BURPEE!!

If you ask me what my favorite exercise is, I will definitely tell you it is a burpee! Yes, I am serious! One reason I love burpees is because they work ALL of the major muscles! From your upper body (shoulders), to your core and LEGS! WOOO!!!

So I thought today we could do something fun! A quick burpee workout: 6 Burpees, 3 tabatas, 13 minutes of heart pumping cardio!

So, who’s ready?! Who’s going to do it with me?! Come on, it’ll be fun! I mean I even got my daughter to do a burpee with me! If Marley can do it, anyone can!!

Before we dive into this workout, let’s look at why burpees are my favorite exercise. I mean besides them being so exhausting! hahaha!

Why is doing a Burpee so great?

Here are a few benefits to burpees!

• They are a total body exercise
• They are also a FUNCTIONAL exercise
• So great for conditioning
• Burpees can be done anywhere
  

These are just some of the benefits for doing burpees! You can also add them into ANY workout for an added cardio blast! One of my favorite ways to add burpees in is with tabatas! Another great way to add burpees into your workout is to do them for a warm up! They are definitely going to get your heart PUMPING!

Tabata Workout

This quick burpee workout will be a total of 3 sets. 2 different burpees per set (4 cycles of one burpee then move onto the next). 6 different types of burpees. 13 minutes of cardio, therefore this means 4 minutes for each tabata, 30 second rest in between each set!!  As a result, you will be done! (ok.. Under 20 minutes with warm up and cool down!) Most of all, please make sure you cool down afterward! Your heart rate will be very high and you want to bring it down slowly before laying down (in exhaustion)!

You can do this! You may even come to love burpees as much as me… Or maybe not hate them as much as you currently do.. 😉

Each burpee is a little different which will keep things fun! Yes, I am saying fun a lot this post! To me burpees are fun! They are hard but are definitely worth it.

Here’s a look at all the burpees!

Tabata #1

Traditional Burpee

1. First, start standing with feet hip width apart
2. Then squat down low with hands on floor in front of you
3. Push your legs out directly behind into high plank
4. Do a push up
5. Jump legs back towards hands
6. Pushing through heels and jump straight up
7. Repeat

Double Burpee

1. First, start standing with feet hip width apart
2. Do a squat
3. Then stand back up
4. Squat down low with hands on floor in front of you
5. Push your feet out directly behind into high plank
6. Jump feet in towards hands
7. Push your feet back out into high plank
8. Do your push up
9. Then do another push up
10. Jump feet in towards hands
11. Push your feet back out into high plank
12. Jump feet back towards hands
13. Pushing through heels and jump straight up
14. Try to land softly
15. Pushing through heels again and jump straight up
16. Repeat

Tabata #2

One Leg Burpee

1. First, start standing with feet hip width apart
2. Then squat down low with hands on floor in front of you
3. Push legs out directly behind into high plank hovering left leg above the ground
4. Jump legs back towards hands
5. Pushing through heels and jump straight up
6. Repeat with right leg hovering above the ground

One Arm Burpee into Lunge

1. First, start standing with feet hip width apart and right hand on hip
2. Then squat down low with left hand on floor in front of you
3. Push your legs out directly behind into high plank
4. Jump legs back towards hands
5. Pushing through heels and jump into lunge with right leg in front
6. Repeat with the other side

Tabata #3

180 Burpee

1. First, start standing with feet hip width apart
2. Next, squat down low with hands on floor in front of you
3. Push your legs out directly behind into high plank
4. Jump legs back towards hands
5. Pushing through heels and jump straight up turning 180 degrees
6. Repeat

Up Down Burpee with Tuck Jump

1. First, start standing with feet hip width apart
2. Next, squat down low with hands on floor in front of you
3. Push your legs out directly behind into high plank
4. Lower down into low plank, one arm at a time (Plank Up Down)
5. Raise yourself back up into high plank
6. Jump legs back towards hands
7. Pushing through heels and jump with legs tucked up 
8. Repeat

As you can tell, I have taken out the push up in 4 of the burpees. The last burpee has a plank up down but hey, no push ups! YES! Which makes these not look that bad…

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I am so excited to do this workout with you. I think you will love it as much as I do!