Love them or hate them, burpees deserve a spot in your exercise routine. This powerhouse move works many of the major muscle groups in your body while also giving your heart health a boost.

Shawn Arent, the director of the Center for Health and Human Performance at Rutgers University and a fellow at the American College of Sports Medicine, demonstrates the proper form for the burpee.

Burpees — the exercise that involves dropping down into a push-up position, springing back up to standing and leaping into the air — can cause even the most fit people to groan. The exercise ...