October 10, 2021 By Deane Barker • October 10, 2021 • 30 min AMRAP --- Draw five cards Order the cards high to low (Aces are 11, face cards are 10) FIRST (reps based on each card value): -- Highest: Cal Bike Next: Sit Ups Next: Air Squats Next: Push Ups Lowest: Pull-Ups SECOND (number of burpees) -- High Card, 9 or less: 7 High Card, 10 or better: 6 Pair, 9 or less: 5 Pair, 10 or better: 4 Two Pair: 3 3 of a Kind: 2 Full House: 1 Anything better: 0 Go get another hand... Note that there are a lot of 10s… 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J (10), Q (10), K (10), A (11) Of the 13 different cards in a suit, four of them are effectively 10s. This means that you’ll do exactly 10 reps about 30% of the time, and at least 10 (and sometimes 11) about 40% of the time. (Once, while testing this workout, I pulled four face cards and a 10, which meant I did 10 reps of everything.) I did some testing with a code simulation of a deck. For the rep counts, I did several simulations of 1,000 draws, and these are the averages you’ll do for each movement: Cal Bike: 10 Sit Ups: 9 Air Squats: 8 Push Ups: 6 Pull Ups: 4 This was incredibly consistent. To get any variation in these numbers, I had to reduce the number of test draws to less than 40 – anything over 40, and they invariably settled into these numbers. At 10 draws, which is an entire deck, the individual rep counts changed by 1 in either direction, at most. For the burpees, here are the average number of hands it takes to draw the following in five cards from a freshly shuffled deck (I did 50 iterations for each): Pair: about every other draw Two Pair: about once every 20 draws 3 of a Kind: about once every 45 draws Full House: about once every 700 draws Anything over this got pretty rare. (In particular, drawing a natural Royal Flush took about 700,000 draws.) Each time I did this workout, I got through 7-8 hands. So you can expect a 3-4 pairs, and, if you’re lucky, two pair maybe once.