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@werby Dude everyone in my BJJ class can hold a plank for 2-3 mins, and majority of us are 35+ yo white belt fat asses.

@fbgah According to her his original thesis and the only copy is in her possession. He wrote another book though. https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130104/new-york-city/real-story-behind-exercise-you-love-hate-burpee/

@kns87111 The man is long dead and the only copy of his original exercise is sitting on a shelf of his grand daughter home, so we have to guess. But I wager it's to measure heart rate change and return to baseline so you should do it as fast as you could, in this case squat thrust and do frog...

@spencer5150 Yeah Dr. Burpee created it as general population cardio assessment, 4 reps per test. The military took the template and modified it to be a max rep count test. Eventually they (probably some sadist trainers) started adding push up and jump, so the push up or jump are military...

@justabirdwatcher Standard, original 4 count burpee doesn't have push up or jump