Talk:Burpee (exercise)

Comment about the video and risk of injury
Please note that the present example video (as of May 2017, with an asian girl doing a squat thrust) is a poor example that leads to back strain and ultimately injury, for the following reasons: The video should be replaced. There are plenty of better example videos in YouTube. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter.schild (talk • contribs) 09:56, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Her hands are too far apart when they touch the ground. This prevents her from squatting properly (bending her knees). She should instead have her hands close together where they touch the ground, to her knees can bend properly (with her arms between the knees).
 * 2) Because of the above point she is forced to bend her spine instead of squatting properly by bending her knees, which can incurs lumbar stress.

This thing is not called a Burpee
The current name of the article ("Burpee", as of September 2009) is not the common name for these. I did them for various sporting activities in my younger years, and I don't remember the name right now, but no establishment where I trained ever used this name. If someone knows the common name for these, please rename this article. Gronky (talk) 00:23, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I've never heard it called anything else. Crossfit calls it a burpee, as does the US Army.  YMMV  68.221.199.193 (talk) 12:43, 21 October 2009 (UTC)


 * It's definitely a burpee in contemporary UK parlance. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 19:35, 23 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I've normally heard it called a "jumping bastard". Is this a common term?  (Possibly of military origin, as I learnt it from my martial arts instructor, who was a former soldier) Wardog (talk) 11:40, 17 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Also have been called a "bodybuilder" in recent years before the Crossfit fad found its place — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.3.25.68 (talk) 09:13, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

When I was in Army basic training 50 years ago, the 4-count squat thrust was called a squat thrust. The burpee with two pushups in between the down and up phases was called an "eight count pushup". More recently, I haven't heard it called anything but a burpee.Neurodog (talk) 01:32, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Name origin
The OED states the following:"The name of Dr. Royal H. Burpee (b. 1897), U.S. psychologist and service organization director. A physical exercise consisting of a squat thrust performed from and completed in a standing position. Usu. in pl. Orig. in Burpee test, a test devised by Burpee to measure agility and muscular co-ordination, in which the subject executes a series of burpees in rapid succession."There is no "probably" or "possibly" in that explanation, and the OED is a pretty reliable source for word origins. Considering the present explanation in the article seems to come from some random message board and is full of "could have"s and "may have"s, I'm replacing the uncited origins with the OED's explanation. (The book A History of the Town of New London, Merrimack County, New Hampshire can be read online. It mentions nothing about any specific "martial exercise" that Thomas Burpee might have used or invented.) --76.28.236.209 (talk) 20:41, 26 May 2010 (UTC) I am the grandaughter of Royal H. Burpee, and I own the only existing copy of his PhD thesis which details how and why he created the movement as he did. He earned his PhD from Columbia in 1940 and the US Armed Services adopted his exercise test as a way to assess the fitness level of recruits during WWII. It was originally called a "four-count Burpee" and later came to be called it a squat thrust. Thomas Burpee had nothing to do with the creation of this exercise test. -- Sheryl Burpee Dluginski, Generations Fitness, Inc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Generations2364 (talk • contribs) 19:31, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Squat thrust
Add link to squat thrusts - I'm too lazy and unskilled. We call these squat thrusts (I jump when I do them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.193.135.139 (talk) 02:12, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Push up or not
The 3rd step says "Kick your feet back while lowering yourself without a pushup" (note the without) But in the harder variants below, there are mentions of a regular push-up or a second push-up. I have heard of them with a push-up, but not 100% sure to go change it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.229.193.153 (talk) 00:57, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

The demonstration video does not match the description of how to do a Burpee. The current revision states that step two results in a plank position with arms bent (bottom position of a push-up), while the video shows step two to be a plank position with arms extended (top position of a push-up). I'm not sure which is officially correct, but the two should be consistent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.171.129.225 (talk) 21:09, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

The original Ph.D. thesis does not have a push-up so it should be without a push-up in the standard description, but I agree compound exercises (burpee with push-up, burpee with sit-up, etc) are a far more efficient use of time. --Kroot (talk) 19:18, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

who cares if you clap?
"(you may not clap your hands above your head at the peak of your jump)." Why the hell not? What difference does it make? 72.229.49.158 (talk) 20:41, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Clapping may draw the attention of others. This is not a good idea when doing this exercise. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.226.190.83 (talk) 02:13, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Clapping sure makes it feel more like play, more fun. And for those who suffer while doing Burpees (not me), making the Burpee more fun and playful can keep the reps coming. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.145.3.52 (talk) 14:59, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Squat thrust redirect
I have made the page "Squat thrust" redirect to this page, as it was already explicitly stated in both articles that they are the same thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philpill691 (talk • contribs) 22:18, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Blacklisted Links Found on the Main Page
Cyberbot II has detected that page contains external links that have either been globally or locally blacklisted. Links tend to be blacklisted because they have a history of being spammed, or are highly innappropriate for Wikipedia. This, however, doesn't necessarily mean it's spam, or not a good link. If the link is a good link, you may wish to request whitelisting by going to the request page for whitelisting. If you feel the link being caught by the blacklist is a false positive, or no longer needed on the blacklist, you may request the regex be removed or altered at the blacklist request page. If the link is blacklisted globally and you feel the above applies you may request to whitelist it using the before mentioned request page, or request it's removal, or alteration, at the request page on meta. When requesting whitelisting, be sure to supply the link to be whitelisted and wrap the link in nowiki tags. The whitelisting process can take its time so once a request has been filled out, you may set the invisible parameter on the tag to true. Please be aware that the bot will replace removed tags, and will remove misplaced tags regularly.

Below is a list of links that were found on the main page:


 * http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/rossboxing2.htm
 * Triggered by  on the global blacklist

If you would like me to provide more information on the talk page, contact User:Cyberpower678 and ask him to program me with more info.

From your friendly hard working bot.— cyberbot II NotifyOnline 19:46, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

✅ This issue has been resolved, and I have therefore removed the tag, if not already done. No further action is necessary.— cyberbot II NotifyOnline 18:16, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 1 one external link on Burpee (exercise). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20140714185719/http://www.fitnasty.com/?p=180 to http://www.fitnasty.com/?p=180

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 17:51, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Burpee (exercise). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20170818135031/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130104/new-york-city/real-story-behind-exercise-you-love-hate-burpee to https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130104/new-york-city/real-story-behind-exercise-you-love-hate-burpee

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 06:12, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

inverted what?
One variation is described this way in the article:

"Jusupu burpee combo The athlete combines the regular burpee with the inverted burpee. JmpUp, SitUp, PushUp"

Well, what IS an inverted burpee? It's not mentioned elsewhere in the article, and it's not obvious. Neurodog (talk) 01:29, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Agreed, unsourced addition (as with many of them) from some time ago. Certainly not a common enough movement to be considered a variant. If it exists, it is an oddity. Removed. Yosemiter (talk) 05:15, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Video
Will please read Spam to understand what spam is, don't remove videos by claiming that it is spam when it is not. People adding their names to images/videos files they created is discouraged in Wikimedia, but not prohibited, certainly when they are not obtrusive, and such files are not considered spam. Hzh (talk) 17:18, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm well aware of what spam is, thanks. You are technically correct, that this video is allowed as is, but my personal experience is with the creator of the video himself. A few years back, he was (genuinely, I believe) trying to improve this article but insisted on doing so by either providing no references at all or references to his own website since he was an "expert". So, perhaps I'm a bit biased. However, if you insist on adding it back again. Go ahead. I'm not going to continue to fight you on it. It's not worth it. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 17:41, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * If it is accurate, then a video helps a great deal in understanding how a burpee is done. The article would be improve with a video If the name in the video bothers you, then it can be removed, and I can request its removal.   It would be just a simple trimming of the video for one, I'll add that after that is done. The other it might not be possible as the name of the creator is overlay onto the video in the middle, but there might be alternative. Hzh (talk) 10:50, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Aerobic vs anaerobic
Every other website I've seen has burpees as anaerobic. They could be wrong, but there's no source for it being aerobic. Anyone know why there's disagreement? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NathanScott97 (talk • contribs) 13:56, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree and so does this paper published to the NCBI. I made changes to clarify here, didn't really feel like expanding the specifics on the 80% anaerobic and 20% aerobic the paper states though. Yosemiter (talk) 19:47, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Example video
Is it possible to include an example video that doesn't have a dog's genitals prominently in the foreground? It's a bit distracting. 152.37.87.62 (talk) 06:20, 7 July 2023 (UTC)