29/11/08 - Retest

Day 29 for 29 BURPEES.

Today was a *retest for those that completed this workout 8 weeks ago. Always beating your previous score is not the only indicator that your fitness is increasing, even if you may get less or same could show that you complete the routine with better technique or you maybe pushing other aspects faster requiring you to need a bit more recovery. Only you will know whether aspects are faster or you have a greater range of motion with exercises.

Warmup
Speed warmup
Squats
Mountain Jumpers
15s, 30s, 45s, 60s

Workout
Pt.1 - 20x Squat Jumps
25m side jumps to left
Pt.2 - 20x Flutterkicks (4 count)
25m Broadjumps
Pt.3 - 20x Pushups
25m side jumps to right
AMRAP in 20 minutes

Anna - 6
*Jane - 6 (1 more round than last time)
Kirsten - 6
*Emma - 4 (1 less round than last time)
*Amanda - 6 (same)
*Rachel - 7 (1 more round than last time)

26/11/08 - 007

Day 26 for 26 BURPEES!
I went to see the 007 movie, talk about your typical action packed, suave 007. (I know this is only a movie) however the degree of fitness someone requires to pull of some of the scenes shows all the dynamics of the different types of fitness involved power, speed, strength, agility, cardiovascular stamina etc is necessity to our lives. In all of our daily lives we recruit all these aspects of fitness which make us well rounded and better equipped to handle the challenges that enter day to day routines.

Warmup
10 Jumping Jacks
1 Burpee
10 x

Workout
800m Run
50 Arch Rocks
50 Situps
3 Rounds

Emma - 13.06
Fou - 13.35
Jane - 10.43
Amanda - 13.49
Sarah - 14.28

24/11/08 - Burpees Technique

Day 24 for 24 BURPEES.
As a reminder for your burpees technique.
1. Stand tall
2. Crouch down placing hands on the ground & jumping the feet out into a strong plank or pushup position.
3. Jump the feet back up towards your hands landing on your heels, not your toes. Sometime taking a wider stance can make this easier.
4. Jumping straight up with the hips well open and arms extended.
5. Shout out, I love BURPEES (optional)

Warmup
Pushups
Jumping Lunges
Good mornings
21-15-9

Workout
4 Burpees
8 Windmills
12 Bench jumps
16 Situps
8 rounds

Emma - 16.40
Sarah - 17.00

22/11/08 - Maxing

Day 22 for 22 BURPEES.
When you finish your workout after pushing it to the edge do you need to lie down, feeling bewildered and moaning as you recover. What are the things you've experienced as you recover from pushing yourself to the edge. Post you comments .

Warmup
Circle of lunges
15 bench dips
15 jumping pullups
3 x

Workout
35 Squats
35 Pushups
35 Situps
35 Birdpickers (each leg)
35 Spiderman lunges

Jane - 11.11
Emma - 10.30
Amanda - 11.58
Anna - 11.04
Rachel - 12.30

19/11/08 - Rapid Influence

Day19 for 19 BURPEES!

RapidFitness was set out to increase everyday physical activity in your life. Have you started to notice what you have learnt has started to come into your daily activity. For myself I almost never pick anything up without needing to squat or anything heavy (ie; kids) that i am doing a deadlift movement. Has your training improved the way you use your body. Let me know by posting your comments.

Warmup
Pairs
Exa-tube Sprints 50m
Exa-tube Chest press x 20
Exa-tube Row x 20
3 x

Skills
Turkish Getups
Windmills

Workout
10 Shoulder Press from knees
12 Sumo Deadlift w High Pull
15 V-twists
5 rounds

Amanda - 7.23
Emma - 7.26
Jane - 7.29
Sarah - 7.20

17-11-08

Day 17 for 17 BURPEES!
Scalability of the workouts is important, knowing how to work at your level of intensity that it maintains a challenge but not pushing you over the edge. This can still apply to you if your not feeling your 100% self.

Warmup
O/H squat
Supermans
Flutterkicks (each leg)
15 Reps x 3

Workout
Squats
Plank ups
Burpees
Sit ups
Mountain Jumpers
Max reps in 2min with 10sec rest between exercises, then 1min max reps.

Emma - 97/56, 50/34, 40/24, 50/26, 50/26
Deb - 75/30, 40/18, 15/12, 48/24, 48/24
Kirsten - 90/48, 50/26, 35/18, 40/24, 40/24
Fou - 94/57, 63/36, 49/37, 45/26, 45/26
Sarah - 83/43, 50/33, 32/17, 43/25, 43/25

15-11-08

Day 15 for 15 BURPEES.

Warmup
Speed Drills

Workout
500m Run
10 exa-tube Alt Shoulder Press with a squat hold
40 Jumping pullups
500m Run
20 exa-tube Alt Shoulder Press with a squat hold
30 Jumping pullups
500m Run
30 exa-tube Alt Shoulder Press with a squat hold
20 Jumping pullups
500m Run
40 exa-tube Alt Shoulder Press with a squat hold
10 Jumping pullups

Anna - 9.31
Jane - 9.06
Kirsten - 9.14
Amanda - 8.57
Emma - 9.16 (pushups instead of pullups)
Rachel - 8.23

13-11-08 - Bench Jumps

Do you have concerns when you are to do bench jumps that you're not going to make it! That your toe may catch the edge or you just make it by a fraction or do you find that you float up landing well balanced on your feet. If it is the first, then it is important to practice utilising a height that you feel comfortable with and focus on landing as quietly as possible with weight more into the heels. You would of done this numerous times as a kid all it takes is a little confidence and practice, practice, practice.

Warmup
4 L & R Turkish Get ups
4 L & R Windmills
3x

Workout
5 Burpees with pushup
10 Bench jumps
15 exa-tube Thrusters
10 rounds

Emma - 15.43 (bench jumps were step up with jump down)

10/11/08 - squat, squat & more squats

Day 10 for 10 BURPEES!

The squat is an excellent exercise for developing good strength right throughtout the body even though it is primarily targeting the leg muscles the chemical spill over effect is huge. This exercise sets the foundations for all other leg movements and its functional capacity is greatly important to our everyday lives. Making movements like getting up from the ground, getting off a chair seem simple.

Dynamic Warmup.

Workout
35 squats
35 rev curls
35 squats
35 situps
35 lunges
35 squats
2 rounds for time;

8/11/08

Day 8 for 8 BURPEES.

I was fortunate enough to have my lovely wife join the team today for their workout as she put the pace on as well as being pushed to also keep up (which was great to see how much the rest of the team have increased in their fitness). As she is in the process of picking up her old vocation as another awesome personal trainer.

Warmup
Shuttle Run with a backward run x 3
Shuttle Run with a Pushup x 3

Workout
Cone #1 - Pushups x 10
35m Sprint
Cone #2 - Squat Jumps x 20
35m Sprint
Cone #3 - Decline Flutterkicks x 20each
35m Sprint
AMRAP in 20 minutes

Deb - 9
Desiree - 8 + Pushups & Squat Jumps
Lou - 8 + Pushups & Squat Jumps
Kirsten - 8 + Pushups & Squat Jumps
Angela - 7

6/11/08

Day 6 for 6 BURPEES!
This evening the query came up as to how long it took before you start to lose fitness. This can start to happen at 7 days of no activity with muscle starting to atrophy between 7-10days. You may even notice that after 2 consecutive days of no activity you may start to feel sluggish. It shows that it becomes important to stay as fit & strong as possible always challenging yourself to the next level, so if there comes a time when your unable to train (ie; operation) you are in the best possible shape to recover quicker and it won't take as long to get back to where you were.

Warmup
6 burpees
12 walking lunges
18 air squats
3x

Workout
Flag pushups
Jumping pull ups
Sit ups
20-16-12-8-4

Deb - 10.57
Emma - 11.05
Amanda - 11.27
Desiree - 12.05

3/11/08

Day 3 for 3 BURPEES!

Warmup
10 Plankups
10 Bench Dips
15 Squats
3x

Workout
24 Jumping lunges
24 o/h Squats
24 Birdpickers
400m Run
3 rounds

Kirsten - 10.16
Cali - 10.54
Liz - 10.29
Fou - 10.19
Emma - 8.22
Sarah - 10.16

1/11/08 - Burpee Challenge begins

The 1st of November is upon us and our 100 burpees over 100 days begins. Again how this works is Day 1; 1 burpee, Day 2; 2 burpees. If you miss a day then you need to make up the previous days burpees with the current days burpees. You cannot put any into credit.

Warmup
Crab walk/ Lateral lunge
Bear Crawl
Spiderman Lunge
x3

Workout
Rapid's Filthy Fifty
50 Squats
50m Sprint
50 pushups
50m Sprint
50each Bicycles (2 count)
50m Sprint
50 Walking lunges
50m Sprint
50 Situps
50m Sprint

Emma - 7.44
Jane - 7.27
Deb - 8.02
Cali - 8.03
Amanda - 7.58
Kirsten - 6.54 (partial situp)
Anna - 7.28
Rewa - 8.23
Jules - 8.23
Andrew - 8.32
Fou - 7.40
1 BURPEE!