Tell me about your experiences with plyometrics, por favor

**BigGreen** · 09-23-2006, 01:28 PM

Every facet of my intuition tells me that I need to work lower body plyos (particularly depth jumps) into my routine. However, I'm at a loss as to where, exactly, I might stick them so as to make them most efficient.

I've considered using them as supplemental work in addition to actually swapping them into my routine in place of DE box squats for short durations.

Who here has used them and where in your routine did you place them with best results?

***Doc.Sust*** · 09-23-2006, 06:43 PM

used them after my main exercises(squat or dead) got great results. jump squats, olympic cleans, box jumps up, jump rope, sprinting and bounding with strength shoes(THE FUNNY ONES they use for basketball training to increse vertical leap)

**Merchant_of_Death412** · 09-23-2006, 07:22 PM

don't like jumping rope. too much cardio

***Doc.Sust*** · 09-24-2006, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by Merchant_of_Death412

don't like jumping rope. too much cardio

i dont do it for a long period of time, i usaulybreak it up 3- 5 sets sets of 50-100 revolutions, it makes it tollerable

**RMBros** · 09-27-2006, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by Merchant_of_Death412

don't like jumping rope. too much cardio

Wow, that's just scary.

Pretty much plyos = cardio

I've done all the things Doc was talking about (glad to see you're still here Doc, I thought you were retiring from this board), including the lovely strength shoes, and had pretty good results. I'm currently trying to work them back in - doing cleans and jump squats right now, will add other stuff as I get in better shape.