Lateral Stepping Exercises

Video Transcript

"KIRK VICKERS: The next movement is called the lateral movement. Lateral means side to side. This next motion in movement is going to be really to give us more strength and more control through our feet and our ankles. So what we're going to do is we're going to start shoulder-width apart. We're going to step as wide as we can. We don't want to lock out our knees. We want to have a slight bend. We want to work on some stretching control through this part of our body, the inner thigh, all the way out to the lateral thigh. When we look down in our feet, this is important, we don't want to be toeing out. The other thing we don't want to do is we don't want to load to one side more than the other. So we try to neutralize our position here, getting our control through our hips and our pelvis with equal weight on each foot. Once we get into this position fairly wide, we're going to spring over what we call a vaulting motion back to here with our feet straight ahead, stable, and then we going to go into another motion this way. We're going to go--what I like to do is go about 10 yards with this particular movement and then come back the same way. Coming back, foot straight, wide, step over and stop. It's a functional lateral-movement pattern that we're trying to develop here."