Part One – 10/6/23 Evening – Burpees To End The Day Right :
10/6/23 ~620pm
I easily guilt myself into doing…something physical.
See, I’ve been watching all sorts of “training muay thai in thailand” videos, my youtube feed thinks I want to watch those with hundreds of thousands or millions of subscribers lift (ish) – it’s not challenging to say screw it, delay the shower, and go do…
Tonight is burpees.
Why burpees?
It’s simple – I didn’t feel like snatching the kettlebell or curling the barbell.
So burpees.
I take a few minutes to check in, laughing that I’m about to burpee while still burping from dinner, american chop suey, red sauce burps about to be combined with the wind builder 🙂
I’ll enjoy it.
(truly, no sarcasm, the more I do burpees the more I enjoy them)
then spoke about it as a short (as far as the video – I get a kick out of the drop of sweat coming out of my beard at about eight, nine seconds – and hehehe “liketh, subscribeth” as a sort of made it to the end easter egg)
I write it time and again.
I’d advise it to all ; do something physical every day.
The pushups, the burpees, maybe jump rope, a bunch of bw squats, kettlebell something, the mace swings, bleachers, a few pullups – something daily, to move, cause physical movement makes the mind right.
Happiness may be a struggle, but a good sweat while out of breath makes it hard to be anything but free and full of dopamine, on cloud nine of euphoria.
Many smoke weed, I’ll do burpees – mine doesn’t hurt, nor does it cost a penny, just honest sweat equity building into a few hours of a natural high.
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Part Two – 10/7/23 Morning – Burpees To Start The Day Right :
10/7/23 ~7am
Right now I’m adjusted to a horrible sleep schedule, the other day I’d told the pastor I’d be there this morning – I may not be going to service, but I’m going the the volunteer labor.
Shrugs. I’m in a weird place, working through it. It’s a rationalization, at least I’m doing something church related.
No sleep, I’m working out about 45min before my alarm, the alarm I intended to shower at anyway.
Sounds like last night, hop, skip, and a jump, really twisting my own arm 😉 to burpee before the shower.
“might as well do the burpees”
…..
Put the song on repeat, set up an interval timer – taking it easy…
third world – immortal technique
25×2 burpees every :30, so 50 in 12:30, should be simple, probably easy enough.
…..
Last night 75ish burpees set my world right for a good three hours.
I figure I’ll burpee myself to a positive mindstate, fit will come along with it.
See, burpees hit two birds, maybe more probably more definitely more, with one stone.
I’m in a better mood.
I got a good sweat going, чай хорошо (burpees тоже хорошо – да, yes I did duolingo already today) earned the green tea I may drink soon time allowing.
Fit comes with the burpees, there’s ∞ opportunity to build work capacity with it, playing with the variables.
Building Work Capacity With Burpees :
(note yesterday morning’s scale weight was 285lbs)
This morning’s burpees were done as two one pump cdc style (rocking chairs ish) every thirty seconds, the speed of each rep making no rest, all work, at the pace come out to almost twenty reps a minute.
That’d be 100 reps in over 5:00, under 6:00.
At that ability one qualifies as fit I’m sure
This morning I barely jogged it up, maybe one tenth of the rests.
One can rest with other exercises, que jumping jacks, high knees…high knees like that morning where “damn it how am I seven pounds over” needing to make 190 soonest.
(and thankful at that point in the season 189lbs was already+1, with every layer on, ipod in, burpee and high knees under the heat vent – ah high school wrestling – a fond memory)
One can hit their stomach hard, instead of lightly tapping.
One can add jumps to the end of the rep.
One can throw themselves down, one can kinda vary how much of the drop is kicking back vs absorbing with the triceps.
The sheer forces absorbed by the triceps when I do burpees is why I feel the burpee is more of an upper body strength builder than they’d seem on paper.
This too can be said by the upper back acting as deceleration, the reason why it too often pumps up from these burpees.
But how much my triceps are worked catching myself having dropped/thrown myself down – I’ll press stronger from a burpee habit.
…..
It wouldn’t take much to get this morning’s style, just do the reps, then rest during the rest periods from two to four reps every thirty seconds, meaning in not far off from 100 in 12:30, 100 in 10:00 being decent in my eyes, and above I already spoke of how the pace (minus all 22-24 seconds of rest out of :30) done straight though would be 100 in sub six, and rocking chair is inherently slower than just throwing yourself down, flop style, how we all learned burpees the few times we did them in high school class.
I’m finding more and more excuse/reason to do more and more burpees.
May they help you as well as they are me.
-J
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