This workout is done on a baseball diamond.  As many rounds as possible in 20 minutes:

Start at home base and sprint between bases. At each base perform an exercise.

1st base = 12 burpees
2nd base = 24 squats
3rd base = 12 360 degree spinning jumps
Homeplate = 24 jumping jacks 

Something weird happened during this workout.  During  the first sprint I noticed that my legs felt extremely heavy - like they were full of pudding. By the last sprint my legs were moving in slow motion.  My mind was sprinting but my feet were plodding.  I didn’t have lactic burn and I wasn’t sucking wind.  It was more like the connection between my brain and muscles had been severed. Sometimes I experience this sensation while rolling but it’s never happened to me outside of the context of BJJ before.

Anyhoo, I finished 5 reps of this circuit in 20 minutes.  I got lapped twice by the two fastest people in the class, which was utter humiliation.   

Doing burpees on a baseball diamond is great.  When you sprawl into the pushup, if you exhale you blow sand into your eyes.  If you hold your breath you get dizzy and fall over on the way up.   

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