High Knee March w/ Cross Connect
High Knee March w/ Cross Connect is a unilateral mobility exercise training the hip, knee, shoulder, and thoracic spine across the sagittal and transverse planes, using Bodyweight.
- Laterality
- Unilateral
- Planes
- Sagittal · Transverse
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Primary joints
- Hip · Knee · Shoulder · Thoracic Spine
Demo video
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How to perform it
- 1Stand tall and march in place, driving each knee up high while simultaneously swinging the opposite arm forward and pulling the same-side arm back in a cross-connect pattern, simulating athletic arm-leg coordination. Maintain a tall posture with a braced core and keep your chin neutral as you march with exaggerated knee drive. Breathe rhythmically, exhaling with each knee drive to coordinate breathing with movement. Avoid excessive trunk rotation or letting the knee drive below hip height — feel the cross-body coordination pattern, hip flexor activation, and rhythmic core engagement with each rep.
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Training profile
Fascial lines
Plane of motion
Training intent
MobilityRehab
Motor Control
Stability
Strength
Power
Tissue LoadingPerformance
Highlighted rungs are where this movement lives on the rehab → performance continuum.
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