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It’s #TechniqueTuesday! Refine your moves, fine tune a technique, make a goal a reality ... thanks to BZ Personal Trainer John McGarvey.
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🏋️‍♂️Plyometrics are a great way to build power and explosiveness. If you want to become a better athlete or add a great move to your high intensity training workout, try doing a Plyometric Box Jump.
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💪HOW TO DO IT
The positioning of a box jump is very important. Your feet should be slightly outside your hips. A narrow or wide stance could be detrimental for your joints. Start by going up straight leg onto your toes. This will tighten the muscles in your legs. From this position, you should quickly descend into a squat, and quickly explode out of the squat, trying to press your legs through the floor. Your hands should swing through your hips into the air, to give momentum off the ground. When landing on the box, try to be soft and quiet with your feet as you stick the landing. A lot of injuries happen when stepping off the box, so give yourself a step down like the video shows.
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📈HOW TO PROGRESS
The first progression that you would think of is raising the height, however the only way to continue to progress on height is by starting with reps. More repetitions will create better muscle memory, thus resulting in better neurological adaptations. Better neurological adaptations will result in faster progression in height. So increasing repetitions should be considered first before increasing height. Another progression to this exercise would be to do more advanced variations. Something like a single leg jump, or a running jump would be good examples of different variations.
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🧠THE SCIENCE OF A PLYOMETRIC BOX JUMP
Plyometrics are a great way of building explosiveness and power for multiple reasons. There are two types of muscle fibers that need to be trained: fast twitch and slow twitch. Fast twitch fibers are responsible for explosiveness while slow twitch fibers are for endurance. Plyometric exercises are used to build up your fast twitch fibers, which is very important as an athlete. Because it’s a high intensity exercise you’ll burn more calories, which makes it a great move for non-athletes as well. ... See MoreSee Less

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