The Competition is On

Author: Allie Y.

We may not have been competing for America’s Next Top Model and there was no threat that we’d be voted off the island, but there was a heated competition going on at Lola Red HQ today. Heated as in, we had our end-of-the-month fitness challenge, and man did we work up a sweat! The lovely Lola ladies invited fitness guru Andrea Austin of TweakMyWorkout.com to create a challenge for us in order to judge our fitness levels.

Andrea calls this game "The Deck of Doom" and here’s how it breaks down:

1. Get a deck of cards
2. Assign an exercise to each suit (e.g. diamonds are sit-ups, hearts are push-ups)
3. Start a timer and go through the deck of cards, one at a time. The suit of the card you draw corresponds with the exercise and the number on the card tells you the numbers of reps. Face cards are 12, and aces are 1.
4. Stop the timer once you’ve gone through the whole deck.
5. Run through "The Deck of Doom" again in the future and try to beat your previous time.

The best thing about this game is the way you feel afterward; tired but satisfied that you made it through the entire deck. The game is quick, we all made it though in less than 20 minutes, and it doesn’t require a lot of space, we did it in the office!