Step Up Exercises

Video Transcript

"I'm going to demonstrate how to do a step up. While you're at home you can also, at the gym, use a bench of some kind, about knee level. Make sure the chair is very stable so you don't fall over, we're going to put the foot right in the middle and we're going to step up, touch and then drop back down. We've got a ninety degree angle from your ankle, to your knee, to your hip and we don't want it to be any higher than that. We're dropping from here, to here. Hands go on your hips, exhale and inhale. This is a great work for the quadricep and the hamstring and the glutes, so we've got a lot of leg muscles working at the same time. Tap up, drop back down. If this is too challenging for you, find something a little bit lower than the ninety degree angle, so that you're working from about a foot off the floor, as opposed to about two to three feet off the floor. Ninety degree angle is what we want to achieve, we don't want to go any higher than that. Option is to come up with the knee and drop back down. The knee drawing up is going to engage the core muscles and then draw it back down. Just find where you're comfortable in this. We don't want your bottom to drop at your ankle height, make sure it stays just about parallel to that knee. That is how we do step ups, using a chair at home or use a bench in the gym."