Why burpees for conditioning

Burpees are a full body, strength exercise. Each rep you get to work your abs core is very important in all martial arts legs, chest, arms, and shoulders.

After one set of burpees, tell us how you feel! Since this is a high intensity full body workout, burpees also burn fat. Studies on high intensity exercise have shown that workouts such as burpees burn more fat than regular strength training exvercises and also speed up metabolism.

As we all know, faster metabolism means more calories burned. If you want to look good for the upcoming summer and be in shape for competition, start those burpees now!

And the knowledge that we are falling short of the standard for performance adds to the mental challenge. Burpees are the spinach of the physical fitness world. We feel good because we know we have accomplished something. So, I guess I lied. This IS a feature that will encourage you to go forth and squat, sprawl, pushup, and jump.

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Repeat this ten times for speed. This can even be used as part of your pre-burpee warm-up. Jump and clap your hands behind your head. Although your feet need to come off the floor for the rep to count, unless there are other standards specified like touching a target , they only need to come off the floor a teeny, tiny bit.

Less time in the air means more control of your body and faster burpees. This is a rebound, not a rest and you should be moving as quickly as possible into your next rep.

Basically, as soon as your feet hit the floor after the jump, you should be starting your descent into the next burpee. Think fast arms, fast feet. Swing your arms down and rapidly close your hips. This looks similar to what you do with your arms in a GHD sit-up. Use your clap behind the head as a rebounding opportunity or another chance to catch the bounce.

Punch and go. You should literally be throwing yourself back down to the ground instead of floating down.

Kind of like barbell cycling …. Set a cadence in your head and stick to it. Be the machine. The machine keeps moving and does so to the same beat over and over and over until the work is complete, at which point, it is shut off. Pick a pace you can execute this with.

If you must rest, do so standing up and NOT on the floor. Plus, resting on the floor is a posture of defeat that we want to avoid. Stand tall. Stand proud. Stand with confidence or else you let the burpee win. Keep a positive mindset and know that you can never fail a burpee!

Breathe calmly. Count up then down. Meaning, if you have to do 20 burpees, count them from and then It is much easier not to stop when you know your rep count is getting smaller and closer to the end.

The Burpee Pull-Up is exactly what it sounds like, a burpee that has been combined with a pull-up. The burpee remains the same in this as the speed version above but on the jump off the floor, a pull-up is added to the movement. This version does slow down the movement because of the addition but adds in another awesome bodyweight exercise, the pull-up, which can be performed as a strict rep or with a kip swing, depending on the ability of the athlete.

If this version is used in competition, the athlete is usually required to set up under a pull-up bar that is a certain distance often 6 inches above the tip of their fingers with arms extended. Because of the extra high jump involved — it is important to practice a few reps before your workout to figure out hand placement.

Burpees and thrusters is ideally done at the end of a workout or as a second, assistance workout. I would not pair this before a heavy deadlift or squat day but using burpees for conditioning can be insanely helpful. Burpee and Wall Balls. Ideally this is done as a partner workout but you can also perform this alone.

Set your timer for 10 minutes. There is no rest. When done with a partner you would alternate between wall balls and burpees. Start under a rig or pull up bar and perform a burpee touching the bar. There are so many ways you can improve your conditioning with this workout. You can do a set number of burpees for time before you attempt pull ups. You can perform 1 burpee and 1 pull up. The options are endless here.