Today’s Lifehacker Workout: The Deck Of Cards

Get some fun (yet challenging) exercise in today with a random Deck of Cards workout, part of our The Lifehacker Workout group exercise program.

Here’s a refresher for how to do this workout: Grab a deck of cards. Draw a card, and the suit represents the exercise you do; the number on the card represents how many reps to do. If it’s a face card (jacks, queens, kings), do 5, 10 or whatever number of reps you feel comfortable with. Continue as fast as you can until you’ve completed the deck.

Because this can be intense, you can start with half the deck or a quarter of the deck.

These are the exercises we’ll be doing:

• Hearts (easy to remember that aerobics work your heart) = jumping jacks or jump rope if you have one (aerobics)
• Diamonds = chair dips or bench dips
• Clubs = knee-to-elbow plank
• Spades = lunges

Tip: Take one card for each suit out and put a post-it note on top with the name of the exercise, as a reminder while you’re working out.

Instruction Videos for Deck of Cards Exercises

Jumping Jacks:

Chair Dips:

Knee-to-Elbow Plank:

Lunges

Modification: Back lunge or rear lunge, which might be easier on your knees

For variation and a whole leg workout, you can also alternate in side lunges:

We’re logging our workouts on Fleetly and you can join our challenge there as well.