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Perceval M.

Burpee Workout?

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Hi,

I'm trying to do regular burpee workouts. The first one I found was to do 20, then 19, then 18... up to 1. Obviously, that's a bit too much for a beginner, so I decided I should make my own workout program.

I've been doing 2x 10+10 burpees with 1-minute rest between sets and 5-minute rest between rounds, but I think it's really too much. I feel really exhausted and I can barely breathe by the end, and I don't think I'm breathing in a "wrong" way.

So here's my question: Does anyone know of a "basic" burpee workout I can try? Or should I maybe re-arrange the one I'm doing? I was thinking 15+15 with 2- or 3-minute rest between sets.

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• Apollo L.

  Burpees are occasionally part of my CrossFit ( http://www.crossfit.com/ ) workouts.

  Recently, the workout of the day was 100 burpees for time. Put the hurt on me, Coach!

  http://www.dailymile.com/people/apollo/entries/133608 (17:25.95).

  A really fun one is Filthy Fifty ( http://www.dailymile.com/people/apollo/entries/139625 ), which will certainly give you a wide variety of pain.

  How are you on other skills, like squats, pushups, handstand pushups, back extensions, and other core work? All this stuff ties together. If you have a pullup bar and you're feeling particularly beefy, try this:

  5 rounds for time:
  * 5 burpee pullups (burpee with full pushup at the bottom, jump up grab the pullup, chin above the bar at the top, that's one).

  Burpees kick my butt, too. If you are running out of breath at the end, that's good. Nothing says you can't pause in the middle and catch a breath or two. That's why it took me 18 minutes to get 100 burpees knocked out. I certainly didn't do 100 non-stop. Toward the end, it was, like, "Come on, Apollo. That's 98. Two more, you miserable sack of pansy." I couldn't SAY that, I could only whisper it.

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