Done An Inverted Burpee

March 09, 2011 Filed in: CrossFit
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Happy Ash Wednesday (and Lent)!
Back in April of 2009, CrossFit.com posted a workout of 100 inverted burpees.  At the time, I was nowhere near being able to do something like that.
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I totally forgot about them until my friend and awesome San Francisco CrossFit gymnastics coach Carl Paoli reminded me about Jeff Tucker’s site http://crossfitgymnastics.com.  They posted this video a few days ago:



I decided to try to do one against the wall since I am not confident in my ability to do freestanding handstands yet.  My first attempt I misjudged my distance to the wall and crashed into it.  You can see the video of that below.

After that, I tried to get mentally psyched up for it.  I got set up.
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I went down to roll back.
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I rolled back into a candlestick.
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I rolled forward, planted my hands and went into a handstand.
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I definitely could work on some things for this.  It wasn’t too bad for my first try, and I want to incorporate these, or even just parts of them (forward rolls, handstands, candlesticks), in my warmups.  I think I may try to do one hundred later this year.

Enjoy the video:





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