[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

[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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