The “bleep test” may have seemed sadistic at school, but it’s an effective measure of your VO2 max. So, we combined it with the burpee. Sorry The test involves following an audio recording of a set of ...

I’ve been doing at least 10 burpees every morning since we started the burpee challenge. (One day of 10, actually, and the rest at least 30.) I’ve also spent a lot of time thinking “Is this the right ...

Burpees remain the great equalizer of fitness tests. They demand strength from the floor to standing, coordination between upper and lower body, core stability under fatigue, and enough cardiovascular ...

A few years later when the U.S. entered WWII and needed to quickly assess the fitness levels of some 10 million newly inducted soldiers, East believes the staff at Columbia likely shared Burpee's ...