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Thursday, April 11, 2013

I'm still here....and done my burpee challenge!

I know I haven’t written a blog post in a while, but I’m still here.

I started a new job a few weeks ago, and have just been busy with getting accustomed to working again...I was laid off for almost a year!  It is definitely hard getting back into a normal routine.  I’ve been going to bed earlier, sleeping longer, but am more tired than I used to be!  I will admit I started slacking a little.  I in no way stopped working out completely, but I’ve been doing just enough to get by, and I am sad to say I am not where I was over a summer, and especially where I was a year ago today.  That doesn’t mean I’m giving up.  Getting into this new daily routine and getting back to the normalcy of 9-5 days just means I have to push myself even harder.  Especially because I have a wedding in less than a month, and a cruise vacation 2!!

So, since I’ve written last, I completed my 100 Day Burpee Challenge!  And I can’t tell you how excited I am, haha.  Honestly, by the end I was getting so bored of burpees.  I mean, I spent a third of my year doing burpees!   The easiest way to do 90 burpees a day was to make them my workout, with some other cardio and strength training moves, and it got boring fast. 

First, I do have to thank some people.  I’ll give a shout out to the trainers at Core Fitness (check them out online http://www.core-fit.com/ or Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/CoreFitness.Smarter Living/) Cindy, Gina and Lauren.  They are an amazing group of trainers, and definitely helped me getting my burpees in, and especially Cindy who did a 100 Burpee Workout on my last day.  I do also have to thank (and apologize to) all the other Core-Fitters who got stuck doing my burpees with me!  Core Fitness is definitely a great group of people to work with, if you’re in the Philadelphia area, I highly suggest checking them out.

I will say though, sticking with it and finishing it made me feel AMAZING at the end.  If you’re looking for something to challenge you, something to motivate you, something to discipline you, I highly suggest doing the challenge.  Now that I’m done, everyone kept asking me what I was going to do, to which I would reply, “the 100 day NO burpee challenge.”  I am actually happy to say I failed at that after about 15 days haha.  If you’re someone who likes to be pushed, and doesn’t mind doing burpees for 2/3 of your year, someone mentioned to me that I should start counting back down after I reach day 100….yea, I don’t think so.

All in all, it was an experience, to say the least, once that I don’t think I will ever do again.  That doesn’t mean I’m not open to other challenges though, let’s see what I can come up with next.

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