Plyometric Exercises

To maximize your agility as an athlete and strengthen your abdominal area you want to do intense plyometric exercises! These can be a great compliment to your regular exercise and should definitively be part of your overall workout.

There are many different exercises related to plyometrics, but you are here because you want to increase your vertical  and jump higher!

So you should really be thinking about how to get your body in a mode where it is performing best. That is, you want to have your muscles used to fast, explosive motions, not slow and delayed.

With this in mind, we are to take a look at a few of the best plyometric exercises today. Box jumps!

1. The first exercise is simple and easy to set up. Take five or six medium sized boxes and place them in a line, about three feet apart. Then begin at one end, jumping in between these boxes, bouncing in between them and pulling up your legs as high as you can while in the air. Do this back and forth twice.
2. The next two rounds you jump up on the boxes, only for a fraction of a second as you are to bounce off of them as fast as fast as possible, and as high as possible, only to land ”deep” betwwen each box. Deep in this case means, you land with your knees bending down. You don’t instantly bounce to the next box, but rather get grounded in the landing spot and make a squat. Then you proceed to the next box.
3. Repeat the first exercise now, but this time you use only one foot at a time. So you are to leap over each box, landing in between them for as short of a time as possible. Do this twice, once for each foot.
4. Repeat the second exercise with one foot, only this time, you don’t need to squat down as deeply since you are obviously landing on one foot, and that can be hard. Do it twice, once for each foot.
5. Depth jump version 1. Here you’ll need a slightly larger box, about two to three feet high. Stand on the box and jump down. As you land, you want to bounce off as quickly as possible and as high as possible. Strive to extend your body to the fullest in the second jump!
6. Depth jump version 2. Do the exact same thing, only here you squat down like you did earlier when you land. Gain momentum and shoot off as high as you can!

As you become stronger you can add small weights to these exercises. But do note, professional athletes only use small weights for these sorts of exercises, so please take it very easy and wait with the weight until you have a good solid strength to work with. Only a time after you have plateaud in your development should you use additional weights.
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