Everyday Systems

In an effort to keep myself interested and challenged in the exercise world I tried a new workout on Monday. It invovles using a pack of regular playing cards. Each card represents a different SG movement, and the number of reps is based on the number of the card. For example red cards this week have been the basic shovel while black cards were hoist the sack. Red face cards were churning butter, black face cards were driving fence posts. Aces were bodyweight squats and Jokers were pushups. I set my timer for 20 minutes to make up for me stopping to flip cards out of the deck. It's been fun and I haven't had the same workout twice.

Incidently this isn't an original idea, I stole it after watching a friend's son at wrestling practice. The coach used the deck of cards for bodyweight exercise and wrestling drills.

Cool. Throwing dice would be fun as well. Enjoy !

I like it in principle (it's actually come up a bunch of times over the years on the bulletin board and its yahoo group predecessor) but at this point I'm too much on auto-pilot to want to make conscious decisions about what to do next between movements. Since I almost always do the moves in the same order (even when I vary the rep count), one move just slides into the next.

Reinhard

I'll go with the autopilot thing. I only wake up about halfway through the routine, once the blood gets pumping.

However that sounds like just the solution I'm looking for for Freestyle Fridays. At 6am I have a very limited imagination so something like you cards would suit me fine - if you pardon the pun.

Thanks!

(what a card, well I'll just shuffle along, I haven't the heart etc. etc. - I'll get my coat... )