High Knees works your calves, quads, hamstrings, shins, and your abdominal muscles.
When more than one muscle is being worked at the same time, you will burn more calories than if you were just doing an isolation exercise such as hamstring curls, or crunches.
Are you looking to add a bit more shape to your legs? How about strengthening your midsection? If you answered yes, we have the perfect exercise for you.
Strengthening exercises for the legs and the core will not only give you a more flattering shape in fact.
But it will help you with overall stability and even correcting your posture.
High Knees: Instructions
Specifically, get in a quick 3-5 minute warm-up to ready your muscles for this exercise and that you can run or march in place.
Along with performing a few dynamic stretches such as toe touches, side bends, and few feet grabs to stretch the quads.
Stand up straight then place your feet about hip-width apart.
Place your hands, palms down facing the floor, hovering just above your belly button.
Quickly drive your right knee up to meet your right hand, bring the same leg back to the ground immediately.
Bring the left knee coming up to meet your left hand.
As you are alternating knees, you want to do it with a hopping motion, staying on the balls of your feet the entire time.
Make sure you are engaging your abdominal muscles as each knee comes up to meet the hands.
High-Knee Oblique Twist
Begin by standing with your feet hip-width apart.
Make a fist with both hands and bend the elbows to where your hands are about level with your chin.
Drive the right knee up, twist your torso to the right, and bring the knee to meet your left elbow.
Immediately repeat with the left knee meeting your right elbow and do this in a hopping motion while staying on the balls of your feet.
Keep your abdominal muscles engaged as your knees come up, squeeze the side oblique muscles as you twist.
