What are burpees for cardiovascular exercise?

Answer 1

when you burp !=] Actually, a burpee begins standing with feet shoulder width apart. Then you squat down and put your hands on the floor in front of you. Next, kick your legs back into a pushup position or plank and let your chest sink to the ground as you kick your legs back. Then, explosively push yourself back up, keeping a straight back, and jump your legs forward into a low squat with your heels on the floor. Your hands should leave the floor as you jump into the low squat. Next, vertical jump from your heels as explosively as you can. Then repeat from the beginning until you get dizzy or can't move. If you're especially masochistic, you can grab a pullup bar during the squat jump, complete a pullup, and drop down for more pullup burpees.

Burpees have numerous benefits: They're great for getting in shape fast. They work out the trapezius, lower back, triceps, pectorals, deltoids, hamstrings (when done with heels on the ground), glutes, quadriceps, calves, and abdominals. They are a compound exercise utilizing most muscles of the body, so they stress the body into higher testosterone production, which means building more lean muscle. This is good news for teaching PE, dropping excess body fat, breaking a fitness plateau, or building a disciplined army out of civilians.

They help runners keep an even balance between upper and lower body strength without bulking up. In addition, the regular pushup burpee fatigues the same muscles that usually fatigue worst for runners: the quadriceps and anterior deltoids.

They offer a satisfying upper and lower body pump when performed after a weight lifting workout.

They reduce muscle fatigue for athletic events, they help cardiovascular endurance. They're portable, dependable, and widely used wherever there is room to perform a pushup.

They're one of the more functional movements. Essentially, the burpee consists of getting up from the ground over and over again. This movement carries over extremely well into running and throwing sports in particular. However, burpees are not a panacea: They do not adequately train pulling motions without the pullup. In general, the regular pushup burpee does a poor job of recruiting the lats, biceps, and posterior deltoids, all of which are trained by the pullup and crucial for overall strength. They can lead to muscle imbalances and possible injury if not included with a full routine including back work.

They build exceptional muscular and cardiovascular endurance, but fail to increase absolute strength beyond a certain level.

The pushup portion only moves 60% of your bodyweight while the pullup moves 100% of your bodyweight. As a result, pulling motions will develop more strength than pushing motions of the upper body. This is not necessarily unhealthy, but does not lead to optimal athletic performance. In conclusion, burpees should be used as an integral part of a well rounded athletic conditioning routine. Their limitations should be recognized, and athletes should pursue supplementary strength training when necessary.

The burpee is a reliable tool for quickly building endurance and starting strength in any athletic context.