Making the Cut

This week, I introduced my last set of new exercises to the mix by adding both Box Jumps and Broad Jumps to my Burpee workouts. Although there are many other variations of the Burpee that people have invented over the years, I felt these two were a nice final fit to my experiment.

Box Jump

Broad Jump

Over the remaining three months I'll not only be adding these two exercises, but I'll also begin increasing my reps on the Mix workout days to add in the other workouts I've come to know and "love" over the past 8 months. Those workouts included Lunges, Star Jumps, Diamond Buddhas, Mountain Climbers, One-Legged Burpees, Jumping Jacks, and Pull-ups.

"Lunges and Climbers and Buddhas, OH MY!  

Although it was great to incorporate some new exercises into the mix this week, they were anything but easy, with box jumps easily winning the award for hardest workout of the year. It'll be a great way to finish out the remaining months, pushing myself both mentally and physically toward the finish. With all that being said, I've posted my results from this past week below:

Date	Workout	Sets	Total Time	Beak Time  Per Set	Total  Burpees
9/17/2012	Broad Jumps	6	7 min 34 sec	40 sec	60
9/18/2012	Ladder	15	13 min 00 sec	30 sec	120
9/19/2012	Pull-up	6	7 min 11 sec	30 sec	60
9/20/2012	REST
9/21/2012	Box Jumps	4	5 min 45 sec	60 sec	40
9/22/2012	Mix	7	8 min 50 sec	40 sec	70
9/23/2012	REST

In response to all of the other Burpee exercises I could have chosen for this experiment, I'll leave you this week with a funny quote from Steve Carrell's most famous TV personality, Michael Scott:

"I hate, hate being left out. Whether it's not being picked for a team, or being picked for a team and then showing up and realizing that team doesn't exist. Or that the sport doesn't exist! I should have known... "Poop-ball??"

L&R,

Drew