MABA: The life-enriching power of the Second F
Yeah, you'll be in better shape after doing 3,100 burpees in January. But that's only part of the reason to do them.
Make America Burpee Again (MABA) is a nationwide CSAUP in which each of us is committing to doing 3,100 burpees in 31 days. Fall down. Get back up. Together. Sign up to join us here. It’s not too late. You can either get caught up or pro-rate your goal. Log your burpees here. Forward this to friends. SYITG.
Send your why, or your inspiration, or the PAX who keeps you going, to Matt Crossman (F3 Ralph) at mcrossman98@gmail.com.
The life-enriching power of second F
I’m a freelance magazine writer. I wrote about F3, MABA and the death of my mom at Success.com, which you can read here. Please read it and share it with friends. I tried to capture the power of second F in my life and by extension yours. My grief is unique. My need for fellowship is not. It’s universal, now more than ever.
MABA is so powerful it makes children cry
MABA has dominated The Last Stop, the coolest AO in the nation. It’s all we talk about. Every beatdown has at least 100 burpees, and usually more. I knew we would have “fun,” in the preposterous way F3ers have come to define that word. I knew we would share in each other’s suffering.
But doing this together has bonded us in ways I did not see coming and spread into our families in ways I would not have predicted. Wives and children are doing burpees with us. Boston, the just-turned 2 son of CFIT, cried one night last week because his dad stopped doing burpees. Related: CFIT throws around coupons like a tornado throws around garbage bags. Dude’s a beast.
Hey MABA-boy, how many burpees have I done?
Your totals are here. Many thanks to Red Turtle and SlowPitch for handling that stuff. As a writer, I understand tech like a garbage bag understands a tornado.
Through Tuesday night, 297 men had submitted 327,091 burpees. I hope that collectively we will hit 1 million burpees. We’re off the pace at the moment, perhaps because our HC number does not align with the number of PAX who have submitted burpees. We have 380 HCs, which means we would hit 1 million easily if all y’all live up to your commitments, which, mighty HIMs that you are, won’t be a problem. Right? But MABA is not ultimately about numbers. It’s about attitude. It’s about resilience. Fall down. Get back up. Together.
Patches? We absolutely positively need stinking patches! (And t-shirts)
MABA patches and t-shirts are available for pre-order here. They’re beautiful. Many thanks to Short Circuit for the design.
A few burpees short of 400
We challenge you to send photo/video evidence of yourself doing burpees in a strange place. Whether that’s because you’re a few burpees short of 400 and need to knock them out wherever you happen to be … or because you’re just a weirdo doesn’t matter. Whoever submits proof of himself doing a burpee in the weirdest place wins a MABA t-shirt. It has to be in the course of MABA.