You are doing great! Hopefully, you are now making your burpees a major part of your workout if not all of your workout. This means trying to put all those #s of burpees in a compact, reasonable amount of time. How did your timed trial go? The result of that gives you some understanding of the level of your fitness. But those numbers are starting to add up. Getting tired of the same old 3 sets of 10? Now that you are in the 30s, you can try to mix things up to keep from getting bored. Check out this wonderful video below. Note: this guy is doing Tabata rounds for extreme, High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). Tabata is 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off, eight (8) times! I do not recommend you perform this level, yet. However, a series of 30 secs on, and 90, 60, or 30 seconds off until you have completed your 32 burpees would be an excellent introduction to the benefits of HIIT. Remember, as with our regular burpees, the following variations must first concentrate on form and quality, not speed, to prevent yourself from injuries.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Day 15
My son said, “You picked the worst possible time to start this!” And that is why it is the best possible time. By maintaining the burpee regimen when it has been so busy, you have proven you can stick with it in almost any situation. But for me, busyness has not been the problem, it has been very poor nutrition. Can you feel that gunk trying to get out of your body with your burpees? The burpee is forcing you to eat better. Another advantage of starting now is if you missed one or two days the make up is not as bad with the lower numbers. Have you been working on sets of burpees? 10,11,12, maybe 15 at a time? You are doing a great job!
On 12/31, I was taking my daughters to see “Tangled.” No one was in the theater (at the time). So I moved to the back and dropped down to do a set of 15 burpees (the only day I have divided my workout up). I hate doing them in jeans! As usual, I went all out with each one. So when I finished, I was gasping for air and sweating. A theater staff person came in about the time I was pacing in back to cool down, she looked around then left. After going back to my seat, I felt a tap on my shoulder, and the young staff person was asking if I needed any water and “Are you ok?” I had to politely explain I was not having a heart attack, I was feeling the joys of the burpee! Someone at work said, "you are quite an inspiration and a hoot! The theater staff has probably had their share of crazies in the theater and then there was Kiltman!
Think of the craziest place that you will do at least 10 burpees!
On 12/31, I was taking my daughters to see “Tangled.” No one was in the theater (at the time). So I moved to the back and dropped down to do a set of 15 burpees (the only day I have divided my workout up). I hate doing them in jeans! As usual, I went all out with each one. So when I finished, I was gasping for air and sweating. A theater staff person came in about the time I was pacing in back to cool down, she looked around then left. After going back to my seat, I felt a tap on my shoulder, and the young staff person was asking if I needed any water and “Are you ok?” I had to politely explain I was not having a heart attack, I was feeling the joys of the burpee! Someone at work said, "you are quite an inspiration and a hoot! The theater staff has probably had their share of crazies in the theater and then there was Kiltman!
Think of the craziest place that you will do at least 10 burpees!
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