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Of the many reasons to dislike your old-school coach and/or gym teacher of your youth, the Bend & Thrust has to rank way up there.
It comes in many names, Bend & Thrust...Squat Thrusts...or popularized by CrossFit...the BURPEE. It comes in many kinds...8 Count, 6 Count, 1-Legger, w/ Broad Jump, w/ Box Jump, w/ Pull Up, w/ Deadlift, etc...but the outcome is always the same!
Though in our youth we may have maligned this exercise...in our wisdom and age, we can see that it is the ideal exercise. Let's investigate:
1. Squat
2. Leg Extension
3. Plank
4. Push Up
5. Plank
6. Leg Raise (snapping knees up to squat position)
7. Squat
8. Stand or Jump
My, my...just somehow add a hoppy west-coast IPA to that and you'd have Utopia!
Aaaaanyway, maybe for a Winter/Spring challenge we can incorporate the Burpee.
Popular Burpee challenges are 1) 3-minute Challenge (brutal, but too short for our purposes...we usually do 3 minutes of B&Ts throughout the CF class)...and 2) 100 Day Burpee Challenge. Here, we do Burpees every day for 100 days...the number of Burpees represents that day (so Day 1 is 1 Burpee, Day 15 is 15 Burpees, etc.)...
So that's what others are doing....what Challenge can you create for CFers???? Maybe a President's Day or Valentine's Day theme??? Who knows?
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Gee, good question Matt, since no one else chimed in, let's make it a "Tabata, Minute of Doom, Count Up/Down, Lucky 7, Terrible 2s" BURPEE (back-to-back)!
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