{"id":230,"date":"2009-03-29T21:19:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T04:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/?p=230"},"modified":"2009-03-29T21:19:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T04:19:53","slug":"burpee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"burpee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-247\" title=\"burp\" src=\"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/burp.jpg\" alt=\"burp\" width=\"127\" height=\"96\" \/>Or &#8220;burpie.&#8221; Either way, it&#8217;s a killer workout. Allegedly working <em>every muscle group in your body,<\/em> (sure <em>feels<\/em> like it) this move is also called &#8220;the prison workout,&#8221; as inmates allegedly find it a way to stay in ass-saving form while limited to tiny spaces.<\/p>\n<p>One burpee = from a relaxed stand, crouch down, place palms flat on floor, kick feet out to put you in pushup position; do a pushup; snap feet back to where they were; straighten back up to a stand, stretching your arms above your head to finish (or jumping in the air, if you&#8217;re all hardcore). Set-wise, the idea is to do X (a reasonably achievable #), wait\/stretch 1 minute, then subtract one&#8230; and so on (i.e., 10, then 9, then 8, etc.).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-231\" title=\"pushupbars\" src=\"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/pushupbars.jpg\" alt=\"pushupbars\" width=\"121\" height=\"121\" \/>It&#8217;s not very easy.<\/p>\n<p>Stretch first; hold your abdominals tight on the kick-back (don&#8217;t let back &#8220;sway&#8221;). One tip I use that I haven&#8217;t seen elsewhere yet: Using something to elevate the hands slightly on that initial squat\/pushup, to take some stress\/load off lower back &amp; wrists. I&#8217;m using a pair of pushup bars. I&#8217;m still all hardcore, tho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or &#8220;burpie.&#8221; Either way, it&#8217;s a killer workout. Allegedly working every muscle group in your body, (sure feels like it) this move is also called &#8220;the prison workout,&#8221; as inmates allegedly find it a way to stay in ass-saving form while limited to tiny spaces. One burpee = from a relaxed stand, crouch down, place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27,28,52,57,116,160],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-burpee","tag-burpie","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-prison-workout","tag-workout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}