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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Looking for the exercise equivalent of a magic bullet? That one perfect move that delivers maximum results in minimum time? While fitness infomercials have been promising such miracles for decades, ...

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I had to look it up. You drop down, do a push-up, then jump. Pictures and animations here illustrate it. No equipment, gym, spotter, or anything necessary. Gibala studies high intensity workouts, as ...

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 ...

If you've tried the burpee exercise, you know it gets your heart rate up and your muscles working. But it's hard and can often cause injury if you're not performing the move correctly or overdoing it.

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 ...