The Chair Workout: Tribute to Jack LaLanne FTW!

And I thought Chuck Norris was a bad ass.

Enter Jack LaLanne.

In 1956 at the age of 42 he set a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes.

In 1959 at the age 45 he did 1,000 jumping jacks and 1,000 chin-ups in 1 hour 22 minutes.

Freaking amazing! At any age. At any time!

Jack had an exercise show in the 60’s that was geared toward women.

At that time women were the ones at home. He preached a lot about the values of regular exercise and eating correctly.

Just think if everyone listened to him we would have less health problems today!

I remember some of his routines were done with a chair. So I decided to create a chair workout as a tribute to Jack LaLanne.

However this chair workout has a Jonesercise twist to it…it’s extremely intense.

The workout for 9/13/2010. Music: Probot. T-Shirt: Superman.

Chair workout: 14 Exercises, 4 cycles, 80 total sets, 1080 total reps.

1. Incline Push-ups 15
2. Decline Push-ups 15
3. Triceps Dips 15
4. Chair Burpees 10
5. One Leg Squats 20
6. One Leg Squats/Leg On Chair 20
7. One Leg Hop On Chair 20
8. Step-ups 10
9. 90/90 Chair Crunches 15
10. Hip Bridge 15
11. Side Crunches 10
12. Chair Squats 20
13. Quick Leg Swings Chair 10
14. Leg Raises 15

The first cycle wasn’t too bad. I actually was wondering if we would do this again. The second cycle was done faster than the first so it was more promising but still not too bad.

The last two cycles totally sucked! Talk about a body buster. It took a lot of physical and also mental strength to get through the last two!

And the video:

And for those who don’t remember Jack!