Day 8 of the challenges!

How are your Plank and Burpees Challenges going? Day eight means: 30 Burpees and 45 second hold for the plank. How is your form? Is your low back starting to hurt from the planks? It shouldn't. Tuck your pelvis in and pull your core (aka belly button) in (aka SUCK IT IN!). Now let's talk about burpees. I will admit that I looked up how to do a proper one. I had done one (or maybe more) in boot camp (at the gym, not the army), but I wanted to make sure that I was going to do it correctly. The website that I found said to start standing, squat down, jump back (into a plank style position), then jump your feet forward (back into the squat position) then jump up to the position that you started in. OK, I figured that I could this. Then, people starting to ask me: "Are you jumping up high enough so you clap your hands over your head and your feet clear the ground?" "Are you doing a pushup right after you jump your feet back?". That was a big NO! So, since I am a bit competitive I re did the first few days on Day four and now I am doing a 'real burpee' or to my hard core Crossfit neighbour, a 'crossfit burpee'. Does it matter? Absolutely not. This is your challenge. Have fun with it, but keep at it. Don't quit-challenge yourself. Hence the name Plank Challenge and Burpee Challenge.