Monday, July 1, 2013

How to Do a 7 Minute Workout - another experiment

I've experimented with a free, intuitive programming language called Scratch.
I also happened to see a news broadcast talking about a 7-minute workout for busy people without gym equipment, apparently with some research behind it.
Put them together and what have you got?  Bippity boppity 7 minute program (see below for embedded version).  I open the on-desktop Scratch interface (API) and put it on full screen, using it as breaks between half hours of work when i decide to use a disciplined schedule of alternating 10-minute "breaks" and 30 minutes of "work".

   Get at least 7 minutes full body resistance+cardio with minimal equipment.
   Repeatable cycles of 7 minutes of high-intensity circuit training.

   News broadcast, video:
   http://globalnews.ca/video/568138/seven-minute-workout
   (I couldn't find the original broadcast I saw, but this looks good enough to see the mechanics of the exercises.)

   Note:  The creator of this program does not solicit or endorse the research, just created it for personal use.  Use at your own discretion.

Here's an embedded version of the code you can try right here:


The code is downloadable at the Scratch website:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/11184401/ 
Click "Share to" and the button "Download code" will show up.  It's a file that runs on Scratch programming software.  I found Scratch an interesting, easy programming language.