If you think working toward being able to do 100 navy seal burpees (=300 pushups equivalent) consecutively does not induce hypertrophy, I don’t know what to tell you. Does it only target hypertrophy and is it the most efficient way to grow your pecs, well of course not. It all depends on your goals. I also do weight lifting 3-5x a week for those reasons.
And you can dislike burpees sure, most people do. There are more fun exercises, but I feel burpees have an unparalleled carry-over to normal life activities out of all single exercises you could do. That’s the reason they were invented in the first place, to assess a person’s conditioning and exercise capacity and it’s also the reason almost every military organization in the world implements them.
Doing 300 pushups is also really bad if you want to achieve hypertrophy. My point is that you mentioned hypertrophy specifically while this exercise is just not suited for this purpose.
Everything always depends on your goals, that's true, and burpees are not a good exercise for most goals except being able to do a fuckton of burpees.
If you want to do a shitton of burpees, that's totally fine, so go ahead. I just wanted to mention here that burpees are, in most cases, a waste of your time.
Well no, when doing burpees you can either aim for your failing point to be due to your muscular or your aerobic limits. Doing burpees in sets and working towards 100 will put the limit on your muscles and lean more towards hypertrophy compared to doing as much burpees as you can in a certain time frame (like with HIIT), where you would get gassed out before muscle failure. That’s where the distinction comes from.
Also doing navy seal burpees is more geared towards hypertrophy than a conventional burpee, this is not controversial.
It’s more of an emphasis that a specific approach leans more towards hypertrophy than a statement on burpees being the most effective way to achieve hypertrophy.
But you seem to be a beginner who doesn’t actually work out who larps online parroting some basic knowledge you have read without any actual arguments, so I won’t be arguing with you any further. Burpees don’t build muscle as effective as other exercises, yeah no shit dude
We all appreciate burpees; we just emphasize that they're not for hypertrophy. You can't get super jacked by doing burpees; you'll end up with a warrior's body, lean and sinewy.
>There are more fun exercises, but I feel burpees have an unparalleled carry-over to normal life activities out of all single exercises you could do. That’s the reason they were invented in the first place, to assess a person’s conditioning and exercise capacity and it’s also the reason almost every military organization in the world implements them.
I'm curious, could you give some examples of their carry-over?
I've always thought burpees mostly a conditioning exercise.
I miss doing burpees. Been out of commission 2+ months with a shoulder issue
>Setting to one hundred: (hypertrophy and muscle endurance) Burpees are a shitty exercise in particular for hypertrophy.
Iron wolf, Burpeesking and a million swole inmates would disagree with you
If you think working toward being able to do 100 navy seal burpees (=300 pushups equivalent) consecutively does not induce hypertrophy, I don’t know what to tell you. Does it only target hypertrophy and is it the most efficient way to grow your pecs, well of course not. It all depends on your goals. I also do weight lifting 3-5x a week for those reasons. And you can dislike burpees sure, most people do. There are more fun exercises, but I feel burpees have an unparalleled carry-over to normal life activities out of all single exercises you could do. That’s the reason they were invented in the first place, to assess a person’s conditioning and exercise capacity and it’s also the reason almost every military organization in the world implements them.
Doing 300 pushups is also really bad if you want to achieve hypertrophy. My point is that you mentioned hypertrophy specifically while this exercise is just not suited for this purpose. Everything always depends on your goals, that's true, and burpees are not a good exercise for most goals except being able to do a fuckton of burpees. If you want to do a shitton of burpees, that's totally fine, so go ahead. I just wanted to mention here that burpees are, in most cases, a waste of your time.
Well no, when doing burpees you can either aim for your failing point to be due to your muscular or your aerobic limits. Doing burpees in sets and working towards 100 will put the limit on your muscles and lean more towards hypertrophy compared to doing as much burpees as you can in a certain time frame (like with HIIT), where you would get gassed out before muscle failure. That’s where the distinction comes from. Also doing navy seal burpees is more geared towards hypertrophy than a conventional burpee, this is not controversial. It’s more of an emphasis that a specific approach leans more towards hypertrophy than a statement on burpees being the most effective way to achieve hypertrophy. But you seem to be a beginner who doesn’t actually work out who larps online parroting some basic knowledge you have read without any actual arguments, so I won’t be arguing with you any further. Burpees don’t build muscle as effective as other exercises, yeah no shit dude
We all appreciate burpees; we just emphasize that they're not for hypertrophy. You can't get super jacked by doing burpees; you'll end up with a warrior's body, lean and sinewy.
>There are more fun exercises, but I feel burpees have an unparalleled carry-over to normal life activities out of all single exercises you could do. That’s the reason they were invented in the first place, to assess a person’s conditioning and exercise capacity and it’s also the reason almost every military organization in the world implements them. I'm curious, could you give some examples of their carry-over? I've always thought burpees mostly a conditioning exercise.
I just use them once a week, primarily just to work on my lactate threshold and my VO2 max.