The BackBlast:

YHC fartsacked and missed Double D’s rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas on Monday, but I had planned a while ago that I was going to do my 12 Days of Christmas beatdown today, and after getting comfort that they would be sufficiently different, I proceeded as planned!

Conditions: It was cold….like 22 degrees or so…and clear.

Warmup – Check

Circle up on the nice and soft newly updated playground by Lowes’ EoP (Easel of Pain) which listed the 12 exercises that would soon get stuck in their head as I taught them the 12 Days of Christmas my style. Now at the risk of killing the effect (similar to if you have to explain the punchline, the joke isn’t funny) I will point out some of the thought that was put into the selection of the exercises.

1. A Merkin and a Burpee (A Partridge in a Pear Tree)
2. LBCs
3. Plank Jacks
4. Backwards
5. Lunge Arm Circles (Golden Rings)
6. Monkey Humpers (Geese a laying – ok maybe that one was a stretch)
7. Mountain Climbers
8. Big Boy Situps
9. Bonnie Blairs (Ladies Dancing)
10. Jumping Squats (Lords a Leaping)
11. Diamond Merkins
12. American Hammers (Drummers Drumming – maybe a stretch too…)

As you would expect, it went like this.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a merkin and a burpee.

On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me two LBC’s and a merkin and a burpee.

On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me three plank jacks, 2 LBC’s and a merkin and a burpee, and so on and so forth.

Lots of good chatter during the course of the “song” including Foxhole getting weirded out by Slogger’s jazzercise moves. At the completion of the twelve days of Christmas, the PAX did a short lap around the park, then circled up again back on the playground.

Since everyone is probably sick of hearing the same music over and over again, I thought it a good idea to replay the “song” again, except this time backwards to see if it sounded any different. It was way different.

Part two went like this:

On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me 12 American Hammers.

On the 11th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 11 Diamond Merkins and 12 American Hammers.

On the 10th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 10 Jumping Squats, 11 Diamond Merkins, and 12 American Hammers, and so on and so forth.

Still battling some shoulder issues, I decided to modify the diamond merkins to shoulder taps but I’m pretty sure everyone else continued with the Diamond Merkins. We didnt’ completely finish, but we got pretty close!

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