The Jump Up Exercise Step for Plyometrics Training

Video Transcript

"UNIQUE ANDERSON: On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Unique Anderson and I'm here at Energy Fitness in New York City, and we're talking about speed, agility and plyometric step training. Now, before you do this next one, you want to make sure that your calves are nicely stretched that you're not too tight. And again, if you're going to do this exercise, people don't know when you stretch a muscle before--when you're about to work it, you actually don't get the best power from it. So if you want to stretch to these types of exercises, it's usually a couple of hours ahead or even a day before, and then you want to stretch afterwards. Make sure the calf and the quad is nice and loose. Before--we start on is our lunge back, so your knee here and you want to jump up, align your leg to come off the platform and back, jumping up and back. So this is how it should look. You try to jump as high as you can: one leg, two and one. You try to do about 10 reps for each leg, switching it up, jump, jump. And that's a one-leg jump."