Someone mentioned squat thrusts in the Tabatas thread in 100 lb. Club. I thought they meant the movement in the video (posted in the first post), which involves a squat followed by an overhead press with dumbbells. But when I asked a friend, she said that squat thrusts involve a squat followed by bending over and putting your hands on the floor and then jumping your feet back into a "push-up" position. Is that what they are?

Your friend is right, I know them as burpees, here is a page that shows them:

http://exercise.about.com/b/2005/05/...at-thrusts.htm

Omg. Burpees.. I *hated* those in high school!

Cool! Thanks, Nelie! They look brutal. Why "Burpee," though? Interesting name!

So when Amanda mentioned that she jumps at the top, she means she jumps when she's moving back up from the squat, after doing the push-up-y thing, right? (wow, describing this stuff is hard!)

Thanks for the help. You two both had seriously tough gym teachers--I think chin ups were the worst exercise we had to do in PE.

Here's a good video showing how to do a burpee and with the jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MGljX4bbps

When I was doing the tabata in that thread, I was calling what the girl in the video was doing squat thrusts cause to me that's what they were haha. You squatted, and then thrusted your hands up. I didn't know burpees were called squat thrusts.