BEHOLD!!! BURPEES!!!!!!

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BURPEES!  My friend Katie thought it was cute when I talked about burpees.  All she would think of when she heard "burpee" was a little kid burping. She obviously never had done a burpee then.  Those of us who have had the privilege of doing a burpee know that in no way is it a cute little child burp but something sent from hell to make grown men cry.

What is a burpee, you ask.  See below.

Looks easy enough, right?  Laying down and then jumping up.  I did this all the time as a kid.  No problem, right?  WRONG!  Get up, and do 10.  It's okay, I will wait.  Go ahead.  DO IT.

The music helped, right?

I do not like burpees.  My almost 6-foot body does not like doing them. Give me wall balls any day. The thing I am realizing is that the more I do burpees, the stronger I get. HOW DARE THEY DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR ME!

I remember the first class when they had burpees on the white board.  I cried.  Really, there were tears.  I could not even do one.  Not a single burpee.  I was good at the laying on the floor part.

They are still the bane of my existence, but here is the exciting thing.  I can do them now. Today in my WOD, I rocked out 10.  They were not RX or pretty, but they got done.  I couldn't breath after. But guess what? I did them!  I had some great people from CFR cheering me on and pushing me to crank out those last 10.  Why? Because if I took too long, I had to do more clean squats. I had already done over 50.  So I pushed and did them!

So, here's the moral of the story. Everyone has something they hate doing when they enter the gym. And, a lot of times that is the thing that will make you stronger. Keep working hard and pushing through.  Burpees are my weakness.  But if I do them enough, I will find another weakness, and then maybe burpees and I can have a civil relationship.

Do you love Burpees?  What is the thing you love to hate, but see improvement on?