Fun, New Workout...thanks to Miss Carrie Underwood!

I found an awesome new workout thanks to this post over at Southern Curls and Pearls. Carrie Underwood is in this month's Self magazine and she shares a workout that she does when she's not with her trainer. Read the post here to get the idea of the workout.

The workout involves a deck of cards. I used my Lilly Pulitzer playing cards, of course ;)

So here's what I did. It's a little different from Miss Underwood's regiment but that is what is so great about this. You can change it up and really make it what you want! Okay...

1) Take a deck of cards and shuffle them really well.

2) Use the whole deck or split them up. I'm using half the deck right now and hoping to work my way up to the whole deck by the end of the month. Baby steps y'all!

3) Make sure there is a Joker in the deck.

4) Assign each type of card an area of the body. For example, I use the following:

Clubs= Arms

Spades= Legs

Hearts= Cardio

Diamonds= Abs

Aces= 1 minute plank

Joker= 10 minute cardio

5) Go through the deck and write out your workout. For example, let's say you flip over the first card and it's the 6 of spades. You could do 6 squats or 6 lunges or 6 reps on your favorite machine. Your next card may be 9 of diamonds so you'll go do 9 regular crunches or 9 reps on an ab machine. Just continue this until you're through the deck.

Starting with a 15 minute warmup on the elliptical, my workouts have taken a little over an hour and that's with me including a 10 minute stretch at the end. Seriously y'all... this workout is the bomb.com! It kicks your booty but it's fun because you're constantly doing something different and each time you do the workout, it's new because you never know what the cards have in store for you. My card workout from last week is listed below in my Friday workout. I'm anxious to know what y'all think if you try it!

Summer Shape Up

(workouts from last week)

Monday

31 minutes on elliptical

3 sets of 12 lat pull downs at 40 lbs

5 sets of 12 pec fly at 25 lbs

2 sets of 25 standing twists with 10 lb medicine ball

4 sets of 25 crunches on stability ball

Tuesday

25 minutes on treadmill

Thursday

30 minutes on elliptical

2 sets of 10 lunges, Right and Left

3 sets of 25 calf raises

3 sets of 25 standing twists with 10 lb medicine ball

50 crunches on stability ball

3 sets of 12 bicep curls with 10 lb weight

3 sets of 12 reverse tricep extension with 10 lb weight

3 sets of 10 tricep dips

Friday

"Card Workout"

15 minute warmup on elliptical

15 reps pec fly

15 crunches on stability ball

5 bicep curls

1 minute plank

13 lat pulldowns

10 standing twists with 10 lb medicine ball

2 minute run on treadmill

10 jumping jacks

4 lat deltoid raises

7 tricep dips

5 minutes on elliptical

13 calf raises

6 squats

9 ab twists on stability ball

8 lunges, Right and Left

2 squats with stability ball

10 reverse tricep extensions

3 bicycles (abs), Right and Left

10 minute walk on treadmill

13 jumping jacks

1 minute plank

10 second wall sit

3 bicep curls on stability ball

6 lat deltoid raises on stability ball

3 crunches on stability ball

4 squats

9 reps pec fly

10 minute stretch

(I told y'all....the "card workout" is a booty kicker!)

Saturday

40 minutes yoga

5 minutes "Booty Blast"

Have an awesome night, ladies!