Can you finish the deck?
Plus, you’re able to play it alone or with a partner.
“There’s no right or wrong way.
Photo: Pakorn Kumruen / EyeEm/Getty Images
You just have to have an open and creative mind,” he says.
And a willingness to sweat.
How to Design a Deck of Cards Workout
1.
Eric Jeon
Decide your workout focus.
Is it leg day?
Do you want tostrengthen your back for those pull-ups?
Get your heart rate pumping with some cardio?
Assign an exercise for each suit.
Depending on what the focus of your workout is, you’ll assign different exercises for each suit.
(Or any of thesebest leg-day exercises.)
you’re free to make all face cards be 10 reps or a time-based movement.
Here, more examples:
3.
The number on the card will determine the number of reps you’ll perform for each exercise.
“I made the face cards 10 reps and the jokers were a 30-second rest,” says Forzaglia.
(Partial-rep strength trainingcan make a workout more challenging, too.)
Set a time limit.
(FTR, here’show much exercise you really need per week.)
That means there are little to no breaks in between flipping cards.
You want to perform a variety of exercises so you stay challenged throughout the workout.
If you have a workout buddy, you could take turns flipping cards and doing the exercises.
You flip, they do the exercise, then they flip and you perform the move.
The possibilities are endless!
(Or, use some of thesecreative partner workout moves.)
(Or head here for30 more bodyweight exerciseideas.)
