Burn serious calories while winning cash in your NCAA office pool with the Men’s Health March Madness Bracket Challenge Workout!
Got your March Madness bracket filled out and a little cash on the line? Why not put up a little pride and muscle, too?
Team your NCAA basketball tournament bracket with a workout challenge to motivate you to do extra exercise, suggests Jim Cotta, CSCS, a former strength coach of the LA Lakers and author of Men’s Health Workout War.
Here’s how it works: Invite your friends, family or co-workers to join the challenge. Fill out your March Madness brackets.
Based on whether your chosen teams win or lose, you do the corresponding number of reps of a certain exercise.
Winners do fewer reps; Losers do more. Everybody gets in shape.
You’ll perform an exercise exercise for each game that is played that day throughout the tournament. So that’s a circuit of 16 exercises after both days 1 and 2, which are Round 1 games.
In round 2, you will circuit through the 8 exercises, and then repeat. So you’ll do 8 exercises, 2 times each.
Round 3: Do 4 exercises, 3 times each.
Round 4: Do 2 exercises 4 times each.
Round 5: Do 2 exercises, 5 times each.
Round 6 (Championship Game): 1 exercise, 6 times.
“If you don’t have a team in the championship game, sorry dude, it’s 6 sets of 20 Burpees,” says Cotta.
For any game in which you have neither seed playing, you do 20 Burpees.
Complete your workout the day after the games have been played, so you will have workouts to do on March 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30 and April 5 and 7.
And for great workout challenges and a plan to get in the best shape of your life, check out Cotta’s new book, Men’s Health Workout War.