The Skill Transfer of the Burpee

Originally published in The CrossFit Journal -- () on August 20, 2012. One of CrossFit’s most-loathed movements, the burpee also represents a skill that can be transferred to other exercises, says gymnastics and movement guru Carl Paoli of San Francisco CrossFit. “I go from flexion to extension to neutral to extension to flexion to neutral,“ he explains. “It’s hard. And it goes back and forth, and it has so many moving pieces. That’s why the burpee is so hard.“ Athletes must mo