Walking High Knees
Walking High Knees boosts lower-body endurance and strength, improves coordination, and strengthens the abdominal muscles. This exercise primarily targets the quadriceps, hamstrings, calves, glutes, and hip flexors.
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Walking Leg Cradles
Walking Leg Cradles is a dynamic stretching exercise usually used as a warm-up prior to a leg workout. This workout promotes mobility in the hips and provides a stability challenge as you stand on one leg to perform the exercise.
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Instructions
- Stand tall, legs straight, arms at your sides. Lift one knee and rotate the leg out, so the inner thigh is pointing up.
- Grab your leg with both hands and lift it to stretch your glutes. Slowly lower yourself down to repeat on the opposite side to continue forward.
Tips
- Try not to lift your leg so high that it rounds your lower back at the top of the movement. Stay within your limits of flexibility.
- Keep your shoulders back and your chest up throughout the exercise.
- Try to keep the supporting leg as straight as possible.
Alternative Exercises
Walking High Kicks
Walking High Kicks helps to increase the heart rate and warm up the body. When performed with proper posture, this move helps improve hip mobility as well as flexibility in the glutes and hamstrings
Walking Knee Hugs
Walking Knee Hugs is a good warm-up exercise to start any physical activity. It targets your abs, challenges your core, helps to trim and tone your waist, and improves mobility and flexibility in the glutes and hamstrings.
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