100 days of burpees 1
In the interest of making my exercise a little more regimented, and looking ahead to travel disruptions, in addition to getting back on the Texas method I'm going to try the 100 Day Burpee Challenge.
The rules are simple:
Do one burpee on day one and add one each day until you get to 100 burpees on the 100th day.
1. Use Burgener's burpee standards for form (see examples below)
2. You can complete each day's burpees all at once, or broken up and done at different times throughout the day
3. If for some reason you miss a day, you have to make up all the missed burpees the following day
4. If you don't start the challenge with us today, you can "buy-in" at any time by doing ALL the missed day's burpees on your first day
5. Any burpees you complete during your regular workout can count towards that day’s Challenge burpees, if you want them to
5. Have fun doing burpees and getting stronger doing it!
Won't post every day (don't everybody thank me at once), but will update occasionally. Plan is to keep them as a continuous set as long as I can. Today was Day 1 (unbroken, ha!).
4 comments:
Weren't you supposed to buy in with a bunch of burpees at once?
Yeah, that's CFSC's way to start, but I wanted to start from ground up (especially given how much I've been away from the gym lately).
Trying to balance getting back in it with the proper amount of rest...
Hey Kenny,
Found this blog from Brian visiting mine. I'm always interested in seeing what other climbers/crossfitters are up to.
I'm on day 61 of the challenge, and I can offer the following insights:
1) This is a shitload of burpees.
2) You will get good at burpees. You will extend the number of burpees you can do before you get exhausted. You will become as familiar with burpees as the eskimos are with snow, such that you will invent new words to describe minor variations of burpee.
3) No, really. A shitload.
4) Be very careful of creeping injuries to your joints, especially when combining this with climbing. If you get a twinge or a stab in your shoulder or something, dial the burpee sets way back to sets of 5-10 spaced way out throughout the day. LOTS of people dropped out of the challenge because of injury. Take care of yourself.
Hey Daniel,
Great to see another climber/cf'er out there. I sort of oscillate between the two, it's hard to commit fully to one and have enough time for the other, though I'm trying.
Good points on the burpees, and glad to see you're surviving still even at shit-ton loads of 'em. Actually, the shoulder's the one thing I'm keeping an eye on, as that's one of the lingering climbing injuries from way back when...
Keep crankin' em out!
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