Not exact matches
In fact,
right now I'm having such a hard time walking because of the (what felt like) millions of
jump squats her workout called for me to do the other day.
Uneven
squat jumps Stand to the left of a staircase with your left foot on the bottom step and your
right foot on the ground.
I attempted to do a less intense burpee by walking down to plank position and walking up to standing
jump (versus
jumping down and up), but my body just didn't feel
right, so I switched to body - weight
squats.
MOD: Come
right into body
squats if you need a little breather but want to stay in the game, or if you have any trouble
jumping.
Split
squat lunge
jumps: Start in a lunge position with the
right leg forward, left leg back.
If
jumping is tough on your joints, I want you to begin in a
squat position and step to the left,
squat then return to center, then step to the
right,
squat.
For a more difficult version, try
jump squats in which you forcefully explode up on the
squat so that you actually
jump off the ground, then come
right back down into the next
jump squat on your landing.
180 Degree Burpees (no pushup) x 20 Deadlift — left x 20 Deadlift —
right x 20 Dynamic
Squat with One arm Dumbbell Press, alt arms x 20 Dumbbell Row Pushups x 20 Crunches with Hand to hand Dumbbell Passes x 20 Jump Lunges x 20 Sandbag Swings x 20 Barrier
Jumps x 20 Russian Twist with Dumbbell x 20
Once you have recovered from that intense
squat hold, grab a fitness matt, lay on your back and lift your legs up past your head then quickly roll your body forward, bend your knees, put your feet on the floor and
jump right up into standing position.
Start in standing position, holding Ugi in front of you and step
right foot over one step to the
right,
squat and touch Ugi to the floor, as you bring your left foot in to the
right, lift Ugi up high overhead, step again to the
right and touch Ugi to ground, step
right with left foot bringing Ugi up overhead, and on the 3rd step, place Ugi on the ground and
jump legs back into plank, do a push up with hands on Ugi,
jump legs in and come up to standing lifting Ugi high up overhead again.
Then immediately
jump straight up and land back down softly on your toes then dropping
right back into your
squat position and repeating the movement.
As an example, for the first exercise, you'd do
jump squats for 20 seconds then hold a deep
squat for 10 and then go
right back into
jumping, and so on and so on.
Since free weight exercises performed on the ground (like barbell
squats) are most similar in terms of stability requirements to athletic ability tests (like vertical
jumps), this also explains why free weights could indeed be described as «just
right» in terms of external load stability, and therefore transfer most effectively to sport.