15 Alternatives to Burpees for When You’re Tired of Doing Burpees

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 May 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Whenever I’m strapped for time and equipment and still need a solid workout, I turn to the burpee. Burpees are bodyweight exercises, and thus require no equipment or weights. They are full body movements that employ every muscle group, require only as much space as you need to do a pushup, can be done anywhere, can be done slowly and methodically or quick for a sprint-like workout. While burpees are great for all the reasons I listed above, there are some reasons you might want an alternative.

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Brock Armstrong)

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0:52.5	15 alternatives to burpees for when you're tired of doing burpees.
0:58.2	Whenever I'm strapped for time and equipment and still need a solid workout, I turn to the burpee.
1:04.6	Burpees are body weight exercises and thus require no equipment or weights.
1:09.6	They are full body movements that employ every muscle group.
1:13.6	Require only as much space as you need to do a push-up, can be done anywhere, can be done
1:18.9	slowly and methodically or quick for a sprint-like workout.
1:23.6	If you're ever outdoors and need to warm up fast, a set of 15 to 20 burpees performed as quickly as possible will get your body temperature up faster than anything.
1:35.3	The pros go on and on.
1:38.3	Now, I don't typically bake burpees into my week-to-week workouts. Instead, I resort to a burpee
1:45.8	workout when I'm crunched for time, don't have access to a gym or nice outdoor
1:50.4	experience, or am feeling too lazy to do a proper gym workout but still want to train.
1:57.2	And the way I usually do them is to go all out for the first 20. Catch my breath,
2:03.5	maybe 10 to 20 second break, then go all out for another 10. Catch my breath and repeat in sets
2:10.7	of 10 reps until I finish 100 or 150 or 200 or whatever I'm feeling. So for me, burpee workouts are very intuitive. Rather than go for
2:21.7	predetermined reps or rest periods, I let my body determine that stuff in real time. Give it a try.
2:29.6	You'll either like it or hate it or both. While burpees are great for all of the reasons that I've
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