The morning started out cooler than yesterday…and everyone noticed that right away. That’s okay, because what I had in store would keep everyone warm enough without question.

Started out with the standard disclaimer, then moseyed down the hill for the warm-up.

• Butt Kickers
• High Knees
• Circle up
• SSH’s
• Cherry Pickers
• Windmills
• Imperial Walkers
• Hillbilly Walkers

Mosey over to the side lot for the Thang.  Now, when we got over there the PAX saw the deck of cards and immediately knew what was coming.  I set the ground rules:

Aces are 1, Face cards are 10, we will use the value of the card and do that many sets of 10 of a given exercise, and each suite for that card will determine what exercise would be done.

We did 4 rounds in total, with a lap around the building in between rounds.

Round 1 – CORE; Round 2 – UPPER BODY; Round 3 – LOWER BODY; Round 4 – CARDIO with the ultimate goal to provide a solid and challenging total body workout!

So, we started out with a face card that meant we had to get after it right out of the gate with 100 box cutters.  And the mumble chatter turned at that very first exercise of round 1 ;-).

Overall, we did hundreds of exercises, some more than others, but the exercises completed for each round were as follows:

• LBC’s (Hearts) – We did about 60
• Flutter Kicks (Clubs) – We did 100
• Box Cutters (Spades) – We did 100
• American Hammers (Diamonds) – We did 80

Run a lap around the building

• Merkins (Hearts) – We did 80 or 90
• Carolina Dry Docks (Clubs) – I think we did 70
• Moroccan Night Clubs (Spades) – I think we did 40
• Overhead Hand Claps (Diamonds) – I think we did 50

Run a lap around the building

• Squats (Hearts) – I can’t remember how many we did
• Monkey Humpers (Clubs) – We did 100
• Apollo Ohno’s (Spades) – I think we did 40 or 50
• Lunges (Diamonds) – We did 10 each leg

Run a lap around the parking lot to save time and get the last round in

• Peter Parkers (Hearts) – I think we did 40 or 50
• Mountain Climbers (Clubs) – I think we were in the 30 or 40 range
• SSH’s (Spades) – We did 80
• Parker Peters (Diamonds) – I think we did 20

Mosey back up to COT

There was a lot of complaining, but I was really proud of all the PAX as they pushed through the pain and discomfort and came out their comfort zone.  Moderate is a state of mind, and I will admit that a lot of times I tell myself I can’t do something, but then when pushed by the PAX I find out, hey, it hurt like crazy, but yes, I can do that!  Today it was my turn to lead the PAX and push them.  I’m feeling it for sure now, and I know they all are too…but I wouldn’t change it for the world!

Smithers…Out!