Sport Friday's Challenge - Burpees (8/07)

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In honor of the long lost Tony- we will ressurect the Burpee challenge.

And to add a bit of extremity to it.... let's all make 2 attempts. SO- that will be a full hour of burpees. Each attempt is 30 minutes.

The Burpee Challenge

Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and your hands raised over your head. Now squat down and place your palms on the floor by your feet.
Kick both of your legs back so that you're now in position to do a pushup.
Bend your elbows and lower your body until it's about one inch off of the floor.
Now push yourself back up and at the end of the pushup quickly pull both knees into your chest while keeping your hands on the floor. You're basically jumping back into the squat position found in the first step.
Stand straight up jumping 3-4 inches by straightening your legs and throwing your hands in the air over your head. You're now in the position that you started in, repeat as needed.
This is one rep. Now, the burpees challenge is about doing a series of descending sets of those. So If you first do 20, then you have to do 19, then 18, down to 0. Now, this might seem easy enough but there are time frame limits to respect.

The Rules :

The total time allowed is 30 minutes. You cannot remove any motion part of the movement or else reps won't count.

Level one : 20 descending sets in 30 minutes or less. You are now a man.

When you reach down to 20:00 or less, you can try the test for level two.

Level two : 25 descending sets in 30 minutes or less. People think twice before messing with you.

When you reach down to 25:00 or less, you can try the test fort level three.

Level three : Being able to perform 30 descending sets walking across the room as a break. You are bona fide stud and nobody's going to mess with you.

Sweat Daily!

p.s. Now remember, today we talk abotu it, and tomorrow we all do them, if you want to play.
FF
 
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I think I understand the challenge and will give it a shot unless I can come up with some sort of lame--questionable--sympathetic--life threatening excuse. I just started playing around with Burpees. Not as easy as you might think. I saw some where a pullup was in the mix. I'm In
 
here is a burpee vid

Is that your sister in the video? Damn she is hot. I am not sure if I can do this but will give it a shot and have been meaning to try it; only problem is that I just deadlift and squated on Thursday and going to bench on Friday. Each Burpee is going to be painful but if I can do them after all these lifting, then there is should at least give it an attempt....

What happened to Tony McCellan(msp) ?
 
oph goooooddd gawd almighty I do not want to do these!!!! :SaiyanSmilie_anim:

i'm tired, i've been fighting with my daughter, I have to move my stuff to a new office, I feel bloated like a puffer fish, i wanna eat chips and salsa and get drunk!!!!

BUT CRAP!

I will do them too.

she is the first burpee vid that came up- not my sis!

FF
 
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FF what do you mean "I'll do it to"? It's your party no excuses--suck it up and sweat. I agree Tic this is going to be painful. Feeling better g8r80? Pitiful excuse last week. I'm not looking forward to this along with the toughest day yet on the 100 pushup workout. 8 sets followed by a min max of 50.

Maybe I'll just go to the beach. I could mow the lawn or eat tomatoes. (Chillen) I'll have to think about this some more. Where are all the regular challengers? Do 20 and call it a day. I need motivation--maybe beer.
 
I did 10 and thought I was gonna have a heart attack! I know what I need to work on now - plyometrics.
 
g8r,

I know what you mean! One workout I did a few weeks ago was

9 burpees/1 squat thrust
8 burpees/ 2 squat thrusts
And so on…
7/3
6/4
5/5
4/6
3/7
2/8
1/9

For those of you that did this challenge you have my respect.
 
It's nice to see this challenge and feels good to join this discussion
 
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