In this video lesson, Athletics Instructor Saidia Rafel teaches how to do hurdle agility drills like stadium hops and lunges to become better hurdlers in this free video on hurdling tips.



Video Transcript: SAIDIA RAFEL: "So now we're here on the stairs, we took it from the grass. We're still doing some plyometric routines here. This one, were going to do three, I'll show you three. The first one is called double leg hops. The second one is called single leg hops and the third one is called lunges. Now double leg hops and single leg hops is pretty much just simply building strength in the legs, your power in the legs. Your loading your leg to have that momentum when you get on the track and when your running on the track your using a lot of speed and agility, but plyometrics are simply to build power and to load your legs and to build the muscle that's going to take you through a good hurdle exercising and ultimately competition. So the first one, double leg hops. Simply your on the bottom of the stairs, arms to the side, you load up like a spring and you jump and as you jump your arms come up with you. It's simply to help you with balance so you don't fall over, okay. So double leg hops and you just keep going, you don't stop and for single leg hops, single leg hops similar thing except your on one leg. Same thing with your arms, range of motion, up and you do one leg at time, single leg. See you want to go all the way up the flight of stairs one leg and then walk it back down and then go up again with the other leg. So as your first starting you might not be able to make it all the way up, but as you get stronger your building up that stamina, you should be able to make it all the way the flight of stairs. With double leg hops walk down, single leg left leg, single leg right leg and then the last one that I mentioned is called vertical lunge. So what your doing is your going in a vertical motion because the stairs are at an incline and your going to skip two stairs. If your six feet tall you probably might be able to do three, but if your about average size person you want to do about two steps and what your doing is your simply building up the muscles in your hamstrings and your quads are getting a good stretch with the leg that's behind you. So your simply opposite arm, opposite leg again, up and you want to lift. You really want to lift with the lead leg that's in front of you, so that your quad is getting the maximum amount of a workout going, okay. So again down like this, up, down, up and as you can see also my calves are even getting a good workout in there too. So sometimes you go to the gym and you have weights and you do those lunges, well this is in exchange for weights as well your doing the vertical motion. You can get that maximum range of motion as you go up and that will again transfer over to the track when your running and your doing your exercises. Okay, so that's double leg hops, single leg hops and vertical lunge."

1. What are Hurdling Drills?
2. ABC Skip Hurdle Agility Drills
3. Hurdle Warm Up Drills
4. Quad Raise Hurdle Exercise
5. Karaoke Hurdle Agility Drill
6. How to Determine Your Lead Leg for Hurdling
7. Lead Leg & Trail Leg Hurdle Agility Drills
8. Skipping Hurdle Agility Drills
9. How to Alternate Steps Running Hurdles: Hurdle Agility Drills
10. Hurdle Bounding Drill
11. Stadium Hops & Lunges: Hurdle Agility Drills
12. Straight Leg Hurdle Agility Drill
13. Basic Tips for Great Hurdling

In this course, Athletics Instructor Saidia Rafel gives 13 video lectures on Hurdle Agility Drills & Tips for Great Hurdling. Learn hurdle agility drills and tips for great hurdling from expert hurdler Saidia Rafel. Saidia will teach you A skip hurdle drills, how to warm up for running the hurdles, and the karaoke hurdle drill. She will give you free expert tips for great hurdling such as how to determine your lead leg, how to alternate steps when running the 110m hurdles and the 400m hurdles, and how to stay hydrated when hurdling.