SFT Heels Prep is a warm-up to prepare your body for dancing in heels. You will activate the proprieceptive nerves and neuromuscular system that will help protect your ankles, knees and hips when dancing in heels. You will train your muscles to control the ankles and hips through their full range of motion so that your […]
Sugarfoot Therapy Meets Apolla Shocks in this 15 minute dance warm-up, appropriate for intermediate to advanced dancers. These exercises focus on dynamic stretching, neuromuscular activation, joint stability, and shock absorption. When you perform this warm-up, you will feel the effectiveness of resisting through the floor in your Apolla Shocks. Your Shocks provide support from the outside-in…as you train your […]
The neck…this is a joint in the body that is minimally addressed in most dance warm-ups and dance conditioning programs, yet it is heavily utilized in choreography for many dance styles…e.g. the circular spinal movements in contemporary modern and initiating movement from the crown of the head; the punctuated head movements that give hip hop […]
This is our introduction to Sugarfoot Therapy. This sequence of exercises is a full body warm-up in which we introduce the basics of functional movement in all 3 planes of motion…sagittal, frontal, and transverse. Starting with mobility exercises, we then move to functional strength and stability exercises to activate the upper and lower body neuromuscular […]
This routine is specifically designed to improve balance skills by stimulating mobility, strength, and stability in both the upper and lower body. These exercises uniquely train you to find balance during dynamic movement, enabling you to get on your supporting leg with greater accuracy and stability. This routine works great as a warm-up at the […]
SFT Balance 2 advances upon our SFT Balance 1 routine, ultimately using larger range of motion and less base of support to challenge your balance. This routine focuses on glute stabilization of the hip, knee, and ankle joints, which is critical to safe balance during dynamic movement. This routine works great as a warm-up at […]
The great number of dance injuries occur during landing of jumps. This routine emphasizes jump form, training hip muscles to fire during takeoff and landing of jump motions in all 3 planes of motion. Activating the hips in this way ensures greater stability for the hip, knee, and ankle joints, helping to prevent injury. This […]
This routine advances upon the jumping progressions in SFT Jumps 1 by adding the component of traveling through space. We also start to jump to and from one foot. The strength and stability required to takeoff and land using only one foot makes this routine much more advanced, even for experienced dancers. This routine takes […]
This 15 minute conditioning routine is designed to be done wearing socks on a hard floor. This routine is especially valuable to contemporary dancers who are used to creating, rehearsing, and performing in socks. But it’s also a fantastic alternative training routine for those who do not typically dance in socks. SFT Socks 1 will […]