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Burpees were invented by someone who hated joy and loved suffering in sets of 10.

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The burpee is named after American physiologist Royal H. Burpee, who devised the exercise in the 1930s as a quick test of fitness. It was not designed to cause suffering, and sets of 10 are just a common way to do it.

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