This is what it looked like:
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| Not crying, just holding up the wall for a moment |
In preparation for my competition, I have been doing the Wall Balls to the 10ft line, and I recorded so I could retroactively no-rep myself when I inevitably miss the target or swing too low, or stop in the middle to cry.
I have always known that my burpees are a small disaster and take me way more time than they should (way more time than they take other people, and I get gassed SO FAST) so after class a coach and I had a chat about them. She's a burpee pro, basically, and enjoys (!?) them, so was a perfect person to help.
I have always known that my burpees are a small disaster and take me way more time than they should (way more time than they take other people, and I get gassed SO FAST) so after class a coach and I had a chat about them. She's a burpee pro, basically, and enjoys (!?) them, so was a perfect person to help.
I learned quite a few things!
First I'm going to start by sharing a video of the worst burpees of all time. This was during round 2 of this workout and I kind of already felt like I was dying.
This is a cut, I won't subject you to watching 30 burpees.
Suffice to say they didn't get better as the workout went on.
What we talked about it obvious to me now - I'm jumping my feet back, lowering myself down (too slowly) and then jumping back in with my feet almost right at my hands. So much wasted energy! Not to mention I'm barely jumping.... no reps everywhere? Ugh. I think I'd actually cry if I just got no-repped repeatedly at my competition and the burpees went on and on forever.
This guy (the video is on Vimeo so I can't insert it here) is wasting significantly less energy than me with that belly flop, which would be an absolute requirement, as he's doing 1000 of them. Gross.
Note the partial (he catches himself but not lowers himself) belly flop vs my legs out, lower down, lift up, much slower method.
Watch, if you will, these two stars doing basically the opposite of my mess:
Fast down, legs apart, fast up, no pauses, no breaks, bang bang bang.
Obviously they are not going to full extension, but this video is actually relevant as well because guess what' Thursday's workout was:
yayyyyyyyy.....
But actually, I was kind of excited to put my new advice to use.
My final time was 7:40ish (should have written that down) but I scaled the weight to 75lbs. I actually could have gone heavier, I was worried I'd burn out on the push presses (which I may have had I gone heavier.)
The burpees look better, actually. I do definitely lose my technique as I get more and more tired, and start slowly lowering myself down instead of just dropping down. Something to work on, and also good evidence that I should keep recording my workouts.
Thursday's Extra Work:
Toes to Bar: extra help, practice on form and actually put 2 together! Yay! Came away with some tricks to work on my technique and rhythm.
WallBalls: 10 min EMOM (10)
Skipping: Terribly.
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