High Knee Skips
Trains the quadriceps. No equipment needed. None of our programs use it yet, but you can add it to any session you build.
Free to use. The app works out every weight and times your rest.
In the programs
None of our programs use High Knee Skips
It is in the app, so you can add it to any session and log it like anything else. It is just not written into one of our 50 free programs. If you want a quadriceps exercise that is, there are 16 on the Quadriceps page.
Muscles worked
What High Knee Skips trains
Technique
How to do High Knee Skips
- Stand tall with your feet hip-width apart and your arms at your sides.
- Skip forward by driving your right knee up toward your chest while hopping off your left foot, swinging your left arm forward in rhythm.
- Land softly on the ball of your left foot, then immediately skip on the other side, driving your left knee up while hopping off your right foot.
- Continue alternating sides in a rhythmic skipping motion for the desired distance or duration.
Form cues
Getting it right
- Drive your knees up high, aiming for hip height or above with each skip.
- Stay light on the balls of your feet and land softly to reduce impact.
- Use a strong, coordinated arm swing to help drive each knee upward.
- Keep your chest up and core engaged, breathing rhythmically throughout.
Substitutes
Swap High Knee Skips for
The app's swap picker ranks these the same way: same muscles, similar movement, similar equipment.
Let the app run High Knee Skips for you
Durata picks the weight, times your rest and adds load when you earn it. That works on any of our 50 free programs, or on a session you put together yourself.