At Home Workout: With a Deck of Cards

Easy and fun at-home workout with a deck of cards

We are experiencing unprecedented times right now with this quarantine and I truly am sending you all warm wishes and positive thoughts (and yes, prayers too!).

Since gyms are closed, I wanted to reshare (here is the old fitness post) an easy and interactive at-home workout you can do with two simple things:

1. Deck of Cards
2. Positive Attitude

You can use your body weight for these exercises, or add weights (get creative like the Instagram videos you’ve probably seen using bottles of wine or Clorox as your weights, or a paper towel used as a slider, etc.) if you’d prefer.

Pick four exercises, then grab a deck of cards and flip them over one at a time.

♠️ = crunches

♦️ = jump squats

♥️ = pushups 

♣️ = burpees

Whichever number is on the card, do that many of each exercise. For example, if you picked up a 4 of spades, you’d do 4 burpees, then turn the next card and repeat. A king of diamonds would be 10 jump squats. 

I’ll be honest – I’ve done this a number of times and have yet to make it through the full deck. So in an attempt to NOT give up, give yourself a goal. Do the “game” for 20 minutes or say you’ll get through 20 cards. If you are doing the card game with two other people, you can also shuffle and split the deck up. Have fun with it.

You can also add lunges, bear crawls, tricep dips, frog jumps, mountain climbers, ab exercises like bicycles, bridges – the list is endless.