Good Exercises for Cheerleaders

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Lucy Spain on behalf of Expert Village here to talk about cheerleading jumps and tumbling. To get you jumps to where they need to be, it's really important to everyday practice some basic exercises which are going to help. One of the best exercises you can do for jumps are high kicks. You can start of with as little as 5 and go all the way up to 50, whatever you feel comfortable. An example of the high kicks would be. We just want to keep going for as many as we can. You want to keep them high. Make sure if you're going to do one leg, you do your other leg as well because you want your legs to be even. Another really good exercise to do, which you do down on the floor. This one you can do while you're watching TV. It's a lot easier. You're going to want to lean back to your side, prop yourself up on your palm, and do leg lifts like this. It's really going to strengthen your inner muscles right here. Again, we want to make sure we do them on both sides so you can get even lift with your jumps. It's also really important to make sure that you just get your jumps high where they need to be. That you can do just basic up and down jumps to get your spring off the floor. It's really nice to make a mark on the wall to see where you're usually hitting and have your fellow squad mates to tell you when you can get higher."