Nerd Workout! Inspired by Myka from Warehouse 13!

Posted: August 15, 2012 | Author: fitnerd | Filed under: Home workout, Nerdiness | Tags: high knees, jump squats, myka, pushups, side burpees, vups, warehouse 13 |Leave a comment »

For some reason I couldn’t get in to Warehouse 13 for a little while, but for whatever reason kept going back to it. Well, now I am officially hooked.

Warehouse 13 holds “artifacts.” A funny term for someone who works in a place that deals with real artifacts every day. These artifacts are a biiiit different, though. For whatever reason, a powerful emotion, a huge event, objects have magical power. These artifacts nearly always have a negative (to put it mildly) effect, usually turning the user of the artifact into a not-so-great person.

This workout is inspired by the female main character, Myka. Her dad is pretty cool, I’ve met him in real life. Haha, anyway. Myka has photographic memory, remember books, languages, all that good stuff, that helps her and her partner Pete find wily artifacts and how to disarm them. She also has training as a secret service agent (well, she still is one) and a CIA agent, so she can kick, punch, and shoot em up with the best of em.

There aren’t a lot of great Myka videos, but the best one that wasn’t about her and Pete or her and H.G. was this one, spoofing on Buffy. But, it works! And nerdiness colliding is always good.

So workout:

This one is for time! My was 14:15

I think I did these exercises 2 times through

Feel free to tack on another round if you desire a longer workout.

20 pushups – for punching the bad guys using an artifact, or putting away those heavy artifacts in the Warehouse

30 jump squats – maybe help you safely fall from HG Wells’ ceiling?

10 side burpees (5 each side) – for agility, the side to side motion of sword fighting (oh yeah, she knows fencing)

20 Vups – for the core

100 high knees – to run after and away from people

20 pushups

Mod as needed, go on your knees if necessary. Keep your back straight and butt up.

30 jump squats

Keep your back straight as you squat down, then power up into a jump.

10 side burpees

Jump out to one side with your body turned, and do a pushup. Jump your feet into your hands, then jump up. One rep. Next jump your feet out to the other side.

20 vups

Laying down, lift your legs up and your hands to your feet.

100 high knees

Drive your knees up as fast as you can. Each knee up is one rep.

Do everything once more!

Disclaimer: I am not an expert, ask your doctor, do this at your own risk.

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