How to Do Jumping Jacks

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Les Whitley. Today I'd like to show you how to do the basic jumping jack. To begin this exercise we start off with feet together hands down by the side. The up phase feet come apart and hands come all the way up over head together. Return back to the start position by jumping. Again the jumping jack is jumping up, hands and feet out, back together is one complete repetition. Beginning by five repetitions gradually working yourself up to ten, fifteen and twenty. The full range of motion should look like so. Out and back is one. Two, three, four, five. A lot of people have the tendency to not move their shoulders for a full range of motion by just bending at the elbow, try to work through a full range of motion,arms all the way up all the way down. Legs should stay in rhythm with the hands in moving forward and that's the basic jumping jack."