Burpee Madness

It's not the same as burpee hell.

Burpee hell is basically a billion burpees mixed in with 20 yard sprints, a lot of times in a ladder formation. It's brutal and I feel like dying throughout the entire workout, but at the end I'm totally winning at life!

Last night though was something else. Curtis called it a "shitload of burpees." I call it Burpee Madness. We did 21 rounds of burpees, 60 seconds of work/30 seconds of rest. If a regular burpee didn't already beat your a$$, try adding in some crazy flair Curtis came up with. I actually liked most of them. I had to pee the entire workout but had to see and do the next variation. I couldn't miss a whole round! What's that saying again? "Suck it up, buttercup!"

Since I'm using the tire for mine, the variations he introduced really helped me get more bang for my buck. A few examples were diagonal, T-up, single-arm/leg, frog jump, around-the-world, and my favorite slalom kick burpees. I woke up this morning feeling like I got run over by a truck.

I think I hurt my ankle doing the single-leg burpee. Just a little, not enough to fuss about it and it's probably because I didn't stretch. I don't even care though because I was doing single-leg burpees!!

BOO-YAH!

Weight Vest

When Curtis first brought the weighted vests to boot camp I really {sorta} wanted to try one out. I kind of thought "I've already got so much weight to lose, why the hell would I want to add 10 more pounds?" On the other hand, the whole point was to add weight so you had to work a little harder. Well it didn't matter if I wanted to wear one anyway because the sizes he had wouldn't fit.

Months pass, I see the vest being worn by everyone small enough to fit and the desire to wear one increases more and more each time.

Then BEHOLD! Curtis got new vests! I don't know how I missed it, maybe I'd just come to the conclusion that the weight vest would never fit me so I just stopped even thinking about them. He'd had them for probably a few weeks before I even noticed. (Now that I think about it, he probably brought them in during the time Joel broke his hand and I missed quite a few days of boot camp.) He got a few larger sizes, XL... that totally had to fit me.

I tried to get it on before boot camp one day last week and I couldn't get it zipped. Pretty sure "the girls" are too damn big, but that's the story of my life. I don't even think it'll zip if we make it a team effort. So that's become a new goal of mine.

Wear that stupid vest!