How to Do the Lateral Bound
💪 Adductors, Abductors, Calves, Glutes, Hamstrings, Quadriceps🏋️ Body Only📊 Beginner🏷️ Plyometrics
How to perform it
- Assume a half squat position facing 90 degrees from your direction of travel. This will be your starting position.
- Allow your lead leg to do a countermovement inward as you shift your weight to the outside leg.
- Immediately push off and extend, attempting to bound to the side as far as possible.
- Upon landing, immediately push off in the opposite direction, returning to your original start position.
- Continue back and forth for several repetitions.
Muscles worked
The Lateral Bound primarily targets your Adductors, with support from your Abductors, Calves, Glutes, Hamstrings, Quadriceps. You'll need body only.
Make it count toward your goal
Random sets rarely move the needle. In NYUS, the Lateral Bound slots into a plan built for your goal — sets, reps and progression auto-suggested, logged in two taps, and folded into a weekly review that adapts what comes next.