In the videos below I am going to show you 2 advanced single leg exercises that can help you improve your lower body power.
In addition, these two exercises will help you absorb your landings better by improving your landing mechanics and also help protect you from knee injuries.
They will also help improve your balance because you have to stabilize on each landing before starting the next repetition.
Note: These are more advanced exercises. Before you start trying these, make sure you are competent with more basic single leg exercises like rear foot elevated split squats and also 2 foot jumping exercises like squat jumps.
1. TRX Single Leg Jump
If you don’t have a suspension trainer, then you can also do this exercise by having your rear foot elevated on a bench. If you would like to purchase a TRX Suspension Trainer than go HERE
2. Single Leg Barbell RDL
Make sure you keep your chest up, core braced and back straight (don’t hunch over). Move from the hip first and keep your weight on the heel. When coming up drive that heel into the ground and squeeze the glute forward to finish the move.
Do 6-10 reps of either of the exercises.
If you are already in a good training routine, and have built up some single leg strength, then incorporating these exercises into your workouts will only advance you further.
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