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Why do people hate burpees so much?

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  • k7n2w3
    k7n2w3 Posts: 241 Member
    i get motion sickness from them :-( They are only thing i modify in Insanity because otherwise i get really sick... like as if i was just on a roller coaster.. i know i'm probably an oddball on that one.
  • bbriscoe13
    bbriscoe13 Posts: 175 Member
    I would rather do clean and press and dealifts than burpees....I'm not sure why? I think it's beacuse I hate cardio ha. I really hate being out of breath...and maybe that is just because I don't breath right? When I do clean and press or deadlifts I am think about my form rather than how much this sucks and how out of breath I am haha. I really don't mind burpees too much...I hate lunging off the back of a step sooooo much more...and anything step related.
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    um... I didn't read the entire thread but, what the heck is a "burpee'?

    go to 18 seconds into the video--this is a burpee with a push-up

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYfNA_lmkHM
  • melsmith612
    melsmith612 Posts: 727 Member
    I thought Burpees was a seed/plant catalog... so until reading part of this thread, I thought I hated them too. :laugh:
  • dane11235813
    dane11235813 Posts: 682 Member
    um... I didn't read the entire thread but, what the heck is a "burpee'?

    Black Doug: It's funny, 'cause just the other day, me and my boy, we was wonderin' why they even call 'em burpees. Y'know what I'm talkin' 'bout?
    Stu Price: No. Don't know what you're talkin' 'bout.
    Black Doug: Why not floories, right? 'Cause when you do 'em, you're more likely to end up on the floor than the roof. What about groundies? That's a good new name fo' 'em.
    Alan Garner: Or how 'bout rapies?
  • ilovedeadlifts
    ilovedeadlifts Posts: 2,923 Member
    um... I didn't read the entire thread but, what the heck is a "burpee'?

    Black Doug: It's funny, 'cause just the other day, me and my boy, we was wonderin' why they even call 'em burpees. Y'know what I'm talkin' 'bout?
    Stu Price: No. Don't know what you're talkin' 'bout.
    Black Doug: Why not floories, right? 'Cause when you do 'em, you're more likely to end up on the floor than the roof. What about groundies? That's a good new name fo' 'em.
    Alan Garner: Or how 'bout rapies?

    lol
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    In the old days we used to call it a "squat thrust".

    They are difficult to do, I think especially for us women who have less upper body strength. When I first started exercising I hated them. They are getting a little easier but they are definitely not my favorite.
  • ChitownFoodie
    ChitownFoodie Posts: 1,562 Member
    In the old days we used to call it a "squat thrust".

    They are difficult to do, I think especially for us women who have less upper body strength. When I first started exercising I hated them. They are getting a little easier but they are definitely not my favorite.

    I knew those things looked familiar! I used to love them in gym class. Then again, I always loved anything gym related.
  • belladonna786
    belladonna786 Posts: 1,165 Member
    cuz when I'm on the floor doing sumpin' I wanna finish and not have to jump up and do sumpon' else. lol!!!




    LMFAO!!!!!!!
  • africaa
    africaa Posts: 228
    Because I'm lazy and I think they're hard.

    We have a love hate relationship though lol
  • jlapey
    jlapey Posts: 1,850 Member
    um... I didn't read the entire thread but, what the heck is a "burpee'?

    go to 18 seconds into the video--this is a burpee with a push-up

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYfNA_lmkHM

    Thank you! I can see now why so many don't like them. It looks like a pain in the...
  • jlapey
    jlapey Posts: 1,850 Member
    I thought Burpees was a seed/plant catalog... so until reading part of this thread, I thought I hated them too. :laugh:

    LOL, that's the only Burpees I'd ever heard of until now.
  • wffolkes
    wffolkes Posts: 186 Member
    i hate the name... ´burpees´, makes me think of someone burping, YUK :sick:

    Agreed. I love burpees but why do they have to be called that? I always do mine with a push up. But there are worse exerciSes than burpees such as pull ups and jump lunges...

    i F-ING hate jumping lunges too. those are EVVVVVIIIIL!

    Jumping/ leaping lunges are a killer my heart rate goes off the roof my legs ache and I see stars!!!
    In any circuit I dread this exercise. BUT I will overcome them
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