I recently came across a workout on Pinterest called “The Ninety-Nine”. It is said to have originated from this blog: Beautiful Day 4 Running but I can’t find an actual place on the blog where it was posted.
Anyhow, I tried the workout.
And it rocks.
It worked muscles I didn’t know I had, and for someone like me in good shape already, that is a very important feature in a workout. I did have an issue with one aspect of the workout and that was the leg raises so I changed it up a bit and made a sheet that you can print out and hang on the wall if you want to give it a try. it’s not for the faint of heart but will give you a great workout. The initial part took me 55 minutes, then 11 minutes for the run.
The workout consists of 8 set of 5 exercises. The first set starts with 99 reps of each except the push-ups you do 9 reps. Each subsequent set is 11 reps less than the previous set. The 9th set is just an 11 minute run, jog, walk…whatever you can do after almost an hour of calisthenics.
The exercises are fairly explanatory. Jumping jacks and crunches are what they usually are. The wall sit is a squat with your back against the wall. You go down as low as you can and hold the position. Knee lifts you do while standing just alternating raising each knee as high as you can. Push-ups are fairly standard too, though you can always do them on your knees if you need to.
So….do you dare?
Just stumbledupon your post! Always great to find new creative ways to work out to prevent boredom. Thanks for sharing, will give it a try next time!
Interesting workout, I’ll test it out.
That’s just brutal. I’m currently doing the 200 squats/200 situps/100 pushups programmes, and the’yre painful, but this – this is what Sauron forces on the Fighting Uruk Hai, it’s what they suffer in Guantanamo, it’s how Chuck Norris takes some r’n'r.
I think it’s so much better to leave a little bit for the next day and not do too much. I don’t think the body can deal with that much strain in one day. You got to have some kind of strength for daily living. You can exercise every day instead if you’re feeling like you want to get in shape fast. But to do all of this workout in one day is too much. Eventually you are going to be very tired. You may even lose motivation to keep working out, because it’s so hard. This is exactly what I write about in my books. You can’t build a body in one day. It’s gradual exercise every day. The body will react and shape up eventually.
I took want to build a bit, not sure for how long I will be doing this. But challenge accepted.. :D