SIDCHAs

According to my spreadsheet that calculates my burpee count, I did my hundred-fifty-thousandth today. Actually, that would be my hundred-fifty-thousandth as part of my burpee-based sidcha. I occasionally do more, like to show people how to do them, or when I see how long I take to do a hundred, but I never do less. My total expenditures on them is still $0.00, including equipment, trainer, travel, etc. I haven't missed a day since my first, December 22, 2011---3,000 days plus a few weeks ago, or 8 years and a few months. I started at 10 a day. Now I do two sets daily of 15-to-20-minute burpee-based calisthenics that include stretches and exercises for my abs, back, and biceps. Most days I do 54, but…

On December 22, 2011, a friend and I challenged ourselves to do ten burpees a day for thirty days. As I had aged out of playing ultimate at the level I wanted to, squeezed enough sense of accomplishment from running marathons that I wanted, and didn't want to pay to use the gym down the block, which I might not go to in the rain and required changing, reshowering, and rechanging, an effective bodyweight exercise appealed to me. Needing no equipment, spotter, training, weather, or other potential impediment, I could do burpees anywhere, any time, without restriction. A recent morning burpee With practice I increased the daily number and kept going past that month, in time adding stretches and other exercises to work muscles burpees…

I can't believe I didn't think of saying the phrase until the other day: I do more burpees before 9am than most people do all day. It's satisfying to write. I could have said it years ago. Friends are surprises I haven't said it. When I said it to someone out loud, he pointed out I could say: I do more burpees before 9am than most people do in their entire lives.