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post #1 of 63
4/9/09 at 9:58pm
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Are they actually good exercises, or just good for sapping your energy really fast?
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post #2 of 63
4/9/09 at 10:03pm
If you do hundreds of them in a workout, yeah, they're decent.
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post #3 of 63
4/9/09 at 10:10pm
I travel a good amount for work and burpees are one of the exercises I do all the time. Just don't skimp on the jump.
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post #4 of 63
4/9/09 at 10:12pm
Try tabata burpees. Nothing will make you feel like a weak and worthless human being like tabata burpees.
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post #5 of 63
4/9/09 at 10:46pm
^^ or burbpee plus pull up.
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post #6 of 63
4/9/09 at 11:01pm
If you go all-out on every rep, I think there very good. If you do 100's at half speed/height, it's just another form of cardio.
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post #7 of 63
4/9/09 at 11:16pm
They key to burpees (as well as any exercise for that matter) is intensity. If you're just lazily repping them out, you're missing the point. Otherwise, it's a great movement and leaves me knackered quick.
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post #8 of 63
4/10/09 at 12:42am
Sorry. I thought this was about seeds. Carry on. Please excuse my interruption.
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post #9 of 63
4/10/09 at 8:38am
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Originally Posted by Taxler View Post
If you go all-out on every rep, I think there very good. If you do 100's at half speed/height, it's just another form of cardio.

If you're going all on every rep, you aren't doing hundreds of burpees. I'm not sure too many people could do hundreds of burpees even going half speed/height. It is an intense exercise.

I occasionally use them as finishers to my workouts. I'll do 50 as fast as I can. I time it and try to beat it next time. I basically consider them cardio. I saw a few guys at the gym the other day doing clean & jerk burpees, which I had never seen. When they went down into the pushup position, they placed their hands on a barbell w/ 135 lbs. on it. They did a push-up, stood up and cleaned the weight, pressed it overhead (jerk) and then went back down into the push-up position.
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post #10 of 63
4/10/09 at 10:32am
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I saw a few guys at the gym the other day doing clean & jerk burpees, which I had never seen. When they went down into the pushup position, they placed their hands on a barbell w/ 135 lbs. on it. They did a push-up, stood up and cleaned the weight, pressed it overhead (jerk) and then went back down into the push-up position.

I think I would die after 5.
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post #11 of 63
4/10/09 at 10:41am
^^ That sounds awesome! I've done deadlift burp pulls before.
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post #12 of 63
4/10/09 at 10:42am
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I think I would die after 5.

These guys were doing sets of 10. It looked cool. These were some of the trainers and they actually looked like they were doing something effective. Usually, it's bench press/curls and that's about it. I do think you'd have to have pretty good form w/ your clean & jerk or you could get injured.

There is a benchmark Crossfit workout (maybe it's named Grace?) where you do 30 C&J's with 135 lbs. for time.
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post #13 of 63
4/10/09 at 10:54am
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I do think you'd have to have pretty good form w/ your clean & jerk or you could get injured.

+1. I am not sure I like weighted exercises done against the clock. That's an injury waiting to happen unless you maintain perfect form throughout.
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post #14 of 63
4/10/09 at 11:12am
Grace is a good workout. I know what you mean about weighted against the clock but the weight can be scaled accordingly. Depending on the person 135# might not even be that much to clean and jerk. Also it's not a workout that you do shortly after learning the movements.
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post #15 of 63
4/10/09 at 11:31am
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Originally Posted by Scrumhalf View Post
+1. I am not sure I like weighted exercises done against the clock. That's an injury waiting to happen unless you maintain perfect form throughout.

Not really, if it's a weight you know you can handle easily then you can quite comfortably blur the line between form and intensity. For example many people with really fast "Grace" times (30 C&J for time @135#) have a max C&J much higher than 230#. One guy they have a video of does it in about 2 minutes and 30 seconds, but his max C&J is north of 335#. If your 1RM is closer to 160 then 260 you might consider scaling down the weight to 95#.

To Conne, yes Burpees are an excellent conditioning excercise. One fun exercise to do with them is "Death By Burpees". With a continuosly running clock do one burpee the first minute, 2 burpees the second, 3 burpees the third minute, and so on until you are no longer capable of finishing all the burpees in the allotted minute.
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