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  • Animal Moves: How to move like an animal to get you leaner, fitter, stronger and healthier for life
    Animal Moves: How to move like an animal to get you leaner, fitter, stronger and healthier for life
    by Darryl Edwards

    Animal Moves

    • improve strength, speed and stamina
    • increase mobility, flexibility and stability
    • look, feel and perform better

    Find out more and details on how to purchase at www.animalmovesbook.com

  • Paleo from A to Z: A reference guide to better health through nutrition and lifestyle. How to eat, live and thrive as nature intended!
    Paleo from A to Z: A reference guide to better health through nutrition and lifestyle. How to eat, live and thrive as nature intended!
    by Darryl Edwards

    "If you are looking for a simple way to better understand Paleo concepts, Darryl's Paleo from A to Z guide is the go-to resource.
    -Mark Sisson, best-selling author of The Primal Blueprint and publisher of Mark's Daily Apple

  • Paleo Fitness - A Primal Training and Nutrition Program to Get Lean, Strong and Healthy
    Paleo Fitness - A Primal Training and Nutrition Program to Get Lean, Strong and Healthy
    by Darryl Edwards, Brett Stewart, Jason Warner

    "This book is a useful reference to enable individuals just starting out on the Paleo path as well as those who want to explore more challenging, playful and interesting ways to move."

    -Robb Wolf, New York Times best-selling author of The Paleo Solution

     

  • 7 Day Introduction to Paleo Fitness: Get Fitter, Get Stronger, Get Healthier in Seven Days. Move as Nature Intended.
    7 Day Introduction to Paleo Fitness: Get Fitter, Get Stronger, Get Healthier in Seven Days. Move as Nature Intended.
    by Darryl Edwards
  • The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet
    The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet
    by Robb Wolf
  • Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
    Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
    by Robert M. Sapolsky
  • Primal Blueprint: Reprogram Your Genes for Effortless Weight Loss, Vibrant Health & Boundless Energy (Primal Blueprint Series)
    Primal Blueprint: Reprogram Your Genes for Effortless Weight Loss, Vibrant Health & Boundless Energy (Primal Blueprint Series)
    by Mark Sisson
  • Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things
    Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things
    by Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie, Sarah Dopp
  • Wahls Protocol, The : A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles
    Wahls Protocol, The : A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles
    by Terry Wahls, Eve Adamson
  • Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
    Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
    by Christopher McDougall
  • In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating: An Eater's Manifesto
    In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating: An Eater's Manifesto
    by Michael Pollan
  • Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
    Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
    by Michael Pollan
  • The Paleo Diet for Athletes
    The Paleo Diet for Athletes
    by L. Cordain
  • Vegetarian Myth, The
    Vegetarian Myth, The
    by Lierre Keith
  • The Second Brain
    The Second Brain
    by Michael D. Gershon
  • The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat
    The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat
    by Loren Cordain
  • Eat Drink Paleo
    Eat Drink Paleo
    by Irena Macri
  • Cholesterol Clarity: What the HDL is Wrong with My Numbers?
    Cholesterol Clarity: What the HDL is Wrong with My Numbers?
    by Jimmy Moore, Eric C. Westman

Entries in Burpees (28)

Wednesday
Aug042010

Workout: 300 (To The Test)

Warmup:

10 minute Indoor Row

Workout:*

25 Gold Standard Burpee (including Push-Up)

25 Sit-Ups (without upper back touching the floor)

25 Jump Pull-Ups

25 Deadlifts (gripping 1 x 25kg plate per hand)

25 Knee-to-Elbows

25 Air Squats (below parallel)

25 Scorpion Push-Ups

25 Walking Lunges

25 Clap Push Ups

25 Jump Squats

25 Jump Lunges

25 Clean & Press (single arm 14kg/30lb) Dumbell

300 Reps in total.

*Aim to complete in less than 20 minutes

Finisher:

Medicine Balls of Death (several variations of 5 x medicine ball push-ups)

12 Pull-Ups - (alternating grips and moving from left to right after each rep).


"We did what we were trained to do, what we were bred to do, what we were born to do! ." - Dilios

Wednesday
Jul212010

Workout: Plyometric Pressure

This workout is designed to improve your power endurance.

Warmup:

10 push-ups, 10 air squats, 10 v-situps 

Workout:

4 x 40 metre sprints - 100% effort (with 40m walk back, active recovery)

20-40kg plyometric bench press (release the bar at the top of the press, and catch)

3 sets of 7 reps (substitute with clap push-ups) - rest 20 seconds between sets


Box Jumps (24 inch box)

10 (rest for a count of 10)

10

20 (rest for a count of 20)

20

25 (rest for a count of 25) 

2 minute rest

Finisher:

50 Burpees

Wednesday
Jun092010

Workout: Kettlebell Blitz


KB = Kettlebell

Warm Up: 10 minute Row (minimum 2000m)

3 rounds of:

10 x two arm KB swings

5 x 1 arm KB swings (L/R)

(take 30-60 second rest after completion of 3rd round)

3 rounds of:

10 x KB front Squat (hold kettlebell horns at chest height)

(take 30-60 second rest after completion of 3rd round)

3 rounds of: 

10 x KB Power Clean & Press

(take 30-60 second rest after completion of 3rd round)

Complete for Time:

5 Burpees : 1 KB Press Up (i.e. perform full pressup on kettlebell horns)

4 Burpees : 2 KB Press Up 

3 Burpees : 3 KB Press Up 

2 Burpees : 4 KB Press Up 

1 Burpees : 5 KB Press Up 

(30-60 second rest)

10 Burpees : 2 KB Press Up (i.e. perform full pressup on kettlebell horns)

8 Burpees : 4 KB Press Up 

6 Burpees : 6 KB Press Up 

4 Burpees : 8 KB Press Up 

2 Burpees : 10 KB Press Up 

Then Finish with Max Rep Chin-Ups (underhand grip)

Feel free to substitute with Dumbbells, if you have no kettlebells to hand.

Monday
May102010

35 Minute Workout

Low Intensity: 10 mins

Concept 2 Row (Warmup) - Minimum 2000m

Medium Intensity: 10 mins 

Farmer's Walk (2 KBs)

Push Up Variations

Crocodile Walk

Bear Crawl

Crab Walks

KB Chest Carry

High Intensity: (Repeat Circuit below for 15 mins)

8 Pull-ups

20 KB Snatches

20 Weighted KB Step Ups

20 hang knee raises

20 Air Squats

20 Burpees
 

NB: KB = Kettlebells

 

This was tough!  A great way to start the week.


 

 

 

 

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