Burpees, Jumping Jacks and Mountain Climbers: The Burpee Costs Three Times a Plank and 40 Percent More Than a Squat per Minute - and Ten Days of 80-Second Intervals Raised Jump Height, Not Fitness
3 days ago
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The burpee is the exercise everyone hates and every circuit includes, alongside its cheaper relatives the jumping jack and the mountain climber. The claim behind all three is that a bodyweight movement done fast enough is cardio, and the burpee in particular is sold as the single most expensive exercise you can do without equipment. Two recent studies measured what these movements actually cost and what a very small dose of them does over ten days.
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