Fitness Dice
My sister came to visit recently and had a set of these Fitness Dice in her car. Of course, I had to play with them.
The set contains 7 dice that are each approximately 1” in size. Six of the dice have different exercises on them and focus on specific body parts (upper body, lower body, chest & back, core, full body and cardio).
The seventh dice lets you know how long you’ll do each exercise (30 seconds or 1 minute) or how many repetitions of each exercise you’ll do (10, 12, 15 or 20). You roll the dice and do the workout that you roll.
The set also comes with a booklet that describes each exercise and gives some modifications. Each of the exercises has a number and a picture so if you want more information on how to perform an exercise, you simply look at the number on your dice and read the corresponding description in the booklet.
The great parts of this “game”:
There are 45,000 different combinations that could occur, depending on the roll of the dice, so your exercise routine never gets boring.
The workouts are short so you can make time to fit them in. The longest workouts are either 20 repetitions of 6 exercises or 1 minute of 6 exercises.
The booklet does a great job describing each of the exercises.
The not so great part of this “game”:
Some of the exercises are harder than the average person may be able to perform, especially if there are any areas of injury on a person’s body.
The modifications (to make the exercises easier) were not as clear as they could be.
So how do we make this game nothing but FUN?
Swap out exercises that are too hard for you with something that works the same muscle groups but is actually something you like to do (e.g. push ups are too hard for now, sub out with a chest press).
Do a different exercise on a dice if you don’t like the one you rolled.
Give yourself permission to do whatever you want with these dice. It’s your game and it’s supposed to be fun!
The dice are for sale online with several vendors, including amazon.
Final Note:
The fitness dice workouts are designed to be done after a warm up has already occurred so that your muscles are ready to work and you don’t injure yourself.
To warm up, you can take a 5 minuter walk, do some dancing that feels good to your body, or any other type of dynamic (moving) warm up you prefer.
ENJOY your workouts and don’t make them too hard or they won’t happen.
