Card Game

[cross]

This has probably been mentioned before, but i thought id make a post for those who havnt heard about it before or have some new ideas along similar lines.

When your working out, it can be any exercise., but i tend to keep it simple and use push ups and sit ups. Get yourself a deck of playing cards and for example, call reds pushups and blacks situps. So if you pull out a red 7 you do 7 pushups. You can make face cards 10 or whatever value you like, and jokers and aces more if you feel the need.

Its a good way to break up your routine a bit and an interesting gamble at times. The first time i tried it i pulled out 20 cards and ended up doing 43 situps and 109 pushups, makes me think i need to shuffle better.

But to build up you can split the deck so it adds to a certain amount, i usually break the deck up so if you complete the modified deck you will be doing 100 of each exercise.

The ways you can go about it are almost endless and you can use different excercises etc. It helps to keep things interesting.

Anyone got any workout ideas that are similar or any different ways you approach the card game?

[bushido_man96]

That sounds pretty cool, cross.

Just off the top of my head, you can make each suit a certain exercise. For example, Diamonds could be side kicks, Hearts could be round kicks, etc. You could even make face card, like the King of Diamonds, count as jumping side kicks, Jack of Hearts could be jumping round kicks, etc.

This is a great idea; I may have to take a deck of cards to class, and shuffle and deal!!

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This is a great idea; I may have to take a deck of cards to class, and shuffle and deal!!

Now your thinking.

[bushido_man96]

Uuh, uuh, I thought of more!

You could have a student draw a card, and have the class do the selected number of exercises like I mentioned above. When finished, you have another student draw another card. That way, everyone can do the same thing, if you want them to do it that way.

Then, you can make the Joker or few other cards so that when they are drawn, the instructor(s) have to do a set number of push-ups; the students would dig that (especially kids!).

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Haha, those are great ideas. Excillent for a classroom environment.

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I was just thinking of another possible option, if you like darts and have a dart board handy, perhaps you could give certain numbers a exercise, another simple example: pushups could be odd numbers and situps could be even numbers. Then if you hit doubles or triples you do the amount it adds upto. That would be a little more challenging.

[bushido_man96]

I was just thinking of another possible option, if you like darts and have a dart board handy, perhaps you could give certain numbers a exercise, another simple example: pushups could be odd numbers and situps could be even numbers. Then if you hit doubles or triples you do the amount it adds upto. That would be a little more challenging.

That is another good idea. Unfortunately, I suck at darts, so I had better stick with the cards.....as a bonus, the cards don't stick in the walls!!

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That is another good idea. Unfortunately, I suck at darts, so I had better stick with the cards.....as a bonus, the cards don't stick in the walls!!

Haha, thats true. But i think im going to have to dust off the old dart board and give it a go anyway.