August 2009
15 posts
Burpeeball:
A Basketball game in where after each point every team member of the team not scoring the point has to do as many Burpees as the other teams current score is. If a team member can’t finish all Burpees within 45 seconds he or she is removed from the team. The team with the last player on the field wins.
Group Workout for time:
400m Kettlebell Run (32kg)
50 Obstacle Burpees
30 Ring Dips
50 Kettlebell Swings (32kg)
30 Ring Dips
50 Obstacle Burpees
400m Kettlebell Run (32kg)
Each Group has two people. Number of repetitions for each exercise are shared by members. Scale workout by reducing the weight of the Kettlebell; doing regular Burpees; reducing the repetitions of each exercise by 10.
Physiological role of adipose tissue: →
white adipose tissue as an endocrine and secretory organ. (Trayhurn, Beattie)
“Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it.”
– Salvador Dali (via bephf)
For time:
21 Medicine Ball Clean, Burpees, Sit Ups
20m Shuttle Run
15 Medicine Ball Clean, Burpees, Sit Ups
20m Shuttle Run
09 Medicine Ball Clean, Burpees, Sit Ups
Scale workout by replacing the Medicine Ball Cleans with Sumo Deadlift High Pulls or Air Squats and the Burpees with Push Ups.
Impermanence →
“You see this goblet?” asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master.
“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it.
It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in
beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it.
But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over
or my elbow brushes it off the...
Sir Ken Robinson →
Schools Kill Creativity (19 m)
Sir Ken Robinson →
A New View of Human Capacity (1h 28m)
For time:
hold Pull Up top position for 2 minutes
5 Shuttle Runs (20m, start and stop from prone position)
1000m Run
3 Muscle Ups
10 Pull Ups
10 Burpees
Workout inspired by the new BFT of the German Bundeswehr.
Scale workout by removing the Muscle Ups, the Pull Ups, the Burppes and by reducing the holding time to 45 seconds.
Maximum repetitions of
120 seconds Sumo Deadlift High Pulls, Sit Ups, Double Unders
090 seconds Sumo Deadlift High Pulls, Sit Ups, Double Unders
060 seconds Sumo Deadlift High Pulls, Sit Ups, Double Unders
030 seconds Sumo Deadlift High Pulls, Sit Ups, Double Unders
Scale workout by removing the 120 second block, replacing the Sumo Deadlift High Pulls with Air Squats and the Double Unders with Push Ups.
Modified...
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly...”
– Aristotle (via bephf)
3 rounds for time:
3 Muscle Ups
7 Burpees
7 Sumo Deadlift High Pulls
800m Run
3 Muscle Ups
7 Burpees
7 Sumo Deadlift High Pulls
Rest 3 minutes between each round. Scale workout by doing 7 Pull Ups instead of Muscle Ups; reducing the number of rounds to 2; increasing the rest period to 5 minutes; removing the Burpees and reducing the number of of Pull Ups to 5, 3 or 1.
Bottom to Bottom Tabatas:
Do as many Air Squats as possible in 20 seconds. Rest for 10 seconds. Repeat 8 times. Resting position is the deep squat.