improve mobility all over your body.
For this workout, you’ll do a different move through each straight of the track, then jog the curves. One round of every move is plenty, but go for more if you can. Don’t forget to warm up first with jogging one or two laps around the track.
- Straight 1: High knees
- Straight 2: Butt kicks
- Straight 3: Side shuffle (leading with right foot)
- Straight 4: Side shuffle (leading with left foot)
- Straight 5: Lunge walks
- Straight 6: Plank walks (hold a plank across the track lanes, walk hands and feet down the straight
- Straight 7: Broad jumps (Start in a squat, swing arms as you jump feet forward like a long jump, land in a squat and repeat)
- Straight 8: Power skips (skip while driving knee to chest and jumping as high as possible to next foot)
Be sure to take a final lap around the track to cool down and slow the heart rate gradually.
Before You Hit The Track
These track workouts are not for the faint of heart. Try to incorporate one a week into your regularly scheduled workouts add build up as you can. As always, listen to your body and talk to a physician if you have any physical limitations or injuries that might be worsened by these exercises.
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