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For this jump, the cheerleader jumps up and puts one of their legs out straight and perpendicular to the ground. This leg is either put out in front with arms in candlesticks (a Front Hurdler) or out to the side with arms in a T (a Side Hurdler). In both versions of the Hurdler jump, the cheerleader's other leg is bent.
This involves the correct use of the lead leg, trail leg, and arm positions. The lead leg is the leg that goes over the hurdle first and should remain fairly straight. Upon crossing over the hurdle barrier, the runner's lead leg snaps down quickly landing roughly 1 metre (3 feet) beyond the hurdle. The trail leg follows the lead leg.
As the legs are used singly, and perform the same amount of work, the body and legs may be strengthened more evenly than bilateral plyometrics, which may involve one leg doing an excessively large amount of the work. Some forms of unilateral plyometrics involve a cyclic alternation between the legs e.g. repeatedly jumping from one foot to the ...
Single leg deadlift Stand with your feet as wide as your hips with a dumbbell in each hand. Put your weight into your left leg and begin to hinge at your waist, keeping your left knee soft.
As unilateral exercises emphasise muscle use in a different way to bilateral exercises, and thereby alter the ratio in which different muscles are engaged, they can be selected in order to focus on training particular muscles. For example, a one-legged squat activates the gluteus medius more than a rear foot elevated split squat. [4]
Liberty: The Liberty, or Lib, is the most basic one-leg stunt. Both bases [16] have a grip on one of the flyer's feet, with the main base typically holding the heel and toe and the secondary base holding the middle of the foot. This stunt can be held at prep or extended level.
A typical pommel horse exercise involves both single-leg and double-leg work. Single-leg skills are generally found in the form of scissors, an element often done on the pommels. Double leg work, however, is the main staple of this event. The gymnast swings both legs in a circular motion (clockwise or counterclockwise depending on preference ...
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