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burpee
Wiktionary
n. A physical exercise performed by bending over, performing a squat thrust, and returning to a standing position.
Wikipedia
Burpee may refer to:
- Burpee (exercise), a full body exercise
- Burpee Seeds, a seed company
- W. Atlee Burpee, the founder of Burpee Seeds
- The Burpee Museum of Natural History
- The Hanksville-Burpee Quarry, a paleontological excavation site near Hanksville, Utah
- Lawrence Johnstone Burpee (1873–1946), a Canadian librarian, historian and author
- Judson Burpee Black (1842–1924), a Canadian politician
- Burpee and Mills, Ontario, a township
- Burpee L. Steeves, Lieutenant Governor of Idaho from 1905–07
The burpee, or squat thrust, is a full body exercise used in strength training and as an aerobic exercise. The basic movement is performed in four steps and known as a "four-count burpee":
- Begin in a standing position.
- Drop into a squat position with your hands on the ground. (count 1)
- Kick your feet back into a plank position, while keeping your arms extended. (count 2)
- Immediately return your feet to the squat position. (count 3)
- Jump up from the squat position (count 4)
Usage examples of "burpee".
He had gone extraordinarily, insanely crazy, reading old Burpee catalogs at night when he was unable to sleep and scanning the few books on gardening that the school library kept.
I expected that, but like I told you, I had the Burpee money, and I very quickly had all the consulting work I could handle.
Then he executed an athletic knees-bend, what the Army physical training instructors call a burpee, and grasped the frame of the chair in both hands.
On his windowsill, in a Burpee Seed-N-Start container, he was sprouting twelve tomato seedlings, and, remembering that Cathlin was interested in weeds, you dutifully sniffed them.
We each tended our own crop, put the Burpee packet on a green-stained bamboo stick at the end of our rows to weather and fade as the season progressed.
Then she prepared a lunch of canned and dehydrated food Pope had left on his last stop about a month before and longed for the snows to disappear so she could plant the vegetable and fruit seeds she had prevailed upon him to order from the Burpee catalog for spring 2000.
I expected that, but like I told you, I had the Burpee money, and I very quickly had all the consulting work I could handle.