This 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)
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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.
This is a great score. Especially impressive were the 58 press ups in 1 minute.
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!!
Generally I do not post on blogs, but I would like to say that this post really forced me to do so, Excellent post!
Had a client improve their score today by 99 reps! From 409 to 508. Excellent effort.
I do like press ups for a great upper body workout, its excellent for the chest and shoulders. I continually mix it up and attempt a diversity of workout routines to get the greatest outcome. I at the present perform super sets where I do normal press ups afterward quickly change using push up bars, this seems to give a deeper burn to the muscle tissue and has worked greatly to improve muscle definition.
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