- When:02/27/2015
- QIC: Mermaid
- The PAX: Chelms aka Tater Tot, Hannibal, Bout Time, Pebbles (site FNG from the Fort), Purple Haze, Blades of Glory-respect, Scabby, Brushback, Voodoo, Hops, Rip Curl (WD)-respect, Escargot, Margo, Dear Abby (WB)
Burpees and Other Stuff
Shovel flag planted by Escargot. 16 men arrived ready for the hard work that is Centurion. Voodoo asked YHC about burpees and merkins. Guy may have a sixth sense or just know my favorites. First, a little about the burpee. The burpee is a full-body exercise used in strength training and as an aerobic exercise #2for1deal. It is named for Royal H. Burpee, an American physiologist, who, in the 1930’s developed the burpee test to assess fitness levels of recruits for WWII. On 5/17/2014, in Greenwood, SC, Cameron Dorn broke 2 burpee world records: most in 12 hours (5657) and most in 24 (10,105). Bet that guy didn’t complain about doing burpees like some of our PAX today. YHC concedes that, yes, burpees suck, but also are a powerful sharpening tool. Wikipedia lists 17 burpee variants.
Thang
COP in launch lot
SSH x 20 IC
Burp and Merk to 10. Burpee 1 with 1 merkin, burpee 2 with 2 merkin, up to 10.
IW x 20 IC (at the request of PAX)
Mosey over to Aquatic Center lot and partner up
Burpee Broad Jump/Over-Under/Backwards Bear Crawl Set
Burpee Broad Jump to top of the lot. Each partner does 10 Over-Unders. Backwards Bear Crawl back to the bottom of lot. Plank-o-rama to wait for six.
15 Jump Squat OYO
Carolina Dry Dock x 15 IC
Mosey back up lot and up Walsh toward shopping center at 51/Carmel (Panera/Bonefish) with a stop on the way for 15 Smurf Jack IC. Continue mosey to shopping center.
Mary
Little Baby Flutter Crunch x 25 IC/Heels to Heaven x 15 IC
Triple Nickel
5 Burpees/Run up stairs and over 2nd floor walkway to the middle/5 Burpees/Run back to launch/5 Reps. Plank-o-rama.
Flutter on curb x 25 IC
Mosey across 51 at Carmel intersection. Continue mosey around the shopping center across Carmel to Palatine Hill.
Merkin x 20 IC
Triple Nickel
Run up Palatine/5 Jump Squat/Run down/5 Jump Squat/5 reps
Plank-o-rama
Mosey back toward the school through Jack In Box parking lot and cross 51 at crosswalk to benches in front of CCHS.
Bench Set
20 Decline Merkin/20 Dips/20 Incline Merkin
Mosey back to launch lot
2 minutes of burpee to to take us into COT
Moleskin
Strong crew today at Centurion. T-claps to Margo and Scabby, who ran in and back, as usual. Warm welcome to Pebbles who is a Fort Mill/Indianland PAX. Great work out there. Come back and visit anytime. Mumblechatter revolved around burpees today. I am quite sure we exceeded the burpee threshold for Hops at around 80. When you look at what Cameron Dorn completed 5/17/2014, 80 burpees is a like a walk in the park. Aquatic Center work left YHC pretty smoked and concerned that 35 minutes remained. The stair/run/burpee work of the first Triple Nickel was painful and redundant. Of the variety that you cannot wait to complete and move on to something else. Teddy, Chelms, Bout Time, and Purple Haze, and Hops made this look easy. The 2nd Triple Nickel at Palatine with jump squats is always a crowd pleaser. Hannibal knew he would find himself at Palatine and crushed the hill work like the rest of the PAX. Had to audible the bench set due to slick conditions. Just enough time for 2 minutes of burpees to close. At this point, Hops was through with burpees and made sure PAX knew burpees are not part of Weinke at the Rock tomorrow. Good strong work by all PAX today.
Thank you men, for coming out today and helping to sharpen. I truly enjoy and and get excited for the opportunity to lead the PAX. Centurion crew always pushes hard.
Announcements
Sign up for Mud Run by 3/1. Strong A51 representation with some really fast teams. The more the merrier. 4/11/2015 at the Leatherneck in Gaston, SC, outside Columbia, SC.
3/21 Team Chepul Hill will run to raise money and awareness for brain cancer research. See Twitter/weekly email for details and link to sign up.
0630 Obstacle Run Workout at Indianland ES on 521 followed by 0700 Bootcamp workout Q’d by our very own Runstopper. Thanks Pebbles.
New 3rd F on Tuesdays in Ballantyne at Einstein Bagels across from the Vine, where Bagpipe and Swift launch. Launch sometime in the Spring.
Mermaid administrator
Had been able to avoid Mermaid’s recent Qs but the 2 hour school delay left me with no excuse this morning.
For clarification, the burp and merk is not something you see Miley Cyrus do on an awards show nor is it the results from an all day @Spackler beerfest…probably not a warm-up either. But it is painful…then add the burpee broad jump up the aquatic center hill followed by over/unders, on the parking lot, combo and I found myself in a deep, dark place right from the start.
But then it got easier with a double dose of #TripleNickel. Hey Chelms, how about next time stay off of Twitter the night before Mermaid Qs.
“Wikipedia lists 17 burpee variants.”
I just added the 18th:
Cherpee: 1. an exercise combination resembling touching a live wire and a dog walking with booties on. 2. A full body dry heave, in cadence.
VIDEO FOOTAGE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k23ynqcwiuk
PH – We have standards at Centurion to uphold so the Thursday night badgering will continue. I noticed you were finally out front on PH so surely you had some more gas in the tank.
TR – Many mock what they don’t understand. There is also the Cherkin, the Cherch, the Chank, and on and on.
About the author