This summer at ELITEAM sports conditioning camp, former Olympic skier and broadcast analyst for NBC Universal Doug Lewis of Waitsfield helped lead the 100,000 Burpee Challenge in which campers completed reps of the jump-push-up movement each day to raise money for Positive Tracks charities.
At ELITEAM, "We did 125 a day with 50 campers for 6,250 day," Lewis said. "Some we spread throughout the entire day," he said, but one day the campers did all 125 in 30 minutes. Lewis mixed up the motions to incorporate lunge burpees, ski burpees, karate burpees and break dance burpees. "In the last session when it got really hot, we took to the river for slurpee burpees," Lewis said.
Over the course of four ELITEAM camp sessions, the grand burpee total hit and then surpassed the original goal of 100,000 burpees. Each camper did an extra 100 burpees on the final day of camp to score a $1,057 bonus from a generous supporter who pledged to give one dime per burpee.
At the end of the fundraiser, campers had completed 105,700 burpees to raise $6,122 total for Positive Tracks.
