Pushups, Squats and a deck of cards
Posted: Friday, March 12, 2010
by Johnny Grube
http://www.wildmantraining.com
If you are looking for a quick but effective workout that will boost your metabolism in just minutes a day, You need to read this article. Bodyweight training has stood the test of time. Using your own bodyweight is a natural way to exercise your body from all angles.
Exercising your body from all angles is the key to build a strong functional body. Of course it's not for everyone. Using your own bodyweight is tough, but the benefits can be dramatic.
The pushup and squat are two great exercises that will get you in great shape fast, It's great when you need a fast workout and it takes no space.
Throw in some sprints and pullups and you won't need much more.
If you want to try a great workout that won't take you very long but is pretty intense try using a deck of cards as your workout partner. The deck will push you. It's you against the deck.
This is how it works. You pick two exercises, for this example I will use squats and pushups. Black cards will be squats and the reds pushups. Shuffle the cards good, and flip each card if you flip a black card with a 7 you do 7 squats and you flip the next right away no rest, if you flip a red card 10 you do 10 pushups and flip the next. Always stay in the pushup position while flipping the cards unless you are already standing from squats.
All face cards ( jacks, queens, kings, aces ) are 10. This will have you sweating in no time. It should take you under 10 minutes to complete all 52 cards. To challenge yourself you could go through the deck more than once, you could have someone flip each card for you, you could make the aces 25 instead 10, you could double the number of each card. Just have fun with it.
One game I like is using a pinochle deck all high cards 9, 10, jacks, queens, kings, aces 48 cards to a deck. A bad shuffle and your in trouble. Play like this you will burn fat build lean muscle and you will improve your numbers of pushups.
John Grube B.C.S. F.F.S is an expert on the subject of bodyweight training and real functional fitness. He has over 25 years of training experience and is the author of "The Wildman Training Program manual and Course" and the new" How to build explosive pushup power manual" and other training material. For more info www.wildmantraining.com He also runs fitness bootcamps In the State College Pa area
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)Thanks for the tips... it sounds fun, i will give it a try!
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