Athletic & Aware

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SFH #176: Royal Burpee

Some exercise history 📜

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Brian Hain
Sep 16, 2021
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In case you thought this was some elegant version of the burpee, it's not. Royal Huddleston Burpee is the man who created the namesake exercise. He was a physiologist getting his Ph.D. from Columbia University when he came up with this hallmark physical fitness test move. It was a part of his work Seven Quickly Administered Tests of Physical Capacity pu…

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