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Burpee Form Check

Is your burpee actually good? Prop your phone up and find out — GoodReps watches your knee angle (hip → knee → ankle) live and scores every rep as you train your chest and quads, with shoulders, core and glutes assisting. Free, in your browser, processed entirely on your device.

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The live screen, in miniature — the moving skeleton is the app’s real burpee demo pose (side view), with the rep counter, form bar, and phase dot exactly as they run in a session. All processed on-device.
Straight From The App

HOW TO DO A PROPER BURPEE

Setup  Turn side-on to the camera with room to drop down and kick back.

  1. Squat, plant your hands, and kick your feet back to a plank.
  2. Optional push-up, then jump your feet back in.
  3. Explode up into a jump, reaching overhead. Reset fully each rep.
Form cue: Full reset to standing

This is the same instruction sheet you’ll find on the ⓘ panel inside the app — with an animated demo next to it.

How The Check Works

THREE STEPS TO A SCORED BURPEE

1

Prop your phone and get in frame

Set your phone at roughly torso height and set up side-on to the camera. The built-in camera test confirms your lighting, distance, and angle with live green checks before you start.

2

The AI locks a 17-point skeleton on you

GoodReps measures your knee angle (hip → knee → ankle) in real time, entirely on your device. No wearables, no sensors. No equipment — just room to drop down and jump back up.

3

Move — and watch the form bar

The bar fills as you travel from ~165° toward ~80° at the bottom. Stop short and it tells you; a rep only counts through the full range of motion.

Under The Hood

WHAT THE CAMERA WATCHES

Fix These First

COMMON BURPEE MISTAKES

Skipping the plank

Kicking back halfway and bouncing forward again cuts the burpee's engine out. Hit a real plank — body straight — every rep.

Sagging through the middle

Flopping to the floor with a soft core is how lower backs get grumpy. Brace before you drop and keep the line.

Never standing tall

Hunching into the next rep shortchanges the reset. Finish upright — hips open, chest up — before you go again.

Redlining rep one

Burpees punish bad pacing like nothing else. Find a rhythm you could hold for twice your set and build from there.

Your Data

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Rep counting runs entirely on your device — your camera feed is never uploaded.

Pose detection runs in your browser via TensorFlow.js. Camera frames are analyzed in real time and immediately discarded — nothing is recorded, nothing leaves your phone, and we never see them. Sign-in is optional; skip it and everything stays local.

FAQ

QUESTIONS, ANSWERED

Do I need any equipment to count burpees?

No — just enough floor to drop into a plank and enough ceiling to jump. Your phone watches from the side.

Does it work in a home gym or low light?

Run the built-in camera test first — it checks your lighting, distance, and angle with live green checks before you start. If a rep still slips through, manual counting is always one tap away.

Is my camera feed uploaded anywhere?

No. Pose detection runs entirely on your phone, in your browser. Frames are analyzed in real time and immediately discarded — nothing is recorded, nothing is uploaded.

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