Exercise - Burpees
Overview
- A full body calisthenics workout that works abdominal muscles, chest, arms, legs, and several parts of the back.
- The subject squats down and quickly moves their arms and legs into a push-up position.
- Sometimes, people do a push up (not mandatory) before they finish their rep by tucking the legs in and jumping up.
- A standard burpee exercise works to strengthen the muscles in your legs, hips, buttocks, abdomen, arms, chest, and shoulders.
Source: wikipedia
Benefits
Burns calories
Most people can do about 20 burpees in a minute. Based on this, the table below shows how many calories you can burn by doing burpees nonstop for a minute.
| Weight | Calories burned |
|---|---|
| 125-pound person | 10 |
| 155-pound person | 12.5 |
| 185-pound person | 15 |
Based on this chart, a 155-pound person can burn around 250 calories by doing burpees for 20 minutes.
You’ll burn more calories if you do burpees at a higher intensity.
Offers a full-body workout
Burpees are a calisthenics exercise. This means they use your body weight for resistance. With burpees, the focus is on a full-body calisthenics workout that aims to build muscle strength and endurance in both your lower and upper body.
Boosts cardio fitness and burns fat
Burpees can be performed as part of a high-intensity interval training (HIIT) regimen.
In addition to burning fat, including burpees in your workout routine can help you reap many other cardio benefits, such as:
- stronger heart and lungs
- improved blood flow
- lower risk of heart disease and diabetes
- lower blood pressureTrusted Source
- improved cholesterol levels
- improved brain function
Convenient and versatile
You don’t need any equipment to do burpees. All you need is your own body weight and enough space to do the move. So, even if you’re in a small apartment, a hotel room, or a tiny office, you can still get your blood pumping by doing burpees.
If you want variety, it’s easy to make some modifications to the standard burpee by including weights or adding an extra pushup or jump.
Variations
Burpee box jump
Burpee with a Bosu ball
Burpee with dumbbells
