A short YouTube Q&A from Ben Greenfield (BenGreenfieldFitness.com top-10 series) answering a listener (Mike) about which bodyweight exercise burns the most calories. Ben identifies the burpee (also called rocket push-up, push up squat thrust jump) as the top bodyweight calorie-burner and indicates a demonstration clip will follow.
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Welcome to the BenGreenfieldFitness.com top 10 questions on fitness, nutrition and lifestyle. My name is Ben and this is question number eight. The top 10 questions that I've been getting from people about everything from human performance to wellness to fat loss. And this is from listener Mike. I think we had a listener Mike earlier and he says, which body weight exercises burn the most calories? Well, I think question number I believe it was question number yeah, it was four in this series asked what exercise machines at the gym burn the most calories. As far as body weight exercises that burn the most calories, I'm going to give you the number one exercise that burns the most calories. It is called a push up squat thrust jump. It's called a rocket push up. It's called a burpee. There are variations of it for people who have trouble doing a pushup or for people who have trouble doing a squat. What I'm going to do is in this video I will insert an actual example of that exercise. So thanks for the question and your rocket push up demonstration. One of the top bodyweight calorie burners that you can do is going to appear right about now.