Skater Hops

Instructions

1. 1.Stand width your feet hip width apart and your toes pointing forwards. This is the starting position.
2. 2.Shift your weight onto your left leg and flex your left knee slightly, raising your right foot away from the floor and slightly behind you by flexing at the knee.
3. 3.Jump from your left foot laterally a short distance by rapidly extending at the knee, landing on your right foot and flexing at the knee slightly. As you transition from your left foot to your right, your left leg should swing behind your right foot slightly as if you were ice skating.
4. 4.Once you have achieved the position at the end of point 3, repeat the movement described above but in the opposite direction.
5. 5.The act of hopping from left foot to right and then back again to the left, is equal to one repetition. Repeat for as many reps as necessary.

Tips

• The hopping movement from your left foot to your right foot should be completed too quickly. Absorb each landing by flexing at the knee and really focus on the contraction of your quadriceps as you do so.

Breathing Instructions

1. The dynamic nature of this movement means that you will probably just want to breathe in and out steadily and consistently throughout the movement, rather than focusing too much on when exactly during the movement you should inhale and exhale.

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