clevermanka | Hop to it!

This is heartwarming and heartbreaking.

My bruised knuckles are already so much better! Immediate cold pack + ibuprofen +

adammaker's Green Oil = Magical Healing Miracle. I'm going to have no problem punching again tomorrow. Yay!

I'm joining

shanmonster in the 100 Day Burpee Challenge. Anyone else care to join us?

Tonight I have my make-up acupuncture session, and then I'm going to do some dance stuff. I think it'll help to organize it like one of

miischelle's Salons. A segment of conditioning, a segment of combos, and then instead of a segment of choreography, I'll work on learning a song. Which is kind of like choreography, I guess. Knowing a song well enough to dance to it without really thinking about it. Then I'll finish up with some yoga. Good plan, right? Right.

Both arty projects I worked on this weekend came out very nice. I think. I need to figure out how/if I can finagle it so the Altoid tin closes and opens (without a struggle) when it's painted and lacquered. Or if I should give up on painting the bottom and just art up the lid.

I wish I could stay home today. The four day weekend was really nice. Alas, no vacation time for me until after Application Season is over. Two more months! Hey, by that time, I'll be over halfway through the 100 Day Burpee Challenge!

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You know, in boot camp a variation Burpee was considered punishment. There was also a strange rule that girls didn't have to do them, something about the kneeling-to-pushup and pushup-to-kneeling being harmful to a woman's body. I dunno how you could check up on that, though.

something about the kneeling-to-pushup and pushup-to-kneeling being harmful to a woman's body

This sounds like a fantastically enormous pile of horseshit. Perhaps influence by the anti-women sentiment of the armed forces? Dunno. But horseshit nonetheless.

Anytime someone says "women shouldn't do that movement," I want to punch them in the face. Or, more effectively, have Krista Scott-Dixon (http://www.stumptuous.com/) punch them in the face.

I dunno about that. Most of the people running the camp were mad about it, and tried to encourage girls to *choose* to do it. They would get in trouble, though, if a doctor caught a girl doing them. The doctors were rabid about it.

Yeah. Ask me about my general opinion of most doctor knowledge about general health issues sometime.

This is nutty.

We are all mammals built on the same basic frame.
We all have the same capacities, although those capacities are lessened if you never use them.

In other words, the only thing keeping women from doing burpees *or any other movement* is that they are unpracticed at doing them.
If you've never done a movement before, start with 1-5 of them not 50.

ok, the only exception I can think of that might not work this way is if a female is doing a prone worm roll (which had you pressing different parts of the front of your body in a rolling movement)

Until I lost my protruding gut, it was like hitting a speed bump during a forward prone worm movement. I could see that females that are gifted in the front might not want to finish that roll at speed.

Social habits and strictures are more limiting than physiological ones.

I like the way you put that, but sometimes it's a gift I'd love to be able to return with a full refund.

I heard no woman should lift no more than 7 pounds.

That means no woman should carry her own baby, I guess, should she have one.

HMM!

That's crazy!

The way they put it I always assumed it was something with reproductive organs constricting or something . . . probably one girl sometime got an infection or summat and they decided to ban all girls to be safe.

Until the 60s, experts said women couldn't run marathons, or their uteruses would fall out.

My Dad told me women aren't built to lift heavy weights, but here I am at 40 doing Olympic-style lifting, and I'm in great shape.

My uterus is still on the inside. Huzzah!

If I thought lifting heavy things could make my uterus fall out, I'd have gone into powerlifting decades ago.

Yes, I'd like to join you on the burpee trail.

What is the current count?
Have you started?

I'm going to say I started yesterday so I'll be on the same schedule as Shan. That means I'll do three today (one for yesterday, two for today). I think I can probably handle that.

Just did three... I'm in.

real women do burpees gear (http://www.printfection.com/pFITgear/Real-Women-Do-Burpees/_s_448406)

Ugh that move looks so lower back unfriendly every time i see it, but I'm in! I did my three so I'm on the same schedule.

WOMAN DO NOT FUCK UP YOUR BACK.

ha! I have more core strength than i think because it doesn't FEEL back unfriendly at all. My whole lower back/mid-section doesn't dip at all in that shoot-back-to-plank move.

So, I was showing Jet what I was doing and asking him if he wanted to do it with me and he said "that's nuthin'" and proceeded to show my some 8-point burpee-like move they did in PE last year:

squat
back to plank/push up position
shoot legs open to spread, while in plant/push up
shoot legs back together
do a push up
back to squat
jump from squat into the air and back to squat
stand up straight

They apparently did ten of those a day every day last year in PE class. Egad.

I do the push-up on my burpees, but the open-close-leg thing is interesting! I'm going to try it tomorrow. Thanks!

or you could paint the bottom up to the closure. are you gonna show us??

i totally knew what that vid was about from the first moment it played. i wish i'd been surprised, though.

The box is a gift, so no, I probably won't post a pic. Sorry!

As a general pessimist and misanthrope, I frequently wish I was more surprised by humanity and life in general.

There are some movements that only men can do, or women. There are some moves only short people can do, or people under 110 pounds, or over six feet. Burpees aren't one of them.
The Iron Cross is an example of an exercise that is not for everyone. There are many others, often it is a matter of leverage.
Regarding Burpees: If you have large frontal protuberances you can squat with your knees outside of your shoulders rather than against your chest. this requires a bit more hip mobility but is actually better ergo for squatting anyway. If they are sooooo large... you can do your pushups on boxes or paralettes so that at least you can get the wrist to shoulder thing, which is what you are looking for anyway.
One of the most important things about burpees, is to keep the lumbar extended as much as possible throughout the move, this is easier with the knees wider. Some folks can tolerate more lumbar flexion than others, but keeping a tight core and shoulders back is pretty important .
I'll post a link to som good ones for referance

Excellent points. Thank you!

I noticed on this morning's burpees, my lower back started to sag on the fourth one. Thanks for the reminder to keep my shoulders firm. If I stabilize my shoulders, I know the rest of my back will follow suit.

my lower back started to sag on the fourth one.

::nods:: I haven't had this happen yet but, yes, this is what I picture as well, a bit of a jolting sag. :/

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