We are going to continue on the series about acronyms in fitness, after last week we spoke about EMOM and now we are talking about "Death By." The format for these type of workouts is that you will do 1 rep for the first minute, then 2 for the second minute and so on... You continue in this pattern until you can't keep up with the clock.

These type of workouts can be applied to any exercise and also offer a way for you to track how far you get. If you do "Death By" for pull ups and make it to 10 minutes, then the next time you do it you can see if you can beat that. You can also apply it to pushups and do 3 per minute so it increases quicker (3, 6, 9...).

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