Type “burpee” into your favorite search engine and you will quickly learn all you need to know. Burpees suck. I can’t explain it but yeah they do suck … a lot. I’m on day 14 of 100 Days of Burpees and each day they suck a little more.
I’m already questioning why the hell am I putting myself through this torture. We still have 86 days to go. It’s going to be a long haul. (And no the burpee challenge was not my idea!) Today was especially challenging after I did 100 pushups yesterday.
Now you probably have done a few burpees in your life. Most likely it was when you were in grade school or something. Until I started Crossfit last year, I never gave them much thought. I welcomed the challenge until I had to do more than 1 or 2 in a row. Not fun. I encourage you to stop what you are doing right now. Yes right now. And do 20 or so in a row as fast as you can. Let me know how that feels.
Right so I did a little burpee research. Wikipedia told me that the burpee is named after American physiologist Royal H. Burpee. (There’s a person named burpee?) He devised the burpee exercise to assess fitness levels as part of his thesis in the 1930s. Fast forward to 2013 and burpees are one of the staples for strength building and conditioning.
Everyone loves to hate burpees.
86 days and counting ….