WOW: Primal Poker

February 7, 2011

Using a deck of cards, assign one exercise to each suit:
Hearts are Pushups
Diamonds are Pullups
Clubs are Squats
Spades are Planks

How-to:
Warmup: 30 second Grok Squat, a few squat jumps to get your blood flowing.
Today’s WOW comes from reader Steve Brown, who recently submitted his go-to workout, Primal Poker, and goes something like this: after assigning an exercise to each suit and shuffling the deck, flip the top card over. If you get a Nine of Hearts, do nine pushups. Flip the next card over and follow suit. Face cards are worth ten, Aces twelve. You might end up doing a bunch of pullups in a row, and that’s fine; just power through it. For spades/planks, multiply the value by four and do a plank for that many seconds. A Queen of Spades, then, means a 40 second plank. Do the entire deck for time. Oh, and Jokers are wild, so make them […]

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