In two new studies published online this week in the Journal of Athletic Training, lead author Marc Norcross of Oregon State University documents how women who were asked to undergo a series of
jumping exercises landed more often than men in a way associated with elevated risk of ACL injuries.
Not exact matches
Box
Jumps are a plyometric
exercise that have the advantage of reducing the impact of
landing.
You can do some HIIT
exercises, but I would avoid overdoing it on lower body plyometric
exercises such as
jump squats,
jump lunges and burpees, and anything really that results in you
landing heavily on your feet.
That means any
exercise in which there's a natural place to pause — the top of a push - up, the bottom of a burpee, or the moment after you've
landed from a
jump squat, for example — isn't really congruent with the technique.
In the previous video we were allowing them to get acclimated to absorbing the impact from
jump training, drilling proper
landing mechanics and preparing them for the full execution of more complex plyometric
exercises.
I love to substitute lunge
jumps for this
exercise, taking care not to let my knee - bend go past 90 degrees on the front and back leg when I
land in my lunge.
Plyometrics: Single To Double Leg Box
Jumps: With this particular drill you can began the
exercise in the same way as the standard box
jump mentioned above, however you can vary the intensity and difficulty of the drill by performing the
jump off of one leg to
land on the box.
After that, we progress to plyometric
exercises low impact, an example could be mini-hurdle
jumps or box
jumps (box
jumps take out the impact of
landing)
The Back Squat is a true «head to toe
exercise» and trains literally every muscle in the human body and important for athletes since it positively carries over to sports where
jumping and
landing is involved.
Although not a study of resistance training
exercise, Zazulak et al. (2005) reported that female athletes had no significantly different activity of the gluteus medius compared to males during
jump landings.
BENEFITS: This
exercise targets
jump and
landing force production and absorption.
It's primarily caused by strenuous
exercise and activities that put stress on your dog's back, like
jumping from high places, or
landing hard on their paws.