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Straight leg bounds

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Straight leg bounds

Intermediate30 secondsJumping

Muscles worked

Hip flexorsHamstringsQuadsCalves

You need

No equipment

How to do it

  1. Move forward with springy strides, swinging each leg out in front of you straight-kneed, reaching your hands toward the rising leg as it comes up.
  2. Push off the ball of the back foot to add a light bound to every stride and keep your torso tall.
  3. Somewhere between a toy soldier and a sprinter's drill - the knee stays proudly straight, and the spring comes from the ankles, not the knees.

Exercise from Darebee, used under licence.