What is the 100 Day Burpee Challenge?
Beginning Monday, January 9th, we are going to do one burpee on day one and add one each day until we get to 100 burpees on the 100th day! See a burpee performed here.
Send us an email at info@fit224.com or text your trainer so we can get you registered. We will send you a tracking sheet. Anyone who completes the challenge will get an Advanced Fitness workout t-shirt.
The rules to the challenge are very easy. On day 1, you would perform 1 burpee. On day 2, do 2 burpees and so on and so on until day 100. You don't have to perform all of the burpees at the same time though. You can partition them (break them up) and do them throughout the day or in different sets. But don't miss a day of burpees. If you miss a day, you have to make the burpees up the next day which is a tall order. So if you miss day 60, on day 61 you would make up the 60 burpees that you missed then do 61 burpees.
A couple of other rules are if you perform burpees in a regular workout (separate from the challenge and thank you Everett, Kelly or Vicki) you can count those towards your total for that day. Also, if you want to start the challenge, you don't have to start on day one. All you have to do is "buy in" the number of burpees you missed up to that day. So if you wanted to start on day 15 you would have to do 120 burpees on your first day! The next day would be day 16 so you'd do 16, then 17 and so on. A "buy in" on day 10 would only be 55 burpees (10 + 9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1).
Track Your Progress As You Go
Over the course of 100 days you will perform a total of 5050 burpees. That is a lot! Track your progress by timing how long it takes you on days 20, 60, 80 and 100. If you are a burpee stud, you should be able to complete 100 burpees in less than 8 minutes. Anything under 10 minutes is amazing and less than 5 minutes is out of this world and only possible for a select few people.
Take a little pleasure knowing that you are not the only one doing this. Misery loves company.
Burpee Challenge Form Standards:
1. Start out standing, then move into a deep squat position by shifting your hips back and down. Then place your with hands on the ground in front of your feet. Keep your back straight.
2. Kick feet out behind you into the top of the push-up portion of the burpee. Your body should be straight and tight in a flat plank.
3. Lower your body into the lowest part of a push-up. Your chest and thighs should ultimately touch the ground at the same time. Remember to keep your whole body, especially your midline, tight. While throwing your body on the ground and therefore touching both chest and thighs to the ground is acceptable by some standards, we feel that more is to be gained from doing a strict push-up in this Challenge.
4. Push up into the top of the push-up position again.
5. Jump your feet up to your hands into your starting position.
6. Jump into the air and clap your hands overhead so that your ear is exposed in front of your arms. Your feet should leave the ground.
The Rules (one more time):
1. Use our video to understand how to do a burpee and the description above (Burpee Form Standards).
2. You can complete each day’s burpees all at once, or broken up and done at different times throughout the day
3. If for some reason you miss a day, you have to make up all the missed burpees the following day
4. If you don’t start the challenge with us today, you can “buy-in” at any time by doing ALL the missed day’s burpees on your first day
5. Any burpees you complete during your regular workout can count towards that day’s Challenge burpees, if you want them to
6. Have fun doing burpees and getting stronger doing it!
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