Burpees?

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  • nolongerXXL
    nolongerXXL Posts: 222 Member
    I might could handle these beginner ones:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIQx1FiQt50&list=PL790FA88C4406237C

    Maybe I should start here, and work up to a real one!!

    Thank you for posting this video with modification, I think will try these!
  • dietcokeg
    dietcokeg Posts: 68 Member
    i have a love hate relationship with burpees LOL!!
  • MattChurchill
    MattChurchill Posts: 33 Member
    Burpees appear lots in my circuit classes. I prefer weighted burpees, usually with 15kg dumbells to make them a little more interesting

    have you ever tried burpee box jumps to make them even more interesting? :)))


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVcO91jkE9Y
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiiHRzFc_o4

    We have lots of different types of horribleness!!!!!

    Burpee, box jump, pull ups are nasty as a combo although not as nasty as ladder pressups!!!!!

    Lie a ladder down (material ladder not metal or wooden), hands between the rungs and pressup all the way along if that makes sense
  • MattChurchill
    MattChurchill Posts: 33 Member
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvAL88Uq_uQ
  • craigmandu
    craigmandu Posts: 976 Member
    I have a hard time doing them...but I have prior low back problems (minus 2 discs in lower back)..the act of getting back out of the plank to squat position for the jump just causes too much "bending" in my lower back.
  • Snatched614
    Snatched614 Posts: 115 Member
    I can't stand them and im apple shaped with big boobs. So instead of the burpees I do a combo exercise. Its a mix of a pushup and scissor movement. So im still working out my legs engaging the core but not all that up and down movement. Gotta move too much stuff around for all that. LOL!!! Good luck...
  • dawnna76
    dawnna76 Posts: 987 Member
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  • csuhar
    csuhar Posts: 779 Member
    I've been meaning to ask this question... my basement (workout space) has low ceilings, I can't do the overhead clap... will a burpee suffer if I were to, say, just bring my arms out to my side instead of overhead?

    I don't think you'll have a problem. For all my time in the military, we've never clapped and we've always been worn out by the time the instructors were tired.

    Usually, we did a variant called the 8-count bodybuilder:

    1. Squat.
    2. Feet out together into Plank Position.
    3. Feet out to shoulder-width (just "hop" your feet high enough to move them)
    4. Feet back in.
    5. Lower chest to floor.
    6. Push chest back up into plank.
    7. Bring feet back up into squat.
    8. "Explode" back up into the standing position, getting off the ground if possible. Some people reach their hands above their heads, others don't.

    They can be a real butt-kicker on their own, they're harder with a vest, and they're even harder in boots and battle-rattle.
  • 1223345
    1223345 Posts: 1,386 Member
    I've been meaning to ask this question... my basement (workout space) has low ceilings, I can't do the overhead clap... will a burpee suffer if I were to, say, just bring my arms out to my side instead of overhead?

    I don't think you'll have a problem. For all my time in the military, we've never clapped and we've always been worn out by the time the instructors were tired.

    Usually, we did a variant called the 8-count bodybuilder:

    1. Squat.
    2. Feet out together into Plank Position.
    3. Feet out to shoulder-width (just "hop" your feet high enough to move them)
    4. Feet back in.
    5. Lower chest to floor.
    6. Push chest back up into plank.
    7. Bring feet back up into squat.
    8. "Explode" back up into the standing position, getting off the ground if possible. Some people reach their hands above their heads, others don't.

    They can be a real butt-kicker on their own, they're harder with a vest, and they're even harder in boots and battle-rattle.

    LOL.... me and my husband went driving through base one day for what ever reason, and they had a bunch of poor folks out there doing these things in the dirt. It was a huge dust cloud, and anyone who was not in front surely was hating life anyway, let alone with all the dirt swirling around.
  • rachy867
    rachy867 Posts: 32
    Burpees appear lots in my circuit classes. I prefer weighted burpees, usually with 15kg dumbells to make them a little more interesting

    I also do weighted burpees makes it feel more worthwhile, I use 10kg dumbells at moment. I hate doing them but know they are so worth doing I make sure i do them.
  • catrinaHwechanged
    catrinaHwechanged Posts: 4,907 Member
    I actually love them.....it's a torturous kind of love!!
  • RoadsterGirlie
    RoadsterGirlie Posts: 1,195 Member
    Burpees have been an integral part of my routine since I started regularly exercising when I started my weight loss journey. Initially I had to modify them because I was too heavy to do any sort of plyometric moves. I came down to the floor, stepped back one foot at a time instead of jumping back with both feet, and got up the same way with no jump at the top.

    Now I have just started doing weighted burpees with zero modification. Holy crap.

    It's so much fun seeing how much I've progressed these past couple of years.
  • MoRiv1986
    MoRiv1986 Posts: 379 Member
    I guess I did the modified version that didn't include the full push up. But it included the jump.
  • chantelp89
    chantelp89 Posts: 590 Member
    We called these 8 count body builders back when I was in the Navy. We had to do these constantly. Yes, they are a great core exercise. I didn't know they were called burpees nthese days, until I was doing them the other day, and someone saw me and ask" how many burpees do you do a day"? Hell, I didn't even know what he meant ....LOL...... I was like' WHAT?????, i WAS DOING 8 COUNT bb's a minute ago...." Then he told me they call them burpees now .....
    That's exactly what my boyfriend just said
  • MoRiv1986
    MoRiv1986 Posts: 379 Member
    Burpees appear lots in my circuit classes. I prefer weighted burpees, usually with 15kg dumbells to make them a little more interesting

    have you ever tried burpee box jumps to make them even more interesting? :)))


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVcO91jkE9Y
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiiHRzFc_o4

    Aah! I've seen people doing those in the gym sometimes. What a challenge!
  • MoRiv1986
    MoRiv1986 Posts: 379 Member
    Wow, weighted burpees? I am gonna try to do the 100 burpees challenge with Fitness Blender. Wish me luck.

    I am currently on day 94 of the 100 day burpee challenge!!! I am so ready to be done, but I will say my upper body has boomed and i have lost ~1% body fat in in 94 days - that is from 11% to 10% - that said, I have been working out other than just burpees, but they give a lot of strength and power. As time goes, you become very efficent at doing them - 50 is easy , 75 is tireing, - but when I stared, 25 felt like 75 does today.

    Good luck!!

    100 days of burpees? I just meant doing 100 burpees. Lol. But good luck, and maybe as I work up to it, I will put myself on that 100-day challenge.
  • Cocozest
    Cocozest Posts: 28 Member
    Burpees = hell

    I love the feeling at the end, but oh man, it wasn't fun at all to do. I'll do burpee once in awhile to change routine. I usually do it while watching blogilates video
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,993 Member
    Whining clients get the burpee beat down.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 28+ years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
  • MoRiv1986
    MoRiv1986 Posts: 379 Member
    Whining clients get the burpee beat down.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 28+ years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

    Lol!
  • Turnaround2012
    Turnaround2012 Posts: 362 Member
    Just started doing Burpees yesterday. There is something seriously wrong with my head LOL!
  • MoRiv1986
    MoRiv1986 Posts: 379 Member
    Just started doing Burpees yesterday. There is something seriously wrong with my head LOL!

    Good luck! I just started doing them as well, but I like them. You feel so great afterwards.
  • lucyhross
    lucyhross Posts: 87 Member
    Wow, weighted burpees? I am gonna try to do the 100 burpees challenge with Fitness Blender. Wish me luck.

    haha i did this! it killed me!!

    they are great workouts though- i love fitness blender! if i ever have 10-15 mins spare i do them
  • csmbsailor
    csmbsailor Posts: 10 Member
    I have hips and boobs too and someone showed me how to use a low platform to put my hand on as modification
  • doublew98
    doublew98 Posts: 7 Member
    I had not heard of them until a few weeks ago when I had a PT session at the gym and my instructor added them to my program. When I came to do the program for the first time on my own I was merrily burpie-ing away when I suddenly saw 2 feet appear behind me, and my instructor was there yelling "chest on the floor!!" (I was apparently doing them wrong).

    Now I am doing them right and man, they hurt. But they are working wonders for my legs!!

    I am doing a triathlon in June and need to get my cycling legs on. Burpies are definitely helping with that!
  • JohnnyCashMoney
    JohnnyCashMoney Posts: 142
    Burpees are of the debil.
  • Turnaround2012
    Turnaround2012 Posts: 362 Member
    bump
  • lisa_lotte
    lisa_lotte Posts: 216
    We do a lot of burpees, something with a press-up sometimes wihtout and sometimes wihtout the jump - we mix it up. We have never clapped above our heads tho, just do the jump!
  • bmwauug
    bmwauug Posts: 54 Member
    I just finished the 100 day burpee challenge; Day 1, 1, day 2, 2, day 3......day 100, 100 - if you miss a day, you must make them up - and they do not all have to be done in order).

    Interstingly, once you get into them - you establish a really nice rythym - the clap above the jump helps with this. This challenge was more mind over body, but I will say I'm really good at them - and they make push-ups so easy. Huge difference in my strenght from when i started to now...

    FYI - I did the challenge because this is a staple in my boot camp work outs - I just wanted to master them!
  • trentwiggly
    trentwiggly Posts: 74 Member
    I did a burpee once. I hope to one day do another.:laugh:

    Does it matter that I"m in my 40s? May I be excused for not managing more than one? I really have to try for two.
  • leeroxboro
    leeroxboro Posts: 142 Member
    I just finished the 100 day burpee challenge; Day 1, 1, day 2, 2, day 3......day 100, 100 - if you miss a day, you must make them up - and they do not all have to be done in order).

    Interstingly, once you get into them - you establish a really nice rythym - the clap above the jump helps with this. This challenge was more mind over body, but I will say I'm really good at them - and they make push-ups so easy. Huge difference in my strenght from when i started to now...

    FYI - I did the challenge because this is a staple in my boot camp work outs - I just wanted to master them!


    HAHA!! This reminds me of what my grandpa told me once...if a man lifts a calf the day it's born and every day after, he will one day be able to lift a bull....not sure if he made that up, or heard it somewhere else...never thought about it in terms of something like this...I guess if I start doing a push up today, and adding one a day I will be able to do 20 in about 20 days!!

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