Ouch

[masonjarjar]

Me yesterday: Oh, I should try this workout routine in this Men's Health magazine.. looks challenging..

My legs today: I hate you.

(what are they called, squat thrusts? Burpee's? squat down, kick your legs back, then up, then jump up) wow. that wasn't the only exercize, but I think that's the one my legs are complaining about right now.. but what that means is I need to do more of them!

[ouch]

What?

[azmark]

I would approach any exercise from any magazine or book with caution. They are usually geared to the person that wrote and how it worked for them so you could be doing something that is beyond someone's level of fitness or strength.

[masonjarjar]

ya think? well I didn't do as many reps as it suggested, and they were very basic exercizes (swinging a kettle weight, jumping jacks were two others).

I just like finding new things to do to shake up my routine.

[masonjarjar]

What?

sorry to wake you up man.

[azmark]

I just like finding new things to do to shake up my routine.

it worked!

[ThePatrician]

I've called them either squat thrusts or body blasters. My sister in law, who is a certified personal trainer, calls them burpees, but I think that's a stupid name. I *hate* doing body blasters! Those and lunges. The ones we do are: squat down, kick legs back, do a push-up, stand up, jump up.

[azmark]

I've called them either squat thrusts or body blasters. My sister in law, who is a certified personal trainer, calls them burpees, but I think that's a stupid name. I *hate* doing body blasters! Those and lunges. The ones we do are: squat down, kick legs back, do a push-up, stand up, jump up.

It's a crossfit thing

[masonjarjar]

to me, a Burpee is a kind of melon. I have no idea how that got into exercize..

[BingeAndPurge]

We've been calling them burpees in the Army well before Crossfit was a thing. I hate them.

[Pebcak]

We've been calling them burpees in the Army well before Crossfit was a thing. I hate them.

Yep burpees suck big time.

[Miles]

Heh, I get the burpees after doing a big round of crunches.

But the exercise you describe is indeed an asskicker. Nobody likes them, AFAIK.

[Clovis Man]

Squat thrusts, we called them "bends & thrusts" in the Marine Corps. Must have done MILLIONS of them, mostly for punishment. I'll probably never do one again, and that was 35 years ago!

Keep doing them, you'll keep hurting. We did them probably every day in boot camp, and we did them by time (until the Drill Instructor got tired...) and not by number of reps. It was several weeks AFTER boot camp that I quit hurting.

[Doc4]

What?

I think he said something about the thrust of your squat.

to me, a Burpee is a kind of melon. I have no idea how that got into exercize..

Isn't a Burpee a denomination of Indian currency?

[noahpictures]

Burpees introduced me to Mr. Pukie.

[The Nid Hog]

Squat thrusts, we called them "bends & thrusts" in the Marine Corps.

I know them as bends and thrusts too. If you add a push-up in the middle, then they turn into six-count body builders. If you kick your feet out and close them again after the push up, it's an eight-count body builder. I imagine that there's some poor schmo doing them right now at Parris Island.

For the most part, I like the routines that groups like Crossfit do. You just have to use some sense if you think you're going to go too far with something. A couple years ago, I was working out with one of my buddies and he suggested the Crossfit 400m lunge routine. It seemed pretty cool to me until I was about 3/4 around the track. I definitely felt it for the next couple of days.

[Clovis Man]

I mouthed off to my SDI one time, about two weeks from graduation, and I then did bends & thrusts for 4+ hours straight!

[Devilpup]

Try 8 count burpies sometime. do a pyramid from 1 to 10 with a 30 sec break between each step. We did a two workouts that was a pyramid from 1 to 20 with instead of rest, once we did 50 meter sprints down and back and the other we did wall balls (20-30 lb med balls thrown as high as possible against a wall then caught, when you catch do a squat). We could walk for a couple days after the wall ball one.
1 kneel
2 feet out
3 push-up down position
4 push-up up
5 spread feet
6 back together
7 feet in
8 star jump