The burpee is a full body exercise used in strength training and as aerobic exercise. It is performed in four steps:

• Begin in a standing position.
• Drop into a squat position with your hands on the floor in front of you.
• Kick your feet back, while simultaneously lowering yourself into a pushup
• Immediately return your feet to the squat position, while simultaneously pushing up with your arms.
• Leap up as high as possible from the squat position with your arms overhead (you may also clap your hands above your head at the peak of your jump).

• Easier variants
  • No-pushup burpee: the athlete does not perform a pushup while kicking back their feet.
  • Non-jump burpee: the athlete does not jump in the air after step 3.
• More challenging variants
  • Long-jump burpee: the athlete jumps forward, not upward.
  • Tuck-jump burpee: the athlete pulls his knees (tucks) to his chest while jumping.
  • Jump-over burpee: the athlete jumps over an obstacle between burpees.
  • Box-jump burpee: the athlete jumps onto a box, rather than straight up and down.
  • One-armed burpee: the athlete uses only one arm for the whole exercise including the pushup.
  • Dumbbell burpee: the athlete holds a pair of dumbbells while performing the exercise.
  • Parkour burpee: following one burpee on the ground, the athlete jumps upon a table and performs the second burpee on the table, then jumps back to the initial position
  • Hindu push up burpee: instead of a regular push up, do a hindu push up
  • Pull-up burpee: Combine a pull-up with the jump or do a pull-up instead of the jump.
  • Muscle-up burpee: Combine a muscle-up with the jump or do a muscle-up instead of the jump.
  • Double burpee: Instead of one pushup do two in a row to cancel the drive from landing after the jump and to make the next jump harder. Each part of the burpee might be repeated to make it even harder.
• Other variants
  • Wall burpees / incline burpees / air burpees: the athlete kicks his feet up against a wall / up on a table / up in the air, instead of back. Usually, these variants are performed without a pushup.
• The 8 count body builder is another variant of the burpee. Counts 1-8 are as follows: (1) put your hands down, (2) push out your feet, (3) and (4) do a jumping jack on the ground, (5) and (6) perform a pushup, (7) bring your feet back forward, (8) jump in the air.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the exercise was named in the 1930s for American psychologist Royal H. Burpee, who developed the Burpee test. Consisting of a series of the exercises performed in rapid succession, the test was meant to measure agility and coordination."Definition of burpee from Oxford Dictionaries Online". Oxford University Press It is not clear whether the exercise itself was invented by Burpee, or if his test merely popularized it.

• Further instructions at bodybuilding.com
• CrossFit.com Burpees Video

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