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Summer Break Workout 07.09.11

07.08.11 By Danelle Leave a Comment

  • 5 min of jump rope or light jog
  • Do 10 burpees every minute on the minute for 10 minutes. (Yup, 100 burpees!) The faster you do each set, the longer you can rest before the next…
  • Skills Work: Take a break. You just did 100 burpees.

Don’t forget that classes resume Monday, 7/11!

Filed Under: Kenpo News, Krav Maga News, Strength & Conditioning, Training Tagged With: burpees, metcon

Summer Break Workout 07.08.11

07.08.11 By Patrick Leave a Comment

  • For two 3-minute rounds: Jump rope or do a combination of jumping jacks, high knees, heels up, etc.
  • Skills Work: Practice bursting forward from a neutral position delivering a simultaneous defense and counter, i.e. 360° Defense. Train both sides and use a mirror if you can.
  • Do each of the following using the Tabata protocol (8 rounds of 20 sec work, 10 sec rest), no additional rest between exercises. So, you’ll do each exercise for 4 min, totaling 16 min for the workout.
    • Burpees
    • V-Ups or Toe Touches
    • Bas Rutten combo #4 (jab, cross, left hook, cross) as fast as possible with the good form and full extension you practiced yesterday, no pause between repetitions. If you have a heavy bag and can put gloves on in the 10 sec before this exercise begins, go for it.
    • Sprawls

Here’s an online Tabata timer. There are also mp3 downloads.

Filed Under: Kenpo News, Krav Maga News, Strength & Conditioning, Training Tagged With: burpees, circuit, core, metcon, Ross Enamait

Summer Break Workout 07.06.11

07.06.11 By Danelle 1 Comment

  • Experiment with some of these warm-up ideas.
  • Three 5-minute rounds consisting of the following circuit:
    • Shadow Boxing – 0:30
    • Sprawls – 0:30
    • Push-Ups – 0:30
    • Mountain Climbers – 0:30
    • Burpees – 0:30
    • Shadow Boxing – 0:30
    • Sprawls – 0:30
    • Push-Ups – 0:30
    • Mountain Climbers – 0:30
    • Burpees – 0:30

    1:00 rest between rounds.

  • Skills Work: Side Kick static holds, 5 reps each leg. Use support if necessary.

Filed Under: Kenpo News, Krav Maga News, Strength & Conditioning, Training Tagged With: burpees, push-ups

Burpee Challenge Complete!

03.01.11 By Danelle 1 Comment

We should all be so proud of ourselves for completing the February Burpee Challenge. I know my burpees have improved tremendously. Have yours?

We can keep this going! There are people who do 100 day burpee challenges. You’ve already completed 28 days of it–you’re over a quarter of the way done. Today, do 29. Tomorrow? 30. Break it up throughout the day. You don’t have to do them all at once.

Ok, so if 100 days of burpees don’t excite you, then maybe we should just continue to include burpees in our everyday workouts. Why not do 3 sets of 10 each day? Try variations on a theme–jump higher, jump to the side, forward or back. Jump over someone. Jump up to a pull up or muscle up. Add a squat. Have fun with it!

Want a heart pounding, quick workout? 10 burpees on the minute for 10 minutes. That’s 100 burpees folks.

Hope you enjoyed this challenge. There will be more to come!

Filed Under: For Your Amusement, Krav Maga News, Strength & Conditioning, Training Tagged With: burpees

Burpee Challenge Check in–Week 3

02.22.11 By Danelle 1 Comment

231 burpees down, 175 to go. We’re in the last stretch of the challenge. I hope everyone is hanging in there.

I find that I can get up to about 14 or 15 before my legs feel like they are going to fall off. I have to do a brief pause, and then push forward to finish the day’s quota.

How are you doing?

Filed Under: Announcements & News, Krav Maga News Tagged With: burpees

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