How to Do Jumping Jacks & Swing Toe Kicks

Series Summary

What makes Steve Nash such an amazing basketball player is not that he is the tallest, strongest, or fastest player out there. Many other players exceed him in height, speed, and strength. However, Nash does exceed almost every ball player out there in his agility. Agility is the ability to control and utilize your strength, height, speed, power, and intelligence to best execute whatever task is at hand. Steve Nash is living proof of the athletic importance of agility and agility training. It is an easy aspect of athleticism to neglect, but a very important part.

In this free video series, watch as Unique Anderson, owner of Energy Fitness, teaches different agility training exercises and techniques. Learn how to do jumping jacks and swing toe kicks, how to run suicides, how to do knee hugs, different balance techniques, how to do high knee and bear crawl exercises, how to do ladder drills, how to do ice skaters, how to do the Ali shuffle, how to do a T drill, how to do the wheel barrow drill, how to do the ball and weight drill, and a quick circuit training routine to help build agility. Strength and speed are not the only important things while playing a sport, so watch these videos and become an agile athlete.

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Unique and this is my handsome assistant Arney and we are at Energy Fitness in New York City talking about speed and agility techniques. Hello! How are you and today we are going to do our first clip which is called speed and agility techniques so Arney is going to show you how to do that. As you see what he is doing, he is focusing on opening up his hand strength as he swings he kicks. What he is doing is making sure each foot is landing in the ladder just to get himself actived to what we are about to do today. What happens is a lot of times with speed and agility is a lot of people go too fast before they can actually do the exercise. Right after this we are going to go into a suicidal which we have these cones right here. Now a suicidal drill is you are going to go from a sprint to the middle and back, sprint again. Go!"