100 Burpees A Day For Diabetes Awareness Month

3000 burpees in a month can’t be good for anyone can they? Well, maybe they can, especially if you’ve got the beetus!

For the month of November I will be doing 100 burpees a day to raise awareness for #DiabetesAwarenessMonth!

That’s 3,000 burpees across the month! My aim is to have a vehicle from which to make people aware of, or remind them about, the serious impact diabetes has on the 422 million people living with it, and the almost 4 million people killed by it, every year.

This is also an interesting project for me and hopefully other diabetics as I will be doing a, less than scientific, benchmark of key metrics related to diabetes. I want to see just how much of a positive impact a relatively short amount of exercise each day can have. I will be benchmarking weight, average blood glucose, average insulin, resting heart rate and the time taken to do the 100 burpees each week.

I will update the below table each week with my benchmark metrics in the hope I, and others, can get a picture of what changes regular, high intensity exercise can deliver.

	Start	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4
Weight	98.8kg	100kg	100kg	100kg	100kg
Average BG	7.8mmol	6.7mmol	6.5mmol	6.7mmol	6.8mmol
Daily bolus dose	11 units	11 units	11 units	11 units	11 units
Resting heart rate	70 bpm	63 bpm	52 bpm	58 bpm	60 bpm
Time to 100	15min20sec	13min05sec	12min21sec	10min18sec	9min58sec