Side Step | Plyometric | Hop
Channel: Spire Injury Clinic
Date: 03/11/2022

Side step up to hop is a great plyometric exercise.

Step up to the side and then perform a hop in a fluid movement. 

How to do side step and side step training. Start with a low step height and increase as you feel more comfortable. Try and perform the hop as high as you can.

Side step up to hop is a variation of side step-up/side step ups. Side step ups for glutes work both your Glute Medius and Maximus at the same time in one side step up exercise. Adding the hop makes it a side step up alternative. 

Side step ups on box can be hard to recreate at home so using a chair is fine. This exercise is also sometimes called side step jumper/side step move. 

This is a great running exercise and can be used as a running exercises to get faster, build stamina and easy to follow for beginners. It is also a running exercise at home. 

Plyometrics should form part of all running training. Plyometric exercises build explosive strength and stamina. Runners should do a plyometric workout twice a week as part of plyometric training