Fitness cards are very popular these days and I am a fan of most of them. Anything to incorporate and element of controlled randomness is a good thing as we have an unconscious bias toward our strengths. I have used Eric Wong’s “Cage Cardio Fight Deck” for years (most of his other products are fantastic as well) but in the past two years I’ve gone back as old-school as possible and used a regular deck for the “bread and butter” exercises (push pull sit squat). I do some version of this every Wednesday with my clients as well as my own training (cos y’all don’t do anything that I don’t do). The real beauty of this that it can be parred down to very basic 400 reps or scaled up to as much as 1000 reps depending on how you stack and set the exercises. Below is basic key that will give you 100 burpees / 100 squats / 100 pushups and 100 situps..
- Face Cards are worth 10 reps
- Number Cards are worth their assigned number
- Aces are worth 16
- Jokers aren’t used in basic
Its best to arrange the 4 cards you pull in this order because getting up and down between moves is a headache and extra movement isn’t what we do here.
Clubs = Burpees.
Hearts = Squats
Diamonds = Pushups
Spades = Sit-ups
Easy Peasy. Pull Four Cards , Arrange in the proper order and do the number assigned! Go make it happen!
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