Begin the morning with an introduction, gave the disclaimer, and confirmed that we did not have any FNGs this morning……….

Warm up:

IT was already a warm 60ish degrees to start this pre-summer morning………. the exercise portion of the warm up went like this:

• 21 Side Straddle Hops (SSHs) in cadence
• 11 Wind Mills in cadence
• 21 Moroccan night clubs in cadence
• Little Baby Crunches (LBCs) in cadence
• 21 Mountain Climber in cadence

(I think that was it………)

Medium pace mosey to the back parking lot to play a little ‘BlackJack’…… (as the 21 cadence calls aluded to).  So, as one of the purposes of these ‘BackBlasts’ are for newer ‘Qs’ to gather ideas for their own workout lead, I’ll try to explain what “BlackJack consists of…… i.e. how it’s ‘played’……. We started out lined up across one of the parking lot lines and did one (1) ‘Air Squat’ as a group ~ then trotted 30ish yards to another parking lot line and did twenty (20) Merkins…… the ran back to the orginal line and did two (2) ‘Air Squats” ~ out 30ish yards and did nineteen (19) Merkins.  This pattern continued until we were doing our last set of twenty (20) ‘Air Squats’ at our original line and one (1) Merkin at the line 30ish yards out……… each ‘set’ consisting of a total of 21 total exercises…. thus it’s name: Blackjack!  For those PAX keeping track ~ that’s 210 ‘Air Squats’ that we preformed this morning….. along with 210 Merkins!!!!  GREAT JOB, GENTLEMEN!

This was followed by Toy Soldiers, Butt Kickers, and Lt. Dans……. parking lot line to line ~ x3

We then moseyed back to the COT to finish out with a little ab lab……… and then discussed this month’s topic ~ sacrifice!

……. such a BIG word….. such a BIG responsibility for each of us…… but ~ as discussed ~ the sacrifices that we are called upon to do on a daily bases are not those BIG things that will draw attention to ourselves….. but the little things that each of us can do on a daily bases….. helping our loved ones without being asked, helping out a co-worker who is in need….. opportunities for sef-sacrifice are all around us….. we just need to have eyes to seen them!!!!!

Thank you for allowing me to lead, Gentlemen!!!!

Hot Sauce, out!