Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

14 pax joined YHC for the Daily Red Pill at the Outpost.

Pax: Rifleman, Scout, Aruba, Rafiki, T-Bone, Squirrel, Chitwood, Josey, Poacher, Schlitz, Flying Tomato, Napalm, Mad Bum, Meat Sweats

BEAT DOWN & DOWN PAINMENT

Warm up:

• Mosey
• 10x burpees
• Windmills
• Imperial Walkers
• Arm Circles

The Thang:

Alternating:

• 2 pax conduct 2-man 40 yd sled pull
• 2 pax conduct 40 yd tire flips + 60 lb sandbag carry (40 yd 1 way, 40 yd back; alternate pax)

While moving pax teams pull & flip, other pax conduct the following exercises until both teams return. When both teams return, 2 new teams take over moving exercises, rest of the pax begin the next exercise:

• Monkey humpers
• Coupon swings
• Merkins
• Squats
• American Hammers
• Coupon overhead press
• Plyo alternating merkins with coupon
• Lunges
• Long Slow Flutter Kicks
• Coupon upright rows


Announcements: Q Source @ the Pinehurst Town Hall immediately following the Outpost. Men’s Fraternity. 

Prayer: Rafiki led us out in prayer.

Moleskine: Teamwork makes the Dream Work

     While taking the DRP, the pax recognized the importance of teamwork, encouragement, and striving to exceed to take care of one’s team. In today’s workout, the pax would continue to muscle failure while they waited for the movement teams to complete their movement prior to changing to another exercise. A great reminder that the sum of the team is greater than the one.

     With few exceptions, we achieve success and realize positive results when we work as a team…physically, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. Similarly, we fail together as a team, even when a single teammate commits fatal or time-critical errors. We saw this during the AFC Championship game last Sunday night when Joseph Ossai hit Patrick Mahomes late and out of bounds. Though the team played to a 20-20 tie in a hard-fought contest to the last 15 seconds of the game, this singular error created the conditions for a final in-range field goal which propelled the Chiefs to an AFC Championship. Though the team lost the contest, the media showed multiple examples of Bengals teammates consoling Ossai after the game. Here, though the team lost resulting from an individual error, one cannot deny that the team failed to prevail over their opponents for the rest of the game. Each player realized that such an error could have easily been theirs. The team rallied around its teammate and remains committed to one another through failure.

 

     As discussed during Q Source today, I am aware of no organization that values and invests more in leader development, team building, cohesion, and training than the US military. It develops leaders through a 3-legged stool – self, institutional, and On the Job (OJT) development. In a combination of OJT and institutional development, the Army sends its units to its combat training centers. These centers put leaders and units through the most stringent, stressful, and challenging training iterations. These iterations include force-on-force engagements with a thinking enemy and live fire. Most importantly, Army leaders designed these experiences so that individuals and leaders fail, in some cases spectacularly though not catastrophically. After all, our greatest lessons occur from failures. We tend not to remember the best of times, but we absolutely remember the most painful lessons. While individuals and leaders learn critical lessons through failure at these events, units (teams) learn. Such lessons and learning drive change. Change occurs culturally, through the process, procedures, and equipment development.

     Almost all of us operate as a part of a team. It might be family, friends, business, non-profit, or F3. Teamwork tends to drive us to strive for our best so that we don’t disappoint our teammates. Teamwork allows us to reflect on those areas, on which we might fall short. Like all relationships, teams only work with trust, credibility, and respect.

     As you go through your day, ask yourself if you’re giving it your all to support and drive your team to excellence. How can you do better? How can you make your team better?

Aye!