Bulldog Bootcamp Fitness Program

Grant Park Assessments 8/11/08

Great job everyone on some fantastic improvements.  Patrick sure has you guys firing on all cylinders.  I will post the results later tognight or early tomorrow. Stay tuned.

100 Day Burpee Challenge Update

Are you keeping up with your burpees?  Today is day 10.  You should have 55 under your belt by the end of the day.  If you still want to get in on the challenge, you'll need to do 55 today.  Remember, you don't have to do them all at once.  You can 5 or 10 at a time throughout the day if you wish.  Here's my last two days.

100 Day Burpee Challenge Day 10 from Greg Major on Vimeo.
100 Day Burpee Challenge Day 9 from Greg Major on Vimeo.

100 Day Burpee Challenge Day 8

Day 8 - 45 Burpees to buy in if you haven't already started.

From Grant Park in Downtown Chicago, doing 8 burpees (actually 9 because I lost count) with the Grant Park Bulldogs.  Some of you need a little work on these. 

100 Day Burpee Challenge Day 8 from Greg Major on Vimeo.

Great Job today Grant Park Bulldogs!

Way to tough out a hard workout.  I have to appologize for being a bit disjointed this morning.  I got in last night after driving home from Saint Paul, MN where I raced in the Saint Paul Inline Marathon  I won't bore you with my tales of woe other than to say I had an "A Christmass Story" moment this morning.  Long story short I stepped on my glasses while I was looking for them.  Anyway, great job on the workout.  It wasn't as much abou the scores as it was working your hardest throughout which you certainly did.  This workout is based on a CrossFit workout called "FIght Gone Bad"  The workout was designed to simulate the intensity level of a 3 round MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fight.  When the fighter they were training was asked -what did you think of that workout?  He replied "it felt like a fight gone bad".  We used different exercises but it was still a kickass workout. 

100 Day Burpee Challenge Day 7

I did my 7 burpees today with two of the top female skaters in the country.  On my right is Jilleane Rookard and on my left is Helen Havam.  Jilleane won the womens 26 mile Saint Paul Inline Marathon which had just been completed.  So yes, these were done after a grueling skate, legs trashed. 

100 Day Burpee Challenge Day 7 from Greg Major on Vimeo.

100 Day Burpee Challenge Day 6

I'm in Saint Paul, MN for the Saint Paul Inline Marathon.   It's a 26 mile road skate race.  The video is from the convention room of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Saint Paul.  The person to my right is Rob Bell from Oklahoma.  Rob is one of the top elite skaters in the country.  He's also a tri-athlete and an all round good guy.  On my left is Alex Fedak who is one of the top masters skaters (over 35) in the country.  They were a little reluctant at first but it didn't take much arm twisting. 

100 Day Burpee Challenge Day 6 from Greg Major on Vimeo.

Congratulations Run for Gus Bulldogs

I wanted to give a big thanks to those Bulldogs who participated in the "Run for Gus" on Thurs evening July 31st 2008. Congratulations on both running and completing a very important charity run.

Steven Carr, Caroline Cop, "DI Curtis", Lindsey DeGrazia, Matt Draus, Alison Fink, "Sgt Friday", Katie Garcia, Darla Honkomp, Melissa LaGrant, Amy May, Jan Poole, Michael Roberts, Michael Tripoli, Christina Williams, Tori Windisch, Brad Young, as well as some of "DI Curtis's" 6a Grant Park Bulldogs.

Congratulations......and thanks again for being a part of a very important evening!!!!

100 Day Burpee Challenge Update

The following video was done with my two daughters Reese and McKenna. 
100 Day Burpee Challenge-Day 5 from Greg Major on Vimeo.

It's not too late to join in the fun!  If you were at today's workout you have your 15 buy-in burpees done already.  See the here for more details

Here's who's in so far:

Major

Sgt Friday

Mark M.

Matt D.

Stephen

Tony A.

Kate C.

Christine H.

Adriana

Bobby P.

Nicole C.

Lucy B.

Melissa L.

I know there's more of you.  You can still get in.  To be current you need to do 6 Burpees today if you haven't done any yet this week.  Remember, you can do them anywhere, anytime.  Split them up however you like.   Let's get going.

This mornings workout

This mornings workout based on a CrossFit format.

Run 400M

Pyramid 1-9-1 the following(1 rep of each, then 2 reps of each and so on up to 9 and then back down):

Pushups-Flutterkicks (4-count)-Burpees

Run 400m

Great job by everyone this morning.  For those of you that are still scared of the 100 Day Burpee Challenge, if you were at the workout this morning you did 81 reps of each exercise.  Most were done between 18 and 25 minutes.  That's 3 exercises.  19 more and we'd already have a 100 Burpee day.  Here's the times from the 5:00 am session.

Karyn P	24.24
Connie C.	24.24
Mark B.	24.03
Charley A.	25
Kathryn P.	21.08
Kate C.	24.03

Times from the 6:00 am session.

Dan Pratt 24.01 Alison F. 25.05 Brian S. 24.09 Matt 19.3

100 Day Burpee Challenge

We're up to 10 including yours truly!  That's good but I know we can do better.  Scroll down to see the list of who's in.  All you need is 6 for today to get on board.   

Ok, so I know how you all love Burpees so much.  How about taking the 100 Day Burpee challenge with me? 
I'm doing this with a group that I workout with, Windy City CrossFit.  It's not my idea but I thought it would be fun.  I know, I'm warped.

Here's how it will work: beginning Monday, July 28th Burpee Challenge participants will do one burpee on day one and adding one each day until we get to 100 Burpees on the 100th Day!  Total = 5050 Burpees.

If you miss a day you can make them up on the next day.  You can count the burpees done during workouts but only the number you need for that day.  Any "extra" burpees cannot be carried forward. 

If you're interested in doing the challenge with me, please add your name to the comment section below.  Here's a reminder of what they look like.

100 Day Burpee Challenge from Greg Major on Vimeo.