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Box Skip

How to do the Box Skip with correct form, the muscles it works, and where it fits a training plan you actually stick to.

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Primary muscles

Hamstrings

Secondary

Abductors, Adductors, Calves, Glutes, Quads

Equipment

Other

Step by step

How to do the Box Skip

  1. 1

    You will need several boxes lined up about 8 feet apart.

  2. 2

    Begin facing the first box with one leg slightly behind the other.

  3. 3

    Drive off the back leg, attempting to gain as much height with the hips as possible.

  4. 4

    Immediately upon landing on the box, drive the other leg forward and upward to gain height and distance, leaping from the box. Land between the first two boxes with the same leg that landed on the first box.

  5. 5

    Then, step to the next box and repeat.

In Ascend

Log it, see it on your body.

Every Box Skip set you log feeds Ascend's anatomy heatmap — so your hamstrings volume is visible at a glance — and counts toward your bodyweight-strength tier.

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