Tabata thrusters with the empty bar are calling your name.
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Good collab mate. Tjibbe is a madman, LOL
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Aha! I knew I heard somethingâŠ
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Dude, I donât even like training with MYSELF, let alone other people, haha. Good on you getting after it!
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Mate, I so saw this coming. Quality
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This was brutal for some reason
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One day mate
One day
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This is fun
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This one was a good blast and great for anyone short on ideas and trying to get conditioned
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I dont say much about your vids cuz i understand you just want to do reps, and thats all cool, but i do have 1 critique about this video since you called it HIIT.
Your very first burpee looked exactly the same as the last ones, the last ones were maybe a tiny bit slower, but what im trying to say is - in HIIT you put in 100% effort. Since your first burpee was almost the same as the last ones, id say you half-assed the âHIâ part of the âHIITâ.
Your first pushups should be shooting you right back on your feet with no need to pull the knees in. If you would have to do a HIGH INTENSITY burpee, your goal would be to push-up yourself and smash through the roof. Like putting in the intensity.
If you would start by going fast and explosive, your first burpees would shoot you back in the air with a lot of air hangtime for your whole body, but the last ones you would be doing 1 leg at a time, crying and basically getting up like being drunk.
The fact that all your burpees look the same means the only last second might have been somewhat high intensity, but everything before that was just warmup to make the thing longer.
I would like to get a reply on this(cuz im interested in HIIT and this type of stuff). Thanks.
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I actually take this as a compliment because one of the ethos that pervades the burpee community is that the last rep should mirror the first because technique is key, regardless the modality.
My HR was in the high 160s. I donât need to look like Iâm having a fit in order to fulfill some HIIT âcriteriaâ
Iâve been doing burpees for so long now that I have the technique nailed to a tee. Take a look at my 2500 video. My last rep matched the first one as well. Does that mean that I âhalf assedâ it?
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Upon further reflection @hankthetank89 I want to say that there is some merit to your post.
In the video, I said that I was using the HIIT protocol and specifically said that the beginning and end would almost be like a cool down.
Under hardcore HIIT conditions ie maximal effort from the get go then maybe this wasnât the case.
And truth be told, this workout was quite easy. I think upon further reflection that 1 pump burpees were too easy. Probably because Iâm too conditioned to them.
Even though my HR was high, which in turn will get the actual response desired, this wasnât too taxing on my muscles.
Maybe next time if I do it again Iâll have to go for 3 pumps or upwards.
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I always frowned upon this. Being in Muay Thai and MMA for so many years, i have never seen anyone be able to maintain technique once effort is put in. You can take the best technical striker in the world, put him under some cardio stress and sooner or later he swings like a drunk sailor.
This reminds me of the Squat University guy who was so obsessed about technique that he actually never gained strength.
It is well known that technique degrades if we compare doing a rep with our 10 rep max vs our actual 1 rep max.
When you look at world record lifts, they never look nowhere near as fast and crisp as some 70% warmup lift.
Exactly why i disagree with âburpee communityâ is that in order to look âgoodâ in a 30min video, in your last reps, you actually never push anything outside the comfort zone.
Never a 1 rep max has looked as good as a warmup. Never a fighter has moved exactly the same in the 5th round as he did in the first. And you are telling me you have put in 100% effort in 30 mins of almost consistent burpees?
Can you make a video of you running a 400m sprint, then take 1min rest and do 800m in the exact same time which would be doubled the first one? Just film it. Just send it to me. By your logic, you should be able to do it easy. But you wont.
Its just that i have been in high intensity and circuit stuff, also military world so long. I have seen the best of the best puke and fall. And you are telling me you put in 100% effort for 30mins. Its just delusional. You put in 70% effort. Nothing was fast. Nothing was high intensity. You barelly break a sweat.
I understand what you are training for - im not shitting on what you do. Its just that it feels like you shit one people who shit their pants in 3mins when they put in real effort and you kind of say you do the same thing for 30mins.
Also, the thing with HR is - the weaker you are in high intensity realm, the higher the number. When i was 122kgs and didnt do cardio for a year, i would get up to 160 HR just by walking a few flights of stairs, so⊠thats says nothing.
I really would like you to try out the sprinting test i wrote. Just do it for yourself, so you understand the idea of HIGH INTENSITY.
@hankthetank89 mate to be brutally honest, youâre completely shitting on my style of training claiming I donât work hard enough.
I have a body of work online that shows otherwise. Iâve put myself out there
I get the feeling youâre still smarting from when I asked you to do 100 navy seals, which by the way, was a joke hence the kiss emoji at the end.
There is nothing wrong with ensuring that rep quality remains constant. Whatâs the alternative? Being one of the gimps who looks like heâs having sex with the hole in a dolphins head just to show that heâs âworking hard enoughâ?
As for the run. I rarely run so of course itâs going to hurt. Logic that you used to argue in the your reply to the navy seal joke when you offered to take me on in the octagonđ
I never made the claim that doing burpees will have carryover to every activity. I understand completely that theyâll only make you better at burpees. This isnât even an argument that Iâve had.
I donât really get your point regarding HR as well. If going up stairs gets you HR so high then youâre in a position where a menial task in almost akin to HIIT.
I like most of your posts Hank however I get the impression that youâve got a bug to bear with my claims.
No i can honestly say that i cant do what you do, and it is hard as fuck.
What i am saying is that your work is endurance based, and you are conditioned in this specific type of movements, which just are not HIIT.
No, i really didnt care for that, because i dont believe anyone who can do that is stronger than me or can fight for longer than me, therefore my goal being 1 rep strenght and MMA, it just doesnt touch me just as much as fishing doesnt. I cant fish. I probably cant do 100 navy seals. Im not offended by that.
Thats why i dont claim my training to be endurance based, when its not. I sometimes get cranky when i have to walk at the mall for 60mins, let alone do navy seals, haha.
This is somewhat true, as i believe you dont really advertise honestly. I believe you claim overall conditioning and physical fitness yet your HR is in high 160s doing burpees with a pushup(the slowest and least explosive variation of a burpee).
Ok, you dont like my tests.
Film this one. It even has burpees in it. If you can post a video of 30 rounds of this, i will forever agree with everything you say, because this is high intensity and i cant even do 20 rounds of this. Just test this one, as you can see, its not smth i tought to shit on you. Your next 30min video is doing 30mins of this. Test it out. If you do it, then i will actually start doing all your stuff because being able to finish this Wod is a goal of mine.
At the start you will have like 20sec left over. The further it goes, the worse it gets.
But going by your logic, you should be able to do clean movements all through out, since you should have 20sec left in the first round, and in the last one.
If you can do a video of this, you are honestly the BEST CONDITIONED person i know, and i will write a public apology and pay all the respects.
I am really interested, since you just did 30mins of HIIT and this is nothing but 30mins of some more HIIT.
As far as I know, the last reps or whatever you do doesnât need to be harder than the first for the workout to qualify as HIIT. Isnât the main thing an alternation of low intensity with high intensity, where you put in about the maximum of your efforts. HIIT is just an alternation, you donât have to be beat up at the end and get significantly out of shape or unable to complete the exercise.
I claim my training style will get you fit and increase conditioning
It will
As a point of reference here is me getting 24 rounds of the Cindy WOD in 20 minutes
I donât even train Crossfit and believe that 20+ is advanced whereas 28 is regional athlete material.
Thatâs a good effort on my part however 400m runs and all that doh
No offence Hank and thanks for the workout suggestion however your respect means absolutely jack shit to me. I have nothing to prove to you. Youâre a guy who admittedly has issues with the âburpee communityâ therefore itâs not for you. Move on.
Btw is it 12 lunges each leg 
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Never seen this one Hank my man. Hopefully this one tickles your fancy
For the record I have never shit on people who bust ass for 3 minutes so I donât know where this âfeelingâ comes from
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