fun circuit training routine

This training routine is a really fun circuit training routine shown to me by a friend a couple of years back, all you need is a deck of cards and a bag, a length of track and a stop watch.

Right so you might be wondering whats going on and thinking you cant see yourself working up much of a sweat with a deck of cards right, well this is the fun part, as we all no a deck of cards has 4 different suits hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades, what we need to do is nominate each suit an exercises, the good thing about this is you can change the exercises to any thing you want, an example is below of one I have used in the past

spades = sit ups

clubs = press ups

hearts = squat thrusts

diamonds = bur pees

When you have decided what exercises each card will be for the training routine empty all the cards into your bag and mix them up, next you want to mark roughly 25 meters on the track.

Assuming you also have your stop watch you are ready to begin the training routine.

This training routine is designed to last approximately 30 minutes .

To start with you run the 25 meteres and back then choose a card at random from the bag, so for example lets say you choose 8 of clubs this will mean you do 8 press ups, you are allowed one minute between starting the exercise and starting another run so the quicker you finish your press ups the longer breather you will get so obviously it also stands to reason that the lower number cards will give you a nice breather where as higher numbers will leave you with less rest time so if you have a long run of high cards the training routine can quickly become rather nasty.

continue in this fashion for 30 minutes

run - card - run - card - run - card, you get the idea and make sure you choose cards at random each time it makes the training routine much more fun as you just don't know whats coming.

The great thing about this routine is you can tailor it for your own level of fitness for example if 25 meters is to long shorten the distance and if you want to change the exercises you can it is a very versatile training routine and its nice to have a change from the same old routine so give it a go and please let me know what you think.

Cheers guys hope you enjoy this one.