Which road are you on?

You’re either going uphill, or downhill.  Most of us are taking the wrong road. 

Which road are you on

A. Good nutrition – exercise – positive thinking

B. Bad diet – no exercise – negative thoughts

 

More advise from the master.

Basics

Most health and fitness questions all boil down to three basics.  That’s it.  The big secret is that simple, that basic.  All the questions are answered with the following.

1. Train hard

2. Eat well

3. Rest hard

That’s it.  That answers probably 90-95% of the inquiries anyone could have.  “how do I lose my gut? What is the best way to increase my energy?”  The trick is to stop asking this kind of question and start asking – how do I train harder, eat better and get more rest.  Once you start asking these questions, you’ll start finding what your looking for.

Beware - the answers to these questions are scary to most people because they involve effort on your part.

 

Burpees for the week

Monday – 36

Tuesday – 37

Wednesday – 38

Thursday – 39

Friday - 40

Saturday -41

Sunday – 42  

I haven’t heard much from the folks who are doing the 100 day challenge. 

Who is in, who is out, how are things going?  Post to comments.

Happy Birthday Jack

Jack Lalanne just turned 94, yes, ninety four.  He is still healthy and still has his wits about him.  I don’t know about you, but if you are looking for a good role model for a lifetime of health and fitness, I don’t know of a better example.

Some words of wisdom and food for thought.

Everything you do in life, I don’t care, good or bad–don’t blame God, don’t blame the devil, don’t blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.

Twelve to seventeen minutes is plenty on the treadmill–if it’s done fast. That’s all you need for cardiovascular benefit. You don’t need to spend that extra time unless you are over weight and you need to burn off extra calories. Do it vigorously, like somebody is chasing you. You’ve got to do it hard. Otherwise, if you just take it easy and do it longer, you are spending all that time when you don’t need it. Use that extra time with your weights instead.

I don’t care how old I live; I just want to be LIVING while I am living! I have friends of mine that are in their 80’s and now they are in wheelchairs or they’re getting Alzheimer’s. Who wants that? It’s terrible. I want to be able to do things; I want to look good; I don’t want to be a drudge on my wife and my kids. And I want to get my message out to the people. I might live forever or it may seem like that. I tell people I can’t afford to die; it will wreck my image!

In fact, if you’ve got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You’ve got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet. You can’t get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you’ve got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It’s the fat!

and

Too many people make excuses like I am too old, or I don’t have the time, or it costs money. Then when they get sick they go to the doctor and want a shot in the backside to make them healthy. Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don’t exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray “Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.” But tell me, can God go to the gym to work out for you? God helps those that help themselves. You have to do it!”

Jack is still an animal.

 

Here is Jack’s 10 point plan for health and happiness

Now get going with your burpees!

Monday 29 (435 total)

Tuesday 30 (465 total)

Wednesday 31 (496 total)

Thursday 32 (528 total)

Friday 33 (561 total)

Saturday 34 (595 total)

Sunday 35 (630 total)

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Keys to life

According to Will Smith, the 2 keys to life are running and reading.

 

How is this whole Burpee thing going?  post your comments.

Burpee Challenge

Monday - 22 burpees (253 total)

Tuesday - 23 burpees (276 total)

Wednesday - 24 burpees (300 total)

Thursday - 25 burpees (325 total)

Friday – 26 burpees (351 total)

Saturday - 27 burpees (378 total)

Sunday - 28 burpees (406 total)

Week four “buy in”  406 burpees

managing mediocrity

Did you ever think about……..

If one trains at the limits of ability, never trying to push the pace beyond current capacity and never exposing the body to an overwhelming stimulus, improvement does not occur.  Even worse, ability slowly travels in the other direction, gathering speed on the gradual slope of suckdom.

Manage your way out of suckdom.

P.S. – if your’e fat, you can’t blame it on your genes anymore

 

Week Three Burpee Challenge

Monday – 15 (120 total)

Tuesday – 16 (136 total)

Wednesday - 17 (153 total)

Thursday – 18 (171 total)

Friday – 19 (190 total)

Saturday – 20 (210 total)

Sunday – 21 (231 total)

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We are who we choose to be

Make a choice, just decide what it is going to be, who you are going to be – and do it. 

Remember, 2 plus 2 is whatever you want it to be.

 

BURPEE CHALLENGE 

Monday – 8 burpees (36 total)

Tuesday – 9 burpees (45 total)

Wednesday – 10 bupees (55 total)

Thursday – 11 burpees (66 total)

Friday – 12 burpees (78 total) 

Saturday – 13 burpees (91 total)

Sunday – 14 burpees (105 total)

Week two “buy in” – 105 burpees

 

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Burpee challenge Participants

Burpee Challenge

Thursday - four burpees (10 total)

For those of you keeping track, the participants in the challenge so far are:

Chris

Rose

Maura

Joe

Aunt Meagan

Matt

Leah

Dr. Jim

Pat

Sue

Jerry

Hayden

Chicken boy

Tommo

Old Rhody

and Steve, who “bought in” yesterday

- Get your friends to join in while the buy in is still pretty low.

A friend of mines reply about why he was not going to participate in the challenge.  This is from someone I thought would actually jump at the idea.   BTW – can’t you just tell that he is a lawyer?

As to my participation, I will tell you that I have been doing 2 days of weight/circuit training for a good while.  Carrie and I both gave burpees a try for a while and quit after continued wrist pain from the exercise. Call me a wimp, but I have purged them from my routine. (they are also really really hard).

 

 

 

 

Some Food for thought for Thursday

Slow food nation begins in S.F.

Banning fast food in poor neighborhoods

A whole lot of Green Smoothie recipes to try for breakfast

File this under “no shit”

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So long summer

Let the games begin – the Burpee Challenge starts today.

This week:

Monday - one burpee (1 total)

Tuesday - two burpees (3 total)

Wednesday - three burpees (6 total)

Thursday - four burpees (10 total)

Friday – five burpees (15 total)

Saturday - six burpees (21 total)

Sunday - seven burpees (28 total)

Week one “buy in” 28 burpees

 

Participants in the challenge so far are:

Chris

Rose

Maura

Joe

Aunt Meagan

Matt

Leah

Dr. Jim

Pat

Sue

Jerry

** if you want to join – post your name to the comments.  Those of you who are already in, post your updates to the comments too.

Good luck everyone and have fun!

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100 day burpee challenge

To clarify a few things before we start.

The challenge works like this:

1- burpee on day one

2 – burpees on day two

3- burpees on day three

etc. – until we reach 100 burpees on day one hundred

Some things to guide you during the challenge:

1.  You can complete each day’s burpees all at once, or broken up and done at different times throughout the day.

2.  If for some reason you miss a day, you have to make up all the missed burpees the following day.

3.  If you don’t start the challenge on day one, you can “buy-in” at any time by doing ALL the missed day’s burpees on your first day.

4.  Have fun doing burpees and getting stronger doing it!

5. I made up a spreadsheet to show you how many burpees you need to do each day and a running total of burpees done so far.  Email me if you want a copy.

6. Post questions and comments on this web site. 

7. I will update the site weekly giving the “weekly burpees” and “buy in” amount for you to follow.

Here is a great video from Crossfit HQ that shows you how to do a burpee and gives you a few variations also.

FYI - if you complete the 100 day challenge, you will have done a total of 5,050 burpees.

 

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The Burpee challenge

A few weeks ago, I found a fitness challenge that involves doing burpees. The idea is to do a 100 day challenge of burpees.  Day one starts with doing one burpee, two burpees on day two and so on until you get to 100 on the 100th day.  That is a lot of burpees!

This seemed like it could be a fun thing to do with some friends or as a group.  So, I am looking for people to join in the challenge.   The summer is just about over.  Maybe like me, you went to too many BBQ’s and drank too many golden monkey’s.  This can be a fun way to get in shape and at the same time work towards a shared fitness goal.  Everyone who takes part can post comments and thoughts on this blog and it will be a great way to stay motivated and to help motivate others too.

The challenge will start on Monday, September 1st and will use this blog to keep track of progress and make updates over the next 100 days.

Here is a link to a good description from Crossfit Santa Cruz about the 100 day challenge.  It tells you how to do a burpee and what is involved in the challenge.  This challenge will follow the format explained in this link.  This is where I got the idea.

Email me, or post a note in the comments if you want to get involved. 

In case you get bored after a while, this video gives you some good “free style” variations to mix in to the routine.