Movement Skill Exercise: Single leg hops
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 8:15AM
Discover Movement in Movement Skills

Movement skills establish a foundation for healthy and successful long-term athletic development. Single leg hop is a basic movement skill and an excellent exercise in improving running, jumping, landing and change of direction.

Multi-planar hops prepare the movement system for task-specific sport situations by improving balance, coordination, agility, speed and ground contact biomechanics.   

You can't go wrong with single leg hops!

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