deck of cards workout!! i have recently started hearing about the deck of cards workout and i was wondering if any one has ever done it ? and if so how effective did they find it for bupper body strengh

upper body strengh even lol

upper body strengh even lol

sorry i should have put in what the workout involves for anybody who has never heard of it before.

All you have to do is to assign an exercise to either each suit or colour of cards then shuffle the deck and get started. Simply pick the top card off the pack, the colour or suit corresponds to the exercise and the value of the card corresponds to the number of repetitions of that exercise. It is optional to keep the joker in the pack (usually assigned a value of 20), all kings/queens/jokers are given a value of 10, the ace is 1.

If you keep the jokers in the pack it will be 105 repatitions of each exercise if you assign a suit to each exercise, or 210 if you assign a colour to each exercise.

Here are two examples of workouts :

A)
Black : Press Up
Red : Boot strapper

B)
Hearts : Chin-up
Diamonds : Hindu Squat
Spades : Reverse Press-up
Clubs : Knee-raise

Yeah I've heard Sean Wright does this form of exercising. I can't see any particular benefits over other forms of workout, aside from being bound to the cards and having to finish the deck, which could push you farther than you normally would go.

I have done it in a few classes and it seems good. I assigned the following exercises:

Spades: Burpees (proper ones)
Clubs: Explosive squats
Hearts: Sprints - so each number is 1 sprint up the room
Diamonds: Press Ups

I had Jack as 11, Queen as 12 and King as 13 too!

Some of the students now have playing card phobias lol. I like it because you got to get through deck and it is random and sometimes quite harsh what order they come out in. Want to do it on my own but it would ruin it having a gap inbetween exercise having to turn cards