What is a burpee, and how do you do it?

girlvick
girlvick Posts: 5 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Someone sent me a thirty day challenge and I was just wondering how to do a burpee?

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  • benich3043
    benich3043 Posts: 252 Member
    Also known as suicide jumps in the INsanity program. Start in the standing position, drop down to the push up position, quickly jump and bring both knees to your chest while keeping hands on the ground, shoot your legs back out behind you to return to the push up position and then jump back up off the ground and land in the standing position.

    If you like you can throw a push up in there for good measure. After about five or ten you will feel like you have to burp and after about thirty youll feel like something else is coming with the burp.
  • Flafster
    Flafster Posts: 106 Member
    It's what this madman is doing is fast food outlets in London

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcQ1VRd_LBk&feature=player_embedded

    Burpees start about 2.10

    (also <cough> purdy to watch)
  • Sarasari
    Sarasari Posts: 139 Member
    If you need a visual,this explains it well:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MGljx4bbps

    Good luck!
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    Burpees are the devil of all exercises.. I just did some this morning and I hate them.

    Basically i start standing hands above my head. Squat down so my hands touch the ground and my knees are in my chest. Shoot my legs out behind me, jump them back in between my hands and stand up. Rinse and repeat for as many as you need to do.

    I did 2 sets of 15 and they about killed me :(
  • girlvick
    girlvick Posts: 5 Member
    YIKES!!!

    Thanks... Here I go, GULP!
  • MoveTheMountain
    MoveTheMountain Posts: 764
    I really have to start doing these. They're great for just about your whole upper body, especially core. Ok for legs, too.
  • tubaman58
    tubaman58 Posts: 151
    We called them grasshopopers when I was young
  • SGT_Reg
    SGT_Reg Posts: 186 Member
    Burpees= discomfort, which in turn = great workout and ^ calorie burn
    uugh. Burpees
  • tugers2
    tugers2 Posts: 139
    look it up on youtube
  • ThePhoenixRose
    ThePhoenixRose Posts: 1,978 Member
    burpees are the devil!!!! DON'T DO IT!!!
  • mustgetmuscles1
    mustgetmuscles1 Posts: 3,346 Member
    This is the way I have been doing them. They suck but it is a great exercise. They just never seem to get any easier which is good I guess.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX9z7uUBJOY
  • KyleB65
    KyleB65 Posts: 1,196 Member
    Also known as suicide jumps in the INsanity program. Start in the standing position, drop down to the push up position, quickly jump and bring both knees to your chest while keeping hands on the ground, shoot your legs back out behind you to return to the push up position and then jump back up off the ground and land in the standing position.

    If you like you can throw a push up in there for good measure. After about five or ten you will feel like you have to burp and after about thirty youll feel like something else is coming with the burp.

    Yup, this sums it up nicely!
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Burpees are the devil of all exercises.. I just did some this morning and I hate them.

    Basically i start standing hands above my head. Squat down so my hands touch the ground and my knees are in my chest. Shoot my legs out behind me, jump them back in between my hands and stand up. Rinse and repeat for as many as you need to do.

    I did 2 sets of 15 and they about killed me :(

    Back in the old days when I was in school, we had to do this ^^ regularly in gym class. But they were called squat thrusts. They didn't seem like a big deal back then. I wonder if this 51 yo body could still do them. I will find out tonight. (uh oh, challenge!!)
  • TeachTheGirl
    TeachTheGirl Posts: 2,091 Member
    It's what this madman is doing is fast food outlets in London

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcQ1VRd_LBk&amp;feature=player_embedded

    Usually don't watch videos like this because they make me cringe, but kudos to him!

    I still have issues with pushing my legs out on the way down. My knees just won't cooperate.

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