50 burpee challenge

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Mooney said:
Tried again today. Managed 50 straight. New time is 2:07, Very happy with that, but think i may try this one one more time before going for the 100 :D

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Very good work! I find that I have a lot of trouble on the 100 burpee compared to the 50 burpee. I worked up to 50 straight, but I'm virtually cashed after that. My best bet is doing something like 30 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5. I really need to be able to do it in less sets than that. Ultimately, I'd like to do something like 40 + 25 + 20 + 15. The rest periods kill my time.
 
Oblivian said:
Very good work! I find that I have a lot of trouble on the 100 burpee compared to the 50 burpee. I worked up to 50 straight, but I'm virtually cashed after that. My best bet is doing something like 30 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5. I really need to be able to do it in less sets than that. Ultimately, I'd like to do something like 40 + 25 + 20 + 15. The rest periods kill my time.
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Yeah, I knew it'd be faster doing them straight but I wasn't expecting to knock off 40 seconds. I found by 50 I was getting light headed and just as i stopped my legs nearly came from under me. So I'm not sure how many I would be able to do straight again after a short break, but i doubt it will be alot and will probably start with shorter sets.
 
Mooney said:
Tried again today. Managed 50 straight. New time is 2:07, Very happy with that, but think i may try this one one more time before going for the 100 :D

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That looks like pain! Didnt know you could breath out your ass lol! Seriously thou well done and to be motavated at home in your kitchen!!! Dont even think I could do 50 but now urged on by that will give it ago
 
I used to do 30 in one minute then 45 secs rest and another 30, so i know i can do 1 burpee every 2 seconds and 60 in 2:45.
In a couple of weeks i'll post a time for 50, will be good conditioning for an ammy muaythai match i got in march.
 
Oblivian said:
Very good work! I find that I have a lot of trouble on the 100 burpee compared to the 50 burpee. I worked up to 50 straight, but I'm virtually cashed after that. My best bet is doing something like 30 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5. I really need to be able to do it in less sets than that. Ultimately, I'd like to do something like 40 + 25 + 20 + 15. The rest periods kill my time.
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i do 4 sets of 25, i dont know but if you never totally gas i think it improves overall time. never timed myself but i should. its a better work out if you keep going to failure but i think it hurts your time.
 
Real LoveGun said:
i do 4 sets of 25, i dont know but if you never totally gas i think it improves overall time. never timed myself but i should. its a better work out if you keep going to failure but i think it hurts your time.
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Honestly, I don't think I could do 4 sets of 25 in a decent time. I may be able to squeeze out 3 sets, but the 4th would have to be broken up for me.
 
yea i know its tough i just think as long as you dont go real slow the longer you can go without gassing the better if shortest time is the goal. i know with the crossfit 20 minute workouts i find a huge difference between the ones where 1 run through is easy compared to tough. i can go 20 minutes without gassing on those but the ones where the first set is tough are just horrible, i look like im dying.
 
Roids25 said:
That looks like pain! Didnt know you could breath out your ass lol! Seriously thou well done and to be motavated at home in your kitchen!!! Dont even think I could do 50 but now urged on by that will give it ago
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Just try as many as you can and work from there. My first time i went for 20, 20, 10 then Oblivion reccomended try the 50 so i figured why not give it a go. good luck :)
 
This thread has got me so motivated. I'm gonna try this before I take a shower tonight!

edit. One thing is I can only do about 40 pushups straight, so I dunno if I can do 50 burpees straight but I'll give it ago.
 
4 mins 33.......10 minutes after a 12-minute Cooper test (2670m). I don't think the Cooper test had much to do with the bad time...doubt i can get under 4 minutes. I don't do any bench or pressups these days only OHP, and it's the pressups that killed me. Will do it again in a few weeks time. Until then I'm going to do 10 sets of 10 with rests of 50 seconds or less plus some pressups.
 
dirtyduztin said:
3:47. This coming from a guy that used to take almost 20 min to do 100
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well done for even doing 100 if that's how hard it was. I'd be about the same. Maybe I'll try this in a few weeks time when I go on holiday.
 
considering the fact that I burn out after the first 15-20 and end up doing them in sets of 3, what is the best way for me to train this? Maybe do another 20 each time I finish 50? Or force myself to do longer intervals even if it means a slower time?
 
Bob, i had a similar probrem when i started doing the 50 burpee challenge, i got to 50 by starting out with 3 sets, before merging to 2 & then slowly edging up to 50, from what i've seen that is the best way to do it...wouldnt worry about time too much until you start hitting 50
 
Kinglee said:
Bob, i had a similar probrem when i started doing the 50 burpee challenge, i got to 50 by starting out with 3 sets, before merging to 2 & then slowly edging up to 50, from what i've seen that is the best way to do it...wouldnt worry about time too much until you start hitting 50
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Thanks for this. I'm going to start with 3 sets of 20 and try to decrease the rest intervals.
 
yea thats exactly what i did...out of interest how high do most of you guys jump off these??? my style is completley different to that on moonys video, i am alot slower but try to explode off the jump & get more height
 
Kinglee said:
yea thats exactly what i did...out of interest how high do most of you guys jump off these??? my style is completley different to that on moonys video, i am alot slower but try to explode off the jump & get more height
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If I'm doing them for time I'll try to keep the jump to a minimum so I probably only get an inch or two off the ground. Otherwise I jump as high as I can each time.
 
Ok I am convinced crossfit is an evil cult, however I really liked the soundtrack to the video on the first page does anyone know who the band is they kind of rock
 
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