MABA: Join us in person or Zoom for the finale
1.5 million burpees means fellowship is thriving, friendships are deepening, and loneliness is diminishing.
I’ve said it over and over: MABA is not about numbers. But the numbers are instructive. I am the Q of MABA, the co-founder of it, and its chief cheerleader. I have written thousands of words about it. As of 4:30 p.m. on January 29, I have done 4,838 burpees—more than 1.5 times the stated goal of 3,100. You would think, then, that given all of that—seemingly big number, leadership position, etc.—that my name would be near the top of the leaderboard.
PFFT!
These facts amaze me, thrill me, make me throw up in my mouth: I’m not within 10,000 burpees of being the leader IN MY OWN AO. Two men at my beatdown today (photo above) have each done 4,447 more than I have. I am only 10th in my own region and 44th in the nation. My arms are going to fall off of my body and 43 of you have done more, many of you several thousand more.
Last year, Disco Ball did 11,000 burpees and we thought nobody would ever come close to that. This year, three have already beaten that and more have a shot at it.
By the time we’re done on Monday, 581 men, women and children will have done somewhere around 1.5 million burpees. Behind those numbers, fellowship is thriving, friendships are deepening, and loneliness is diminishing.
Y’all have kicked MABA’s ass, and I love you for it. Let’s go kick its ass for two more days. Fall down. Get back up. Together.
Brick’s preblast for the finale:
Preblast: A VERY MABA Finale
Date: 1//31/2022
Time: 5:30 am central time
Where: #ao_the_awakening in Chesterfield, Missouri
Q: Brick (and friends)
Why: Oh gosh, so damn much here -
1. 1% better, forever and always
2. We need to end this month of EXTREME acceleration
3. That last 220 burpees will be the best burpees you’ve done all month
4. Convergence? It's been a minute.....
5. Lotus Notes is an amazing man
6. We will have HIMs from all over the globe joining (no, seriously, Ralph got them to HC!)
The thang: We will be doing the "Soundtrack of MABA," beatdown. Here are links to the audio file and spreadsheet if you can’t join us.
Audio file - https://www.dropbox.com/s/53d18fbx76akyth/Soundtrack%20of%20MABA_2022%20%281%29.mp3?dl=0Spreadsheet - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ke27lxeyh76fkhq/Soundtrack%20of%20MABA_Standard_2022.xlsx%20-%20Sheet1.pdf?dl=0
ZOOM INFO -https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84285337911?pwd=TFFXL2NlS09rS01aZzlDbUl6UjZqZz09
Meeting ID: 842 8533 7911
Passcode: Burpee(I mean, what else could it have been?)
And you’re not going to do a month of burpees and NOT buy a t-shirt, are you? Order your shirt here.