Jumping Into Plyometrics: How Plyometrics Can Improve Your Jumping Technique
Jumping into plyometrics is all about using plyometric exercises to improve your jumping technique – both the height of the jump and the landing technique. As plyometrics are impact exercises to help build muscle elastic strength and muscle explosiveness to improve power and speed it is important to do them correctly and safely.
Before jumping into plyometrics it is important to understand what plyometrics are all about. It is all about muscle contraction and doing exercises to generate the strongest muscle contraction possible in the shortest time.
Tne of the most common plyometric exercises is the drop jump. This is when you drop from a box to the floor and then rebound up onto a higher box. This is a high impact exercise. There are many lower impact exercises such as squat jumps, skipping or two-foot jumping on the spot. As plyometrics are high intensity impact exercises it is essential to get the exercise selection, sets, repetitions and rest intervals correct. A great manual to help you with this is the Jump Manual.
The right plyometric exercises combined with a strength training programme is a dynamic way of improving your jumping technique. Learning how to do plyometric exercises, resistance training, correctly is hugely important in obtaining the right results. So research is key here.
If you have been trying to jump higher, but have not managed to improve in this area, it might be necessary to go back to basics and check whether you are doing the right plyometric exercises and if you are doing them correctly.
Again, before jumping into plyometrics do some research and find the best resource to accompany you. See below for checking out the Jump Manual.
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