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Bunny Hop Kick-Up

AdvancedStrengthTier T4

You crouch and place both hands on a mat at shoulder width, with your feet close to your hands. Then you kick both feet up off the floor together and try to keep them up as long as you can.

Targets: Shoulder

Stop if

Choose an easier exercise if pain reaches 6 out of 10 or becomes sharp. Stop and rest if pain reaches 8 out of 10.

This is the general ClapMove rule. This exercise has no extra stop rule of its own.

  • Pain 6 out of 10 or more: choose an easier exercise.
  • Pain 8 out of 10 or more: stop and rest.

Equipment needed

  • Works at home
  • Works at the gym

none

Home Options

  • bodyweight

Dosage

3

Sets

6

Reps / Time

90 sec

Rest

controlled

Tempo

Step-by-Step Guide

Set up

  • Clear a space on a mat or soft flooring big enough to crouch and kick both feet up without hitting anything nearby.
  • Bunny hops are among the animal-walk activities with no set rep count; repeat as many times as instructed separately.
  1. A woman crouched low with both hands flat on the floor shoulder-width apart and both bare feet close to her hands.

    Step 1 of 3

    Crouch down and plant both hands on the floor at shoulder width, with both feet close to your hands.

  2. The same woman with both hands flat on the floor taking her full weight while both feet are kicked up off the floor together behind her.

    Step 2 of 3

    Kick both feet up off the floor together and try to keep them up for as long as you can.

  3. A woman crouched low with both hands flat on the floor shoulder-width apart and both bare feet close to her hands.

    Step 3 of 3

    Crouch down and plant both hands on the floor at shoulder width, with both feet close to your hands.

Breathing

  • Breathe normally.

Safety Information

Other children may do them too unless they have a specific medical problem such as cerebral palsy, a neuromuscular disorder, muscular dystrophy or an orthopaedic problem, in which case advice should be sought from the therapists involved. Make the activity hard enough to challenge and easy enough to achieve. Caution: keep the wrists loaded through a flat open hand and the gaze kept forward rather than tucked under. Stop if the exercise causes pain or you become unwell. Seek appropriate professional advice about symptoms or suitability.

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