the deck of cards workout

razorbecky
razorbecky Posts: 134
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi y'all, sorry if this is a repeat but did anyone see last nights biggest loser? I loved Bob's last chance workout idea with the deck of cards. I'm thinking about doing that as a way of shocking my body. Any thoughts on it or any thoughts about how I would log it?

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  • felcandy
    felcandy Posts: 228 Member
    can you describe it? I missed the episode :(
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    Hi y'all, sorry if this is a repeat but did anyone see last nights biggest loser? I loved Bob's last chance workout idea with the deck of cards. I'm thinking about doing that as a way of shocking my body. Any thoughts on it or any thoughts about how I would log it?

    And why does your body need a shock?
  • razorbecky
    razorbecky Posts: 134
    @felcandy...he took a deck of cards and assigned each suit an exercise for example the jack of hearts would be 10 push-ups and so on
    @evgeni...not really a "shock " more of getting my body out of the routine of riding my bike.
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    i loved this idea but i dont know about the "shocking your body" thing. but then again i never understood this concept, i thought people were automatically increasing their intensity of workouts on at least a weekly basis?

    for instance when i lift i weights, i increase the weight by 2.5-5 pounds every time or when doing cardio i give myself a goal that's further or faster than the last time i did it.


    the deck of cards workout was taking an exercise for each suit (so 4 different exercises) and the value on the card gives you the amount of reps to do. so for instance if you say diamonds are thrusters then 4 of diamonds would be 4 thrusters.

    bob had them do it in a room with no exercise equipment, so they used chairs if they needed to. i thought it was a great idea for getting iin a good workout even if you have no gym.. oh and they went through most if not all the deck and the exercises were squats, push ups, thrusters and burpees
  • jacque1129
    jacque1129 Posts: 113 Member
    on the biggest loser site they had an "at home version" it was suppose to only be for 10 minutes, but i completed the whole deck. on the site hearts are push ups, diamonds are ab crunches, spades were squats, and clubs where shoulder blade squeezes. i logged it under calisthenics. it's a good work out, your arms will be killing you after the all push ups.
  • razorbecky
    razorbecky Posts: 134
    @jacque thanks I'll have to go look.
  • NaomiJFoster
    NaomiJFoster Posts: 1,450 Member
    Ha ha that sounds a lot like a game I play with my preschool class. I have a pair of giant dice. On one there are numbers. On the other there are interchangeable pictures of different motions/movements (jump, stomp, spin, arm circles, toe touches, bird-flap, etc). Each kid tosses the dice and we do whatever comes up. It's fun and a great little mini-workout for me!


    These:
    http://www.discountschoolsupply.com/product/ProductDetail.aspx?product=21957&es=7691210000W


    Here's the adult version:
    http://www.ssww.com/item/fitness-dice-W4952/
  • jaredpullis
    jaredpullis Posts: 1
    Heres my version. Hearts = pushups, Diamonds = Situps, Spades = Squats with 20lb dumbell to shoulder presses, Clubs = Pull downs.
    numbers represet how many reps, face cards = 10 reps and Aces = 15 reps.
    Do it as fast as you can. Awsome workout as long as you do it as fast as you can without passing out or puking... came close a couple of times!
  • Bookaholic88
    Bookaholic88 Posts: 106 Member
    Iv done it as pushups, jumping jacks, squats and burpies.
  • BigDougie1211
    BigDougie1211 Posts: 3,531 Member
    I'm definitely doing that with my football team on Monday night.
  • xmizlynnax
    xmizlynnax Posts: 29 Member
    I've done this workout before with my trainer at the gym... I think we did burpees, pushups, lateral raises (for arms w/ 7.5 lb weights), and squats. Aces high (11) :)

    It was a killer workout / no breaks and probably took about 30-40 minutes to complete the whole thing. LOVED IT.

    calisthenics would be good.
  • Melo1966
    Melo1966 Posts: 881 Member
    I saw a small group with a trainer doing this at my gym last week. I was wondering what it was. I will have to check it out and make up my own version.

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