Squat Thrust. This is one of those killer moves you might
remember from P.E. back in the day. It's great for working your entire
body while getting your heart rate nice and high. Work this into your
usual cardio workout by doing 10 squat-thrusts every 15 minutes, or add some at
the end of your workout. Do it right: Stand with feet together. Squat down and place your hands on the floor next to your feet. In an explosive movement, jump feet backwards into a push-up position, jump feet back between hands and stand up.
Add intensity by adding a jump after you stand up. More
intense cardio moves.
gadzooks—I just wish i could do one
hi, does this exercise burn fat?
a lot of good information. Can squat thrusts help to improve your swimming?
also known as burpees
squat thrusts are just the leg extention and retraction, the standing up afterwards makes it a burpee and adding a jump (usualy a starjump) makes it a bastard (this is the actual name rather than a adjective).
These are awful! My knees are a mess from all of the squat thrust I did through school!
This is a killer exercise. They made us do these at basic training all day long as a ‘motivational punishment’. I lost 20lbs off of an already skinny body. My abs look crazy. All the time in basic we never used weights… all calisthenics.
(Air Force)
I thought this was a contraindicated exercise.
Uh, guys, i’ve done these things and i’ve lost, hmmmm, lets see, half of the fat on my ass, that’s what.
yeah, ignore Norah, she thinks shes a supermodel already. Hah. THat’s a joke. But seriously. These things work.
I developed a routine; I do them every day for thirty minutes or hopefully under that’…start out with ten and work your way up to 20 in multiples of two’…10,12,….20…18…14…10…grand total 180 squat thrusts’…it will burn the fat and them some’…guaranteed
Hate these. School Teachers Made Me Do Them. Nearly Died Each Time!!! HAHA
i am a swimmer so i understand knee problems considering i used to never do joint exorcises. if doing both legs at the same time gets you off balance and your coming down to hard on your knees, try doing one leg at a time- you get the same work out and are able to do more reps without the harsh aftershock
Man i’m doing these now, and its killing me!
But, no pain no gain so, they must be working for me.
so like, yes.
Frogs do meow.
oh darn! this exrcise almost kill me when i was in the academy..they made us do this all day long and night when we have offense (with all the blisters and wounds on your palms)..and this is part of our daily exrcises and if you got use to it with, you can perform an amazing 4 x 1000 repitition in an hour with speed…well, it’s effective in taking off those calories and fats…
Great exercise that you can do in your own home, and because they’re intense, you don’t need to do that many of them.
Ah, Burpees. One of the most effective tools in the boot camp arsenal. Try to work up to being able to do 25 in one minute as a good benchmark. I have my boot campers shoot for that.
A squat thrust with a jump at the end is a burpee. Incorporate these with some mountain climbers, jumping jacks and some frog jumps and you’ll be in tip top shape in not time. Warning though these will kick u in the butt and will have you gasping for air. You will burn that fat and the pounds will drop. Trust me
This is one of my all time favorite exercise. I love using these as the basis for an intense ab workout. Great to get your heart going quickly, while still offering many opportunities to target specific muscle groups.
If everybody did 10 reps every morning, we probably wouldn’t be as obese a country!