Exercise of the Week - Squat Thrusts
Wednesday February 23, 2005
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.
Comments
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.
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