Stabilization in Plyometrics Step Exercise & 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, again, guys, everything that I did with you was focusing on speed, agility, plyometrics and stabilization. Now, stabilization is always in your workouts. A lot of times, people think they're not working their core when they're doing these exercises, but you are. With the stability ball, again, that's added proprioception. That's to control an unstable environment, so you're recruiting so much more muscle fibers to stabilize. So that when you go to a bench or when you go to a regular crunch, you can actually crunch and make sure that is not in your neck or anything in your lower back. Now, the sliding that I did was just to add that variety and actually that court-like or field-like experience. So say you're a football player, basketball player, lacrosse, rugby, whatever it is, tennis, you're always going to be moving laterally, transversely. And the reason why we have these ACL injuries, especially among women, is because we never go into these planes of motion ever in real life. So when we actually try to do it in a sport, that's how we get weak."