The Ninety-Nine

I am obsessed with Pinterest.  If you don't know what it is (You should. Get on that.), it's a site that you create with pictures of things that you like.  You simply "pin" a picture from another website and it adds it to your page.  Simple as that.  You can see mine by clicking the link that says "My Pins" at the top of my blog.

I find all sorts of interesting things by browsing pinterest - clothes, decorating ideas, puppies (!), funny pictures, puppies (!!), and recipes.  I recently came across an idea for a workout that I pinned just to have in my arsenal but had forgotten about it until this weekend.  I wanted to get some sort of a workout in on Sunday, but had run the last four days and needed a new idea.  So I gave this a go:

I altered it in two ways:

• Since I was trying to stay away from running, instead of running for 11 minutes at the end, I continued the series of jumping jacks, crunches, etc. with 11 reps each
• Also, I am not a machine and can't possibly do 99 leg lifts, so I dropped that number down to 9 (like the push ups)

So my workout looked like this:

• 99 jumping jacks (then 88, 77, etc.)
• 99 crunches
• 99 second wall sit
• 9 leg lifts (then 8, 7, etc.)
• 9 push ups

Totals:

• 495 jumping jacks
• 495 crunches
• 495 seconds of wall sit
• 45 leg lifts
• 45 push ups

The whole thing took me 45 minutes, with no rest in between each set.  And it was tough!  The good part about the workout is that each set is shorter than the last, so by the time you're at the end, even though your body is exhausted, it feels do-able.

I'm going to try to make it a goal to do this workout once a week, since I don't do nearly as much core work as I want to.  And maybe eventually I'll work up to 99 leg lifts... maybe.