Yesterday,
Sunday late morning, I went to the park for a quick workout. It included a single set of pull-ups of 15
reps. Then, I wrapped up my workout with
a 4-minute quickie of Tabata burpees.
Tabata
burpees are done following the Tabata protocol of 8 rounds of high-intensity
exercise work with a brief 20 seconds recovery.
In my case, it was 20 seconds of doing as many burpees as I could.
I
did this workout only once before five years ago but only shared the first
round of effort, because I was embarrassed at my performance for the latter
rounds. That time, I completed 48
burpees but ended up being off-cadence and it took me 5 minutes to complete all
8 rounds.
Yesterday,
I did better but still have work to do.
I completed 45 burpees in the prescribed 8 rounds and got all 8 rounds
completed in the prescribed 4 minutes, despite having a “technical difficulty” during
the first round of trying to sync by Garmin heart rate monitor timer with my Gymboss
timer. Nonetheless, I was satisfied with
my effort.
All
the burpees I’ve been doing lately is training to help me achieve one of my
Fall 2019 fitness goals of completing 100 burpees in 12 minutes. It’s a goal I expect to achieve early, likely
this month. Then, God willing, I’ll
continue marching forward to see how much more progress I can make.
I’ll
never go wrong banging out a quick 4 minute workout of Tabata burpees.
Pax
Domini sit semper vobiscum
