RACE/CHALLENGE DAY IS BACK AGAIN! You can check out the results from last week’s Challenge Here. Due to high demand (three people, oh yeah ;-)) the Core Challenge: Crunch 1000 will be back for a third consecutive week. I encourage everybody to join, guys & girls, newbies & vets, athletes & couch lovers, etc. The scores will be updated everyday. To see the Scoreboard Click the Green Apple!
So having a strong core is great, but there’s more to being fit than abs. Last Tuesday, I introduced one of my favorite moves:
It incorporates cardio, biceps, triceps, chest, back, core, glutes, legs, and basically every single muscles in your body. It uses your own body weight, and is in my opinion one of the hardest greatest move out there. Since I forgot its actual name, we’ll just call it the Plyometric B****.
Here’s how to do it:
- Start in standing position, feet shoulder-width apart. You must execute this move as quickly as you can while maintaining a good form!
- Bring your hands to the floor in front of your feet, and jump into push-up position.
- Do a Push-up: Keep back as straight as possible, core tight and lower so your chin is two inches from the ground, and come back up.
- Quickly bring your feet to your hands, and jump as high as you can. This is ONE
The Rules:
- 1000 crunches & 200 Plyometric B****
- You have until next Thursday (February 4th 11:59PM) to turn in your numbers.
- Update me as often as you can by leaving a comment on the wall
- Bring in as many people as you can, to help me and the world to be FITTER and HEALTHIER!
- There’s a reason why I called it the Plyometric B****. If you REALLY can’t do it, just omit the push-up and stay in plank position.
- JUST DO IT!
How Do You Get In? Just leave a message saying “I’m in” and I’ll put your name up on the board!
How to incorporate Plyo in your already existing workout routine:
- Use the Plyo as a hard-core warm-up to your runs
- Finish hard with the Plyo and the Abs
- Do an interval workout: Weights-Plyo-Weights-Plyo or Cardio-Plyo-cardio… you get the point!
- Be Creative!
Join The Challenge for the second/third week, and all you have to do is your best! It is a friendly competition, and YOU are your biggest competitor! So get on the mat and prove to yourself that you can do it!
I know there are a lot more moves out there then just crunches, so use common sense to count it
Update me as frequently as you can by leaving a comment on the wall!
– Kloé
great tips! good abs are super important for posture AND looking good this summer! haha.
– Beth @ http://www.DiningAndDishing.com
Well. I am in. Oh dear God. But I am in…
Hahah, that’s exactly what I’m thinking!
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You can tell where my mind is. I totally read Core + Phylo Challenge. And I rationalized this as to eat phylo pastries you would have to do a lot of crunch to off set the number of calories.
Yeah, I’m just a little bit of foodie…
Hahaha, that’s really funny! But (sadly) no Phylo pastries involved. Care to join?
Awesome…we call that move a GI Jane…ever heard it called that? To make it ever more intense instead of jumping at the end…you add a pull up. NASTY!
Ah thanks, I had never actually heard the name of it… adding a pull-up would be hard (ugh!), but it wouldn’t work the legs… and in my case I find the jump to be the toughest part 😉 — GI Jane… Anyone knows where that comes from?
I’m in…what am I getting myself into! haha
Awesome 🙂
gosh… just finished my 1st plyo (GI Jane) set… wooo!
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I know that move as a burpee. What’s more important: I cannot do it without falling on my face. 😉
haha I know: it’s hard!thanks for the info though!
I did 210 abs/crunches tonight & 30 Plyo…wow those are challenging when you do more than 10 at a time! haha
I KNOW!!!I did two sets of 15 and … they are hard! aiming for 2×20 today… 😉
Im in! 🙂 Haha thanks for reminding.
Haha, always a pleasure 😉
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