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Meet Tommy Voo. He's the Burpee King
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My name is Major Tommy Voo. I'm
with the Oregon Army National Guard
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In my civilian job, I'm a sports medicine orthopedic PA. Tommy here
is going to give us all a short history lesson about the burpee
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Grab your popcorn. It's not common knowledge,
but the Burpee is actually a last name
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It was invented by Dr. Royal Burpee in the 30s, 1930s. It was created
as a way to test the fitness levels in young recruits into the military
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This is the homage to Dr. Royal Burpee and his family. So it would
start out in the plank position and essentially you would just pop up
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Damn, that's one. Two. I wrote
the fastest time with 25 burpees
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I did that in front of my unit to help inspire
them to maintain their New Year's resolution
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So the next step, we have the
chest to ground push-up burpees
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One. Two. The chested ground burpee as
prescribed by Guinness World Record
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Now with this movement, what Guinness World Record is looking
for is a little hand motion to the side when you're on the ground
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So down on the ground, hand
to the side, come back up
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One. Two. This has no chest of ground component
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It's just a straight burpee as Dr. Royal Burpee
would recognize and then straight to a pool bar
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So I'll demonstrate you go straight to a pool,
chin over the bar and you don't just drop the bar
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You have to kind of push yourself or lower
yourself with your arm extended and drop
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The burpee pull up in one hour. 611 of those reps. Very painful.
In the future, I plan on seeing a lot for burpee styles and
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different burpee world records. You know what
else? Maybe I'll set a couple myself, and you guys
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can go out for it yourself
and take my world records
