“The Inverted Burpee: starting supine, kip (or sit-up and roll) to standing, kick-up to handstand. This burpee derivative involves similar amounts of work and greater skill than the traditional burpee.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSo I tried them tonight. That’s the great thing about Crossfit, there are plenty of times you don’t actually have to go to the gym to do the workout, I did this on the landing at home! After the first 10, you soon realise it’s going to be a slog. My time: 21:35<\/strong><\/p>\nAs I was at home, I decided to check my heart rate recovery<\/strong>. When I first started exercising about 30 months ago now, I recorded what I was doing, what my heart rate was immediately after “exercise” (really it was just a warm up back then, and what it was again 10 minutes later. Here’s what I did on the 15 October 2006<\/strong>, 2 rounds of:<\/p>\n\n- Samson Stretch<\/li>\n
- 10 Squats<\/li>\n
- 10 Sit-ups<\/li>\n
- 10 Push-ups<\/li>\n
- 10 Supermen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
My heart rate immediately after was 140, and ten minutes later was 112.<\/p>\n
Now today, that “workout” was what I did for the warm<\/strong> up for my 100 inverted burpees!\u00a0 Anyway, after the upside down burpees I immediately took my heart rate, which was 132<\/strong>.\u00a0 Note that I counted 33 beats in 15 seconds.\u00a0 The reason I did this was, as I continued, I counted 63 beats in 30 seconds.\u00a0 So in just that extra 15 seconds, my heart rate has already dropped by 3 beats.\u00a0 If that makes sense?\u00a0 Actually I’m not sure which measurement is the correct one, anyone?<\/p>\nThe 10 minute mark also saw a drop, at 92 beats, a full 20 bps less <\/strong>than when I started.\u00a0 That’s tangible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was browsing the main Crossfit.com site at lunch time and the workout for last Saturday was: – For time: 100 Inverted burpees I’ve never heard of inverted burpees before and they look like an interesting thing to try (click image for the big version): “The Inverted Burpee: starting supine, kip (or sit-up and roll) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[159,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-burpees","9":"tag-crossfit-workouts-exercises"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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