5 Badass Burpee Variations It's the exercise everyone loves to hate - and it's easy to come up with an excuse not to do them. But here's why burpees should be a part of any bodyweight workout: Burpees hit every major muscle group in the body, amp up your cardiorespiratory fitness, torch 50 percent more body fat than moderate exercise, and they don't require a single piece of equipment. Plus, if you go all-out, you can complete a full-body workout in mere minutes! Think about it - with every rep, you work your arms, chest, quads, glutes, hamstrings and abs, making the burpee the ultimate in strength training. They are so efficient that researchers found that a bodyweight burpee workout was significantly more metabolically demanding than a traditional session with moderately heavy weights - and that translates to faster results. Click here for our twists on the standard burpee.
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