This is all great, except I’ve never understood the point of doing lots of burpees. It is a sloppy exercise done in the XC ESA. I read it was invented by a man upset that soldiers were too slow in jumping up and sprinting to next cover during trench warfare in WWI. It was supposed to be a short explosive exercise. Doing a lot of them makes no more sense to me than trying to do a lot of max deadlifts in a workout.
That's what I love about burpees...short and explosive whole body movement!
Agreed about maxing deadlifts, but I think burpees for repetition are a great way to approximate the functional rigors of combat. The classic infantry fire and maneuver involves "buddy rushing" where one is up sprinting toward the enemy and the other is down providing suppressing fire. They alternate in short spurts to deny the enemy a good target. In the end it is a series of burpees interspersed with sprints....brutal.
Repeated sets of some burpees followed by sprint makes sense, that’s a HIIT workout. Something like “100 burpees AFAP” is more what I mean. I think that confuses endurance and explosiveness.
I think I'd add pullups to the Laredo, and then sprint(s) instead of the 400m. You're right, the 400 is brutal, basically a very long sprint, which is perhaps why I was better at the 800m (880 yds in my day). Pullups have always been my weak-spot.
Yes, pullups! I do a lot of them, real ones, dead hang, not cheating aka kipping. They work grip, lats, back, abs, are one of the best exercises I know.
This is all great, except I’ve never understood the point of doing lots of burpees. It is a sloppy exercise done in the XC ESA. I read it was invented by a man upset that soldiers were too slow in jumping up and sprinting to next cover during trench warfare in WWI. It was supposed to be a short explosive exercise. Doing a lot of them makes no more sense to me than trying to do a lot of max deadlifts in a workout.
Someday I’ll explain my gripe against curls.😸
That's what I love about burpees...short and explosive whole body movement!
Agreed about maxing deadlifts, but I think burpees for repetition are a great way to approximate the functional rigors of combat. The classic infantry fire and maneuver involves "buddy rushing" where one is up sprinting toward the enemy and the other is down providing suppressing fire. They alternate in short spurts to deny the enemy a good target. In the end it is a series of burpees interspersed with sprints....brutal.
Repeated sets of some burpees followed by sprint makes sense, that’s a HIIT workout. Something like “100 burpees AFAP” is more what I mean. I think that confuses endurance and explosiveness.
PS: “XC ESA” is Autocowrecked for “excess.”
I think I'd add pullups to the Laredo, and then sprint(s) instead of the 400m. You're right, the 400 is brutal, basically a very long sprint, which is perhaps why I was better at the 800m (880 yds in my day). Pullups have always been my weak-spot.
Yes, pullups! I do a lot of them, real ones, dead hang, not cheating aka kipping. They work grip, lats, back, abs, are one of the best exercises I know.