100 burpees in 10min challenge

[rocky555]

Shortly after embarking upon new and healthy life quest in October, I began exercising to ensure my success.

Few weeks later in the wilderness called Internet I have stumbled upon beast exercise called burpees.

Some claim that it is single best conditioning exercise in existence. Hmm... did not look too difficult on screen.

How could I not try it after reading about it? Of course I must doo those "manly" burpees with the pushup and jump.

 

My first effort... miserable... barely 50 burpees in almost 20 minutes, ending with me collapsed on the floor. It seems that burpees were deceptively easy on screen, but surprisingly difficult in person.

Then I pushed them to the far reach of my brain and tried to forget them.

 

But soon after that I have spoken with my friend who is fitness trainer and we got into the burpees. She said that good result was 100 burpees under 10 minutes. My sick brain accepted the challenge and drove me into pushing myself regulary and doing those hellish burpees.

Weeks passed, reps increased but end result was still not satisfactory and every time I was gasping for breath at the end.

 

Then came the 6 week challenge, I decided that I will do 100 under 10 minutes, failure was not an option.

 

I did a lot of other conditioning exercises during the challenge so far, but burpee challenge was done only few times, with top number being 93. I avoided them, feeling inadequate for the challenge.

 

Then this evening after eating 2 donuts and having a guilty conscience about it, I decided to really push myself. Timer was placed out of my sight, to avoid any distractions.

I managed to complete those 100 burpees, barely, my feet feeling like jelly... fearfully I stepped over to the timer and glanced at the screen, expecting to see 12 or 13 minutes (it surely felt like an eternity doing them), but result was surprising - 9:30min. Subtracting 5 seconds for reaching the timer, it comes to approx 9:25min.

 

 

 

Long story, but suitable to this long and hard burpee journey

[Not much unlike batman]

Nice job buddy.

You have inspired me to head for this now so double good job lol.

[rocky555]

You have inspired me to head for this now so double good job lol.

 

You will be cursing me when lying on the floor after the first effort...

[Driftwood]

I'm at about 15min for 100 burpees.  I didn't realize the key was donuts!

[Guzzi]

My God!

 

Literally, you are now my God.  That is AWESOME!!!! I hate burpees with a passion usually reserved for mass murderers (or maybe the tax man) and can only do about 4 or 5 of them in a minute. Ugh! :hangsheadinshame:

[rocky555]

Poor burpees, no one loves them

 

Don't worry, just start doing them and in a few weeks you will notice significant improvement.

[ferguson911]

I'm at 50 burpees in 4 minutes the next 50 in about 5 more with a 1 or 2 minute break between