Burpee Breathing

How to breathe properly for burpees!
About Nick: He is a health coach specializing in biohacking for runners, owner of N 2 Action, a wellness studio in Baton Rouge, Louisiana offering personal training, yoga, health coaching and fascial stretch therapy. He uses his background as a personal trainer, yoga teacher, and fascial stretch therapist to help each student live the most amazing life possible.

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hi in order to go here I'm gonna break
down the Burpee exercise as it's

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commonly used as a conditioning drill
for CrossFit or is it I'm gonna throw in

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my own little version way that I've
found to do burpees where you can keep

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your oxygen levels up and a breathing
pattern that goes along with the

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movement the breathing pattern that I
like to use comes from the way

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kettlebell sport errs people who compete
in kettlebell lifting the way they

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breathe maybe three or four times per
each rep three or four breaths per rep

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when kettlebell errs are doing a
kettlebell snatch for a competition

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where they might have a set that my last
ten minutes long so work capacity needs

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to be highly supported by the breathing
same thing with a crossfit WOD or

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something like that basically I'm gonna
break it down into a few parts

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there's hands to the ground I like to
get the hands inside of the legs but

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still it takes better spinal position
dead than this so I like to go here as

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the first move rather than here just
less wear and tear on the spine so

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basically the movement is here here here
here

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that's your Burpee breathing I'd like to
do is exhale exhale exhale exhale so

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that it's a sharp exhale I'm not
focusing on the inhale because the

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inhale will naturally happen when I
exhale sharply enough to create negative

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pressure so it kind of sounds like this

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the side looks like this

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there's your Burpee with the efficient
breathing that I learned from kettlebell

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[kungfuman]

Just got into this whole CrossFit mess and today’s workout had burpees in them. They slayed me so I immediately started reading articles on them and they linked this video. Man, this was a huge help!

[RobinLundqvist]

yay no more getting lightheaded after 10 burpees from holding my breath haha

[reyhansogut]

Straight to the point, short and helpful! Thank you ❤

[RobertHorry]

I just did 80 burpees straight with your technique. I started off at 25 but only could do 10 at a time. Thanks to you I’ll be at 100 reps each for the morning & night!!! Thanks!!!


Update: now I’m at 100 burpees!!!

[language-n-learning]

Thanks for the efficient and clear explanation and demonstration!

[kvd]

THis is so useful! Thank you for the advice! I struggled so much with the correct breathing technique over the years.

[denvergriffin]

Great points. I started doing burpees again to get ready for a Spartan race and quickly found I was holding breath like in the powerlifts - wrong answer! Love the "modified" sumo stance as well. Great job.

[ahmedrashed]

From Egypt - middle east

Man, i can't thank you enough
It was very effective very helpful,
I've just finished a 10 set's of burpees by your way and it was much easier and fun
Burpees not evil any more

Thanks ❤️

[ajaymahakali]

Superb bro this video helped a lot even though I am practising workout from 8 yrs I did only two breathe outs
. till now....this technique of 4 sharp exhalations helped ...keep doing great stuff

[gamercsibe]

Thank you so much! I struggled with burpees up until now I have found the correct breathing technique, (I have to note my fitness level is good enough, so it was the breathing which was incorrect). Thank you again Sir!

[mareksatina]

This breathing technique feels very natural. Glad I found your video. :)

[prasy]

I was just looking for this. Thank you!

[jonathanmayer]

Thank you for this. Last time i didn't breath properly and i fell very lightheaded and was hyper ventilating.

[bastakotim]

I found this excise very useful. Specifically breathing technique. Thanks

[rob]

so can this be done with a exhale through nose?

[yemets.design]

Thank you.
This is exactly what I was looking for.

[williamainsworth]

Good video brotha. you have some valid points. all true burpees have a count tho. inorder for you to achieve good wind its imperative that you learn the counts. Go watch my channel and get familiar with the counts.

[KM-lchj]

Thanks for that man i didn't want to get lightheaded

[kunamuta]

after 20burbess i'm trying to catch my breath, thnx for the tip hope it helps

[igormakes]

I like the idea of putting the hands between the legs to get a deeper squat but it seems like you are skipping the push-up position entirely and dropping straight to the floor with a certain lack of core control. I tend to think of the burpee as two districts movements. If you haven't done a proper push-up and jump squat you haven't done a burpee.