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Today we will learn a valuable training activity, which will allow us to incorporate both upper and lower body strength, using a plyometric exercise variation. It is often useful to develop the ability to train both sets of body muscles during the same workout set. This exercise has developed into a plethora of variations, training activities that involve the similar utilized movements. Some people even assume that this exercise was the basis for the widely known football training up-downs. 

The exercise we will discuss is called a burpee. It will be very useful in your workout, especially if you are a football player. I am under belief that this exercise aided me in using my upper and lower body simultaneously, hitting while in a lineman stance.

1. Begin in a regular pushup-position.
2. Do one explosive pushup, using proper form and necessary skills.
3. Jump out of the pushup stance onto your feet, assuming the position of a parallel squat.
4. Explode out of your squat stance, performing a movement similar to the squat jump.
5. Lower yourself back into a squat, and move into a pushup position.
6. Repeat for highest reps possible.