10,000 burpees in 2023

[Rimbo 25,976]

I'm falling behind ahhhhhh

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

15 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

I'm falling behind ahhhhhh

No you're not. You're working at the pace that works for you. 

Unless you're just slacking for no real good reason! 

[Rimbo 25,976]

Well, I did nothing for 2 days on the weekend, and then on Monday I found I was able to do 30/day.

So I have realized something.

I'm not actually on a 30/day pace, yet. Because I need to give myself a couple of days to rest. Again, old.

I also may not be doing a perfect burpee. I start from a standing position, drop down to a crouch, kick my feet out, do a push up, bring the feet back in, then jump with my hands over my head... repeat. Might not quite be right.

or maybe it is.

this is more or less what I'm doin'

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

I begin my counting in this position, except my hands are up off the ground. I count at each point when my hands are up again. 

 

 

[Your Mom 4,806]

I’m back. I logged a bunch of zeroes during a camping trip, some early work days, tree clearing, etc…  Got back on it this week.  

I do them the way Rimbo described and I count on the jump. I will admit to sandbagging the jump sometimes. Toward the end of the set the jump becomes a half-hearted hop. 

[Goofyboy 3,293]

I’ve paused this to get the basic movements stronger. My joints were not happy with the burpees. Using the next few weeks to just body weight squats, push ups, pull ups and sit-ups. I’ll have to play a little catch up, but that’s ok

[Celery Man 20,968]

spent all week on kiawah island with a bunch of sales jabronis. very difficult to keep up when your whole routine is out the window and instead of retiring to your room for burpees and HBOMax as you planned you wind up being DD at some reality show bar while random middle aged colleagues get bottle service drunk and irritate the dj with requests for kid rock.

 

I start on the ground and count each time I hit the ground again. One thing that... is everyone really doing smooth jumping motions to go from push up to crouch? I mean I'm not crawling my way up, but hopping from push up to crouch is more intense than what I've been doing.

Edited February 10, 2023 by Celery Man

[Celery Man 20,968]

man falling off the routine is hard. I'm back on it, but just getting a bit of interruption with work travel got me into a cycle of forgetting and then stressing and then dreading, it's easier when it's just a quick part of the morning/evening routine.

[Doc Daneeka 6,769]

Hats off to y’all. 

I’m sticking to a goal of walking 2200+ miles this year because fuck burpees but it’s interesting to see how this is going. 

[Rimbo 25,976]

On 2/10/2023 at 7:36 AM, Celery Man said:

I'm not crawling my way up, but hopping from push up to crouch is more intense than what I've been doing.

I'm hopping. But I cheat as I wear out. I was cheating all of them when I started.

In other news, did 40 yesterday, a new single-day high for me. Having full days of rest every 2-3 days is critical; I don't recover as fast as I used to.

Edited February 16, 2023 by Rimbo

[Celery Man 20,968]

Actually tried with the hopping and it’s slower but not much harder.

[Message Board User 12,395]

On 2/16/2023 at 10:21 AM, Celery Man said:

it's easier when it's just a quick part of the morning/evening routine.

this is what I've done.

Set my alarm for 5:20 am and knock them out before my shower.

[Rimbo 25,976]

Well, caught a bug going around, so I'm out of it for the weekend. Hopefully will be better tomorrow and back in the swing of things.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

On 2/19/2023 at 6:34 PM, Rimbo said:

Well, caught a bug going around, so I'm out of it for the weekend. Hopefully will be better tomorrow and back in the swing of things.

I took a few days off for the same reason, and it's tough to get back on the horse. 

[Rimbo 25,976]

24 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

I took a few days off for the same reason, and it's tough to get back on the horse. 

Well, I went into this knowing I had an uphill battle because of my overall physical condition and age. It ain't over until Dec 31st, motherfuckers.

[Celery Man 20,968]

last i checked we're all on track to hit it at 30/day

[Rimbo 25,976]

Well I'm not on any track yet. This cold has really stuck around. Fucking waste of a 3-day weekend when you can't do anything useful, can't do anything fun; just have to stay in bed all day feeling like shit.

[Rimbo 25,976]

Today's the first day I got some done since I fell ill. Yay!

In other news, I've added a graph. With trendlines.

Prepuce, MBU and Celery Man are way ahead of pace. Great work!

Your Mom and TTU13 are a little bit behind, but not out of it yet. (hehehehehe i'm not out of your mom yet, neither hehehehe)

Me and Danhorn111 got some work to do. Looks like @danhorn111 may have quit tracking at some point. I'm just... behind. (hehehehe)

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

That's very interesting to look at - thanks! 

[Rimbo 25,976]

Oh, now this is some interesting shit. That was a linear trend line.

THIS is a polynomial trend:

I think I like the polynomial trend line better. That one shows you and me being the only ones to finish, @Prepuce of Doom. That's why I like it.

[Rimbo 25,976]

See, you look at ol' @Message Board User in that one. Got off to a great start, but it's sloooooowly tapering off.

@Prepuce of Doom is tapering off too, but far too slowly to keep from getting the golden ring there.

Now @Celery Man, there's a drop-off. Should be on pace to win but NOOOOOO. Not with that rate of decline.

And there's me. Sure, I started out slow. Really slow, yeah. But I'm gettin' better. And other than being sick this week, I keep pushin' to get better. So there's that curve UP. Just like my dick.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

Looks like I'm currently on pace to finish around the start of October. I should hit 2,000 tomorrow. 

I've had a few days just recently where I've been sick and I've skipped or done fewer than 60, but other than that, I'm doing them every night I am not traveling for work. 

I started off the year doing them on work trips through January (which is why it appears that I have dropped my pace since) but eventually quit doing them because the floors, padding, and carpets at hotels are all too variable and often tend to hurt my feet somehow, plus I'm just not too keen on being facedown on hotel room floors up to 60x a day (not to mention that I often don't have the time anyway) so I don't really do any while I'm on the road.

Edited February 25, 2023 by Prepuce of Doom

[Celery Man 20,968]

can you put a little horse on each line

[Your Mom 4,806]

I’m pretty good at coming up with stupid ideas and here’s one of them.

I’m going to try to max out today. Not necessarily to get caught up, more like punishing myself for getting so far behind the last couple weeks.  Sets of 10 scattered throughout the day. Seems like I never have a problem getting to 10, some days I can get to 20 ok, but most days 15 is right about where I lose steam.  So I’m gonna stick with sets of 10 today.  maybe in the second half of the day I’ll bring it down to 5.   Got 30 done before coffee was ready. 

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

I started with sets of 10 for the first few days, but bumped it to 15 for most of January. I've been doing sets of 20 for most of February, and I don't feel like the last few are any easier right now than they were when I first made that change. I can't currently conceive of if or when I might ever bump my sets up to 25.

[danhorn111 55]

Unfortunately, I had a back injury flare up and am still trying to let it rest.  It is feeling better but it may be a while before I am back in the burpee game.  We'll see.  Keep it going boys - I'm impressed with the numbers your putting up.

[Celery Man 20,968]

Welp, nail injury. Or.. somethin going on, swelling has escalated to more definite signs of infection, so I may have to slow down a tad. Hopefully some soak and neosporin will do the needful.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

Left knee is getting a little "knnicky"* lately, so I'm going to dial back the overachieving a little bit here for a while, especially since I might have a fairly light work travel schedule over the next couple of weeks. 

*this is not a word, just how our family describes the noises associated with joint problems...

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

Down 14.4 lbs: 192.9 on January 1st to 178.5 five minutes ago. 

I've got my My Fitness Plan settings configured for losing about a pound a week. At my height, weight, age, exercise level, and gender, I need to keep it under about 1600 calories a day to stay on that trajectory. 

 

Edited March 1, 2023 by Prepuce of Doom

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

On 2/28/2023 at 4:28 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

Left knee is getting a little "knnicky"* lately, so I'm going to dial back the overachieving a little bit here for a while, especially since I might have a fairly light work travel schedule over the next couple of weeks. 

*this is not a word, just how our family describes the noises associated with joint problems...

I think that I might be taking a brief break. This same type of knee pain (hurt around the kneecap when going up and down stairs) has been an on and off issue in the past, plus we're having a lot of inconsistent weather/pressure/temperatures here in Chicago right now, so I think that I might cool it for a week or so and just play it by ear. Glad I have some reserve built up, though the possibility hasn't escaped me that perhaps creating the reserve in the first place is what has caused the problem. 

Yesterday I discovered that I can do about 20 push-ups and 25 sit-ups in about a minute and a half, so two sets of those will have me exercising about as much time as 30 burpees takes me (~3 minutes). So I'm going to do that while my knee gets its shit together. 

[Rimbo 25,976]

On 3/1/2023 at 6:13 AM, Prepuce of Doom said:

Down 14.4 lbs: 192.9 on January 1st to 178.5 five minutes ago. 

I've got my My Fitness Plan settings configured for losing about a pound a week. At my height, weight, age, exercise level, and gender, I need to keep it under about 1600 calories a day to stay on that trajectory. 

 

Awesome.

I'm actually GAINING weight. I think I need to start running again alongside the burpees. And eat better.

But I'm out of it again, this time due to shingles. Fuck!

[Celery Man 20,968]

My paronychia blew its load in my sock so I think I’m tapping back in. Tomorrow.

[Celery Man 20,968]

Ok my return was fucked up by a quick trip to Omaha. Starting again tomorrow.

[Rimbo 25,976]

I'm still out with the shingles. Dammit.

[Rimbo 25,976]

First day all week I was able to go through the day without pain meds. If tomorrow's anything like today, I should be back in biz.

[Celery Man 20,968]

Just did a set of 30 because I was running late this morning and it is bullshit.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

Knee is better, shoulders are suddenly worse. 

Will probably dial it back considerably (30/day max, if that) for the next few weeks - less work travel on the immediate horizon than usual so less need to "bank" credit, and I'm beginning to suspect that my body doesn't appreciate this kind of treatment in my late 40s.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

This shoulder situation has me a little bit concerned. 

The pain isn't excruciating or anything, but it is definitely more pronounced during certain kinds of movements - makes me wonder if perhaps there's a rotator cuff issue of some sort. 

I think that I am going to take a break from the burpees for a little bit to see if hopefully it's just a minor, temporary issue. It only surfaced a day or two ago, and it didn't seem/feel like much to worry about at first. And it's still only a nuisance, not a problem. 

This is disappointing to me. 

[Rimbo 25,976]

Well, I got well just in time for remodeling our house to start. So my routines are all busted.

On the bright side, moving shit around the house is great exercise!

[Your Mom 4,806]

I was skiing over spring break and after doing exactly one rep I realized doing them at 10,000 feet elevation was not going to happen. 

[PantsTent 2,002]

 

 

Proposal for next year. 3,000 turkish get ups.  Even 10-15 lbs gets tiring real fast.

 

 

But, if you can do the move with your wife, you can quit:

 

 

[Rimbo 25,976]

Yeah, with the work being done on the house, there's no space where I can do 'em right now

 

 

[Celery Man 20,968]

i should get my wife pregnant, doing that with the baby all year would be a natural progression.

 

or we could just do falcon lifts

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

The old Brunswick grip? 

[WithoutAClue 15,384]

i hit 2500 burpees over the weekend, one quarter of the way there!

i can't wait to quit.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

I am cautiously optimistic that I haven't caused permanent damage to either shoulder, as things feel like they're slowly improving during my self-imposed ban (just avoiding burpees and anything similarly strenuous to the shoulder, plus an Advil a night, and occasionally some Salonpas mentholated stickers). 

I've been doing sit-ups as a replacement activity, but they really don't scratch the same itch in terms of feeling like you actually accomplished something on account of not really feeling like absolute hammered shit afterwards. I can do 50 sit-ups during the same amount of time as 20 burpees takes me, but it's easy to forget to do them. 

I have my annual physical tomorrow and will ask my PCP about how long I should continue to recuperate, but I feel like about week or two is probably prudent. 

[Goofyboy 3,293]

I’m aiming to be back to this by June. I’m slowly building up my joints and doing body weight work. Feeling good so far

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

Had my annual physical yesterday and my PCP basically laughed at me with an "of course you did!" when I told him that I thought that I hurt my shoulder doing as many as 60 burpees a day. 

He suggested that I do something else instead ("burpees are awful - too hardcore!") or else that I limit myself to whatever I can accomplish in sets of 90 seconds because that's all he can handle in his pilates class. 

I didn't tell him about my pact with Internet friends... 

Things are getting better, but I'm still not at 100%, so I think I'm probably still out for another week or two just to be safe.

[Celery Man 20,968]

i feel like this is the shittiest part - not halfway and counting down towards the finish line but no longer fresh and early, just kinda grueling through it. It's been a weird week for me - lots of late running mornings and sore backs and shit that have given me a few 0 and 15 burpee days. Missed my set this morning, I suppose I should go do it.

It's weird, I dread doing them a bit but they're just not that big of a deal. Seems like a mental thing more than anything.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

Down 17.9 lbs. for the year so far. 192.9 on January 1st, 175 even after my morning dump today.