Royal Huddleston Burpee
Royal Huddleston Burpee, Sr. (June 4, 1898 – January 13, 1987) was an American physiologist. He was born in Manhattan, New York City, and is best known for the full-body exercise named after him, the Burpee.
Burpee was a veteran of the First World War. After the war, he earned his doctorate in physiology at Columbia University.[1] In the 1930s, he developed the Burpee test.[2] In 1942, the U.S. Army adopted the exercise as part of its physical fitness test.[3][4]
During World War II, he worked as the overseas program director for the United Service Organizations (USO). From 1946 to 1964, Burpee served as Executive Director of the Bronx-Union Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in New York City. He is buried at Long Island National Cemetery.[5]
Literature
- Royal Huddleston Burpee: Seven Quickly Administered Tests of Physical Capacity and Their Use in Detecting Physical Incapacity for Motor Activity in Men and Boys. New York: AMS Press, 1972. ISBN 978-0-404-55818-5. (150 pages, English)
References
- ↑ Tamarkin, Sally (2014-05-02). "A Brief History Of The Burpee". Huffpost. Archived from the original on 2025-06-14. Retrieved 2025-06-14. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "definition of burpee from Oxford Dictionaries Online". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Effektive Ganzkörperübung Burpee: Liegestütze mit Flugphase [Effective full-body exercise Burpee: Push-ups with flight phase]". Spiegel Online. 2014-08-15. Retrieved 2025-06-14.
- ↑ Knapik, Joseph J.; East, Whitfield B. (2014). "History of United States Army physical fitness and physical readiness training". U.S. Army Medical Department Journal: 5–19. ISSN 1524-0436. PMID 24706237.
- ↑ "Royal Huddleston Burpee Sr. (1897-1987) - Find a..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2025-06-14.
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