By an act of Congress in 1845, the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November was designated Election Day for future presidential elections. The first such election took place on November 7, 1848. So, as it is November 8, 2016 and it falls upon us to participate in our civic duty to vote today. But since many of our PAX well past our high school civic class, who can recite all 44 presidents in order (other than Socrates)? So I figured it would be beneficial to go back to HS civics class and at the same time work our brains and body at the same time.

So the Thang:
Mossy to industrial building parking lot and circle up for COP. Conduct a few 10 count exercises then define the lesson plan:

Assigned an exercise per president per term – tried to connect a theme between presidents name/tidbit with the exercise:

1. George Washington: Hero of Revolutionary War = 1 – burpee
2. John Adams: Father of the Navy = 2 – carolina dry docks
3. Thomas Jefferson: A great scholar and founder of UVA = 3 – smurf jacks
4. James Madison: Father of the constitution = 4 – merkins
5. James Monroe: Father of Foreign Policy = 5 – monkey humpers
6. James Quincy Adams: Son of our 2nd President = 6 – sprint to building and back 6xs
7. Andrew Jackson: 1st president to survive assassination = 7 – American hammers
8. Martin Van Buren: 1st president who was born in the US, loved drinking Champagne = 8 – burpees
9. William Harrison: Had the longest inaugural speech and 1st to die in office = 9 – Bobby Hurleys
10. John Tyler: 1st Vice President to become president due to death = 10 – shoulder taps
11. James Polk: Launched the Mexican War to get CA & NM = 11 – peter parker
12. Zachary Taylor: 1st President with no political experience, a war veteran = 12 – decline merkins
13. Millard Fillmore: Established trade with Japan = 13 – Makhtar N’Diayes
14. Franklin Pierce: Gave inaugural speech without any notes/script = 14 – parker peter
15. James Buchanan: Only un-married President = 15 seconds of honeymooner
16. Abraham Lincoln: Delivered the Gettysburg Address and stopped slavery =16 –LBCs
17. Andrew Johnson: Before politics was a tailor in Tennessee = 17 – plank jacks
18. Ulysses Grant: The hero of the Civil War = 18 – imperial walker
19. Rutherford B Hayes: Known as Rutherfraud = 19 – Russian twists
20. James Garfield: 2nd President to be assassinated = 20 – windshield wipers
21. Chester Arthur: Established the Civil Service Commission = 21 – air squared (people chair with clap)
22. Grover Cleveland: Served 2 terms non-consecutively = 22 – calf raises
23. Benjamin Harrison: Grandfather was the 9th President = 23 – Hydrualic squats (KneetarN’Diayes)
24. Grover Cleveland: Panic of 1893 produced a severe national depression = 24 – chinook squats (w Moroccans night club)
25. William McKinley: 3rd President to be assassinated = 25 – mountain climbers
26. Theodore Roosevelt: Established the National Parks and a great outdoorsmen = 26 – side straddle hops
27. William Taft: Weighed over 300 pounds (needed F3) = 27 – seal jacks
28. Woodrow Wilson: Signed the Treaty of Versailles = 28 – wide arm merkins
29. Warren Harding: Played poker and drank during prohibition = 29 – hello dolly
30. Calvin Coolidge: Known as Silent Cal = 30 – crunchy frog (X&Os)
31. Herbert Hoover: Was blamed for the Great Depression = 31 – squats
32. Franklin D Roosevelt: “The only thing we have and fear itself” = 32 – WW II situps
33. Harry S Truman: Dropped the Atomic Bomb and practiced the piano 2 hours a day = 33 – bombjacks
34. Dwight D Eisenhower: Ended the Korean War and established the National Highway system = 34 – calf step ups
35. John F Kennedy: Youngest elected President = 35 – flutter kicks
36. Lyndon B Johnson: Engaged the US in the Vietnam War = 36 – lunges (single leg)
37. Richard Nixon: Watergate & “ I m not a crook” = 37 – prison squats

We only got through President #37 before having to mossy back for COT
The remaining presidents and exercises on the lesson plan:

38. Gerald Ford: 1st President to hold office w/o being elected by the people = 38 – gas pump (LBC to Dolly)
39. Jimmy Carter: Was a peanut farmer = 39 – curb dips
40. Ronald Reagan: Survived assassination and oldest elected President = 40 – lunge right
41. George H Bush: Initiated Operation Desert Storm = 41 – lunge left
42. Bill Clinton: “I did not have sexual relationships with that woman” = 42 – head bob merkins
43. George W Bush: Lead war on Terrorism = 43 – gorilla humpers
44. Barack Obama: 1st African American President = 44 – ballerina (squat with calf raise)

Lots of complaining regarding the # of X/Os and Makhtar N’Diayes having to be done on the pavement, but looking back, should have shorten COP since this was an extended COP workout. Great work by the PAX. Everyone but Senator Tressel received an A+ on their test, he only received a D+ due to constant complaining.

As always an honor to lead. Welcome Deep Dish (FNG). A reminder as today is election day. For most of us, today is a challenging day and a difficult day in selecting who should lead this wonderful country of ours. But as David Chadwick preached on Sunday, it is our duty to vote for GOD. HE will have the ultimate power in the direction for all of us and that he is our sole leader. Trusting in him and his words will only make us, as an individual and as a nation, stronger.

Read the newsletter and F3 Xmas Party 12/17/16 – BE THERE!!!
Prayers were not captured on phone, so i apologize. Prayers to those said and un-said.

Class dismissed,
Trucker, PhD in nothing