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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Exercising with Cards

Looking for a way to spice up your at home workouts? Grab a deck of cards and get moving!

Rules:
-Grab a deck of cards
-Choose 2-4 exercises
-As cards are picked, do an exercise for amount shown on the card
-Joker- 30 second break, Face cards- 10, Ace- 15,
-Repeat this alternating between exercises and/or partners

Tips:
-If you can't complete the whole deck at first, start with less cards
-If doing with a partner, you can each do all exercises or take turns
-Do not do more than 4 exercises or do with more than 4 people if taking turns (in order to keep intensity up)
-Be creative with your exercise combos

Some sample combos:
(modifications are in parenthesis)

Extreme Upper Body:
Pull-ups on doorway bar (feet on chair while pulling or lat pull-down with a resistance band)
Push-ups (on knees)

Cardio Blast: 
Jumping Jacks (side steps)
Squat jumps (squats)
Burpees (mountain climbers)
Back lunges, each side (lunges only going up and down, not backwards)

Core Cruncher:
Crunches
Lean backs-small sit ups, not going all the way back or coming up all the way forward
Plank hold on elbows, card represents amount of seconds (on knees)

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