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Mischievousjoe
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Styles: TKD, Goshin Jutsu, Boxing, a bit of BJJ
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 Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject: Prison Burpee Challenge |
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I recently came accross a workout idea that was apparently taken from a maximum security prison. Everyone of course is familliar with the burpee I hope? This was supposedly done by inmates deemed to dangerous to have access to free weights.
Basically you just do decending sets of burpees. You weren't considered a man or to be respected unless you could start from 20 and work all the way down to 1. (set of 20, set of 19, set of 1 keep in mind they only got less than 30 minutes to work out, so any longer than this time frame doesnt count.
Not sure if any of this is true, but its a fun and different endurance and stamina workout, have fun!
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ps1
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sounds like a real killer workout
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DWx
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Joined: 17 Jan 2007
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Location: UK
Styles: Tae Kwon Do & Yang family Tai Chi
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Not done it with burpese yet but we do do pyramid's at training usually. The worst one so far this year was when we had to do crunches going up in 5s to 60 and then back down again. I had to stop and go outside because I was gonna throw up. Really wouldn't wanna do it with burpese as I hate them.. I'd imagine the time constraint would make it 10x worse too.
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bushido_man96
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Styles: Taekwondo,Hapkido, SCA Combat, and I research Medieval Combat
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It doesn't seem like there would be much time between the sets to me. It would be a killer, though. Burpees are tough enough as it is.
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Rateh
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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This might be a dumb question, but whats a burpee?
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bushido_man96
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Mischievousjoe
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I've done it with 12 sets working my way down and it was pretty rough. I try to keep the rests to a minimum, just enough to mostly catch my breath (still probly at least 30 secs).
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bushido_man96
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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The part that is toughest for me on the burpees is the push-up part. It slows me down, and I don't have a lot of explosiveness there.
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Rateh
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Thanks bushido_man96
I knew the drill but I didn't know that was the name.
The prison challange seems imposible, but obviously there are at least a few people that can do that (I am certainly not one of them  ) |
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bushido_man96
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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Well, all it takes is time and training, right?
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on the post.
