Jan 28

1087519_eightThis challenge as you may have guessed from the name consists of 8 exercises each done for 1 minute. Because it is only 8 minutes long it is great if you are short of time or chuck it in at the start of your workout or even use it to finish a session depending how crazy you feel! The aim is to complete as many reps as you can on each exercise and then at the end add them up for your total score. See if you can achieve over 500 reps.

All you will need for the challenge is a kick shield and a light pair of dumbbells or some hand weights no more than 2kg.

As always spend 5-10 minutes warming up before starting this challenge and make sure to cool down at the end.

 

CRAZY 8 EXERCISES:

Press-ups

V-ups

Burpees

Dumbbell Punches (Count each punch as 1 rep)

Lateral jumps over kick shield

Close hand press-ups (Hands shoulder width, elbows tucked in)

Kick shield squat jumps (Hold the shield across your chest and squat down until the shield touches your knees. As you explode into the air aim to bring your knees up so they touch the bottom of the shield)

Alternating leg squat thrusts (Each leg counts as 1 rep)

 


5 comments so far...

  • Julie T. Said on February 4th, 2010 at 6:51 pm:

    This is crazy!! After a rubbish week this did wonders for me. Rich says get between 3 and 4 hundred reps and I would be doing well!! Cripes I thought but here I go. I am the first to own up to how many reps I did. 458 – not bad for an old bird.

  • richb Said on February 4th, 2010 at 8:26 pm:

    This is a great score. Especially impressive were the 58 press ups in 1 minute.

  • richb Said on February 18th, 2010 at 8:35 pm:

    Had a few more people do this one, a couple of scores over 400 and one over 500. Keep up the hard work and lets get more people doing it!!

  • corporate reputation management Said on March 23rd, 2010 at 11:11 pm:

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  • richb Said on May 4th, 2010 at 8:43 pm:

    Had a client improve their score today by 99 reps! From 409 to 508. Excellent effort.

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