At the bottom position, the Athlete's chest and hips must touch the ground. At the top of the movement, both hands must make contact with the target 6 inches above your max reach.The target above my head really killed me. Heart rate 151bpm one minute after.
There it is, today was day 100 of my burpee challenge, which means I have done 5050 burpees in 100 days. I tried to finish strong by doing them in 3 sets (as opposed to the 4 sets I have been doing in the last couple of weeks). I did 45, 30 and 25.
The question is what do I do next? I could try to stay at 100 per day, and although that would be great, I doubt I can sustain this everyday. I could lower it, but then what is the right number? I could also keep going and see how long I can go (I suspect it would be hard to find the time to do more than 150). I could also take it back down to about 60 and add a different exercise, but which one? Keep in mind this is the only exercise I have managed to consistently squeeze into my schedule so I would really like to find something I'll continue doing.
Suggestions?
12:16 (5:47, 6:29 splits)
Simple and punishing. Wanted to run but the track was wet, would have lifted but my arms and shoulders are still ridiculously burnt from the weekend with Angie. So, stuck with burpees...
Burpees were chest-to-floor and jump with clap. Switched between two techniques, the fast cycle version where the legs are kicked out and you drop to the floor in one motion and pushup to your feet in another fluid motion, and a slow cycle version where kickout, drop, pushup, and return to feet are separated. Controlling my breathing was problematic with the fast-cycle burpees, so I occasionally switched techniques to collect my breath while still pushing on.
HR was ~180 immediately after, declined to 124 by 2-3 min after.
