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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Three Steps to Develop Mad Hops
I love to jump, but I was not always a good jumper. It was really my senior year of college when I began to jump high. At that time, I developed a simple little formula to improve jumping ability. Since then, I have used this formula many times, and it always works. I only learned later that this formula is completely supported by exercise science. I initially just stumbled across it.
Increase Maximal Lower Body Strength
This might be the most overlooked aspect of jumping ability. In...
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