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The Burpee was named in the 1930s for American physiologist Royal H. Burpee, who developed the burpee test. He earned a PhD in applied physiology from Columbia University in 1940 and created the "burpee" exercise as part of his PhD thesis as a quick and simple way to assess fitness.
The exercise was popularized when the United States Armed Services adopted it as a way to assess the fitness level of recruits when the US entered WWII. Consisting of a series of the exercises performed in rapid succession, the test was meant to be a quick measure of agility, coordination and strength.
As a all round winner the Burpee has many benefits of which I have listed a few below:
• They are a mega calorie burner and practically use every muscle in your body!
• With every repetition, you'll work your arms, chest, quads, glutes, hamstrings, and abs. After a few sets of burpees, your legs should feel a little like lead weights!
• They are great for developing conditioning and endurance! And they get your heart rate up; fast.
• You need absolutely no equipment at all, they are totally portable.
• You can add them to any workout, doesn't matter what the workout is focused on the Burpee will work the same muscle groups in some way this makes them nearly perfect.
• They work anerobic and aerobic body systems.
• Perfect to develop strength, conditioning and endurance.
• They melt fat away at a very fast rate.
• It is by far one of the most outstanding exercises ever invented.
The burpee is probably the single most effective and complete, whole-body conditioning exercise there is. No other movement on the planet will work as many muscle groups, whilst at the same time massively improving your endurance, stamina and cardiovascular conditioning.
So start doing them, and like all exercises do them well, the harder it is the better, it should mean your technique is fantastic.
Technique Breakdown - Burpee - Full Body
Start/Finish Position
Start standing tall.
Movement Phase
Squat down until you are in a crouching position with your hands on the floor wider than shoulder width.
Kick both of your feet back so you are in a pushup position.
Perform a pushup.
Pull your feet back to the crouching position as before.
Explosively raise yourself and jump as high as you can.
As your feet leave the ground clap your hands above your head.
Land and repeat.
Breathing Directions
Breathe in during the downward motion.
Breathe out during the upward motion.
Tips
Don't try to move from one point of the technique before the other, for example pull your feet back in before performing a pushup.
Try this out and you will be impressed, just add it into your daily workout. The 100 Burpee challenge is a 100-day routine in which you do one Burpee on day one, two on day two, and so on, all the way up to 100 Burpees in 100 days. Find a training partner and make a competition of it even have a prize for the winner.
If you think that the challenge is a lot of Burpees, a guy named Paddy Doyle performed 1,840 Burpees in one hour! If you do more, you're eligible for a spot in The Guinness Book of World Records.