Doing a lot of sprint training and
plyometric type exercises will develop a more muscular look, but will also help you get lean.
Not exact matches
Exercises and activities such as maximum effort strength training (90 % of 1RM above); high intensity
plyometric, explosive speed and power drills, such as sprints and jumps, etc., are all very taxing on the CNS and can lead to this
type of overtraining when performed with too much frequency, volume and intensity.
Because many of the
exercises are full body, explosive (
plyometric)
type exercises that raise the heart rate, they help you to enter the fat burning sweet spot faster.
Typically if I work out lower body / legs on Monday, then Tuesday is my upper body day and then on Wednesday I am doing some
type of cardio /
plyometrics day with some legs but always different
exercises.
Well a good
exercise plan incorporates all
types of training styles from weights to cardio to
plyometrics.
And box jumps are a
type of
plyometric exercise
Plyometrics are a specific and intense
type of
exercise designed to produce fast and explosive movements usually to improve athletic performance for sports.
In addition to the strength training studies noted above, several more studies have explored the effects of force vector on training outcomes when using different
types of
plyometrics or ballistic
exercises (King & Cipriani, 2010; Singh & Singh, 2013; Loturco et al. 2015; Ramírez - Campillo et al. 2015; Manouras et al. 2016; McCormick et al. 2016; Dello Iacono et al. 2016; De Hoyo et al. 2016).