Exercise of the week!

OK well here goes everything. I've decided to try to post once a week on an exercise. I'll try to cover exercises for every body part. Although I do realize i will eventually run out of exercises, I still find it very important for people to learn the proper way to execute an exercise. Most, if not all exercises can be found on www.exrx.net

     This weeks exercise is a "Plyometric" exercise called the "Medicine Ball Split Jump".
Preparation: Stand with one foot slightly in front of the other, knees slightly bent. Hold medicine ball close to your chest. Slightly dip your body.

Execution: Jump up while extending ball upward. Quickly reposition legs, and land with feet in opposite positions. Immediately pull ball back to chest whole dipping body down by bending legs just short of rear knee making contact with floor. Keep torso upright and hip of rear leg straight. Repeat sequence with opposite leg movement. Continue jumps by while alternating leg positions.

     This exercise brings a lot of muscle groups into play. Also affects a large amount of different body parts for extension and flexion.

Dynamic

• Hip
  • Extension
  • Flexion
• Knee
  • Extension
• Ankle
  • Plantar Flexion
• Shoulder
  • Abduction
  • Flexion
• Scapula & Clavicle
  • Upward Rotation
• Elbow
  • Extension