S5 EP13: Box Jumps: Physically & Mentally
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Box jumps are both scary and enticing. You want to do them, but what if you fall? Today’s episode is all about the box jump. Why do we need it? Why is it so difficult? How can we get ourselves there – both physically and mentally? Listen in to hear about the symbolism of box jumps, why they’re important, and how to build up toward doing them, even if you never have before.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- The fear and desire surrounding box jumps
- Not trusting your body when falling
- The symbolism of box jumps
- The reasons why we have box jumps
- How box jumps help you avoid injury
- How to build up toward the box jump
- Thinking about jumping both up and forward
- Common mistakes with box jumps and how to correct them
- Why you don’t have “bad” body parts
- Getting better at box jumps
- What happens when you fail a box jump
- Hey, Girl, Hey, shout-outs
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- Our Fitness Blog
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When you land on the box, you want to be landing as tall as humanly possible. |
| 0:07.1 | So the idea that you're just kind of getting your feet up there and your butt is kind of |
| 0:13.8 | dragging behind and then you're kind of landing in a squat and then standing up from that squat, |
| 0:20.2 | that's just exerting a ton |
| 0:22.1 | more energy that now you're taking a box jump and making it an air squat too. It's a box jump air |
| 0:26.7 | squat. The big question is this. In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness |
| 0:42.2 | goals? We are an army of hardworking women changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:50.7 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. |
| 0:59.0 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:03.0 | Welcome to the Thic Thighs Save Lives Podcast. |
| 1:08.0 | Hi everybody and welcome back to the Thick That I Save Lives podcast. I'm Rachel. |
| 1:13.6 | And I'm Kelsey. I was yawning. It was one of those sneaky ones. Yeah, well, it's not even a time |
| 1:22.3 | for yawning at all. Oh. Because. Don't tell me when it's time for yawning. No, because I was thinking of Van Halen. |
| 1:30.7 | And I was going to go, wow, might as well jump, jump, jump, jump. |
| 1:35.4 | And you are yawning. |
| 1:37.3 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:38.2 | Just more examples of us not being on the same vibe today or page at all. |
| 1:44.1 | What is this the most horrible day ever in history? Yes, it is. Yeah. being on the same vibe today or a page at all. |
| 1:47.3 | What is this the most horrible day ever in history? |
| 1:48.0 | Yes, it is. |
| 1:51.2 | No, it's not the most horrible day ever in history. |
| 1:54.4 | You always go so dramatic with your things. |
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