Usually when I’m playing cards, I’m drinking. But recently,
I’ve switched it up a little bit. My new favorite type of workout for days that
I’m not concentrating on certain muscles or cardio is the deck of cards
workout. It’s such a great way to mix things up, keep yourself interested, keep
your body guessing, and you can make them as difficult as you want.
The first one that I did was a couple of weeks ago. For the
most part, I used Pumps & Iron’s Cardio Deck of Cards Workout, with a few
tweaks.
Here’s what it looked like:
Clubs- Push-Ups/Renegade Row
Diamonds- Jack Jump Planks
Spades – V-Up Crunches
Hearts – I altered this, because I was doing the workout
outside and didn’t have a treadmill. I
did :30 high knees, :30 butt kicks, :30 jumping jacks, :30 pretending to
jump-rope.
The number = the number of reps (aces are 11 and face cards
are 10).
(Pictures taken from Pumps and Iron!)
I had planned on doing another circuit routine I found
online after this, but by the end of the deck, I was poooooped! And it took a while
to complete!
This weekend while I was home, I got to go to my old gym for
my absolute FAVORITE class- Boot Camp! The instructor, an old family friend, is
super intense and puts a lot of thought and effort into each workout, which I
love. This week, she had a deck of cards
workout planned! We partnered up and every group of two got a deck of cards to
try to complete before the end of class.
Clubs – Box Jumps
Spades – Pike-Up/Push-Up on the medicine ball
Diamonds – Sprints
Hearts – Weighted lunges
For this deck of cards workout, Jacks were 11, Queens were
12, Kings with 13 and Aces were 14! A joker meant you had to go through all
four exercises doing 14 reps.
Good stuff!
