3 Steps to Introduce Jumps and Plyometrics into Your Training

[@Arthur-kl4uo]

Finally a video on actual basics of jumping mechanics, i.e. how to get off the ground. This so underrated as every other jumpingvideo is by fitfluencers talking about higher boxjumps. I can see from training buddies that jumping in general can be a real challenge if you've never done it before on a regular basis. A video like this, breaking it down step by step, is just gold

[@Yupppi]

You guys are golden. Thank you very much, immediately saved to best educational material archive, so valuable to have a template for how it would look like. Ever since Fitz came back from being sick he's been shooting these killer lessons. Also what are the chances that Greg Everett released a short about jumping for weightlifting tonight as well. I think just the Phase 1 landing mechanics practice will do a huge deal on my judo. Being balanced on feet even when powerful and moving bigger distances, feeling strong and safe on the feet. Like taking a bigger hop to the side with spread legs and low height step, or even with a momentum swing of the body, and being able to act in balance and with power after that. I want a really solid, dynamic foot to land on and really quick and powerful step/hop. And to potentially also explode from slight squat with the partner on back (like the Japanese like to sometimes do a full deep squat ippon seoi nage). I've had a hunch that number one thing for good landing when starting to learn was that soft landing where you don't hear your body collapsing on the ground and where you land in balance, potentially even absorbing the impact a bit by controlled squat after landing on balls of feet. I'm glad to hear that confirmed, that it's a good sign and a good goal. There's already some warmups in judo gently hopping on balls of feet and doing a vertical jump in place between running where I've practiced controlled quiet landing on balls of feet, keeping knees out and back up while potentially absorbing a bit more controlledly by squatting, so this is a nice progression from that. Dropping from a box after box jumps has always been a risk of staggered landing if not stepping down for me, especially when getting tired. Also I assume this will improve jerk dip & drive skill.

[@DredFulProductions]

Hell yeah! Weightlifting is going well and I'm starting to get into jogging as well for general health. Plyometrics is something I like to focus on from time to time and am always looking for more information on the topic.

[@utkarsh2746]

lol The entire viewership for this channel is like, "Weightlifting is going well and I'm starting to get into jogging as well for general health. Plyometrics is something I like to focus on from time to time."

[@mattfletcher7739]

thanks for some structure

[@ix_9_ix]

That thumbnail tho 👀

[@DredFulProductions]

Got me feeling some type of way

[@booleann___]

I weigh 89 kg, and my backsquat is 120 kg. Do you think I should just focus on raising my squat 20-40kg before starting my jump training? For context: I'm a weightlifter. I want to add jumping to help me be more explosive, as well as to strengthen my tendons.

[@matthewconstable3409]

You can do both, there’s no strength prerequisites to plyo training/jump training just start easy

[@booleann___]

@@matthewconstable3409 Daire specifically mentioned in the video strength pre-requisites

[@matthewconstable3409]

@@booleann___ fair do’s I would respectfully disagree with the idea of strength prerequisites. Jump training is awesome for becoming a more well rounded athlete, esp if lacking in explosiveness.

[@LatimusChadimus]

Halvsies!

[@jsherrier1196]

Heavy squatting before being able to jump is one of those ideas that people accept but makes no sense. Considering that humans for a couple million years never back squatted, but surely jumped all the time, yet why now do they need an artificial training stimulus of squats before jumping, while kids all day are jumping in basketball and football and dodgeball, but suddenly adults can’t handle it even though we evolved to. It’s just a matter of progressing the stimulus like anything else. Slowly work up the intensity of jumps and be smart and you don’t need to squat first.

[@TheHighestNoon]

because adults are sedentary

[@scottybassman]

True! Why would producing and tolerating force in the lower limbs have anything to do with jumping?!

[@Tan12]

It's not necessary at all if you've been doing plyometric movement regularly since childhood, your joints will be well-adapted to jumping already (as Dara alluded to early in this video). But if you're starting off as a sedentary adult or just one who hasn't done much jumping or sprinting in several years or more, then it's a good metric to ensure that your joints will be prepared for the strain. And pretty much anyone could start off doing super light plyos like jumping rope or something, but this video was talking specifically about high-intensity ones with the goal of increasing max jump capacity.

[@jsherrier1196]

@@Tan12 I’d still disagree that you have to squat for x years to be able to jump right into high intensity jumping. Any change into high intensity should start with progressing from low intensity. Plyometrics differ too much from concentric based squats to figure you can go right from zero plyometrics to high intensity plyometrics, that’s really asking for injury. Sure a good squat is better than no squat for building into plyometrics. But with or without squats, if you start easy and progress, you don’t need squats to start progressing into plyometrics.

[@Tan12]

​​​@@jsherrier1196I don't believe this video said anything about x years, and it also accounted for not going full-intensity right away with the three training phases. I don't see what's so confusing about achieving a certain degree of lower body strength naturally resulting in more robust joints. I'm sure it is possible for some people to progress into jumping with plyos only, but for others it might he too risky compared to getting pretty strong first. It depends on one's level of previous experience with sprinting and jumping, as Dara said.