In any case, there have been days (like this Friday) where for some reason I can’t make it. No problem, CrossFit can be done anywhere. However, a lot of the workouts, at the very least, require a pullup bar. I really want to get one for my house and office, but haven’t done that yet. Also, I wanted to find workouts I could do on the road as well where the equipment I’ve got on me is extremely limited. (Kettlebells and Packing Light don’t really go that well together.)

I googled for “CrossFit Bodyweight” and found this great document:
Bodyweight WOD’s. (A ‘WOD’ is the Workout Of The Day, the workout a given CrossFit affiliate has their athletes do that day.)

Lots of them still require the ability to do pullups (again, no bar) or include moves that I’m still working on, like handstand pushups or 1-legged squats.

So I clipped out (for my reference, but figured it might help someone else, too) a few of those that I am able to do, and only require one piece of equipment: some ability to keep time. (Well, and in some cases something approximately 2 feet tall that you can jump onto.)

I’ve retained the original sourcing on all of the WOD’s that had them.

Here’s the problem: I started the challenge on Jan 1st, and I became a new dad on Jan 10th. I managed to do some of them, but I find myself behind.

The rule is, generally, that you need to do all the ones you missed. So if you missed, as I did, the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th (yikes) that means I need to do (12+13+14+15+16+17+18) = 105. It’s cool, I’m good for it.

But it’s kind of annoying to punch all those numbers into a calculator to find the number, and there’s a good chance I’d typo something. Thankfully there is a math trick (with a good explanation over at WikiHow for how to do it and how it works) for finding the sum of all the numbers from 1 to some number ‘N’. Short version, the sum is (N*(N+1))/2. So if I want to find how many I missed between the 12th and the 18th, I just need to find the sum of 1 to 18 ( and subtract the part I already did, the sum from 1 to 11). In other words ((18*19)-(11*12))/2, or 105.

Hence, a quick and dirty calculator. Just punch in the last count you did, the count you should be doing today, hit enter, and the third box will give you your wonderful total you need to do today (including today’s.)

It sounded like fun so I jumped in and made up my missing Burpees. Since we started it on the 1st of the year, it’s pretty easy to know how many you have to do for the month of January — it’s just the date. It gets trickier after January’s over — you need to know what day of year it is.

I found a sweet PDF calendar generator which includes the ability to put the day of the year right in the calendar!

So, here it is. (I’ll bring one in for Crossfit Culver’s wall before the end of January.)
Link: 100_burpee_calendar.pdf