For July’s final Friday, YHC decided to bring back a favorite workout from his high school days: the dreaded deck of cards.

Warm Up

10 reps of: side shuffle hop, good morning, windmill, overhead claps

5 reps of: burpee

Mosey to the open field behind Jordan High. Since this was YHC’s virgin Falcon post, he did not know that this field is rarely used by the Falcon faithful. All the better. Fridays are great days for exploration!

Main Event

YHC explained the workout to the PAX while Bitcoin helpfully (and half-heartedly) shuffled the deck of cards. The workout is both simple and effective: take a deck of cards, shuffle, assign an exercise to each suit, hand each PAX a card, and perform the reps and exercise indicated on the card (note: face cards = 15 reps, aces = 20 reps). Continue until you’ve completed the deck.

Since 13 PAX journeyed to the gloom this Friday, the numbers perfectly worked out: 52 cards / 13 PAX = 4 rounds on the nose (YHC will neither confirm nor deny that he had psychic pre-knowledge of how many PAX would post).

To encourage group participation (i.e. to make the Q’s temporary dictatorship appear like a participatory democracy), YHC let the PAX match the suits with the exercises for the 1st, 2nd, and 4th rounds. Some PAX-selected exercises included: merkins, air press, squats, Carolina dry docks, WWII’s, lunges, and LBCs. YHC chose the 3rd round exercises: burpees, jump squats, jump lunges, and flutter kicks.

Between rounds, the PAX traveled (via jog, bear crawl, and gorilla walk) about 25 yards to an imaginary line colinear with a baseball dugout before turning around and jogging to the workout area.

Mary

Does Mary really deserve to be called “Mary” if it doesn’t involve truck tires and cinder blocks?  YHC decided that no, it does not.

Therefore, for Mary the PAX were arranged in three lines: two lines behind giant truck tires and one line behind a pair of cinder block. Similar to a DORA, the first PAX in each line would transport his tire or cinder block to the baseball dugout line previously mentioned before jogging back to the rest of the PAX. Meanwhile the remaining PAX were led through 20 reps of: LBCs, Heels to Heaven, Alternating Shoulder Taps, and Plank Jacks.

COT

Following Mary, the PAX jogged back to the AO parking lot to find King Starsky himself (aka Misery) waiting for them.

YHC wants to thank all the PAX who showed up this morning. YHC greatly enjoyed his first Falcon post and hopes to return soon.