The Amazing Stickie knows that a great way to add challenge to a workout is to add plyometrics. Plyometrics is a fancy word for “jumping.” Today she is doing jump squats.
She begins in sumo squat position, knees and toes aligned and pointed outward, back up straight, knees bent. From there, she jumps into the air, straightening her legs and pointing her toes toward the floor. To land, she comes down first with the balls of her feet and then her heels, bending her knees at the same time to absorb the forces from the ground.
When she first started doing jump squats, Stickie paused between reps, but as she progressed, she learned to minimize her time on the ground. She uses the momentum of her landing plus the bend in her knees to propel her upward for the next jump.
Sets of thirty are good.
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