How to Do Side Step Up Exercises

Video Transcript

"ALICE MONSAERT: In this series of exercise, I'm going to do a step up from the side and add a squat to it. So, we're going to place our foot at the edge of the bench and perform the step-up, but as you come down, I'd like you to sink down lower into your squat. So we're getting a lot more range of motion than we did in that front-facing step-up. I'd like to show you that from the side. So, again, your foot on the edge of the bench, come up on your toe, lift, and on the descent, you're going to slowly go down into a squat. So we're targeting, again, glutes, hamstrings, quads, and this actually adds a little bit more of the adductor, which is the inner thigh. I can progress this exercise by again lifting the height of the bench or adding my external resistance, my dumbbells, and performing my step-up to a low squat, step-up to a low squat. From the front view again so you can see. Push up, straight up, keep the hip underneath, and lower down into the squat. Keep the movement tempo even on the way up, as well as the way down instead of pushing and accelerating up or dropping and accelerating down. So you want to control the movement throughout the range of motion."