The Amazing Stickie, being smart as well as fit, knows that she can’t just work in the sagittal plane (things that go forwards and backwards) because life sometimes goes sideways. To prepare, she practices lateral bounds.
Stickie begins in a small squat, then jumps sideways, landing again in a small squat, as if she were leaping over a puddle or a small box. Then she jumps back the other way.
It is important, when jumping, to try to land softly. Soft landings occur when we let the toe or ball of our foot impact the ground first, followed by the heel, ensuring that our knees are bent to absorb the ground forces. It can help to point our toes down at the ground when we push up into the jump in the first place because then our feet, like Stickie’s, are in the right position for a good landing.
Sets of thirty jumps are good.
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