Exercise of the Week: Medicine Ball Lateral Bound.

Exercise of the Week: Medicine Ball Lateral Bound – This compound plyo move brings dynamic challenge to hips, knees, ankles and shoulder. 

Medicine Ball Lateral Bound

Instructions Preparation Stand with feet close together holding medicine ball with hands on each side of ball. Bend knees and hips slightly with arms bent to sides or to front. Lift right foot up slightly off of floor. Execution Jump to far to right side. Land right foot with left foot off of ground. Position ball forward away from body. Immediately jump far to left side landing on right foot. Again position ball forward away from body. Continue to bound from side to side in same fashion. Comments Ball can also be kept nearer chest without extending arm forward on each land, in which case, shoulder articulation becomes static. Attempt to progressively increase speed, length, height, or duration of jumps depending on training goal. Hip adductors are activated both dynamically(during bound) and isometrically (during landing on single leg). Also see Lateral bound without medicine ball.

Classification  Utility: Plyometric  Mechanics: Compound  Force: Push Force (Articulation) Dynamic Hip Abduction Extension Knee Extension Ankle Plantar Flexion Foot Eversion Shoulder Flexion Static Spine (Thoracic, Lumbar) Extension Lateral Flexion Hip Abduction

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