A Family Affair

Up until this point, I've been flying mostly solo on the Burpee Experiment. Sure, there have been a few times over the past 8 months where I've had a buddy or two work out with me, but for the most part I've been a one man show. However, this past Labor Day weekend brought about a welcome, albeit short, change to my workouts. As you probably know if you've been keeping up with this experiment, this past week was yet another grueling week of two-aday ladder sets. Well this time around, I had five other members of mine and my wife's extended family to join me in the process of "Grinning and bearing it".

Uncle Yogi

After grinding through 120 burpees, I'll say I was thoroughly surprised at how well our family members performed, especially after indulging in a breakfast of creamed eggs and enough bacon to feed a small army. This unfortunately and fortunately (depending on how you choose to look at it) always seems to happen when our family gets together. So to actually get a workout in while vacationing in Gluttonville, is something of an anomaly.

With all that to say, I managed to actually complete a full week of two-adays (bacon and all) and have listed my results below:

Date	Workout	Sets	Total Time (Morning)	Total Time (Night)	Beak Time Per Set	Total Burpees
8/27/2012	REST
8/28/2012	Ladder	15	19 min 35 sec	19 min 38 sec	60 sec	240
8/29/2012	Ladder	15	19 min 27 sec	19 min 15 sec	60 sec	240
8/30/2012	REST
8/31/2012	Ladder	15	19 min 32 sec	19 min 28 sec	60 sec	240
9/1/2012	Ladder	15	19 min 27 sec	19 min 35 sec	60 sec	240
9/2/2012	REST

Today, I'll leave you with a quote from the late, great, American humorist, Erma Bombeck:

"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."

L&R,

Drew