s responsibility to be safe and modify exercises if you need to.
Do not get hurt.
But if you do we will carry you to your car if necessary.

COP

Warm-Up (@Circle of Sacrifice):

  1. Side Straddle Hop x50 (in cadence)
  2. Windmill x20 (in cadence)
  3. Nipple Scrapper Merkins (one arm at a time, scrape those nipples!) x20 (in cadence)
  4. Willie Mays Hays
  5. Mosey around the loop
    1. Ass Kickers
    2. High Knees
    3. 75% run to under bridge by rocks (select one for each hand)
  6. Arms Up!
    1. Little Arm Circles forward x10
    2. Little Arm Circles backward x10
    3. Shoulder Press
    4. Put your rocks back
  7. Mosey to between Mt. Mydorihama and the sled hill.

The Thang

“An End to Mountain Neglect!”
Twin Peaks

    1. This is an OYO section.
    2. Burney Sanders up the Mt. on the right side;
    3. Bearpee back down on left side;
    4. Mosey to the base of steps;
    5. Do alternating Dips the Incline Merkins back up the steps (17 dips, 1 Merkin, next step; 16 dips, two merkins, next step; etc);
    6. Sprint up and over the peak of the Sledding Hill to the last flat area just over the peak;
    7. Buddy Carry a friend back down the long way around;
    8. Sprint back up and over hill together;
    9. Buddy Carry the other man down.

Circle of Mary, in which ## different HIM called out core based exercises starting with American Hammers, and including some awesome core betterment.

COT

You have all heard that life is a bitch, and that is right at times. But what I want to talk about today is how life is also a race.
It’s not a race that you know the end of despite small milestones being made apparent which means that you have to fall in love with the process. F3 has played a big roll in helping me do this, but what makes this possible is that I have hope in the outcome based on the faith given me by what I believe to be a consistent, present, God. But faith is not natural, at least faith in things outside of ourselves and those things that we think we can control.
Yet, as I have tried that way of living my life I can say with certainty God’s way is far better than my own – which has nearly led to my destruction, “but for God” (the way all the best parts of our stories start!). So next time you come upon something that is unpleasant, difficult or downright nasty, don’t despair there is a God who is not removed from your situation that is there to rescue you while allowing you to be stretched and grown. I admit that can be hard to see especially since the nondestructive I’m speaking of permits death in this life, but the more times I enter those situations the more I am convinced of God and His active roll in my life and your lives.
“But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, ‘Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.’” – Romans 10:8-11
And again,
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.” – James 1:2-6
That is a confession of the reality of God, His faithfulness and our necessity of that. God provides redemption and has shown this throughout history in many leadership characters like Abraham, Moses, David, Boaz, Joseph and eventually Jesus (the most backward of them all!).
I commend you to take faith in a faithful God and, being mindful but not stuck in our pasts or worrying about our futures, lean into the race thats before you today.

Moleskin

Downward Bearpees are freaking hard!

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Candu’s anniversary Q is on Saturday!
 

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Prepping for the New Year

QIC: VSquared
Date: 12/29/2018
PAX: Back Pew, Bumble Bee (Willie Loman), Cowbell, Deep End, Fly-By, Free Candy, Iron Butt, Prosciutto, Skitch, Venus
AO: Landfill

Conditions: Cool and damp

The Disclaimer:

This is a free, volunteer, peer-led workout.

I am not a professional.

I have no knowledge of any injuries or fitness considerations.

It is each person’s responsibility to be safe and modify exercises if you need to.

Do not get hurt.

But if you do we will carry you to your car if necessary.

COP

    1. Side Straddle Hop x20 (in cadence)
    1. Mini Side Staddle Hop x20 (in cadence)
    1. Plank Jacks x20 (in cadence)
    1. Arms up keep em’ up!
        1. Little Arm Circles forward x10
      1. Little Arm Circles backward x10
  1. Mosey to the bottom gate then back up to playground (“not all the way to the top!”)

The Thang:

x3 mini workouts/runs: Mini CSAUP:
Circle of Up!

      1. Form a Circle that stays in the same order every time.
      1. Mini Workout #1 covering below exercises in cadence while one man does x10 pull ups then the next in the circle goes until all workout pieces are complete. (note that the actual number of exercises were modified according to the
          1. 20 Squats
          1. 15 second Plank
          1. 25 LBCs
          1. 35 Side Straddle Hop
          1. 15 Lunges each leg
          1. 25 second Wall/Pole Sit
          1. 10 Big Boy Sit Ups
          1. 10 Butt Kickers in place
          1. 5 ‘Mericans
        1. Mosey to hill below large pavilion and jailbreak uphill, then mosey back to playground via sidewalk.
      1. Mini Workout #2 below exercises while continuing the Circle of Ups from where we last left off.
          1. 15 Squats
          1. 40 second Plank
          1. 30 LBCs
          1. 50 Side Straddle Hop
          1. 10 Lunges each leg
          1. 35 second Wall/Pole Sit
          1. 30 Big Boy Sit Ups
          1. 25 Butt Kickers in place
          1. 10 ‘Mericans
        1. Mosey to hill below large pavilion and jailbreak uphill, then mosey back to playground via sidewalk.
      1. Mini Workout #3 below exercises while continuing the Circle of Ups from where we last left off.
          1. 25 Squats
          1. 60 second Plank
          1. 35 LBCs (my phone died, not from lack of charging the night before, from cold this point, so we skipped the butt kickers this round)
          1. 55 Side Straddle Hop
          1. 30 Lunges each leg
          1. 45 second Wall/Pole Sit
          1. 40 Big Boy Sit Ups
          1. 10 ‘Mericans
        1. Mosey in little sidewalk circle back to the playground, go down the slide, then up to the large pavilion.
    1. Circle of Mary, in which 10 different HIM called out core based exercises, including some one-armed pickle pounders, to finish off our Mini CSAUP!

COT

Here is the original devotional from Paul David Tripp that I based my words on – enjoy it, and remember Sacrifice, Honesty, Glory.

“Celebrate Christmas Every Day

I love Christmas Day.

I love unwrapping gifts, listening to music, eating food, and watching our traditional family movies and shows.

Most importantly, we should love Christmas Day because it celebrates the birth of our Lord and Savior.

But what will you do with the Christmas story until next year?

Christmas Day cannot merely be a once-in-a-calendar-year celebration. I love the annual tradition, but every day we must work to remind ourselves of the stunningly magnificent truths of the birth of Jesus.

So, here are three themes that summarize the Christmas story that you can carry with you every day of the year until next Advent season begins:

Sacrifice

When you think of the baby in the manger, you have to remind yourself that the baby Jesus came to do one thing: he came to die. And leading to that ultimate sacrifice, everything in his life would be marked by sacrifice.

Just think of the body of that newborn infant, being made uncomfortable by the rough pieces of straw. Even that sacrifice is amazing – that the Creator of all things would be willing to leave the comforts of Heaven and sacrifice physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Why would Christ go to such an extent to help us? Because he loved us, and there was no other way.

Honesty

The Christmas story confronts our delusion that we’re spiritually in the right place or that we can manage our sin. If we were spiritually right with God or could manage our sin, Jesus would have never needed to go this extent.

As much as the birth of Jesus is a celebratory story, it’s also a profoundly humbling story. God did this radical thing in love because we’re such a mess and so terribly broken.

Every day, we need to remember that his act of rescue was motivated not by what he saw in us but by what was inside of him. We were unwilling, full of ourselves, and wanting our own way.

You have to remind yourself to be honest about what the story tells you about you.

Glory

What could be more glorious than the power and authority of God, as demonstrated by this story? Centuries earlier, after Adam and Eve had separated themselves in rebellion, God promised that he would reconcile himself to man once and for all.

For thousands of years, he neither forgot nor turned from that promise. He didn’t grow weary, nor would he be distracted. He made a promise and controlled the events of history (large and small) so that at just the right moment, Jesus Christ would come and fulfill what he had promised.

Think of the authority and power you would have to have to control all the situations, locations, and relationships to guarantee that Jesus would come at the precise moment and do what he was appointed to do!

We just can’t wrap our finite brains around it, but we should try to remind ourselves of his glory and power and authority every day.

Until Next Year…

So today, enjoy your new gifts. Make the most of that leftover dinner. Spend time with your loved ones and get excited about making next year’s Christmas celebration bigger and better.

But every day until then, remind yourself of the sacrifice of Christ, what it tells you about your spiritual condition, and the glory, power, and authority of your Heavenly Father who loves you and controls your life for his glory and your good!

God bless

Paul David Tripp” (brought to you by VSquared)

Moleskin

Prosciutto would like to note that we only did 36 Big Boy Situps in the 3rd Mini Workout, and Iron Butt wants to pass on the wisdom to never trust a Presbyterian when they say a workout doesn’t contain much running (It was more of a relative statement …). Cheers!

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CSAUP – January 5th starting at The Lions Den (Red Bank High School) at 0530:

  • 45-minute bootcamp at Lions Den, then Mosey to the Landfill (4 Miles, White Oak Park);
  • 1-hour bootcamp at Landfill from 0700 – 0800 (as regular, so feel free to just join us for that part), then mosey to Hill City (3 Miles, Coolidge Park);
  • 45-minute bootcamp at Hill City (then I’m sure Ohms & Picasso will run more after that, lol)
  • Finish out the morning at Longhorn for Breakfast together!
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Aye! Aye! Community & Teamwork

QIC: VSquared
Date: 11/22/2018
PAX: Backup (Nomad, Charlotte), Mr. Clean, Care Bear, FNG-Skitch, Free Candy, Ringwald, Sunshine, FNG-Iron Butt (Respect, Respect), Venus
AO: Hill City

Conditions:

Chilly with a chance of sweat.

The Disclaimer

This is a free, volunteer, peer-led workout. I am not a professional. I have no knowledge of any injuries or fitness considerations. It is each person’s responsibility to be safe and modify exercises if you need to. Do not get hurt. But if you do we will carry you to your car if necessary.

COP

Warm-Up:

    1. Side Straddle Hop x15 (in cadence)
    1. Flutter Jumps x5 (oyo)
    1. Slow Windmills x10 (in cadence)
    1. Periformas stretch x15 each way (in cadence)
    1. Leg Over stretch x15 each side (in cadence)
    1. Arms Up!
        1. Little Arm Circles forward x10
        1. Little Arm Circles backward x10
      1. Overhead Press x20
  1. Double time Side Straddle Hop x15 (in cadence)

The Thang

Teamwork makes the dream work, and we were made for it.

**Shout out to SpeedBump for some inspiration around this workout!**

      1. Mosey through course, explain as we go.
      1. Form Groups of 4-6 guys.
    1. Course Pieces:
        1. Teammate Carry (Blue path) up the slide hill in a circular fashion, then mosey down to the bench for next person.
        1. Team Run (green path with rope, approx. .25
        1. Indian Push Ups (yellow path) where you do 5 push-ups at the start of the line then hold plank as your teammates jump you. This slow line progression begins at Mount Midoriyama and go to and back from
      1. Crabby Crawl (red path) down the steps and crab crawl back up, backward, and do 5 dips on each step as you go up!

Circle of Mary! (7 min.)

COT

(I paraphrased this AM, but I think the same point came through)

What was Thanksgiving about? It was about gladness surrounding a safe transition and settlement, and it involved community both directly and indirectly. I want to challenge you to do the same!

Though despite our transitions in life not looking like the pilgrims they still contain various levels of trails, and we still need a community to make it through them well.

Many of you have heard my story of brokenness and addiction, which is an example of how not to do the significant transition and what not using community can lead to. But by God’s grace through that same community which I denied and hurt I’m now able to celebrate.

This is my first Thanksgiving in a handful of years sober. And despite most of those years being a dry drunk of sorts and having an acceptably low level of addiction, life without it and in a community is radically different and much more full. Instead of passively coping with my intense emotions I’m leaning how to work through them and benefiting those around me in the process.

As my counselor says, if you survived addiction you can survive recovery. I think that’s what the pilgrims found, too, despite there being other great struggles once they had built the perseverance of the voyage and the first year getting established on a consistent piece of solid ground was a more stable way of life.

They had hope after that and trials can work the same way with us, but even if you make it through certain trails on your own your just paving the path towards an individualism that will eventually kill you or make you incredibly lonely.

So I want to encourage you if your in a time of transition to reach for vertical community and for horizontal community, if you have made it through some of those periods to be glad and celebrate with community, and to be intentional about actively listening to your community so that you can offer it to others who are moving through significant transitions.

Happy Thanksgiving Men!

Moleskin

Two FNGs! Welcome @Skitch and @IronButt, excited to have you join the family! Also a welcome to our Nomad, @Backwards, 

Upcoming Qs

@Mr. Clean at the Landfill this Saturday!
 

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Daring Greatly; Engaging Shame

 

QIC: VSquared
Date: 10/11/2018
PAX: Care Bear, Deep End, Fabio, Fissure, Free Candy, Flemish, Geek Squad, Laces Out, Ringwald
AO: Hill City

Conditions:

Cloudy & finally cool.

The Disclaimer

This is a free, volunteer, peer-led workout. I am not a professional. I have no knowledge of any injuries or fitness considerations. It is each person’s responsibility to be safe and modify exercises if you need to. Do not get hurt. But if you do we will carry you to your car if necessary.

COP

  1. Mosey to Great Hall.
  2. Abe Vigoda (or what I like to think of as Don Quotes)(Slow stretched or Old Man Windmill)
  3. Toes Stretches:
    1. Lift heals
    2. Lift toes
  4. Side Straddle Hop:
  5. Cotton Picker
  6. Arms up and keep them up!
    1. Forward Arm Circles
    2. Backward Arm Circles
    3. Cherry Pickers
    4. Overhead Press
    5. Chinook
  7. Piriformis stretch
  8. ‘Mericans
  9. Mountain Climbers
  10. Recover!

The Thang: All in a Mornings Workout:

Get into groups of 4-5 people and line up on the columns for a relay between teams:

  1. The person designated first in line zigzags back and forth between columns to the end and get the Monday sheet, then sprints back to the group to perform exercises in cadence with single count exercises.
  2. Rest of group recovers while next person runs for next sheet – repeat for all sheets.
  3. Sheets are as follows:
    1. Monday:
      1. 20 Squats
      2. 15 Planks
      3. 25 LBCs
      4. 35 Side Straddle Hop
      5. 15 Lunges
    2. Tuesday:
      1. 10 Squats
      2. 30 Planks
      3. 25 LBCs
      4. 10 Side Straddle Hop
      5. 25 Lunges
    3. Wednesday:
      1. 15 Squats
      2. 40 Planks
      3. 30 LBCs
      4. 50 Side Straddle Hop
      5. 25 Lunges
    4. Thursday:
      1. 35 Squats
      2. 30 Planks
      3. 20 LBCs
      4. 25 Side Straddle Hop
      5. 15 Lunges
    5. Friday:
      1. 35 Squats
      2. 30 Planks
      3. 25 LBCs
      4. 20 Side Straddle Hop
      5. 15 Lunges
    6. Saturday: Suprise! The first team to bring this sheet back gets to pick Mary for everyone else to end the workout.
    7. Sunday: Recover.
  4. Cooldown with 10 minutes of Mary defined by the winning team.

COT

Shame. What do you think about when I say that word? If you’re like me then it’s likely that certain actions come to your mind that you regret, but it’s not actually those actions, or behaviors, that make those memories come to the surface; no, behaviors deal with guilt, shame deals with image and state of being. So when you think of those memories chances are those things are points when you really questioned who you were and if you were actually worth anything if you were capable some behavior like you exhibited in those moments.

Now there are two directions you can take shame towards the benefit of humility (proactive vulnerability) and its many benefits, or the impairments of toxic shame, self-rejection, pride or rage (usually a fearful reaction to the emotion of worthlessness).

I think this is important for F3 Men to get for several reasons that can be found as core principles in our mission to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leaders.

Leaders must be willing to engage areas of shame in their lives humbly and vulnerable so that they inspire their followers to do the same and achieve their greatest selves by daring greatly. I love Berne Brown’s quote from Theodore Roosevelt about the Man in the Arena, and how rather he wins or loses his success is in daring greatly. And that’s what we have a chance to do and encourage others to do when we

For me as a Christian also means bringing the greatest glory to God as I reflect His image in who I was created to be. As a matter of fact, I think that behind humbly engaging vulnerability from a place of healthy shame is hope in that power that is greater than ourselves. The way we build that is to enter trials and suffering – places of vulnerability – (both those we imply and those implied upon us) in humility and not in toxic paralyzing shame, self-rejection, pride or rage. Those things produce endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God – the higher power I believe in –  has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

(Romans 5:3-5) To me, that’s one of the most foundational truths about God, that He acted first for us in humility and vulnerability – even unto death – so that we might be able to dare greatly and do the same.

So hears the deal. I want you to think about where you are most vulnerable to shame and instead of living in that place walk out of it focusing on what/who you are taking hope in so that you can engage that by living it out humbly as you lead in your various spheres of influence. Your not perfect and and you have weak points and that is OK, you can still strive for excellence and achieve great things while inspiring those around you to do the same.

Burne Brown link to TED Talk on Shame

Look up also, Burne Brown’s TED Talk on vulnerability

Moleskin

Inspired by a Twitter post that listed several sets of exercises to do throughout a week, I was inspired to knock them all out in one morning!

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Saturday’s convergence and will be huge, so make sure you are over at White Park by 7:00 AM to take a part in the training that Nashville F3 is bringing our way!
 

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Partner Up; Up Mountain.

QIC: VSquared

Date: 08/30/2018
PAX: Back Pew, Best in Show, Care Bear, Candu, Fissure, Flemish, Free Candy, Kodak, Moondance, Ringwald, Shortcut, Speed Bump, Sundance, Sunshine, Whittler, Wort
AO: Hill City

Conditions

No rain, a little muggy, no complaints

The Disclaimer

This is a free, volunteer, peer lead workout. I am not a proffesional. I have no knoledge of any injuries or fitness considerations. It is each person’s responsibility to be safe and modify exercises if you need to. Do not get hurt, but if you do we will carry you to your car if necessary.

COP

  1. Abe Vigoda (or what I like to think of as Don Quijote)(Slow stretched or Old Man Windmill)
  2. Side Straddle Hop:
  3. Cotton Picker
  4. Windmill
  5. Arms up and keep them up!
    1. Forward Arm Circles
    2. Backward Arm Circles
    3. Cherry Pickers
    4. Overhead Press
    5. Recover in a Wall Sit (tell guys to give me ten counts)
  6. Piriformis stretch (introduced by Candu)
  7. Mountain Climbers (start slow cadence then go regular rate)
  8. Double time Side Straddle Hops straight to moseying to next place (Mt. Midoriyama, my least favorite and the most functional place in the park)

The Thang

Partner Up; Up Mountain.
(Partner up, both start at the base of the steps and move in two waves.)

  1. At base of marsh steps starts on 310 “Ballerina toe squats” as the person does an abyss push ups alternating sides then box jump up all steps when they are at the top they call out their partners hospital name, age and F3 name, and they start their ascent at the top person keeps doing dips.
  2. Gather at the base of Mt. has one man start on 310 LBCs while the other does Bearpees (burpee with 4x bear crawl) up the hill to the top and jog down to the base of the steps.
  3. Finally, start 310 dips on the benches while the other guy Burnie Sanders the slide Hill then jogs down around it to their teammate who switches out.
  4. Once all teammates are done they hold a plank while other finish.

No time for Mary.

COT

I’m turned 31 yesterday and have learned a lot over the last decade moving through my twenties. The least of which was not through my struggle with pron and sex addiction.
When I started getting more serious with my girlfriend in College I didn’t know what to do with the sexual tension that arose, though instead of turning to close friends and mentors and pulling back I turned to masturbation and soon after that porn. That was the slickest slope I have ever slid down. Shit, I had no time to consider what was happening or what I was coping with or how porn started to become where I went with all the tensions in my life. And then came the stunted emotional growth and atrophy from years of running with my emotions and justifying my mechanisms of coping.
But I got to where I could manage it somewhat. Sure, I had bad days and weeks sometimes, but I would get back under control. I wasn’t addicted and all my marital issues were mostly due to my wife …
I think many of you can see right there that something was wrong. But for years I knew the right words to say, I could articulate my feelings and lead those guys close to me into believing I was doing fine; I was in control. But inside I was allowing shame that I had developed as a junior higher in a family who didn’t talk about the hard things to push me into resentful hurt, sad self-pity, and lonely apathy.
It was late 2016 as a dream company and several hard years of work started to take a turn that I both didn’t like and couldn’t control that I started to cope harder with this mechanism of dopamine release and try to take full control over my life: I was going to exercise, I was going to read the Bible more and memorize scripture, I was going to get better at bearing my knuckles down on the housework that would make me a better husband – and in the meantime I’d jack-off on occasion to release the tension. I was going to pull up my bootstraps and fuckin’ kick life’s ass just like I felt like my ass was getting kicked.
Well, I’m not the most disciplined person in any of those areas, and try as I might I kept needing a little more excitement to make up for the areas that just weren’t working the way I intended. In a short span of 2 months, I went from a porn addiction to nearly losing my marriage of 5 years (relationship of 8 years), hurting my family and friends, risking exposure to STDs and being arrested, dragging my Saviors name through the mud, and jeopardizing all the ministry that I was doing in our community.
Though I did not know it at the time, I risked hurting you all who live in and fight for our community. And for that, I’m sad and sorry.
At that moment when I had sunk my deepest yet, I suddenly felt out of control realized where I was at and how far from OK I really was. I realized that just like King David the same man I said I would never be is who I had become. And God was opening my eyes. Out of desperation, I went straight to my Pastors that night and through their counsel and loving though stern discipline went to my wife and my accountability partners. That was the hardest 6 hours of my life.
My wife had known about porn but given me space to deal with it as I said I was. She hadn’t yet aligned my terrible attitudes around serving her with my struggling in that area and my suppression of feeling underlying my addiction. But this did it. This was way different. My actions caused a sudden trauma that is indescribably by me and will echo in her for the rest of her life. And, unlike before that action, the situation was out of my hands now.
By God’s grace through my wife and ironically the same steady midline emotions she always drives me crazy with my wife held on to me and in doing so gave me a tangible illustration of grace that changed my life from the inside out.
Recovery personally, in my marriage and with my Lord and community has not been easy, but it beats the shit outta addiction. I can be in recovery openly and get encouragement and help from those around me; not so with addiction. I have a long way to go, but I am back on the path now and more in love than ever with my wife, my God and the process of becoming more like I was created be until he sees fit to bring me home.
There are many things and people that play parts in my recovery like my wife, my Bible, my Church, my Counsellors, and a men’s group for sex addicts I attend at Roots Counselling (FreeCandy being a major one of those group members and the reason I’m here), and F3 plays a significant part in my recovery, from the aspects of fitness, fellowship, and faith, and in giving me routine and a place to practice and be challenged in accountability in both directions.
By that I mean that I both get to be held accountable and challenged to be vulnerable and hold those around me accountable and accept their vulnerability.
And that’s what I want to encourage in you all. Open yourselves to being vulnerable physically as you consistently attend workouts, emotionally as fellowship and honestly present where you are at, and spiritually as you freely converse about all holistic aspects of life.
So, too, must you be willing to hold those around you accountable as they open these areas of their life up before you. Not harshly, but gently listening and curiously engaging (basic open-ended questions) to whomever you find huffing and puffing or sipping a pint beside you.
These people around you and in your workplaces (the other men most appropriately) and in your homes are so much more like you than different and are all fighting battles of their own. If you just take a little time to open up and engage well the blessings are abundant, holistic, and impact not only you but everyone else that’s touching you.
Be those Men, be accountable. Partner up and keep working your way up the mountains that life presents you.
P.S. – thanks to those of you who held me accountable in finally getting this posted, I’m committed to doing it more quickly next time!

Moleskin

I never thought we would make it through the whole workout, but we did and I got so pushed in the process!