Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

Burpees are a super effective full body exercise.

So why do we hate them so much?

Well, this three-step plan that I'm going to outline in this episode

will make you love or at least tolerate burpees and some other tough exercises. I talk about the

phenomenon of doing too much too soon quite often in my articles, videos, and podcast episodes. But the problem with going

from zero to pushing yourself as hard as your body will allow is that it's, well, not enjoyable.

It also leaves you feeling exhausted and depressed about your current physical fitness.

Of course, if you do persist and you put yourself through

these brutal workouts a few more times over the weeks and months, you will undoubtedly feel improvements

in your fitness, but you'll also develop aches and pains, or maybe even an injury and eventually

need to take a break. Or worse, you might

deem the experiment of failure and go back to your previously scheduled sedentary lifestyle.

But what if I told you there's another way? There's a way to ease yourself into challenging

exercises, like burpeespees and fitness routines.

Would you be willing to give it a try?

Good, I thought you might.

The first thing I usually have to convince a new fitness client to do is slow the heck down.

We often refer to this too fast pace as being comfortably

uncomfortable. It's a pace that gives us the feeling of a good workout because it causes

suffering, yet it also is something we can actually do because that suffering isn't

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