Jump Lunges: Killer Plyometric Leg Exercise!

http://www.BuiltLean.com - Jump Lunges, also called Jumping Lunges, or Jump Splits are a very effective plyometric leg exercise to help improve your cardiovascular health, strength, and stamina. I have 3 variations I discuss so you can choose which version is right for your fitness level.

Here"s the link to the full article: http://www.builtlean.com/2011/09/29/jump-lunges-plyometric-leg-exercise/

Transcripts:

MARK: Hi this is Mark Perry from BuiltLean.com
which is of course your source of

efficient fitness tips and programs, so today
I"m gonna show you

one of my favorite exercises for really getting your
heart rate up, and getting that late light burn going

and it"s the jump lunges, it"s also referred
to as the jump split.

And yo, I"m gonna be showing you three different
variations

of the jump lunge,

so you can figure out what"s right for your
fitness level.

And so let me go into it. What is a jump line?

I"m gonna be showing you the easy version,
which is the assistant jump line,

and so you are gonna try to find a bar,
or something you can hold onto,

as you"re doing this exercises.

So how a jump lunge works is, you"re
gonna start out

with your legs split apart,

you"re gonna go down towards the floor,
and you"re gonna forcefully jump off the ground.

onto the other leg, and so you"re essentially
splitting your legs apart.

And alternating them. Let me just show you
real time.

Because I had this assistance here, it"s really
helping support my weight so it"s much easier than doing

a normal jump lunge, the body weight jump lunge.

And that"s what I"m gonna show you right now,
that"s a second

variation of the jump lunge,it"s just
with your body weight.

And so, let me show you what it looks like.
There"re a few different ways you can hold your hands

you can either hold your hands right by your side,

as you do the jump lunge.

You can also do the jump lines with your
hands on you hips,

or even behind your head.

And so if you notice,

it requires a decent amount of balance and
that"s kind of an element

as you"re doing this exercise, and so,

if you"re watching this video and you"re
thinking "you know what, I can do this no problem

well, I have a surprise for you, and is that if you
use weight, it"s much harder.

And I"d love to hear your opinion if you do it,
so I got 25 pound dumbbells here,

I"m gonna show you what it looks like.

So we are just gonna hold these by your sides,

again we"re just forcefully jumping
up and down

And so, I like doing these, I might sound crazy
but I love doing these in between a squat workout.

So I do squat, then I do jump lunges,
a squat, then I do jump lunges

in a circuit. So, I actually put up a video
where there"s a metabolic conditioning circuit

that I use the jump lunge as one of
the four exercises.

And I actually do the metabolic conditioning
circuit at the end of a work out

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