Skater Jumps

What are Skater Jumps?

Skater Jumps are a great cardio exercise involving jumping in a pattern that shifts your body weight from side to side to create a skating stride. While it mainly increases leg power, it’s considered a full-body, dynamic workout as it also targets your gluteus medius and adductors of the hip joints. Since you switch off movement between both legs, it also helps offset imbalance and can even prevent lower-body injuries.

How do you do Skater Jumps?

  • Étape 1

    Start standing with your legs hip-width apart. Bend one leg behind the supporting leg at a slight angle, while maintaining weight and balance on the supporting leg.

  • Étape 2

    As you exhale, simultaneously swing your arms out and leap over to the opposite side.

  • Étape 3

    Shift your weight and land with the opposite leg behind you. Be sure to land on the ball of your foot with your hips and knees bent slightly.

  • Étape 4

    Repeat this side-to-side motion, transferring your weight each time. Continue to alternate the arms and legs as you shift side to side in the skating motion.

How do you modify Skater Jumps?

  • Skater Jumps for Prenatal

    If you’re pregnant, break up the movement into two movements and work through them slowly without the jump, taking more of a lunge motion.

  • Skater Jumps for Beginners

    As you’re learning this exercise, start out slowly and focus on getting the proper form before speeding it up.

  • Advanced Skater Jumps

    For a more advanced move you can pick up your pace, transferring your weight from side to side at a faster speed.

  • Skater Jumps for Weak Knees

    If you have weak knees, avoid jumping until strength is built around your hips, glutes, quads and hamstrings. Focus on performing the movement as a lunge.

  • Skater Jumps for Tight Ankles

    Until strength is built around your hips, glutes, quads and hamstrings, avoid this move if you have tight ankles. Instead, lie on a mat and practice leg lifts to work your core and most of the same muscles…read more

  • Skater Jumps for Tight Hips

    If you have tight hips, start with lateral lunges to grasp the basic movement. Once your form is perfected, add in the jump.

What are the benefits of Skater Jumps?

  • Leg Strength

  • Glute Strength

  • Cardio

Avis d’expert

Skater jumps is a great strength and agility exercise that can be used to warm up the body, elevate the heart rate and get the blood flow moving throughout the body.

It’s a great functional exercise to add in routine as it moves through an often underused plane of motion which will help support the infrastructure of the legs by supporting the knees.

Brooke Taylor,Taylored Fitness NY in Queens

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