9/23/08

Texas Hold-em

An interesting number I stole from Ray Lewis. Figured if it works for him, it might be good enough for me. I wasn't sure exactly how he does it, but here was my first attempt.

Supplies Needed: 1 deck of cards, 1 copy of Cowboys From Hell, 1 pull-up bar.

Take deck of cards. Flip top card over. Do that many push-ups, followed by that many squats. Flip a new card, repeat. Face cards worth 11, Aces worth 1.

I made it through about 12 rounds of this before switching the face cards to 5.

I made it a couple of more rounds before realizing I was never going to finish the deck, so I added this in: Every other card, do pull-ups instead of push-ups, and lunges instead of squats. Switched face cards back to 11.

This was much more manageable, but I still didn't finish the deck. After 35 minutes I couldn't go anymore. KILLER WORKOUT.

Next time, I'm going to flip a card for each exercise. So I will flip 1st card, do push-ups, 2nd card, do squats, 3rd do pullups, 4th do lunges. I could probably make it through a whole deck this way, doing 13 sets per exercise. Maybe even get through it twice, who knows.

The brutality of this workout is that it's different every time you shuffle the deck. I swear the first 10 minutes was all face cards.

Follow with leisure 2-mile jog.