I don’t know anyone who feels particularly happy when asked to do any number of burpees during a workout. Personally, I don’t mind them (I know, don’t judge me), but then again, I don’t usually do 50 ...

The mere idea of a burpee just might push your heart rate into the stratosphere, because the movement which involves dropping to the ground, doing a pushup, then, essentially, standing back up and ...

Use this 2-minute burpee test to see where you rank after 45, plus tips to improve technique, power, and conditioning.

Put simply, compound exercises are moves that recruit large muscle groups and use multiple joints. "You're activating several muscles or muscle groups at one time," Brooke Taylor, NASM- and ...

Just as we eat certain healthy foods even when they’re not our favorites, the same applies to workouts—we do them because we know they're good for us. And when we think of not-so-enjoyable exercises, ...

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Looking for the exercise equivalent of a magic bullet? That one perfect move that delivers maximum results in minimum time? While fitness infomercials have been promising such miracles for decades, ...

Gena Laielli, 37-year-old mom of two, and co-owner of Genfitness in Somers Point, New Jersey, broke the women’s burpee world record this week. She completed a whopping 5,332 burpees over one 12-hour ...