Deck of Pain
Shuffle a deck and let each card's suit choose the exercise and its value choose your bodyweight reps.
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The schedule
1 workouts a week, on whichever days suit you.
| Week | Session 1 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
Then it starts again from week 1, carrying on from the weights you reached.
How it works
The program’s own rules, as Catalyst runs them.
For each suit, choose a squat, push-up, lunge or dip variation and suitable equipment. Counts are total reps; choose the side order for lunges without doubling the count. Shuffle a complete 52-card deck before starting and work through that order, or use the first 26 cards for a half-deck workout. Numbered cards give their number of reps, each jack, queen and king gives 10, and an ace gives 11. A full deck totals 380 reps; the half-deck total depends on the cards drawn. Rest as needed. For the next workout, choose exercises again and shuffle anew. Choose your own training dates; there is no fixed weekly frequency or automatic progression.
What you need
No equipment needed.
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