- My leg.
Hi, I'm Dakota.
I am fully out of shape
since the start of quarantine and before.
I've been getting very little exercise
cause I'm a human piece of garbage.
So starting today, I am going to change that.
For the next 30 days,
I'm going to be doing 100 burpees a day.
Thankfully, I don't have to do this alone.
I'm gonna be joined by my friend, Jasmine,
who has agreed to do this along with me.
Thank you so much, Jasmine.
- Yeah, I don't know why I'm doing this.
I do kind of regret it.
(upbeat music)
I am overall a very athletic person,
but lately in quarantine,
I've just been a middle-aged Korean woman
standing in front of her TV,
doing aerobics while watching Korean dramas.
Do I like burpees?
No.
My knees don't like it.
My ankles don't like it.
My wrists don't like it, but I want to look cute.
- Wow, I never thought I'd be taking my clothes off
in a video, at least not this kind of video.
So here is my body.
I'm definitely in A physical condition.
It's not so bad, but it can get better.
- It's day one.
I changed into my workout clothes,
and we're gonna just see how many burpees I can do.
- A burpee is a combination of a jump, a squat,
a plank and a push up.
So it really targets a lot of your body.
Why did I agree to this?
- Does my butt look better yet?
I'm pretty excited to do this next set of 100 burpees.
I don't know why I said that.
I'm not that excited to do the 100 burpees.
- It is the morning of day three.
My abs hurt.
- I asked the Dakota if we get recovery days
for this challenge, and he laughed.
I think that's a no.
(indistinct)
I really don't wanna do the burpees today.
I actually purposely stayed in bed longer
just so I could delay the day.
(upbeat music)
Fifteen.
So week one is officially over.
Learned that mindset was of the utmost importance
when starting your burpees.
Hi, it's week two and I've gained four pounds.
(Jasmine laughs)
These burpees make me so hungry.
- I have not been doing the push-ups with the burpees
because I don't have a lot of arm strength.
So starting today,
I'm gonna start trying to incorporate push-ups.
One thing I've noticed is that
I'm also sort of about thinking a little bit more
about the rest of my day while I'm doing this exercise.
I think it's reminding me that like,
"Yeah, my health is important."
And that, "Sure, doing burpees is healthy,
but it's only one aspect of like a healthy lifestyle."
- I really didn't wanna do them today,
so I came to terms with skipping today.
And then George, my boyfriend, was like,
"No, I'll do it with you.
You don't need to skip."
Anyway, he did it with me
and now he's dying on the floor, so.
- So Jasmine and I have a call right now
with a personal trainer who's going to watch us do a burpee
and give us comments on our form
and then teach us how to properly do a burpee.
- Hello everyone.
My name is Kiana Vestuto.
I am an ACE certified personal trainer
based in Los Angeles, California.
Today, I'm going to show you how to do a burpee.
Essentially, burpee is a full body movement.
It works for your lower body.
It works your upper body.
It works to core.
It gets your cardiovascular system working.
When done properly and with proper form,
it is a super, super effective movement.
- Should we show you how we've been doing our burpees
and instead, you can like tell us what we're doing wrong?
(upbeat music)
- That's actually really good Dakota.
Your feet were like almost close together.
Let those be a little bit wider,
kind of like shoulder width apart.
Squat down, almost place those hands
right inside of those feet.
And then you're gonna jump out from there.
You know, major correction for you though, Jasmine,
try to shift those weights in your heels.
Try not to jump those feet in on those toes.
So shifting those weights in those heels
and lifting that chest, jumping to the top.
So, go crush these burpees.
I believe in you.
- I've thought long and hard about it.
I've decided I'm not doing my burpees today.
I love myself, happy birthday to me.
Good bye.
- So, I failed today and I only did 50 burpees.
Tomorrow, I'm going to do all of them.
I'm not going to tail
and I'm not going to fail again for the rest of the month.
(upbeat music)
- It's week three.
After yesterday, I got really bad back pain.
And I think just taking it easy today with all half push-ups
will set me up better for the rest of the week.
(upbeat music)
(indistinct)
My back really won't stop hurting.
And I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong.
I think I need to take today off.
- So, I feel like I've sort of reached a point of plateau.
I feel like I sort of stopped improving
and now things seem to just be getting harder.
- Yesterday was a sad day
because I skipped my burpees again.
I couldn't even sit myself up to get out of bed.
Today, the back pain has not completely dissipated,
but it does feel a lot better.
(dog barking)
- I've enlisted my mother
to try and do some burpees with me today.
Jump,
squat,
plank,
push-up.
- I just woke up, my back is killing me.
I have to skip today's burpees.
I'm so mad because it's not every day
where you enter a workout challenge
and you're mentally in and physically in.
And this is like one of the very few times
where I felt like I was both super in.
So, I'm buying this back stretcher.
I just really wanna be able to do some more burpees
before this challenge ends.
I'm going to try this out.
(Jasmine gasps in pain)
My back feels a lot better today.
I think I'm gonna try doing push-ups on the wall.
I know today's burpees weren't exactly burpees
and they were really severe modifications.
But honestly,
getting into some sort of exercise routine again
feels much better than doing nothing.
(upbeat music)
- So this is it.
Today is finally my last day of doing burpees.
I cannot believe that I've done close to 3000 of these
in the last month.
This is my last burpee for the month.
It's gonna be the best burpee I've ever done.
- Yey!
100.
- I need to sleep for a year.
- When I first said I would do this challenge,
I was really hopeful and determined and optimistic.
I just wanted it to be a happy story.
I can't control what happened during this journey.
And the only thing I'm disappointed about
is the satisfaction of the before and after, right?
When I first started all of this,
I had people from Flat Earther groups reaching out to me,
asking if they could use my ass as their logo.
I have some sort of curve on my butt, which is nice.
I don't think I'm gonna continue doing
100 burpees a day
because I don't think that is like humanly possible anymore.
So maybe instead, I'll do my usual thing
and implement burpees with correct form, slowly.
- I cannot believe I'm finally done.
I don't feel like I look particularly different,
but I definitely feel a little bit different.
I feel a lot stronger.
My roommate and I moved over the weekend,
up and down five flights of stairs,
lots of furniture, boxes.
And he's been complaining about soreness in his legs
and I haven't noticed any of that soreness.
I think because of this overall
that I am definitely going to continue
putting a little bit more exercise
and thought into my lifestyle choices.
So, I would call this a success.
(cheerful music)