30-Day Healthy Habits Challenge Day 22 – Do 50 Burpees

Welcome to Day 22 of Sleekgeek’s free 30-Day You Healthy Habits Challenge!

Each day for the next 30 days you will receive 1 task to complete in order to help you eat, move, think, or sleep better.

Today’s task is to do 50 burpees.

Congratulations if you have made it to Day 22 out of 30! Today’s task of 50 burpees is really going to challenge your commitment to the rest of this challenge. Good luck ?

Did you know that the burpee was invented by a physiologist in New York City named Royal H. Burpee? He invented it as a simple way to assess the fitness of everyday folk (all the fitness tests around that time were strictly focused on athletes and other very fit people). If you happened to be subject to Mr. Burpee’s fitness assessment, he would test your heart rate before doing burpees, and then again afterwards, using the measurements in an equation to fairly accurately measure your heart’s ability to pump blood which happens to be a good measure of overall fitness.

If you need a bit of guidance on the burpee:

• Begin in a standing position.

• Drop down into a squat position and place both hands on the floor in front of you.

• Jump your feet back so that you are in a straight-arm plank position.

• Jump your feet forwards back into the squat position.

• Jump up straight into the air from the squat position.

If you are struggling to visualise these instructions here is an excellent video on how to do the burpee.

If you struggle doing a regular burpee you can try:

• Instead of squatting down and placing your hands on the floor in front of you, rather place them on a low surface such as a box, a sturdy chair or the edge of your bed.

• Instead of jumping your feet back and forth you can move one foot at a time.

• Instead of jumping straight into the air from the squat position, simply stand up.

Women’s Health have a video that demonstrates this easier variation.

If you find regular burpees are too easy you can try:

• Adding in a pushup in the bottom position.

• Exploding up from your squat as high as you can.

DONE!

See you tomorrow for your Day 23’s task.

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Want more of this kind of thing?

• Read our blog post on 8 Steps to Un-Process your Fitness and Get Moving Today.

• Join our 30-Day Step Challenge (lots of walking).

• Join our 30-Day Move More Challenge (some walking, lots of bodyweight exercises).

• Join our the official Facebook support group for the Healthy Habits Challenge.

• Join our Facebook group dedicated to supporting your healthy lifestyle.