Primary muscles: Glutes, hip flexors, quads
Secondary muscles: Abs, calves, hamstrings, lower back
Equipment: No equipment
DOUBLE PULSE SQUAT JUMP INSTRUCTIONS
1. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and the toes pointing slightly outward.
2. Bend your knees, pressing your hips back, and squat until the thighs are parallel with the floor.
3. Lift your hips a few inches up and squat again.
4. Push through the heels to jump straight up.
5. Land with your knees slightly bent and go back into the squat position.
6. Repeat until the set is complete.
PROPER FORM AND BREATHING PATTERN
Keep your chest up, your hips back and don’t let the knees extend beyond the toes. Inhale as you squat and breathe out as you put the pressure on the heels to jump. To absorb the impact, land softly on the toes and balls of the feet and with your knees slightly bent.
EXERCISE BENEFITS
The double pulse jump squat is a high impact, cardio exercise that can help build muscle strength, increase speed and explosiveness, and boost aerobic fitness. This exercise activates your lower body and helps tone your legs, thighs and glutes.
DEMONSTRATION
SETS AND REPS
Practice doing bodyweight squats, squat jacks and jump squats first. Once you’re comfortable with your form, advance to the double pulse squat jump and do 2 or 3, 30-second to 1-minute sets.
CALORIES BURNED
To calculate the number of calories burned doing the double pulse jump squat, enter your weight and the duration of the exercise:
RELATED LOWER BODY EXERCISES
Try these other lower body exercises to strengthen, sculpt and tone your thighs, hips, legs and glutes:
Kneeling roundhouse kick
Shrimp squat
Inner thigh squeeze and lift
Walking lunges
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