Burpees

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Four movements in a row sounds simple until you are down on the floor trying to recall what follows the push-up. The pictures below lay out the whole sequence so a child can look instead of guessing halfway through.

Four figures in a row show a boy standing, squatting down, dropping into a plank and jumping up with arms overhead.

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Burpees step by step

Four figures in a row show a boy standing, squatting down, dropping into a plank and jumping up with arms overhead.

About this visual support

A burpee is really four exercises joined together: down into a squat, legs out, back in, and up into a jump. On their own none of them are hard, but strung together at speed the order is what breaks first. Mid-movement, head down and heart rate up, it is difficult to hold on to a spoken instruction given half a minute earlier.

With one picture per part, the sequence becomes something the child can check independently. Lay the row on the floor in front of the mat, facing the way the child looks when on all fours, so the next step sits in the field of vision exactly when it is needed. Run the set through slowly once with the pictures before timing it, so the order settles into the body before the pace goes on. Knowing how many burpees count as the set also makes the end predictable.

The whole session can be set up in Routined, which you can test for fourteen days at no cost.