Unofficial Loveshack Fitness Dare (Rorschach, c'mere)

[cuppa]

Ok, don't want to hijack the other thread (about calorie count).

 

4/19/2010 Dare:

 

Complete 100 burpees for time

 

Rule: Burpee = Squat, thrust, chest to the ground, plank, squat, 6" jump

 

Rorschach: 15 mins (4/19/2010 - YAY :bunny:!)

Cuppa: 8:57 (4/20/2010)

bah! the camera angle is awful, I don't mean to flash my busts & my guts, don't click if you easily get offended. Toward the end, my thighs went asleep, could barely jump (plus my dog kept throwing his toy at me ). Not the best time but OK I think.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_GZQTnV3Nw

 

 

 

Funny Quote:

"almost 2 hours later I tried it, I managed to do 100 in 15 minutes. My form was piss poor, after #10 I don't think anything I did came close to squatting, but I did 100 pushups followed by 100 jumps haha. It was mostly me jumping, falling to my knees, doing a poor excuse for a real pushup (I still do the girly 'from the knees' push ups) with terribad form, getting to my feet, and jumping again. But damn it I did it 100 times in 15 minutes, excuse me while I go pass out - Rorschach, LS"

 

Next Challenge:

 

100 Abmat Sit Ups

100 Squats

100 Push Ups

 

For time.

 

Ready? GO!

[Rorschach]

Completed: 100 burpees

 

Time: 15 minutes

 

Watched your video, I laughed when the dogs came in and started bothering you. And were you even getting off the ground on those last few jumps? haha looked like mine.

[cuppa]

Completed: 100 burpees

 

Time: 15 minutes

 

Watched your video, I laughed when the dogs came in and started bothering you. And were you even getting off the ground on those last few jumps? haha looked like mine.

 

I thought I did but it didn't look like it in the video . Yeah, I actually played fetch with him in the middle cause he started to whine (it might be that my dog is worried that I might pass out since I made weird noises LOL). OK, I will do it again in a month, hopefully I can get it under 8 Min next time.

 

I will do the next challenge Friday! So, be sure to eat good food till then!

[Rorschach]

I thought I did but it didn't look like it in the video . Yeah, I actually played fetch with him in the middle cause he started to whine (it might be that my dog is worried that I might pass out since I made weird noises LOL). OK, I will do it again in a month, hopefully I can get it under 8 Min next time.

 

I will do the next challenge Friday! So, be sure to eat good food till then!

 

I had a really bad day emotionally, so my diet suffered with it, but I think I did 'ok', and today was a scheduled relax day so I got to get back to the gym tomorrow (my legs/shoulders are KILLING me from all those burpees). Gotta smarten up the diet though, haven't been doing as well as I should.

[cuppa]

I had a really bad day emotionally, so my diet suffered with it, but I think I did 'ok', and today was a scheduled relax day so I got to get back to the gym tomorrow (my legs/shoulders are KILLING me from all those burpees). Gotta smarten up the diet though, haven't been doing as well as I should.

 

yeah, you will feel it for a few days, rest is good! Don't stress too much about your diet, like some said, even if you eat 2500 cals a day, if on average you eat 2000 and burn 750, you are still going to lose weight!

 

Sometimes you might retain water (hence bloat), we can get rid of them by drinking more water, hot soak with epsom salt, and exercise some more. After those burpees, I sweat like a pig!

 

Now I'm heading to crossfit, I don't know how I can do the box jump because my calf is quite tight (but it could be from the capoeira last night).

[Rorschach]

yeah, you will feel it for a few days, rest is good! Don't stress too much about your diet, like some said, even if you eat 2500 cals a day, if on average you eat 2000 and burn 750, you are still going to lose weight!

 

Sometimes you might retain water (hence bloat), we can get rid of them by drinking more water, hot soak with epsom salt, and exercise some more. After those burpees, I sweat like a pig!

 

Now I'm heading to crossfit, I don't know how I can do the box jump because my calf is quite tight (but it could be from the capoeira last night).

 

Good luck, I'm going to try that other challenge tomorrow (sans jumps, but I can fake the headstand push ups by just doing pushups with my legs on the bench like in this video

)

 

Yeah I'm not sweating my diet too too much, as long as I get the workout in, but I've noticed that when I just exercise without dieting the scale doesn't move as much as I'd like. Good luck with crossfit.

[cuppa]

Good luck, I'm going to try that other challenge tomorrow (sans jumps, but I can fake the headstand push ups by just doing pushups with my legs on the bench like in this video

)

 

Yeah I'm not sweating my diet too too much, as long as I get the workout in, but I've noticed that when I just exercise without dieting the scale doesn't move as much as I'd like. Good luck with crossfit.

 

Ok, I just got back from my crossfit. So here are my results:

 

As many as possible in 3 min of 3 headstand push-ups, 6 clapping push-ups, and 9 20" box jump. I substitute clapping push -up with regular push-ups. Do it in 4 cycles with 90 Secs Rest.

 

Cycle 1 (3 min): 3 round + 3 headstand

90 secs rest

 

Cycle 2: 3 round

90 secs rest

 

Cycle 3: 3 round

90 secs rest

 

Cycle 4: 4 round

 

Total: 13 round + 3 headstand push-ups

Breakdown: 42 headstand push-ups, 78 push-ups, and 117 20" box jumps.

 

I have to say the 100 burpees is tougher than this one by far LOL.

 

Rorschach, substitute the box jump with rock star jump, like this:

 

 

I think the purpose of all these is pure conditioning, increasing your stamina & your metabolism too. We still need to eat healthy although I've been eating way too many carb these days (no more pizza or beers until Saturday ),

[Star Gazer]

I'm not entirely sure that a dare or competition really works here on LS... but have at it!

[Rorschach]

 

Rorschach, substitute the box jump with rock star jump, like this:

 

 

I think the purpose of all these is pure conditioning, increasing your stamina & your metabolism too. We still need to eat healthy although I've been eating way too many carb these days (no more pizza or beers until Saturday ),

 

 

I'll try that today then to see how it goes jumping can be hard for me since I mostly work out in my basement and it has low ceilings haha. Push ups have always been hard for me and I'm still a little sore from the burpees, but I'll give it 100% anyway.

 

And stargazer, challenges work as well as the people who work at them. Even if it's just me and cuppa who actually do all the challenges the thread is still a success, I'd hope some other people feel inspired/inclined to play along, but for me at least it helps break up my everyday routine.

[tman666]

Haha I did something similar to your challenge yesterday for my conditioning workout.

 

I did 3 rounds of:

50 bodyweight squats

1 Texas push up set

30 second plank

 

A "Texas Push Up" set is sort of like a compounding burpee without the jump. You squat down, kick your legs out behind you, and do one pushup, bring your legs back front, stand up, squat down, kick your legs out behind you, do 2 push ups, etc., adding one push up per per squat until you reach 10. This means that you'll be doing 55 push ups. The goal is to go as fast as possible with full push up range and full squat range. Personally, I shoot for completing one in about 1 minute, 30 seconds. It's harder than it looks.

 

Is the 100 push up/100 sit up/100 squat challenge to be done in sets, or all at once? I.e. do you do 100 squats, then 100 pushups, and then 100 sit ups? Or can you break them into sets of 20 and cycle them? What are the parameters?

 

Let me know, and I'll try the challenge out on my next conditioning day (probably tomorrow).

[cuppa]

Haha I did something similar to your challenge yesterday for my conditioning workout.

 

I did 3 rounds of:

50 bodyweight squats

1 Texas push up set

30 second plank

 

A "Texas Push Up" set is sort of like a compounding burpee without the jump. You squat down, kick your legs out behind you, and do one pushup, bring your legs back front, stand up, squat down, kick your legs out behind you, do 2 push ups, etc., adding one push up per per squat until you reach 10. This means that you'll be doing 55 push ups. The goal is to go as fast as possible with full push up range and full squat range. Personally, I shoot for completing one in about 1 minute, 30 seconds. It's harder than it looks.

 

Is the 100 push up/100 sit up/100 squat challenge to be done in sets, or all at once? I.e. do you do 100 squats, then 100 pushups, and then 100 sit ups? Or can you break them into sets of 20 and cycle them? What are the parameters?

 

Let me know, and I'll try the challenge out on my next conditioning day (probably tomorrow).

 

In sets, with as much rest as needed. Cut off time is 1 hour (do it within 60 min), I think last time was 30 min but lets do 60 min this time. But I'm sure you won't even need the 30 min . Last time, I rest about 3 min each, in between set. I will do this Friday morning too!

 

:bunny: thanks for joining, T-man. I can only hope my time will be as close as you .

 

I will give the Texas Push-Up set over the weekend (sounds fun!), I can't do body weight squat (well, actually I might be able to, it's just I haven't practiced my squat with weight in the longest time ). 30 Sec plank sounds easy but I think maybe after texas push-up, it's much harder. I will substitue the bw squat with bridge hold plank. So I'll do like:

 

30 secs bridge hold plank

1 Texas push up set

30 sec regular plank

 

So T-man, how much rest in between round? 90 secs?

Edited April 21, 2010 by cuppa

[USMCHokie]

::backs away slowly::

[tman666]

::backs away slowly::

 

 

Haha what's the matter? Just a bit of fun, ya know?

 

Also, I need to clarify what I meant by bodyweight only squat. No bar, no weights. Just squat down, sort of like in the videos you've posted of some women doing Tabata squats.

 

If I could do 50 squats in a row with my bodyweight loaded on a bar, I would be absolutely thrilled. I might be able to get 20 or 25 though. That would still be a battle though (I weigh about 225 lbs).

[tman666]

Also, I would say take as little rest as possible in between each set, rep and round. Since the goal of these kind of workouts is to improve conditioning and muscle endurance (with good form of course), rest times should be kept as short as possible. In my opinion it's better to rest if you have to for 30 seconds and keep going with good form and explosiveness than to not take any rest and end up flopping around on the ground. By then, you're not accomplishing anything.

[cuppa]

Haha what's the matter? Just a bit of fun, ya know?

 

Also, I need to clarify what I meant by bodyweight only squat. No bar, no weights. Just squat down, sort of like in the videos you've posted of some women doing Tabata squats.

 

If I could do 50 squats in a row with my bodyweight loaded on a bar, I would be absolutely thrilled. I might be able to get 20 or 25 though. That would still be a battle though (I weigh about 225 lbs).

 

Ah OK, I will do RX then. So you said your time is 90 secs per round? I'll see what I can do.

 

I was also taught bodyweight squat differently in kickboxing drill. This one is with both palms planted on the ground when we squat and go up. This one is also called bodyweight squat. Maybe I'll do this one instead (or maybe not, no way I can do 50 on this).

[cuppa]

oh also, when I squat, I will put volleyball underneath to ensure I squat low.

[Rorschach]

Haha I did something similar to your challenge yesterday for my conditioning workout.

 

I did 3 rounds of:

50 bodyweight squats

1 Texas push up set

30 second plank

 

A "Texas Push Up" set is sort of like a compounding burpee without the jump. You squat down, kick your legs out behind you, and do one pushup, bring your legs back front, stand up, squat down, kick your legs out behind you, do 2 push ups, etc., adding one push up per per squat until you reach 10. This means that you'll be doing 55 push ups. The goal is to go as fast as possible with full push up range and full squat range. Personally, I shoot for completing one in about 1 minute, 30 seconds. It's harder than it looks.

 

Is the 100 push up/100 sit up/100 squat challenge to be done in sets, or all at once? I.e. do you do 100 squats, then 100 pushups, and then 100 sit ups? Or can you break them into sets of 20 and cycle them? What are the parameters?

 

Let me know, and I'll try the challenge out on my next conditioning day (probably tomorrow).

 

I'll try this sometime this weekend, probably sunday. Sounds like fun though I doubt I'll be able to do it in one minute 30 XD

[cuppa]

Haha what's the matter? Just a bit of fun, ya know?

.

 

I know right? USMCHokie, do the 100 burpee challenge. I bet you will be killing that one. Or better, do "Death by Burpees" - 150 burpees for time OR as many burpees in 5 min .

[tman666]

To clarify, it takes me about 90 seconds (minimum) to do the Texas push up set. The entire round (squats, Texas push up set, plank) probably took me 4 minutes or so.

[USMCHokie]

I know right? USMCHokie, do the 100 burpee challenge. I bet you will be killing that one. Or better, do "Death by Burpees" - 150 burpees for time OR as many burpees in 5 min .

 

 

Heheh, alright, I'll play along...I probably won't get to it until tomorrow...need to figure out where to work it into the routine...

[Rorschach]

Alright, I did the

 

3 handstand pushups

6 clapping pushups

9 star jumps

 

in 3 minute intervals, 4 times. I looked like this

 

1st interval: 4 cycles

 

2nd interval: 3 cycles

 

3rd interval: 2 cycles and some handstands

 

4th interval: 3 cycles

 

So thats 12 cycles and change. The clapping pushups were surprisingly easy but I definitely need to work on some back and shoulder conditioning because those handstand pushups were MURDER. I can't do a real handstand but I lifted my feet onto a bench and held my body mostly vertical, bent at the waist, so in the end I probably lifted a half to three quarters of my body weight. I could've done alot more if it weren't for those handstands.

 

I've identified a problem area I have, what are some good shoulder/back exercises? (I'll probably do these crazy handstand thingies as part of my shoulder/back day now, they look cool XD)

[cuppa]

Alright, I did the

 

3 handstand pushups

6 clapping pushups

9 star jumps

 

in 3 minute intervals, 4 times. I looked like this

 

1st interval: 4 cycles

 

2nd interval: 3 cycles

 

3rd interval: 2 cycles and some handstands

 

4th interval: 3 cycles

 

So thats 12 cycles and change. The clapping pushups were surprisingly easy but I definitely need to work on some back and shoulder conditioning because those handstand pushups were MURDER. I can't do a real handstand but I lifted my feet onto a bench and held my body mostly vertical, bent at the waist, so in the end I probably lifted a half to three quarters of my body weight. I could've done alot more if it weren't for those handstands.

 

I've identified a problem area I have, what are some good shoulder/back exercises? (I'll probably do these crazy handstand thingies as part of my shoulder/back day now, they look cool XD)

 

:bunny: Awesome!! 12 cycles are a lot and wow, I wished I can do 1 clapping push up LOL.

 

For me, I can only do handstand (and handstand push ups) once my shoulder & abs start to get stronger. Also, a lot of it is mental, like you are afraid to break your neck or something. Handstand is actually quite easy, everyone can do it. The key is to get your shoulder active (that means full extnension of your arms). Once you get to this position, you barely feel the weight (of course once you add the push-ups, then you carry almost all your body weight with you).

 

As far as back goes, I was told Pull UP is the best (but I can't do pull up , I think I'm lacking forearm strength).

 

I just bought this from Amazon a couple of days ago so I can practice while I'm cooking in the kitchen LOL: http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Total-Upper-Body-Workout/dp/B001ND04U4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1271884691&sr=8-2)

 

In addition to pull up, I was told to do:

 

- superman (saw people doing that with weight)

- GHD hip, back extension like this

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Edited April 21, 2010 by cuppa

[Rorschach]

I can't do pull ups either, I think it's mostly because of my weight (it's hard to life 260 pounds like that lulz) but they have an 'assissted' pull up machine at the gym which offers counter weights so I should probably start using that thing more often. I think I've seen that back exercise before but I haven't done many of them, friday is my back/abs day so I'll do those as part of my routine.

 

on a side note I can't lift my arms, YAAAYYYY :bunny:

[cuppa]

 

on a side note I can't lift my arms, YAAAYYYY :bunny:

 

you know...they said that's when changes will happen!

 

Be sure to ice them tonight!

[cuppa]

Since I can't do crossfit today because of my sprained ankle, I decided to do the challenge instead.

 

:bunny: The challenge:

100 squats, 100 sit-ups, 100 push-ups for time.

 

Since I sprained my ankle last night, I can't really do squats so I do 25 bridge push-ups, 100 sit-ups, and 100 push ups.

 

Completion time: 15 mins (not counting rest).

I rest 3 min in between sets so counting the rest, my total time is 21 min.

#1 Bridge Push Ups

Time: 2:20 (this is the same as my 100 Squats time that I did a month ago).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urbbhq1SEJU

#2 100 Sit-Ups

Time: 5:57 (worst than last time, my dogs made an appearance again and kept barking at me LOL)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xDS6EAV9dM

 

#3 100 Push-Ups

Time: 6:46 (the last 30 were so tough that I had to do it in 5 increments). I did knee push-up because of my ankle (don't think I can do 100 of the full one anyways, with or without my ankle ). I was kind of dying toward the end (though it's not as brutal as 100 burpees ). I don't think I have a good form, but I'm lacking the upper body strength and am slowly working on it.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUnRXJXnP2I

 

 

Waiting for everyone else's results including USMCHokie in 100 burpee challenge .