[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. :)