The other day, after another early-morning
burpees workout, I made this short video to help my sports fans getting to
better know Pierini Fitness.
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| First day of Summer 2021 at 6:05 am and already hot! |
Summer 2021 arrived yesterday with my approval,
but my summer heat had already arrived earlier in my part of the world.
And, apparently, this heat has arrived other parts of the United States. My former hometown contacts tell me it’s been very hot there. The media seems to be on an uptick reporting a southwestern United States heat wave.
Is it time to switch gears from the rampant COVID reporting and start something new, or old, like climate change or global warming?
Some people call this heat climate change or
global warming. Yet others call it a “heat
wave.”
Here is Arizona, we call it summer!
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In no order of stupidity, here’s a sampling of what some governments are doing to encourage average American knuckleheads to get their COVID vaccination:
ü Washington state says licensed marijuana stores can offer free joints to promote coronavirus vaccine clinics.
ü West Virginia is expanding its incentives to encourage residents get vaccinated with weekly lottery drawings offering cash, trucks, guns, and scholarships to those who've received at least one immunization shot.
ü California has what appears to be the largest COVID inoculation incentive in the nation: the chance for 10 residents to win $1.5 million each.
ü New York state has a “Vax and Scratch” scheme, where when you get your COVID vacation, you are entered into a free New York State Lottery, where top prize stands at $5 million.
The list goes on and on, but I’ll stop with these representative examples.
As recently reported by Fox News, to reach his goal of getting at least one COVID vaccination shot into the arms of 70% of the nation’s adults by July 4th, Joe Biden unveiled a five-part plan to reach that goal, which included steps to make it easier to get the vaccine and incentives such as free food, beer, and tickets.
There’s no shortage of incentives being offered to encourage people to do what many people have decided not to do; get a COVID vaccination shot that they believe comes with unknown risks. Can’t say I blame them because I’m one of them.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if these same governments offered incentives for people to eat healthy and less, and to engage in regular and vigorous exercise activities? Do you think it would work? Do you believe the outcome would be great?
How about if every American leading an unhealthy lifestyle started walking 30 to 60 minutes a day and losing weight? If they did, they’d be entered to win a nice incentive; maybe something like a $250 gift certificate to buy some new clothes so they can toss away their fat man or fat lady clothes.
I think it would work for the same reason these government “leaders” think their silly incentives will work.
How about some New York Yankees baseball game tickets for 100 pushups?
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My Burpees x 100 Summer 2021 Countdown is a
work in progress and today is day seven of this countdown journey. I’ll have more to share about how it’s going
next week.
But I do have something to share this week.
Question: How do you make American great again?
Answer: By being fit.
A fit America is a great America. This is Pierini Fitness and I approve this message.
Earlier this year, I began my Burpees 2021
Journey with a goal of performing a 100 burpees workout for 100 days in 2021. I started my journey on January 1st
and completed 100 burpees that day in 15:56. I was off to a good start.
But along the way, this good start changed. Lackluster enthusiasm for the task, a sternum injury along the way, followed with some right-hand and wrist injuries that still linger, and before I knew it, I was behind the performance pace needed to complete 100 burpees workouts for the year. As of the end of May (yesterday), I’ve only completed 24 burpees workouts and my last burpees x 100 workout’s time of 15:46 is only 10 seconds faster than my January 1st effort. I have a long way to go.
By frame of reference, last year on June 1st, I began a Burpees x 100 Summer 2020 Countdown, completing 100 burpees in 12:48. Therefore, it’s now taking me about three minutes longer to complete 100 burpees than last year.
My goal for the first day of summer last year was to complete 100 burpees in 11:00. I accomplished this goal on June 19, 2020, with a time of 10:46.
As is often the case with burpees, I eventually got burned out, distracted, and eventually lost the burpees conditioning gained from my Summer 2020 Countdown effort.
To jumpstart my lethargic effort thus far this year, I’ve decided to start today a Burpees x 100 Summer 2021 Countdown with plans on completing 100 burpees each day until the first day of Summer 2021 on June 20th. It’ll be like last year’s countdown except I’ll not set a time goal for the first day of summer but promise to make my best effort each day. It would be nice, however, to knock three minutes off my current time, which would be a time of 12:46, but we’ll see.
If I get a burpees workout in every day until the first day of summer, that’ll give me 45 burpees x 100 workouts year-to-date for 2021, a much better position to be at mid-year with a goal of 100 burpees x 100 workouts for 2021.
Wish me well and follow along as I share the details of my Burpees 2021 Journey.
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