Death by Burpee

[Typhoon92]

Try this...you'll laugh at first but let's see how far you get.  I did it today at the end of my workout.

20 minute cap. ...so for instance minute 1 you do 1 burpee then rest the remainder of the minute.  Minute 2, 2 burpees and rest the remainder of the minute..so...

Minute 1 you do one burpee

Minute 2 you do 2 burpees.

Minute 3 you do 3 burpees etc...

If you make it to the end, the last one is minute 20 you so 20 burpees

[David in FL]

1 hour ago, Typhoon92 said:

Try this...you'll laugh at first but let's see how far you get.  I did it today at the end of my workout.

20 minute cap. ...so for instance minute 1 you do 1 burpee then rest the remainder of the minute.  Minute 2, 2 burpees and rest the remainder of the minute..so...

Minute 1 you do one burpee

Minute 2 you do 2 burpees.

Minute 3 you do 3 burpees etc...

If you make it to the end, the last one is minute 20 you so 20 burpees

A ladder.  A very common way to build reps and subsequently endurance and strength.

You can do the same with reps of any exercise.  Push ups, pull ups, lifting reps, whatever.  Another, somewhat better option is to increase the rep by one through a set number, such as 5, and then decrease by one back down to zero.  When that becomes easy, add one to the top number and continue.

 

[boogielicious]

When did they start calling them 'burpees'. When I was a kid, we called them squat thrusts.

[Big C]

It sounds innocuous because you the starting reps are minimal. But by the end of 20 minutes, you will have done 210 burpees. Brutal......

More to the point, the last 10 minutes will involve 155 of the 210 burpees. Seems to me like you would have to be in pretty elite shape to complete that circuit. I'll give it a try at the gym today and see how far I can get.

[Typhoon92]

Big c, I made it to 16.  I didn't attempt 17.

[Big C]

I completed 12 minutes, crapping out on the 13th set. And was exhausted afterwards. I'm no Olympian, but I'm in decent shape. 

16 is pretty damn impressive. 

I'm not sure 20 is even physically possible. Each burpee rep takes 2-3 seconds, and much closer to 3 as the fatigue starts to set in. Someone would basically have to do almost 60 uninterrupted burpees at the tail end of that workout to complete it. 

[Denny Bang Bang]

On 2/18/2017 at 5:50 AM, boogielicious said:

When did they start calling them 'burpees'. When I was a kid, we called them squat thrusts.

They are actually two different exercises, although very similar 

[Typhoon92]

With burpees we go  " chest to floor"... You're right, not the same as squat thrusts for sure.

 

We have one girl, who blows everyone away with doing more rounds than anyone.  Tiny young girl in excellent shape.  She was the only one to do 20.  Next was a few of us at 16.  Most were in the 11-12 range.  Burpees are a great all around exercise anyway...this made it a killer.

 

 

[Hardspoon]

8 hours ago, Denny Bang Bang said:

They are actually two different exercises, although very similar 

Yeah - the squat thrust doesn't have the jump at the end.

[Denny Bang Bang]

1 hour ago, Hardspoon said:

Yeah - the squat thrust doesn't have the jump at the end.

Nor a push up.

Probably the best way to describe a burpee is, a squat thrust, adding a push up and a jump.

[HitAndGiggle]

Too slow at the start. Haha...interesting, though. We integrate burpees into the workouts at the boxing gym. They are great, and they can get you pretty gassed. I like doing them holding a medicine ball or a couple small dumbells. I few years back I tore the cartilage in my knee pretty bad doing them - and that lead to an extensive surgery. All better now!

Need to add: I've found (if you want to try something different) that my pace with small dumbells is 10 burpees per minute. For me, the killer set is 30 of them in a 3-minute round with 8 or 10 pound dumbells. Tough to do. 2 or 3 round of that and you'll be ready for a cold beer! 

Edited February 22, 2017 by HitAndGiggle