A Deck of Cards Will Never Look the Same

In blackjack there is the common phrase to ask for another card. That phrase is “hit me”. Well today we also had a deck of cards, but the cards were the ones bringing the punishment. Whether you asked for it or not.

Warmup:

• Windmills 20 IC
• SSH 20 IC (At least I wasn’t Chewy and make you guys do 40 IC. My revenge is coming Chewy. As sure as the sun will rise, so will my revenge be sure to be exacted upon thee.)
• Mountain Climbers 20 IC
• 10 merkins
• 10 copperhead squats
• Shoulder Series (4 directions 15 IC)

The Thang:

Moseyed to an open spot for a Chattanooga Choo Choo. All PAX got in a low plank side by side and the one farthest to the left got up and leap frogged through the line and rejoined the group in a plank. The entire group continued this until we reached our mark (about 35-40 yards). The Pax was certainly out of gas at that point (or would the proper expression be that they were out of coal?).

Moseyed to right before the park for some good old fashioned up downs. The PAX would do quick feet with their hands up until I said down and then they would hit their chest to the ground and return to the quick feet. We went for about 1 minute and then for the last 30 seconds we turned the quick feet into a high knees sprint. One thing we learned for sure was that Tanked Up could still be playing some football. And to answer your question Turbo, I was invited to the group by Triple Shift on the south shore. Aren’t you glad I’m here?!

We then moseyed to the park for the real beatdown. Everything up to that point was just a warmup. Turbo was aware of what would be coming when I pulled out that deck of cards. Thus began our battle with the deck of death.

No amount of card counting could have helped you with this one (although shooter seemed to have some expertise in this area). The beatdown has a simple premise. Every suit is an exercise (hearts were merkins, diamonds were squats, clubs were situps, and spades were 15-20 feet sprints), and the reps were the card number. Face Cards were 10 reps and Aces were 15 reps. And you can’t forget about those jokers. When a joker popped up the PAX did 5 burpees and a lap around the park through the playgrounds. Of course the last card was the Ace of Spades (okay, so you got me, it wasn’t a completely random deck).

Shooter took over for the last sequence where we did 4 corners (moseyed to a corner of a street and did 10 burpees, moseyed to the next street for 20 hand claps, moseyed to next corner for 30 lunges, and moseyed the last block and finished with 40 SSH (Tanked Up made me do a bit more there)). And of course it took us right up to the flag. Good planning there Shooter!

We finished with some core exercises

We circled up for the Counterama and Namerama and Chewy closed us out in prayer.

Great job today guys! Let me know when you guys want to play some cards! As long as Shooter isn’t allowed to come (Do you have a checkered past we don’t know about there?).

Thanks for letting me lead guys! As always, sorry if I missed anyone

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