Brian Alsruhe really got me to fall back in love with them when he explained them as “getting up from a prone position”. That’s SUCH a valuable skill, and once it’s lost you’re f**ked. It’s how old people die.
I may not care about being able to deadlift heavy when I get old, but I wanna be able to do a burpee when the time comes.
Do you jump up after each one? I wonder if I’m making them harder than they should be. I feel like 100 of them would be torture, and I’m in decent cardio shape.
I DO jump, but when I’m doing 100 it’s a VERY small jump. A hop really. I’m doing enough to get both feet off the ground but I want to get back to prone as quick as possible.
100 of them SUCKS. I hit my goal of doing it all unbroken about 3 weeks ago and haven’t done that since, haha. It’s a great gut check.
Does the surface you’re doing them on matter? I feel like I need to do them on grass or turf as opposed to a harder floor, even if it has a mat covering it. The constant jump backs add up. (I sound pretty whiny here, I know).
I feel like you answered your own question on if the surface you do them on matters, haha.
I just want you or someone to validate my avoidance of them. Or show me a way to make doing 100 easier. Like telling me “I count by 5’s. You mean you’ve been counting by 1’s? No wonder you hate them” or similar.
A strategy that I finds works for burpees (and thrusters also) is to consciously go a little slower than you think you need too. I find when I do that I settle into a much better rhythm and end up going faster as a result
I count down in 2s ie 50, 50, 49,49,…1,1
I should give you so much grief for this after what you said about my numbers lol
100 is divisible by 2 50 is 2times a perfect square 
I lie to myself a lot.
“We are just gonna do 50 today.”
“Dude, if we did 50, we got 70”
“Dude, you really gonna stop at 70?”
Goggins style
Him and Jon Andersen are my training spirit animals: we all hate it, haha.
5/09/2021
Conditioning day
1.5 miles for time = 9:29.
Damn @kleinhound , I don’t know how you got 9 minutes. My pacing sucks. I go fast for two laps, then slow a bit for 2 laps, then finish fast for the last 2. I need to mentally keep pushing those middle two laps.
General conditioning right after in the garage:
3 rounds of:
20 Push press (65 lbs)
20 Ring pull ups (ugly, kipping style)
20 back raises
Took about 8:30 moving at a decent pace.
Notes: I really like the 1.5 miler for time. It’s over fast, and a great bench mark for my overall training. I’m thinking of keeping this one as the HIC that I really push each week, and modify the conditioning done after (the above is the standard workout from Tactical Barbell 2).
Other notes: I’m hovering right at 175 lbs these days. I feel pretty good about how I look and feel, but I have had a tough time reigning in weekend splurges ever since the pandemic started. Not too bad this weekend: just did a candy store run last night but limited it to Spree’s and Sweet tarts (not recommended, by the way). I don’t really have a “goal” weight, but I tend to think the 170 - 175 range is a nice balance for me in terms of strength, health, and appearance.
From a completely different angle (and admittedly less badass), this is the type of logic that got me into yoga. I would see men and women in the 60’s and 70’s that had been practicing consistently and they were so agile off the floor, their movements were youthful and open, and they seemed to still have a spark. And you’re right in that I’d rather be able to retain these traits than be stiff, achy, immobile but pull 500 lbs on the DL when I’m 65.
Yeah man this is the key
Just go at your own pace. Don’t be some fitness class fucknut, trying to show off. Slow and steady
5/11/2021
Operator, Wave 4. Strength Day (459)
BSQ: 255 lbs; 5x5
BP: 225 lbs; 5x5
WPU’s: BW+50 lbs; 5x5
100 reverse curls with bar
Time ~ 46 minutes
Notes: I didn’t feel like working out, but once I got into it everything went up pretty easily.
Did you crank those curls out all at once my man
4x25. I could probably get a single set of ~50 if I really pushed it.
Inspired by all the nonsense here of multiple workouts a day, I decided to add a secondary workout today.
After getting home from work:
With a pair of 22 kg bells:
5 double cleans, 5 double presses, 5 double KB squats. Then 4, 3, 2, 1.
100 sit ups
100 push ups
Easy enough.