Burpee Workout Notes: Aligning with Goal

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When asked: “What’s your goal?” when working out, this caused:

😮💡

Moment in me. I understood why I was looking to workout and it came to this:

I want to workout so I can play with my kids all day and have a good cardiovascular system that at night, I do not snore so loud my wife needs me sleep in the other side of the house.

Once I articulated this, I knew why I loved my burpee workout. The physical challenge was the whole body, improved my cardiovascular system without me leaving the house, and I could get it done in fifteen minutes, give or take.

So with that goal, I dialed the intensity back. I started getting completion times in the 12 minutes range instead of pushing for sub-10 minutes (my first session took 18 minutes!)

I let myself scale down the effort, skipping jumps or thrusts during the burpees.

I also went back to focusing on form too, getting a split second plank in the burpee instead of going straight from landing into a push up.

All of this thanks to aligning with my goal - working out to be with my family more.