Most coaches and personal trainers working with SET FOR SET are looking to optimize their clients and players performance. If not, we will lose our desired mobility and stability, which is what we needed to be able to walk in the first place. We must refine and hone our skills as adults. Why? Because after years and years of sedentary lifestyle, we lose the skills that we acquired as children. We take a pattern-first, ground up approach as we aim to build safe and effective movements through the use of developmental positions.Īs a kid you worked from the ground up until you could walk properly - Sitting, kneeling, crawling, assisted walking, walking, running, and then, sprinting.Īs an adult, we must take it back to our roots by revisiting our most basic movements. I don’t know if you’ll be dunking a basketball, but you’ll see what I’m talking about.The half-kneeling position has been a staple of our fundamental workout methodology here at SET FOR SET.
If you do keep it up, you’ll probably like what it does for you. If you start doing this exercise you probably won’t like it in the beginning.
What my friend was doing back then was pretty much the jumping knee tuck. He wasn’t really doing any other kind of workout. He attributed it all to his jumping around. Along with developing a ripped midsection. He didn’t care.Īdditionally, his legs got big, strong and defined. Although, his overall basketball skills weren’t the greatest. He’s not a tall guy as far as basketball players go. Next thing we knew, he was dunking a basketball. Other times he’d take a run and see how high he could reach on a wall outside his house. Sometimes he’d jump straight up from a standing position. What he really wanted to do was be able to dunk the basketball. When I was a kid a friend of mine wanted to get good at basketball. This Exercise Has Ancient Origins (Sort Of)
Knee tuck jumps compensation how to#
I found a good video demo of how to do the jumping knee tuck at Mens Health online. Pretty easy right? Now do it a bunch of times in a row. This will reduce the stress on your joints. Then jump up high while tucking your knees up towards your chest.Īs you come back down try to land with your knees bent. You can start with your hands raised slightly up in front of you if you like. This one movement is really the whole package for lower body and core conditioning. If your looking to get active or improve your current physical fitness regimen, the jumping knee tuck is also great for improving coordination, balance and agility. It feels like the best time to exercise… or cry. You’ll probably feel it if you’re in good shape as well. If you haven’t exercised in a while you’re going to feel this one. This exercise is also a great cardiovascular workout. Getting rid of body fat is probably a primary reason this move is also so popular. It will also strengthen and tighten your abs. Jumping knee tucks will help strengthen and tone your legs, hips and behind. But, there is no denying the benefits which is why I keep doing it. This is another one of those exercises I’m not crazy about. It is a great all around physical fitness movement. If I had to guess, I’d say incorporating the knee tuck jumps into my workout played a huge part in reducing fat around my gut and body shape generally. Pairing the two exercises together is a killer workout. I’ll discuss it specifically another time.įor now you can take my word on this. There’s been numerous things written about it. I feel like I’m still learning about HIIT all the time. The pairing of the two exercises together is similar to what I’ve heard about High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). These secretly strengthen your calves as well.) That means I’ll do a set of shoulder presses and then go straight into knee tuck jumps. Sometimes I like to pair knee tuck jumps with another weight lifting exercise like shoulder presses. Knee Tuck Jumps Are A Great Companion Exercise Also, mixing it in is a good exercise habit to develop. You can mix this one in between push ups and a plank variation and that will give you a great warm up routine. I’ll mix it in with other warm up exercises, doing each for thirty second increments. This is another great exercise that I like to include with my warm up.
Another great movement that works and shapes the whole body is knee tuck jumps. I mentioned in another post how doing burpees are great because they work your whole body.
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