Let me introduce you to my friend: the BURPEE

So I'm still taking Crossfit about once a week from BTB Fitness. The workouts and the guy/girl ratio keeps me coming back!

One of the primary exercises we do is a burpee.

Here's a video of a regular burpee.



We typically do these types of burpees. The guy in the video is a BEAST. He jumps straight down into the pushup. I pause at a plank then do one of those barely on my toes girl pushups. Work in progress.

So one of our workouts looked something like this:
500 m row
21 burpees
400 m run
repeat 3 times.

I made it about 2 times through. The burpees were the definitely the hardest for me to push out.

Today, our workout was 100 inverted burpees and thats it. Took me about 20 minutes. (I saw someone's time on the whiteboard at about 8 minutes ...). I'm pretty proud of myself since I'm starting to actually finish the workouts. I have to say my yoga really helped me with the handstand and getting my legs over my head. I should work on coming out of my handstand and landing on different feet. I was favoring my right leg and I think that one will be quite sore tomorrow compared to my left.

Anyways, video of an inverted burpee for your viewing pleasure.



To "modify" you can come up with your legs crossed at the ankles, but I actually didnt have to do that. I'm sure a lot of people use momentum to get their legs to the wall, but I imagine the more control you go up with, the more core work and the greater the benefit. I'd suggest keeping the elbows straight. Nothing would suck more than having that bend in the elbow and having your muscles punk out on you and falling on the floor when you're upside down.

I was going to post another video of an inverted burpee but thought the cupboards knocking around were kind of distracting (but I think she did a great job. Good job, Stacy!).