Is the Burpee Worth Doing?

I've made a couple of videos in the past on why I don't think the burpee is a very effective exercise, but what do I know? The real question isn't if the burpee is effective or not, but wether or not it's worth it to you.

That's going to be the determining factor for if you should do it or not.

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[LunchBreakFitness]

Great answer to the question. Personally, I use burpees for the thing they’re actually good at - building insane fatigue resistance and conditioning. When I want to build muscle, burpees are not the answer.

[AndrewJDN]

On yer Matt, as always a balanced and thoughtful response.

[kyleschmitz]

Burpees aren’t designed to build big muscles. They’re more for the functional/tactical athlete (military, fire, police) who are more focused on performance and mental toughness in life or death situations.

[mr.green]

Yeah, but if someone isn’t coming to you wanting a big chest, but if they want to get conditioned and build their wind up in an efficient way that can be done almost anywhere, then yeah, burpees would be good to do.

[brucehelppie]

to me, burpees are more about conditioning and leaning out vs. building strength and muscle. as such, they are a good way for people with limited time to train to cover some fitness basics all in one exercise. they're also very portable as they require no equipment.

[davidwagner]

In the 82nd Airborne we did burpees with our 50 lb pack. It was punishment.

[mhs]

In an age of social media where everything is so binary, it's refreshing to hear a balanced voice

[MdAliHamza-hfqx]

If someone thinks burpees are not beneficial, then i think you should watch iron wolf

[scottharrison]

Love channel learned lot from video calthletics
But burpees are still good bodey condition routine 10min of burpees can get world class condition

[littleelvis]

Thanks Matt. Loved that you said cockamamy more than once in a video. 😂

[DBASSDAN]

Did burpees for years, got my very fit but destroyed my shoulders. Not great for longevity unfortunately.

[brdr]

Burpees do a good job of waking the whole body up, so I put them in my warmup. It also helps me pre-exhaust my muscles so the pushups and squats get a bit harder. But would I do a burpee marathon? Maaaaybe if I were trying to lose a lot of weight, but not for any other reason

[aperezdeal]

That bike tire so close to your darts board, brave.

[achtungjamie]

Try 2 or 3 pump burpees for high reps. Nice way to work on cardio endurance with some strength training.

[brianbadonde]

Thoughts on the horse stance the free standing isometric squat, I've never see them on this channel, much more difficult than people realize

[Chillton]

Worth doing? Depends on to what end? It's a good cardio, endurance and overall nice warmup or finisher.

[sathishkumar]

I love burpees. I use them at the end of a push up session to burn a few extra calories..

[brianbadonde]

plyometric pushups suprsetted with jump squats in a countdown from 10 to 1 is a way better form of cardio it takes (depending on fitness) 5 ish minutes and will test cardio to the max

[Kissislove]

isn't the military big into them, I guess its a show of functional ability if anything. also I guess HIIT cardio

[sergiopacheco]

My last sessions have consisted of burpees. I have also done super sets with them by incorporating pull ups, dips. I sometimes do hundreds of them. But it's because I have been craving more movement and conditioning. There's just something about doing a set of 20 burpees, following by inverted rows, then 20 navy seals. However I know training like this is not optimal for hypertrophy. I'm just bored with the regular straight sets. But I like the feeling I get after doing 80 or hundreds of them. Is the closest I get to running outside..

But it's true that the burpee has just become more popular recently cause of influencers, whose training revolves around it. Actually some are envagelical about it.

I have however been doing burpees since like 2011. But usually as warm ups. And in my last 6 months of training, and for some time I was also doing a bodybuilding split, I always started with a warm up of 10 or 20 burpees..