100 Days of Burpees

A little over three months ago, I embarked on the 100 day burpee challenge. This seemingly innocent challenge, which started easy enough, wreaked havoc on everything. I'm excited to have my first rest day in over three months!

The way the challenge works is that you preform 1 burpee on day 1, 2 on day 2, etc.. for 100 days. around day 60, it really gets crappy.

I took a video of every day, and I'll post them before. Here's some interesting tid bits:

-I did burpees in 16 different places
-I wore 33 different shirts
-On days 20, 31, 45, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, and 99 I did variations of burpees
-I wore Red Sox Garb on 17 days
-I wore long sleeves  on 13 days
-There's an awesome box jump fail on day 31, day 40, I did them at work, on day 65, I jammed my finger, I did them under the lights of fireworks on day 91, day 93 I tweaked my back, and day 99, the cops showed up (so to speak)
-Etc...

Here has been the last 100 days of burpees











































Part 2 HERE

Burpee Dumbbell Clean & Jerk

Day 90 of the burpee challenge. I had to do something "special", so I added dumbbells.

90 Burpee Dumbbell Clean & Jerk (15# DBs)

For time.

Actually not too bad of a WOD - save the blisters.

Burpees / KB Swings

In my quest to mix it up with the burpee challenge, I put this WOD together. It was a bad idea...

17,16,15-->1 Kettlebell swing 1.5p
5,5,5... Burpees

This is a kb swing ladder. Start on 17, and subtract a rep every round. After every kb round, perform 5 burpees.

 It sucked.

Snatch Balance... It's Okay to Laugh...

Sometimes it's just better to laugh at yourself, and to let everybody else do the same. That being said...


I worked on the Bergener warmup, then:

Snatch balance
5-5-3-3-(3)-1-1-1-1

THEN

Squat snatch / split snatch skill work at 135#

I comically failed on 145... And got it on tape! Enjoy!

Double Jump Burpees

Just got home from my trip, and had to fit this in before I crashed out.

80 Double Jumping Burpees

For time

Three 3-Minute Couplets

For my second WOD of the day, I met up with a couple of fellow WODstack users. We put together this little gem.

3 mins, AMRAP of:
5 deadlift 225#
10 pullups
1 min rest

3 mins AMRAP of:
5 jerrycan swing
10 jerrycan lunges
1 min Rest

3 mins AMRAP of:
5 hspu
10 situps

After, we did day 79 of the WODstack Burpee challenge. I liked this setup. I haven't done any like this lately, so it was a good change.

Burpees and Overhead Work

This was a GOOD one!

For Time:

25 Clean and Jerks 75#
25 Burpees
25 Thrusters 75#
25 Burpees
25 Power Snatches 75#
25 Burpees

My wife's and my conversation was actually hilarious (in hind sight)

Burpee Pullup Chipper

I don't know what I was thinking.

70 burpee pullups
60 double unders
50 situps
40 hang cleans 95#
30 box jumps 24"
20 overhead squats 95#
10 handstand pushups

It hurt - badly.. Although, if I were to do it again, I'd probably add three more movements to make it an even 100.

Atlas Stone / Burpees / Sandbag Squat

I wanted to do a strong man WOD tonight. I,m regretting that decision.

6rft:

6 atlas stone to shoulder
10 burpees
6 sandbag squat clean (ground to shoulder)

Cash Out:
3 Burpees

It was ROUGH.

Burpee Box Jumps

I wasn't planning on doing a WOD today, but I've been doing a Burpee challenge. Every 10 days, we do something unusual. Well, it's day 60, so I did 60 burpee box jumps.

For time:

60 Burpee Box Jumps 20"


Surprisingly easier than normal burpees!

Helen

I did Helen again... and followed up with a bunch of burpees after

"Helen"
3 RFT:

400m run
21 KB swings 1.5p
12 pullups

Got a PR, then did 47 burpees... Because I hate myself, apparently.

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WOD 12.3 (Two Attempts)

I did the same WOD on both Saturday and Sunday. It sucked both times.

Crossfit Open 12.3
18:00 AMRAP of:

15 Box jumps
24"
12 Push Press 115#
9 Toes to Bar

Again, both tries SUCKED!

 

WOD 12.1 Burpees x2

Twice in less than 24 hours, I did the 2012 Open WOD twice.

12.1 Open WOD

7 Minute AMRAP of:

Burpees

You must touch a target over your head with both hands for each rep to count. I did this twice, and it sucked both times. I did (however) learn quite a bit, and did much better the second time around.




A history of burpees

My video Submission



I also got 97 Double unders unbroken! ARG! 3 away!

The Burpee Mile

In "celebration" of my 30th birthday, my wife oh so kindly decided that we should do the burpee mile. After all, "a lot of people do it on their 30th birthday!" So me, a) never able to back down from a challenge, and b) being the "birthday boy" agreed to do it. We had a friend over, and he was going to join... Little did I know that I was the ONLY ONE of the three to do the full mile! The other two opted for the half-mile...

The WOD is simple enough (to explain).. It's 1 mile of standing broad jumps, with a burpee in between each jump... 3,2,1.. go!

I normally don't post my times, but I was happy with my time. I did it in 1:26.47. I had a goal of under 90 mins, so I'm happy.. Sore, blistered, achy, and flat-on-my-back worn out, but happy.

The other two? Well, the wifie had a goal of under an hour, and she did it at around 59 mins. Our friend didn't set a goal (that he said), and finished around 39 minutes.

We got parts of it on video, but it's choppy. Sorry about the quality.



Oh, and tomorrow will undoubtably be a rest day.