Technique and Injury Prevention

Something I’m not shy about: how much burpees suck. You’re gonna get a lot of people saying that they’re the ultimate full-body workout. Let’s get real: they’re the ultimate full-body destroyer. Yeah, they increase your heart rate and work up a sweat. But what’s going on behind the scenes is a high-impact movement that’s rough on your knees, wrist, shoulders, and spine when you don’t have the form down pat (which is a lot of people because it’s multiple core-reliant movements

If your pull ups look like you’re trying to launch yourself into orbit, I’m staging an intervention. You know the look. Legs kicking, hips snapping, shoulders doing whatever they can to keep up. It's called kipping. I also call it a shortcut...a shortcut to wrecking your joints. Approaching maximum intensity and exertion in a workout is great. Love it. What I do not love is watching a herky-jerky vertical dance just for the sake of getting more reps. This type of pull up is s