Do Plyometrics Increase Vertical Jump?

Almost all competitive athletes use plyometric training to increase power, and "Plyos" are a staple of most Strength and Conditioning programs.

However, plyometric training programming details have been frequently quite murky.  Question  top coaches and few will give you the same answer about ideal repetition numbers, program duration, resistance amounts and sessions per week.  

Yet these considerations should be primary and fundamental considerations in any exercise program design.  Due to the great amount of plyo programming vagueness, I was real excited to read a 2009 meta-analysis on plyometrics and vertical jump.

 

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