Body By Burpees December!

Yay! Today is December 1st! Why am I so excited? First of the month = new challenge!

A few months ago, my now dear friend Heather was tweeting on Twitter about an October Burpees Challenge, which is how I found her on twitter and we've become great friends since! I did this challenge for a few weeks - yes, not all of October, but still, a few weeks in and it has greatly improved my speed and efficiency...just ask the cute guy at my box who I beat last week at a MetCon containing burpees ;)

The challenge: 15 burpees a day + the date. Simple math. (Oh Crossfit, how you've made me a better math student....)

December 1st: 15 + 1
December 2nd: 15 + 2

And so forth, until December 31st, which is 15 + 31 = 46....and then January 1st is the day of rest.

Doing this burpee challenge on your WOD days is not very difficult; it's really not that many burpees. What got me back in October was I would forget on my rest days to do them. And who wants to do 15+x twice for making up a missed day???

My goal for this month's challenge: Do as many as possible unbroken. Leading up to December 15th, I'm going to try to do all unbroken. Then we'll see after that. 30+ burpees is no joke!

One of the things I absolutely LOVE about this month's challenge is that my loud mouth has definitely paid off in support; I posted it in my Facebook status and all over twitter, and now I have seriously 20-30 people saying they will be doing this challenge with me! And these are not all Crossfitters, which is what I love.

#GetSome folks!

January's challenge....maybe Double Unders?? I'm taking suggestions!

A Date with "Josh" at Cactus CrossFit

I had the joy of visiting Cactus Crossfit in Scottsdale this morning for their 6am 'Express' class. (Warm Up/MetCon only, 30 mins) This is box #20 for me in the past 6 months and I'm finally glad I got to stop in! Started the morning with meeting Coach Jason and we immediately went into some banter about the Vikings and their acquiring of Randy Moss. (He's from Minnesota and I'm from Green Bay) Talking football is one of my favorite things. :)

Warm Up: 500m Row easy, then 500m Row for Time (1:55)

MetCon: "Josh" in 9:40

21 OHS, 42 Pull Ups

15 OHS, 30 Pull Ups

9 OHS, 18 Pull Ups

Did the OHS at Rx of 65# but haven't really been practicing my kipping pull ups much while on the road so those were shit today :( Ended up with jumping pulls and some extremely sore forearms. It was my first time doing "Josh" and I loved it.

Although I'm a few days late, I finally started the 'October Burpees Challenge' after my Cactus CrossFit WODs today. 15 + date = Burpee Count, from now until the last day of October, so today I got in 21 burpees. Actually wasn't that bad; I like burpees and will use this challenge to work on getting my maximum number of unbroken burpees. (Today was 15 unbroken) Since I'm late on this challenge, I may add those 5 missed days on to the end....haven't decided! :) (That's 51 burpees on the last day!)

Thanks again Cactus CrossFit and Coach Jason; I hope to be back soon!