BurpThese!

So I’ve been trying to get rid of my gut. I am a person after all who truly enjoys chicken nuggets and most importantly BEER. So I’ve got the beer belly of a college frat boy and I’m trying to figure out ways to reduce it. I dream of definition.

My entire life no matter how skinny I ever was I never had a flat belly. Never had those beautiful cuts. I avoided sit-ups and crunches like the plague. Now that I’m older I know that I need to work on my core. Since beginning this fitness journey I’ve been waking up and doing crunches. I do them until it hurts. But I’ve realized that I don’t feel it much after that. Also, I’m watching the numbers go down on the scale but not my actually belly size.

So I went to Facebook yesterday and asked everyone for some tips on at home workouts that can help with strengthening my core and helping get rid of the gut. I got a lot of good ideas, some sent me videos but MOST…MOST said BURPEES. That was it. One word and it came from enough people that I was like well damn…I guess I should try doing burbpees in the morning instead of crunches.

So this morning I wake up all excited. Looked at videos of the beginner and intermediate way of doing burpees all last night and I was super pumped. Then….I started….and soon I realized.

I’M A WEAKLING!!

Of course I’ve warned you I’m an all or nothing kind of person and I seem to have a distorted concept of how fit I am because I skipped over the beginner version and went straight hard-core full on Crossfit professional mode and realized I can’t do shit right now. I was lucky to get 1 semi hard core burpee executed correctly. So with my head down in shame I decided it was time to be real and start with the beginner burpees.

I did as many of them as I could. Which if I’m being honest wasn’t many. I was huffing and puffing pretty early. Given its level of difficulty and my inability to actually  get a good set in this is definitely something I’ll be adding to my workout routine.

I WILL NOT BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE BURPEE