Workout Wednesday- House of Cards

Workout Wednesday

House of Cards Workout

Welcome Back Workout Wednesday!  Wow, you get off one week of posting and then it snowballs into chaos!  Well I am back and I have to start back up with a super fun workout that Stephanie (amazing instructor and fitness expert) passed over to me to have some fun. I did this with my 6am athletes and I have to say we had a blast!  Although, they might have a different opinion:)  I do know however they all left feeling amazing and great in that they achieved over the workout 

Here is how it works!

Take a Deck of playing cards.  Each suite represents a different exercise. You can always mix them up but for this particular workout we went with the following: 

Hearts = Burpee

Diamonds = Push-ups

Spades= Squat jumps

Clubs = Ab Crunches

You can deal the cards around or you can play by yourself (which would be a totally amazing workout AND challenge) but you begin by turning the cards over and performing the number of exercises each card tells you. 

Example: 

9 of Hearts = 9 Burpees

10 of Diamonds = 10 push-ups. 

If you draw a face card they equal the following: 

Jacks= 11

Queens = 12

Kings = 13

oh and Ace's...well we made those 25!  

So if you draw an Ace of Diamonds that means 25 Push-up!

And of course we have the jokers.  

 For each of those we added 200 revolutions on the jump rope. 

The jokers could also mean a run around the block, 200 jumping jacks, 200 tuck jumps and well, you get the picture.  It is all about making it fun and challenging yourself. 

The sense of accomplishment as you get through the deck of cards is amazing. 

This is a great workout to take on the road or do at home if you are short on time. 

enjoy and thanks Steph for sharing!  

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xo