{"id":1313,"date":"2012-12-31T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-healthier.me.uk\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2012-12-31T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T11:00:53","slug":"10000-burpees-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-healthier.me.uk\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"10,000 burpees later&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/a-healthier.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/100-Days.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1319\" title=\"100 Days\" src=\"https:\/\/a-healthier.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/100-Days-300x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>Today is the day. It&#8217;s done, it&#8217;s over and I&#8217;m ready for a change! The 100 Day Fitness Challenge comes to an end today and my own personal challenge of 100 burpees each day for 100 days is over too. So what have I learned along the way?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That making a commitment public is a sure fire way to make sure you keep it!<\/li>\n<li>That the very commitment of doing something each day is what it is all about. There was never any point in me missing a day and doing 200 burpees the next day to make it up. When we work towards any goal, small, steady continuous progress is going to get much better results than a splurge once a week. If I was going to train for a marathon or go on a diet I would work towards it each day. That&#8217;s where the magic is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/a-healthier.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tse_0726.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1191\" title=\"tse_0726\" src=\"https:\/\/a-healthier.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tse_0726-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a-healthier.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tse_0726-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/a-healthier.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tse_0726.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That you never make excuses for not getting it done. There is always a way. I&#8217;ve been on courses over the past 100 days and stayed in hotels over night where our course started at 07.30 each day and finished at 21.00 at night. It wasn&#8217;t good enough for me to say &#8220;Oh I can&#8217;t be arsed \/ I&#8217;m too tired \/ I&#8217;ve got no room&#8221; &#8212; I&#8217;ve burpee&#8217;d in hotel carparks at 06.00 so that I can get them done and in my garden at 23.00 when we&#8217;ve got home. Never an excuse. I wasn&#8217;t going to let myself off the hook.<\/li>\n<li>Burpees are the quickest way to get in shape. I have a waist, I have a flatter stomach, I have thinner legs, I still have shoulder and arm definition from when I was teaching weights back in August. But I haven&#8217;t used weights.<\/li>\n<li>Burpees suck when you have a chest infection! Breathing is nasty and they hurt.<\/li>\n<li>People think you are completely mad and question why you&#8217;re &#8216;still doing those&#8217;? &#8212; because&#8230;it&#8217;s doing what others won&#8217;t do that get you the results others want.<\/li>\n<li>I love the duration of a 100 day challenge. It&#8217;s doable but challenging. It feels a long way off at the beginning and you wonder why you thought it would be a good idea, but as you move through each 25 days you realise it is completely doable and that motivates you to carry on.<\/li>\n<li>Planning your next challenge before the one you are working on finishes is a great way to keep you focussed and moving forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 100 Day\u00a0Fitness\u00a0Challenge has become a major part of my life since 23 September.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We have raised over \u00a31450 for a brand new\u00a0Wokingham\u00a0based charity called <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: medium;\">Pass it On.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>People have changed shape, discovered new friends, new sports, new challenges that they wouldn&#8217;t have previously considered.<\/li>\n<li>Each Sunday we&#8217;ve met for a group session and kick started the day with an energetic and social session. These have become so popular there are requests to keep them going.<\/li>\n<li>It motivated me to produce the <a href=\"http:\/\/100day-fitness-challenge.com\/sign-up-today\/\">100 Day Health &amp; Fitness Challenge product<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/a-healthier.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/100-day-challenge-preferred-logo.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1314\" title=\"100 day challenge preferred logo\" src=\"https:\/\/a-healthier.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/100-day-challenge-preferred-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a-healthier.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/100-day-challenge-preferred-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/a-healthier.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/100-day-challenge-preferred-logo.jpeg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span>This new product is for those people who, like me, like having a daily approach to Health and Fitness. Each week you will get a workout plan and a health task to work on. And each day you&#8217;ll get an email from me to keep you focussed and working towards all you health and fitness and any other BIG goals. It&#8217;s being launched on 1 January 2013, but you can sign up at anytime you want to work on yourself for 100 days. 10% of all sales of this product also go to the <strong>Pass it On<\/strong> charity. For less than 50p a day, it&#8217;s a small price to pay for daily motivation and guidance!<\/p>\n<p>For those of you wondering what my next challenge will be, it&#8217;s going to be a nutrition based one and I am going to go grain free for 100 days. No wheat, rye, oats, rice, spelt, kamut etc. I already know I do better without grains, but I want to really see how much better I feel without them for the long term. For someone who loves to bake like I do this will be a challenge, so expect some new recipes during this time! See you on 10th April!<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year to you! Here&#8217;s to your personal improvement over 30, 50 or 100 days in 2013!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day. It&#8217;s done, it&#8217;s over and I&#8217;m ready for a change! 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