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House of Cards Workout

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gmpianoman

Sat 23 May 2009 : 13:52

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A good customizable workout thing I learned and thought I'd share.

I hope I can explain this so it makes sense lol

I was working out with a friend last week and after we ran 3 miles he had a deck of cards with him: 52 cards and 4 jokers(we only had 1 joker but it gets reshuffled back into the deck so you have to pull it 4 times)

So each card had a certain type of workout exercise written on it, for example butterfly kicks, leg raises, pullups, pushups etc. the scoring is basically the same as 21. Face cards = 10, 2-10 = their respective values, and ace's are 11. So each suit (diamonds, clubs, spades, hearts) has a different exercise. you pull two cards at a time so including jokers its 28 rounds long. say you pull an 8 with pushups written on it and a 10 with some type of abs. So for that round you do 8 pushups and 10 abs. Another example if you pull 10 of pushups and an 8 of pushups then for that round you would do 18 pushups. You proceed to make your way through the entire deck until its finished.

It helps if you do it with a partner for extra motivation i guess but I was just sharing in case any of you wanted to try it.

Oh also I forgot to say the rule for jokers is that you come up with a different exercise than what your cards are labeled and a set number of whatever that exercise is so you can change it up a little

Edit (CAK010): I've decided to call this the "House of Cards Workout"

[ Edited Wed 27 May 2009 : 20:10 ]

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Valkry

Wed 27 May 2009 : 20:13

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I'll try to do this workout. Seems cool.

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kenshin9909

Wed 27 May 2009 : 20:19

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nice workout idea i might try that.

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David Jones

Wed 27 May 2009 : 20:32

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Sounds like a really good workout actually!

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orem

Thu 28 May 2009 : 01:35

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lol i totally saw this workout featured on The Biggest Loser. it's a good one :)

kasai_kun

Thu 28 May 2009 : 11:56

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yea, ive tried this with a dice and it worked out pretty well. I mihgt try the deack to add some varitey ^_^

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Thu 28 May 2009 : 18:52

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Oooh, using dice would be a good variation on this. Use one dice for the exercise and then the other dice multiply by 10 for the amount.
Thanks kasai_kun!

[ Edited Thu 28 May 2009 : 18:53 ]

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Socrates

Thu 28 May 2009 : 19:08

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Sweet idea. I think I am going to take my own take on it so that the exercises are even more diverse.

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kasai_kun

Thu 28 May 2009 : 22:56

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yea thats what i did to jazz up the no excuse workouts.

each side was a variation of the listed exercise...you cant get ninja warrior stregnht somhow ^_^

gmpianoman

Fri 29 May 2009 : 00:02

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well im glad it helped you all, in a way it made abs, pushups and pullups more fun haha

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Socrates

Fri 05 Jun 2009 : 19:26

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What are you talking about? They were always fun. lol

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