I don’t know anyone who feels particularly happy when asked to do any number of burpees during a workout. Personally, I don’t mind them (I know, don’t judge me), but then again, I don’t usually do 50 ...

The mere idea of a burpee just might push your heart rate into the stratosphere, because the movement which involves dropping to the ground, doing a pushup, then, essentially, standing back up and ...

Just as we eat certain healthy foods even when they’re not our favorites, the same applies to workouts—we do them because we know they're good for us. And when we think of not-so-enjoyable exercises, ...

Put simply, compound exercises are moves that recruit large muscle groups and use multiple joints. "You're activating several muscles or muscle groups at one time," Brooke Taylor, NASM- and ...

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Before we answer the question of should you do burpees every day, let's have a quick (promise!) history lesson. Exercise physiologist Royal Burpee coined the move back in the late 1930s. In an ...

The burpee may be the one exercise that can cause an entire class of happy-go-lucky workout buddies to revolt against their trainer. And it may also be among the few movement series that can give you ...

Gena Laielli, 37-year-old mom of two, and co-owner of Genfitness in Somers Point, New Jersey, broke the women’s burpee world record this week. She completed a whopping 5,332 burpees over one 12-hour ...