100 Burpees
So I went and did a few burpees, then watched this. I feel good, but this has me motivated to step my game and count up. It is like running a mile, then watching a triathlon… Go ahead and do some burpees with me… For every comment I will knock out ten more…
April 7th, 2008 at 7:26 am
since nobody wrote to motivate you to further burpees, here’s a comment to do more. I introduced burpees to our muay thai trainer… needless to say that was a bad idea, in fact, we have to do 50 burpees instead of 50 pushups for beeing late now. So go ahead do 10 more.
April 7th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
i appreciate the motivation. i will knock those out now. do you do muay thai for MMA or just for mauy thai? i think being late would be kinda rough.
April 9th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Well I do it for the fun of it, thought one might argue that beating up others as well as being on the receiving end can’t be fun, it actually is. And it helps to keep a certain training level, since I can’t afford to weaken there’s only one way to go and that’s to do more until it doesn’t hurt any more (yes most of our exercises hurt, the better you’re trained the less pain you get, simple as that). It also motivates to keep up training, since you’re in a room with a lot of other tough and lean people (I still carry some love handles with me btw.) and it’s totally different from the regular fitness gyms where you’re pushing weights and building up useless muscles trained to do a specific movement. I kinda think of fitness gyms as sort of cosmetic measures to let your body look mean and lean, but when it comes to a fight or any situation needing some real muscle work, those whiny gym-rats fail and that’s why i like your site. Hood workout, nothing more is needed, with own-weight training you build your physique as naturally powerful as possible. All I have at home is a chin-up bar and some barbells (to up my weight during training sessions).
So keep up posting.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:29 am
I think the hood workout is all you really need. I am trying to prove it with my workout and training. What chin up bar do you have, is it a door one or a different style?
April 11th, 2008 at 6:14 am
I use a door mounted one from well that’s german actually, dunno if you’ll find it at . There’s plenty of those. Just go for one without a permanent mount, mine’s rated for a max of 85kg for the quick-mount, permanent mount should hold up to 100kg.
April 11th, 2008 at 6:18 am
ok, the tags went wrong, i’m sure you’re still able to understand what i meant. It’s 8 a.m. here i’m at 40 pushups and 20 burpees (clapping push-up/push-up/jump, try it!)
April 12th, 2008 at 1:36 am
let me get the excercise right. you are doing a clapping pushup into a pushup into a squating jump (completeing the burpee) back down to a clapping pushup? repeat…
I want to get a pullup bar but the kind that I want would take up too much room. The kind I want has the dip, pullup and knee crunch. I am not good with the knees curled… Until then burpees and pushups.
April 12th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
let me get the excercise right. you are doing a clapping pushup into a pushup into a squating jump (completeing the burpee) back down to a clapping pushup? repeat…
exactly, in this order.
hm but wait even for the exercises you mentioned there are non-permanent push-up bars… like this one
as for the dip, you could to that with about any bar as long as you don’t leave your legs hanging, think about it as a bonus exercise, since you train your legs as well while doing dips.