Day 100

IT'S OVER!!!!!!!!!!!! I wonder if I will do any tomorrow. Hmmm....

I'd like to give a few shout outs. Lots of people helped me on this challenge.

Sweet Baby: counter! Thank you Sweet Baby for counting on that one day! And for all the words of encouragement. :)

KK: also a counter one day. And a workout buddy -- it's much more enjoyable with a buddy!

SFV: workout buddy! And thanks for filling up my water bottle!

MHE: workout buddy -- burpees out in the sun are not fun. Thanks for the hat.

SLS: workout buddy -- you are such a happy workouter!

This challenge -- I haven't been this fit in 10 years. Feels super. Thanks Mary!

Bye bye!

Day 99

Hardest day yet. Yuck.

Day 98

Actually, this post should be called, "Day 98 or maybe 108." Today, I alternated between a set of 10 burpees and helping my mother clean out her garage. It was a day FULL OF FUN! Let me tell ya! I could barely tear myself away from one task to do the other! Well, the garage cleaning done for the day (and by done, I mean the garage won, and we went inside to cool off and pretend the garage was emmaculate after all our hard work), I said, "Mom, I'm going out to do the last 8!" So off I go to the driveway (which really helps keep those callouses working! yippee!). Okay, last 8! Wait. Is it the last 8? I've done 90? Is that right? What if I've only done 80? Oh man. I might have only done 80! Dangit! That means even if I've really done 90, I still have to do 18 because maybe I only did 80. Ugh!!!!!! 18, here goes it. Hmf.

Day 92-97

Um...it is really hot down here. I find myself constantly searching for shade. I'm sure I will melt if I have to do burpees out in direct sunlight. Also, I am really loving the callouses that are developing on the heals of my palms! I mean, that is just so special. So special.

Day 83-91

Day 89 marked the last day of school. WAHOOO!!! Day 91 was the last day of burpeeing around our nation's capital. It's back home for me now. I'd like to do a little reminiscing about my experiences burpeeing in the neighborhood parks.

Me: 46, breath, breath, 47, breath, 48...
Dachshund: RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF
Me: Why is that wiener dog barking at me? He is 50 yards away and sitting with what looks to be a very nice lady. I am no where near him; although I am internally protesting these burpees continuously, there is no reason that he should protest them!
Lady sitting with Dachshund (after seeing me death stare the hot dog for distracting my counting): He's just giving you encouragement!
Me: Oh, ha! Thanks! Well, that was nice little wiener dog! Sorry I silently cursed you!


Man with a fluffy dog (who looks kinda creepy, but there are a lot of people around, so no reason to run): Ma'am, excuse me ma'am?
Me: Number 5, I've done 5. Yes? Can't you see I'm busy here? I'm trying to do burpees AND count them!
Man: You know they've outlawed squat jumps in several states.
Me: Oh, he's making a joke -- he's not totally creepy! Haha! I wish they would outlaw them here! Haha!
Man: (not laughing, not smiling) They really have outlawed them. They are bad for your knees.
Me: Oh. What the?
Man: Yea, it's against the law to make kids in high school do them. They ruin your knees. I've had both mine replaced.
Me: Oh.
Man: I'm just tryin to keep you from having to go through that.
Me: Oh, thanks. What number was I on? Only 5? So 80 more? Ugh. It would be nice to get working on them instead of listening to this guy tell me about how bad they are for me. I'm not planning to do these every day of my life! Just everyday for 100 days -- I'll be fine.
Man: I'm just telling you. You look into them. I'm into cigarrettes. So...
Me: No, I appreciate it. Thanks. I can see that you are into cigarrettes. The smell is making me sick. I am definitely more likely to puke from that smoke than have my knees replaced right now.
Man: I just don't want you to have to get your knees replaced.
Me: Yes. I don't want that either. And I don't want you to talk to me anymore.
Man: I'm just telling you. You're a pretty girl and I don't want you to go through what I did.
Me: Okay...now you've crossed the line. You were just annoying and weird. Now, you are definitely creepy. Okay, thanks. Gotta go! And now I can't do my regular route today! Thanks a lot creepy man! Now I have to do 5 laps around the little park. hmf!


Me: What the heck kind of dogs are those! They are quite small, but fat. And curved. Do they have scoliosis? What...oh my gosh...no way... rabbits! On leashes! That's new.


Me: Aw, those kids are having a moonwalk party! I always loved moonwalks. How fun! Oh wow. The ice cream truck is at that party! Oh my gosh! Do I have time to run home and get money for that? No? No, I can't have ice cream? I have about 50 more burpees to do instead. What a lousy birthday party. [Looking back, I should have tried to join that party to get in that moonwalk. I bet I could have finished those 50 burpees in no time! What an idiot -- I thought ice cream was the answer. The moonwalk would have really made me happy!]

Charter school recess monitor (after a just did 5 burpees and walked towards his station): You better quit that! You're setting the standard too high for the rest of us! [smile/laugh]

Me: Oh, haha! Sorry! Aw...thanks old man! You are so sweet! Just when I wanted to quit, you make me feel so good about this. Hmmm...so nice! I love nice people. I think I'm gonna cry.

Day 71-82

I have really been looking forward to getting outside and doing these burpees! Why? Well, they are waaaaaayyyyyyy better than studying! so. sick. of. studying. ugh. I feel guilty doing non-study things except for the burpees. I am committed to them! Speaking of feeling guilty, feeling that way right about now...better get back to it. :(

Day 68 - 70

Vacation!!!! Yay!!!!!! Oh wait, I don't get a vacation from burpees? No. So over the next 3 days I still have to do burpees when all I want to do is relax and eat bad food? Yes. Humph! For Day 68, I was all over the place, and by place I mean country. Where to do the burpees? I stayed up too late packing, so there was no way I could make myself get up early to do them. Hour drive to the airport. Maybe I could do some here in the parking lot -- oh, nope. Here comes the shuttle bus. We are at the airport, checked in, 2 hours early; maybe I should do some here. Nah! Let's go eat breakfast! Yummmm. Definitely no room on the plane for this -- I mean, I could do them in the aisle, but I have a feeling everyone would hate me for it, and a marshall might tackle me. Landed! But I can't do them now, I have to go get the 4 bags I checked! (fyi - these 4 bags are not for the 3 day vaca; they are a step in my moving home process.) Whew, those were heavy. Now for the 5 hour car trip!!! (Even though we were in a caddy, it just wasn't big enough for burpees - close though.) Hey, here's a good place - a gas station in the middle of nowhere! Yeah! This will do nicely! Hmm...that grass looks a little rough. Uh, this asphalt looks a little rough. Hmmmm...oh! A lovely patch of smooth concrete -- perfect!

So 25 burpees were burpeed outside the convenience store. I think my friends were a little embarrased (and a little impressed? huh? huh? were ya?) that I dropped and gave em 25 out there. But I was a good chunk through for the day! The rest I did at the hotel when we arrived.

Day 69's did not come easy. Well, I did 21 in the hotel room before lunch -- no sweat. Well, actually, there was sweat. But I tried really hard to keep that at bay since we were going to lunch and everyone looked cute. So I would do 3 or 4, and then cool down. Then 3 or 4 more, etc. After lunch and being touristy, it was back to the hotel. 48 left. Yuck. I was pooped. I stuck with the 3 or 4 at a time routine for these -- not because I was concerned about sweat (I wasn't - I needed to shower anyway), but because I was sooooo tired. It was 3 or 4 (okay- sometimes 1 or 2) and then lie back down on the bed for a minute or two. It took a while to get those out.

Day 70 -- did them after the 5 hour car trip, no biggie. ;)

Day 64-67

Oh yes -- I did these. I may not be posting all the time, but I sure am burpeeing. I think the burpees have drained me of any creativity when it comes to writing this thing...but they also seem to be draining fat from my body. For now I am willing to sacrifice the creativity.

Day 63

It was a little chilly outside so I headed to the gym for Day 63. The cardio was GREAT! Father of the Bride Part II was on!!!! Got to love Frank!!! I was definitely laughing out loud -- quite loud. I just could not control it! There was no way to do the silent-shoulder-shrug laugh. I only wish I could have stayed on the treadmill to watch the end -- the gym was closing and I had to get the burpees in before they kicked me out. :( But, it was still great. Thanks Frank, you made my day!

If this doesn't make you laugh out loud, then you are probably not fun to be around. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SSFv-F0_20

Day 58-62

Check.

Turns out it's harder to write a blog entry every day than actually do the burpees.

Day 57

The method I used today was good. Really good. I really liked it. This is what happened: Run for a few minutes, stop and do some burpees; run for a few minutes, stop and do some burpees; run for a few minutes, stop and do some burpees. You get the idea. It worked out pretty well! If I was tired of running, I wanted to do burpees. Then when I was tired of burpees, I wanted to run!

And I did all of this outside! I have pretty much overcome my aversion to burpeeing outside. It is just so gorgeous out that I can't bear to go to the gym-- yuck! I think I also feel like there is a little camaraderie out there in the sunshine now -- people are exercising all over the place. There was a guy sprinting while dragging a tire, a man doing tai chi in the park, and on one of my burpee stops today, a girl was sitting on a yoga mat nearby. She wasn't doing yoga, but I will give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she had been doing yoga and not just staring at me the whole time I was out there. That was slightly uncomfortable, but I just told myself, she is just tired from all the yoga she just did and just happens to be facing my direction; it's not that I look like a cook doing this crazy exercise out in the middle of everything.

Day 53-56

Did em. Awesome.

Day 52

I thought it would be a great idea to go to yoga today. After the big run yesterday, stretching will be good for me. Not so. Wednesday yoga = power yoga. Power yoga = hard = not relaxing, stretching. But that was not in my mind. I did a little walk/run to warm up and then did 27 burpees. (Get over half done!) Full exposure today. The spinning room had spinners. Classroom #1 had steppers or something. And Classroom #3 was filling up with yoga-ers. But I found a kind of nook area and faced the wall. That way I can just assume that no one is giving me weird looks for this crazy exercise (and my grimace-grin. My default face looks like a frown. My "I'm struggling to do something hard" face looks like a smile. People think I am smiling at them. I'm not.) Then into yoga. My tired legs couldn't take it! After falling over a few times when we had to hold a lunge for 10 hours, I decided to call it. I just didn't think it was worth my time to stay in child's pose for the rest of the class.

By that time Classroom #1 was empty! Yeah! Privacy! So I got those 25 more burpees done, and I just can't wait to do it again tomorrow.

Day 51

HOT HOT HOT!!!! And not a drop of water in sight! Let me correct myself: Not a free drop of water in sight. At least not until mile 2.8. Which was only .2 less than I was going. Ugh! I will be bringing water/money to buy water next time!!!!

I decided to start running more -- these burpees have made my legs stronger, but now it's time to get them skinny! Plus, it is really nice out there! Well, this 3 mile route was a big feat for me right now -- so I was pooped at the end. Pre-run I thought, this is the middle of the day; I can knock out half of the burpees after the run, and the rest at the gym later. Wrong. I seriously struggled to get 15 done after the run. But later when I went to the gym, it was nice to only have 36 to do.

Day 50

HALFWAY DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, at least in days. 50 days is a looooonnngg time. I can't deny that I am a little discouraged by the fact that I am only halfway done. But the sun is out now, and I am way more willing to go outside to knock out a few in the morning so I'm not stuck with them all at night. Although today I did leave them all until my evening trip to the gym. I was super tired this morning -- burpees were not on my radar while I pushed snooze (4 times!). Thankfully, my roomie came in and I got up for work. But, alas, those burpees bleeped on my radar later in day.

I did a little run/walk on the tready to warm up. Watched the last minute of The Office (Andy came back from his anger-management counseling and Dwight maced him--makes me laugh just thinking about it. Dwight. Gotta love him.) and then an episode of Seinfeld. It was an old episode. Did you know that Jerry had a different dad back then? And George was a realtor? He actually had a real job? It wasn't as funny as the later ones, but it got me through!

Done with the gym, I showered and got ready for class. I didn't forget one article of my workout attire today!!! But don't get too excited. I did forget to bring regular shoes, or at least clean socks to put on with my tennis shoes after I cleaned up. :( So I slipped my naked feet into my sweaty tennis shoes. Very tactile.

Day 47, 48, 49

I took a little trip to the big city over the weekend. Life would be so much easier if I could do the burpees at home!! I was able to get the burpees done in my friend's apartment -- no gym-going for me! Wooooweeee! But then again, I wouldn't have the force taking me to the gym and doing other workouts. hmmmfff.

Day 46

I was all prepared to do this "Reduce your ample butt" workout routine. I headed over to the elliptical machine to get warmed up. The first one I came to was next to Smokey Smokerson. I decided to keep walking for a few reasons: 1) He watches nickelodeon, and I think that's creepy; 2) He wears the same clothes every single day, and I think that's creepy; 3) He smells of cigarettes, and that makes me want to puke when I am working out.

So off to another machine I went. Law and Order was on the tube, so I watched Fontana and that other guy find the bad guys. Then I raced to the empty workout room to get the 46 knocked out in record time. Record time! I just had to get back and see what McCoy was going to do with that bad guy who really wasn't a bad guy but actually a good Samaritan. McCoy went after him, but luckily, the jury had good morals. In your face McCoy. Needless to say, I had to go back to the elliptical to watch all that and did not get to reduce my ample butt.

Day 45

After a 15 minute warm-up on the arc trainer, I headed into a not-so-vacant workout classroom to do the 45. But 2 witnesses is better than 30, so I went ahead.

You know how you have to pump yourself up to jump off the high dive or some other daunting thing? Some days, that's how it is with the burpees. I stand there in front of the mirror getting myself ready. "Okay boys...okay boys!" a la Lane Frost in 8 Seconds. So after several deep breaths, off I went. I didn't need as many breaks today -- some days are just less difficult than others. (I will not call this easy.)
Then I went to yoga. Apparently, it was Power Yoga -- didn't find that out till I was in the middle of it. And the instructor was not the relaxing, soothing, speaker you would expect. I think she must have been a tour guide at Disney World before this. "And now we will move into the Down Dog Ride, but first take a moment to enjoy Space Mountain pose." Plus, she was very concerned with the non-relaxing music playing in the spin room on the other side of the wall. Honey, I can't even hear that Lady Gaga song you speak of. I am too busy trying to keep "our" legs in Ardha Mandalasana so "we" don't fall over and make a thud and disturb the spinners next door."

Good workout. Can't wait to do it all again (+1) tomorrow.

Day 44

I seemed to have a lot more breaks among the 44 burpees today! I don't know what the deal was! Maybe it was that my chest was not restrained -- that's right, I forgot a sports bra again!!! Who does that?! That is a vital part of a woman's workout attire! And my regular bra was not nearly as supportive as the one I wore the last time I forgot the sports bra. I had planned to try a little running today -- uh uh...with all that bouncing...that was not happening. So off to the elliptical I went. Gluteal course. It burned -- but The Office took my mind off of it. Dwight was fired and went to work at Staples where he creeped out the customers and Andy was extremely annoying and Jim and Pam put his cell phone in the ceiling and then Jim admitted to his girlfriend that he still had feelings for Pam. I love a good love story. :)

In other wardrobe news, I saw a gray thong on an enviable bootay in the locker room. Guess who? Helicopter girl! This was after my workout. I almost walked right out of that locker room & back up to the workout area, but then I decided to just go home and eat supper. Day 44 down.

Day 43

Rain rain go away, come again another day (or don't). No breaking up the burpees today. So off to the gym I went. And what did I forget today? Socks! MMMmmm...can't wait to open that locker tomorrow!

So I decided to beef up my cardio routine before I got to the burpees. I had a trainer once who had me do 30-30s -- 30 seconds of sprinting on the elliptical, then 30 seconds of rest speed. But it was more like 30-60 or 30-90, and I am totally blaming that on Mike Holmes. Holmes on Homes...LOVE him! He is just a knight in shining armor to these folks! We even had on matching earrings today...So, he was soooo distracting! It wasn't until the commercials came on that I was snapped out of my trance and was able to keep up the 30/30.

Then off to the not-in-use workout classroom. You know what I noticed today? If I stand at the back of the room to do the burpees, then when my shirt flies up and I see my tummy in the mirror it looks pretty flat! (Standing close to the mirror is not so forgiving.) 43 burpees later (and all the abs and arms my workout buddy forced me to do) and I was outta there.

Later on I checked my email and saw a chain from the Challenger and other Challengees. Someone did the math: We have completed 996 out of 5100 burpees as of today. Almost half way through in days but not even 20% in actual burpees!!!!!!! NOooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Day 42

My feet huuuuuuuuuuuurrrrt... You know when you wear high heals for a long time and the balls of your feet burn? even the day after? Well, that's what was going on. But I pushed on! I will give credit to the girl-in-awesome-shape-wearing-the-huge-helicopter-pilot-headphones. She just looks so good. Definitely makes me want to work out hard. So I ran/walked for about 30min on the treadmill while helicopter girl worked it out on the arc trainer. Then I went off and burpeed. I came out of the spin room thinking That was a pretty good workout. Think I'll call it a day. But helicopter girl was still at it! She had moved on from the arc trainer, so I thought I would give it a try. Thankfully, hgtv came through for me with The Unsellables. I stayed on for 30 minutes just to see the reveal! (By the way, the homeowners had no clue -- we've lived here for 23 years, and it's perfect! What buyer wouldn't want 18 rugs piled on top of each other in a room with dark faux paneling and a million pictures of our kids from the 80s and fake greenery everywhere?) Well, she fixed 'em right up! And off I went, 42 burpees under my belt.

Day 41

Well, yet again, I was forced into doing all 41 jump/pushup/jump/jump/repeat/burn thighs/pull up pants/catch my breath/do again at once today. Today, I did bring a sports bra -- but that was it. I wore the dirty clothes from yesterday -- they weren't that dirty. I mean, I was going to get sweaty anyway. So I did them all. But before that I spent 30 minutes on the elliptical. It was sooo hard! And by sooo hard I mean that it was sooo hard to choose between watching How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and 90210 (Original version - college years, you know when Donna lived at the beach? and the wife from Scrubs was Brandon's girlfriend?) Anyway, it was such a tough choice! I ended up going with the movie but the treadmill in front of me had 90210 on and no one was on the treadmill, so I could kind of watch both! Win!

So tonight is a big night out! But I am scared for tomorrow - my future 42 burpees will be haunting every sip I take.

Day 40

Well it rained today. It was raining this morning so I didn't want to go outside and get half the day's burpees overwith pre-gym. So it was back to doing all of them coninuously. :(

So my day has gone like this: wake up, see that it is raining, cry myself back to sleep because I cannot split up the torture today, get up, study, shower, go to school, study, go to gym, study some more. Okay, now back to the gym part. I FORGOT A SPORTS BRA!!!!! For any of you who have not been paying attention to what a burpee entails, this is what it entails: JUMPING! Jumping without a sports bra is no good. (But at least I wasn't oustide w/o a sports bra--think of the pointing that could have gone on then.) But I wasn't about to go back home for one, so I tightened my boot straps, er, bra straps, and headed out of the locker room to get on with Day 40. Guess what! It wasn't bad at all! (I'm talking about the regular bra part, not the doing the burpees part.) I don't know how, but I managed to get through it without flopping all over the place!

Day 39

Today was 39. The first day I split up the burpees. Up until today, I did all burpees continuously - albeit with a few 10 - 60 second breaks among them. Yesterday I was talking to my sweet baby, and I said, "Sweet Baby, 38 burpees was so hard today! I did not like doing them!" And he said, "I think you are going to have to start splitting them up, you are getting up there in the numbers. And you are looking smokin, too!" (Okay, maybe he didn't say the last part, but maybe he thought it! huh? huh?) So I said, "Sweet Baby, you are so smart! I am so glad I am marrying you!"

So today was the day. I would split up the burpees and life would be good! So I took myself down the block to the park and did a little walk/run around it. After a few laps (it's a small park), I decided it was time to get started. If you read the first post, you know how I feel about doing burpees outside in public. But yall, it's time to suck it up! I can't keep up these high numbers without splitting them, and I don't want to go to the gym twice! Well, pretty much every reason why I don't like doing them outside in public existed today (my t-shirt kept flying up, my pants sagged, a little kid on a tri-cycle pointed at me [well, maybe not, but he was in the park at the same time and could easily have pointed at me without me knowing because I purposefully faced the other direction], but you know what, it wasn't that bad. I mean, they don't take sooo long. And I was over halfway done with the day's burpees! (I did 20.)

So home, shower, get ready for class. And damnit! I have to pack gym clothes and sneakers and my heavy text book for the night class b/c since I have to go to the gym I won't have time to come home in between classes and get this humongous book. That is 2 bags! which doesn't sound like a lot but i really thought it was at the time and now i think maybe i was overreacting. Anyway, I did not want to walk 1.3 miles to school carrying TWO bags. (I think putting it in all caps makes it sound a lot worse! like how I felt about it!) How will I ever get to school with TWO bags? ooh ooh...call for a ride! So I did -- thank you friend for coming to pick me up!

Long story short -- I went to class, went to the gym, ellipticalled for 30 min, did the 19 burpees I had left (in the privacy of the not-in-use spinning room), hated every second of it, somehow found the motivation to do some crunches and strength training, went to my night class (where we did not use the humongous book 1 time!), came home still hating the burpees and decided to share my hatred with the world. Day 39.

(Day 39 was Thursday...just posted late!)

Why the heck did I sign up for this!!!!!!!!!!

Let me get you up to speed. A couple summers ago I enrolled in a bootcamp fitness class. I loved it! It was hard, but it was a great workout and it was nice to have people/friends to exercise with. Well, I now live out of state, so I don't go to that bootcamp anymore. But I still get emails from the leader of that bootcamp. She sends out newsletters -- "exercise of the month," "recipe of the month," "don't forget to sign up for a month of hell, er, best fitness instruction of your life" etc.

Well, about the first week of February, she had a little blurb about the 100 Day Burpee Challenge. "Email me if you want to sign up!" So I emailed. I'm getting married in 5 months, I thought. I need all the motivation to get to the gym that I can get! I was thinking small, people, very small. I was thinking we would have to do a few burpees a day for 100 days. What is a burpee? Well, it is awfulness. A full body workout/movement that makes you dread the next day every day. Try it out: start standing; put your hands on the ground and jump your feet back so you are in push up position; do a pushup (I'm a girl--pushups are hard! and I did NOT know that pushups were part of the burpee. We never did the pushup when we did burpees at bootcamp!); jump back to standing; jump in the air with your hands straight up over your head. Congratulations! You have just done 1 burpee. Wasn't that just the most fun!?!

So maybe it isn't the most fun, but it sure does get your heart rate up. So I thought, a few every day will be good for me and not crazy hard. Word to the wise: don't sign up for a challenge when you don't know what the challenge is. The challenge is: on Day 1, do 1 burpee; on Day 2, do 2 burpees; on Day 3, do 3 burpees. Get the picture? That means that on Day 36, do 36 burpees, and on Day 100, do 100 burpees. 100 BURPEES!!!!!!!! OMG YALL! It's going to kill me!

So here I am on Day 39. I did 39 burpees today (see how that works?). Why didn't I start blogging about this on Day 1? Because even though Day 1 was no fun, and neither was day 25 or day 32, burpees were not yet the bane of my existence until this week. This week, I hate them. HATE them. (My dad always said if something or someone is so bad that you hate it, then it isn't worth your time to hate it/him/her. Sorry Daddy! I really hate them! And I have to do them every day, so I can't help but think about/hate them all the time. Come May 25th, there will be no more hating!)

You know how they say that exercise is a good way to get your stress out? Well, I have always subscribed to that notion. But now the exercise is the source of my stress. When will I get to the gym? Do I have clothes at the gym? Does the gym close early on Sunday?

Why must I go to the gym when I don't need any equipment? Because I live in the top (of 3) floor of a row house, an old row house. My roommate did some (very) soft jump-n-jacks one day and our landlord/below our floor neighbor had a conniption! Can you imagine how he would react to a burpee overhead?! No go! And when this thing started, I could not go outside -- winter is cold! And we were right in the middle of Snowpocolypse -- I don't need snow to make these things any harder. So off to the gym I went. Now that it is warm and Spring-like outside, I can just go out to the park and do them, but that's embarrassing yall! I look so silly and my shirt always flies up and sometimes my pants start to sag and I have to rearrange myself so I'm not exposing anything indecent and the ground is dirty and there are kids pointing and people driving by and it's just bad.

So here I am, Day 39. Stronger, leaner, more toned, and full of hate. and love. I really do have ambivalent feelings towards these things. I mean, if I am going to the gym, I might as well get some cardio in, and maybe some strength-training. So I do like the effect burpees have on my body -- but what about my spirit, yall?! Read on to see how it all turns out...