Burpee Challange- Enforcer Edition

Peer pressure. What can I say? I succumbed to it. Today I did my benchmark 100 burpees. God, I HATE those things! An un-impressive 15:30 but what the hell, it can only get better from there! After the first 10, I was on pace for a 10 minute total. That didn`t last long :) At the end I was doing 6 per minute, then I slowed down.

I`m not going to do this one, two, three per day thing. My plan is differnt. Ambitious.

am·bi·tious –adjective
<<having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success>>

I want to do 100 per day, or per workout (maybe 5 times per week, depending on shift work)
Every day I will improve on my time. Within one week I want to be down to15:00.

I learned that it`s much faster to do burpees properly that it is to lift each leg seperately and NO KNEES on the pushup. I did 95% of my burpees with no knees. Admitedly, my pushups wern`t the deepest. I felt winded after the first 50 and broke them up into sets of 10, then sets of 5. I wish I had someone yelling at me to keep going, ignore my water and towel and not mess with the CD player (Thank goodness for Madonna and Justin Timberlake!) but I needed the extra seconds to catch my breath. The only thing that motivated me was someone walking his dog nearby and me not wanting to look like the winded sack of flesh that I was.

After the burpees I did the following:
20 Weighted Walking Lunges (KB`s at 16Kgs and 24Kgs)
20 KB swings 16Kgs
20 Situps

Shower, wine, blog and sleep. In that order :)