Spreading the Burpee Love
Eric A and I were chatting this evening, and he told me a good story. Eric works at Tech, and apparently there's a wrestling camp going on this week. One of the campers locked his keys in his room, and Eric was sent to open the door. A coach was waiting with the camper, and while conversing, the coach mentioned that the camper would have to do 50 pushups as punishment for locking his keys in the room. Eric responded, "no, you should make him do burpees." The coach had never heard of a burpee, and Eric proceeded to demonstrate a few in one of the old dorm halls. The coach loved it, the kid had to do them, and wrestlers from far and near are soon to dread the word BURPEE!
While picking up Erin from camp this past weekend, we chatted with Chris M (client on hiatus while directing this camp in WV), and told him about burpee broad jumps. He didn't quite get it, so of course, we had to demonstrate. He loved/hated the idea. He's been getting a bunch of counselors to do workouts with him each day. Total world domination, one burpee at a time!!
Burpees in unison
6 Comments:
I appreciate and completely agree with the title of today’s post. CrossFit definitely DOES hate my legs!
BS 3x5: 255#
WOD Rx: 11:53 (I think)
Max KB swings: 46, no burpees (but a good bit of rest…body was wasted after the WOD)
– Daron on July 19th, 2011 at 9:43 am
Old school box!
– swellpotato on July 19th, 2011 at 11:59 am
BS: started at 225…DNF due to non-cooperative prosthetic…in other words, my BS is all Effed Up
WOD RX: 11:09
MAX KBS 1.5 pood: 59
– B-Vo on July 19th, 2011 at 5:37 pm
No BS … other skill/strength work.
WOD as RX’d: 11:09 … God, I hate push ups. No, really, I hate push ups.
KB swings: 47 … 5 burpees. That wasn’t pleasant.
– amy on July 19th, 2011 at 10:30 pm
Christina, why aren’t you posting your results?
– amy on July 19th, 2011 at 10:30 pm
WOD - killed me, but I loved every stinking minute. And I don’t know what my results were but I do know form was way off!
KB swings - 30!! yay!!
– Judy on July 20th, 2011 at 10:12 am