[Fitness] 100 Burpee* Challenge

[digitaldiscipline]

katestine mused aloud the other day what doing 100 burpees for time would be like, other than a metric bowl of suck.

Not wanting to re-strain my back with squats (as it's de-load week of 5/3/1 anyway, giving the bar an almost entire miss seemed advisable), this percolated back up to my consciousness, not leastwise because I was chatting via IM with someone else for whom this was a point of interest.

100 reps in 6:07, with partial completion breakdown of:
50 in 2:30
65 in 3:45
85 in 5:10

I suspected that, given the fact I could do them at this pace, that I'd cut a corner somewhere. I had - omitting the pushup portion, and doing very little hop. So, not so much burpees as squat-thrusts. Next time, I'll do them correctly.

Supplementing this were some empty-bar squats (1x10), curls (1x20), and 135# shrugs (1x25 upright / 1x25 bent over).

* I Googled for >proper form** after doing the above.
** Yes, I consider her form to be extremely proper. YMMV.

Comments

[smjayman.livejournal.com]

I'll try that next weekend, with the pushups, just to see where the hell I am with it. FWIW, I think that young lady's form is quite good as well. :)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

You can tell that's one of her earlier videos, as she's substantially more cut and buff lately. The fact that she's not afraid to actually show effort and sweat is a big mark in favor.

In a similar vein are Pavel Tsatsouline's kettlebell videos, where he's obviously not fucking off, because you can't really goof around with 54# in your hand doing that shit. :-)

I'm thinking that I'll be trying to do it the right way next weekend as well. Tuesday, if you're interested, is the next iteration of "The Coworker Challenge (http://en.wordpress.com/tag/coworker-challenge/)" - one untimed max-rep set of pullups, one of pushups, and max reps in two minutes for prison squats and situps (we use a slightly inclined bench with a padded foot anchor).

[smjayman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Pavel is a maniac.

Post up again in a week and remind me, I'm pretty damn busy these days. You'll whip my ass at a lot of these, but it is all good. :)

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

the crossfit people hurl themselves onto the ground - wasting no energy on lowering, and then SPRING hard off the ground. watching the pros do it is scary; failure if the jump isn't, uhm, enthusiastic :)

i did the filthy fifty a couple times, man, the burpess are the part i most like, and hate about it...

For time:
50 Box jump, 24 inch box
50 Jumping pull-ups
50 Kettlebell swings, 1 pood
Walking Lunge, 50 steps
50 Knees to elbows
50 Push press, 45 pounds
50 Back extensions
50 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball
50 Burpees
50 Double unders

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

What is a double under?

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

jump rope with 2 passes of the rope under the feet per jump

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll file that under "shit I can't do."

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

CFs penalty solution is 2x the number of regular jumpropes, so 100...

i can barely do 100 jumpropes without a mistake, so i'm working up to double unders still, i'm merely mortal and old ;)

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[ivy]

Holy crap, that is brutal.

(I've got to try it.)

One must be so happy when one gets to the lunges and knees-to-elbows... that's a break from the pull ups and kettlebells. Your arms must be rubber at that point.

I'm still kind of scared of box jumps, so I might try a smaller box for less impact. But I'm really tempted to take a 'bell to the gym and do this tomorrow.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

sweet :)

as well, the CF people think it's okay to do the jump up, but 1-2 step off the box... it's not as fast, but it's safe, and they're mostly interested in the jump (at first). some people can cycle at amazing speed.

yeah, the lunges are sweet relief, unless you have a 25 plate overhead (a variant for the sickos, did that once).

the KB, ah, i made a "ghetoo pood" (iron pipe/pvc - i have a picture around (or an older LJ post of mine too)) for the gym when they were starting out, it's 1/2 pood, because most non sickos didn't like the full size at first... i found that at some point, it's mostly hips and legs, and just the ability to hold onto the damn thing than arms.

50 knees to elbows is while hanging off the pullup bar :> full extension please :} still, once you start rocking that, it's over pretty fast, so you're still not breathing right.

the back extensions are where i really got the rest in, despite the 25 lb plate, i was very good at them, and no power on earth could make me go faster :>

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

Is that push press an empty olympic bar or single 45# plate, or is it a 45# dumbbell in each hand?

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

yes, ideally it's a bar, but use what you have.

the plates work nicely for back extension though

there should be numberous demo videos, typically i search on "cf" or "crosss fit" and the name of the move, or browse the extensive list on c f com

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[ivy]

Kind of done. I'll try the whole thing some time when I don't have Cull around, but, I seriously don't know if I could have done a single other burpee at that point. Maybe I need to eat better beforehand.

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[maelstromsl.livejournal.com]

"next time I'll do them correctly"
*barfs in your general direction*

Re: ....

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Hey, I barfed from exercise yesterday. :-p

At least I bothered to look it up because it felt too easy.