Hip Hop Dance Warm-ups: Shoulder Isolations With Lower Body Stationary

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Emily Larew and we're going to continue our shoulder isolations but we're going to add our lower body picking up but staying stationary. So, continuing on we are again feet apart knees bent staying low into the ground. And you also want to make sure that your stomach muscles are constantly engaged so you want to make them tight you don't want to just be a loosey goosey because then if you start moving your lowering body with your upper body you're going to fall over. So we're low we're hanging out we're loose but we're also tight. So what we are going to do we're going to go ahead and pop our shoulders up and lean to the side, three, four good five six seven eight. Now what I want you to do is as we lean to the side into the right you're going to pick your left knee up, so we're going to bounce it one, and you want to just lift your heel off the floor and pick up your knee. So we're going to keep them on the floor first and then we'll lift our knee in a second. So we're going to go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Let's do it with the music, here we go, ready five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Awesome, so now that you've conquered this let's pick up our feet. So we're going to go pop, two, three. Now you want to make sure that you're not doing this as you're standing there, because then you're going to look like you know, a farmer. So what you want to do with your hip hop is stay here as you lean to the side you want to contract your belly as well. So belly button goes into the side. So we're going to go one, two, three, four, pick your shoulders up and your knees, seven, and eight. So from the side if you can see I'm going in, in, in, in. Ready let's do it fast, here we go five, six, seven eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And that completes our shoulder isolations with the lower body stationary."