This isn't the type of movement that you just grind through. Due to the impossibility of
repeatedly performing a plyometric movement without a mechanical breakdown of form
and technique, the likelihood of suffering an injury becomes significant.
There's no argument that burpees can leave you with your head in the garbage can. In our
ignorant fitness society, where the value of an exercise is determined by how crappy you
feel afterwards, burpees have been elevated to the single best form of conditioning ever
conceived!
Congratulations CrossFit, your wicked hard programming methods have crept into
commercial gyms. And physical therapists thank you.
Do This Instead: Speed Squat
The speed squat eliminates ground reaction forces that can put a pounding on your joints,
while recruiting muscle fibers more efficiently than its jumping counterpart.
Reducing joint stresses while increasing multiple forms of muscular stress leads to
something called gains, in case you forgot what those look like!