



In testing men with this exercise, the Army considers that eight burpees done in 20 seconds is poor 10 burpees is fair 12 is good and 13 or better is excellent. But the Army doesn't consider him fit for the rigors of war until he can do it 40 or 50 times, in easy rhythm, without pausina. Even the rawest recruit can do this exercise a few times-slowly. The burpee is one of the seven exercises now being used to test a soldier's physical fitness as well as his improvement under the new toughening-up program. At "three," he jumps back to squatting position, and at "four" he stands up. At "two," he throws his weight forward on his arms and then thrusts his legs straight back, so that his weight is resting on his hands and toes. At the count of "one," he goes down to a squatting position, with hands flat on the ground, and arms inside his knees. A man first assumes a standing position, with arms of his sides, and feet a couple of inches apart. Stopping short of announcing a state of emergency as urged by the right and far right, Macron attempted to strike a balance between political pressure for a harsh response and fears of triggering a still stronger backlash.THE BURPEE is done in four counts. There had been "unacceptable exploitation of a death of an adolescent" in some neighborhoods to justify the violence, Macron said after rushing back from an EU summit to chair a second crisis meeting in two days. PATRICK HERTZOG / AFPįrench President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, June 30, announced measures including more police and urged parents to keep minors off the streets as he battled to contain nightly riots over a teenager's fatal shooting by an officer in a traffic stop. Le Monde with AFP Published on June 30, 2023, at 12:42 pm (Paris), updated on June 30, 2023, at 5:31 pmįrench police officers in riot gear stand guard and hold tear gas canister launchers next to the facade of a damaged Apple Store at Place Kleber, in Strasbourg, eastern France, on June 30, 2023. More police, armored vehicles will be deployed to contain riots in Franceįrench President Macron said that additional security forces would be deployed to contain nationwide unrest in the wake of the killing of Nahel M., a teenager shot by police in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday.
