People will sometimes utilize the same workout over and over again this will lead stagnation in progress. So in order to change things up every once in a while I like to take a break from the gym and do a workout at home. Home workouts are most of the time lots of reps and limited rest. My current favorite home workout is the deck of cards workout.
The deck of cards workout uses the premise of variation to further ones fitness level. Every deck of cards will have each suit designated as a different e exercise, normally something very basic, such as push ups, squats, or crunches. My personal deck has eight different exercises, two per suit. The advantage of eight over four is that you can work more muscles, but you dont work them as hard individually, I think you will work harder overall though.
My deck not only has 8 different exercises, the suits are divided up by odds and evens. This is the way that you are able to determine the number of reps that you do of a particular exercise. I also tweaked what you would normally do which is each exercise is done the exact number of times on the card, I have it so that anything less then four is done twice, this not only gives more reps but it allows for limited rest. Another important thing to note is that face cards are all worth 10 and the Ace is worth 15.
My exercises are, push ups, burpees, crunches, russian twists, lunges, and squats. The final two exercises, kettle bell swings, and presses, are the only ones that need any sort of equipment. The swings are a standard kettle bell movement, and presses are also a standard exercise. I find that these exercises allow for the a workout that gets every part of the body.
So when you are actually doing the workout is to draw a card and then do what ever exercise is assigned to that card. Once that exercise is complete you go onto the next card. Rest is kept to a minimum, just enough to draw the next card and figure out what it is.
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