Date: 2025-06-04
AO: thepatriot
Q: Gherkin
PAX: Lazlo, CableGuy, Ice Tea, Trademark, Boardwalk, My Space, Bob the Builder, SAAS, Sweetness, Booking, Fiddler, LaForge, Prestige, Short Rib, Deliverance, CashApp, DoorDash, Overthrow, NASCAR FNGs: 1 NASCAR
COUNT: 20
WARM UP
SSH, Imperial Walkers, JD Vance’s (fka the Hillbilly) Little Bitty Arm Circles, Willie Mays Hays, Cherry twist, worlds greatest stretch, cobra Kai
THE THANG
Round 1
• 3 Burp & Merks, (increase the number of merkins for each burpee – for example the 3rd burpee will include 3 merkins) Lunge Walk to the 20 yard line and do 5 Basic Burpees • Mosey back to endline
Round 2
• Repeat Round 1 then…
• Bear crawl to 40 yard line, 7 deconstructed burpees (7 each of squats, thrusts and merkins) • Mosey back to endline
Round 3
• Repeat rounds 1 & 2 then…
• Crawl Bear to the far 40, 9 Burpees
• Mosey back to endline
Round 4
• Repeat rounds 1 – 3 then…
• Crab Walk to far 20, 11 Tony Hawk burpees (burpee w/ 360 degree spin at the end) • Mosey back to endline
Round 5
• Repeat rounds 1-4 then…
• 11 Broad Jump Burpees to the end zone and modify to regular burpees if you run out of room. • Mosey back to end line.
128 Burpees in total
MARY
American Hammer
Flutter kick
LBC
ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Convergence this Saturday 0700 at Roosevelt Island with coffeeteria after. – 2nd F happy hour Friday 5:30 to 7:30 at Summit’s house
– If you haven’t Qed this year or are new and haven’t Qed, sign up! If you want some help preparing your Q or help in the form of a co-Q, I’d be happy to help and so would any of the other guys who have been around for a bit. Reach out in person or on slack.
COT
• Happy 128 Birthday to Royal Huddleson Burpee Sr., born June 4, 1897 (octuple respect).
• Born and raised in Little Neck, on the edge of Queens, he served in the Navy in World War I and then began a career as a director at the NYC YMCA.
• In his role as Director of the Y, Burpee recognized the need for a quick and accurate way to assess the fitness levels of new members. Solving that problem became the focus of his doctoral thesis at Columbia.
• He created the “burpee” exercise as part of his PhD thesis as a quick and simple fitness test which was to be used as a measure of agility and coordination. The original burpee was a four-count burpee – no merkin and no jump at the end. In the fitness test, the burpee was performed four times, with heart rate measurements taken before and after the four successive burpees, measuring the efficiency of the heart at pumping blood and how quickly the heart rate returned to normal.
• The exercise was popularized when the Army made it one of the ways used to assess the fitness level of recruits when the US entered World War II. The Army tested how many times it could be performed by a soldier in 20 seconds – 8 burpees was poor, 10 was fair, 13 or more in 20 seconds was excellent.
• In his published thesis, Burpee created roughly 300 measures of fitness. He also pioneered the notion of fitness that could be catered to a person’s skill and ability, which paved the way for the discipline of personal training. He wrote, “Since interest is sustained not by repeated failure at unsuitable tasks, but by reasonable success following conscientious effort, it is obvious that physical education programs should be adapted to individual ability.” Or in F3 parlance, “Modify as necessary.”
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