What is Plyometric training?
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"Plyometrics is a type of exercise that uses explosive movements to develop muscular power. It may be used, for example, to improve the effectiveness of a boxer's punch, or to increase the vertical jumping ability of a basketball player."\n\nThe second article has some examples of pylometric excercises and a few articles. Sorry if I can't explain it better myself.
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It's called Plyometrics\n www.plyocity.com\nseriously it's what the Olympic athletes use to train! Also Karri Walsh Treanor, Misty May, Karch and Lambert all use it. I know them and omgsh it really helps They totally believe in the program. And it really works!!!!
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stairclimber, lunges, squats, leglifts
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Two things: shadowbox to kep up your speed, and isometrics for strength. Isometrics is when you use your own muscles to provide resistance. Put your hands together and push them together as hard as you can. Hold it for a minute. Do that a few dozen times. Do it in different positions to build different muscle groups. It's the same principle as in those flex machines but a lot cheaper. This will build muscles in opposing pairs in both arms.
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Squats, not lunges, is the exercise most closely mimiced by a leg press machine.  The most important muscle, the one that helps you get airborne, are the gluteals.\n\nSpread your feet a little wider than your shoulders (a little less than 2 feet).  Bend your knees slightly.  Lower yourself by sticking your butt back, as if you were blind and trying to find a chair behind you.  Weight is on your heels.  Your arms can act as a counterweight, if you hold them straight in front of you.\n\nFor more explosiveness, try mixing in some leap squats, where you get airborne coming out of each squat.\n\nGood luck!
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Yeah, I'm not too sure on the validity of the last response, however without being condescending towards that person, some much better activities would be all around plyometrics, such as squat jumps, where you leap foreward like a frog, lunges, weighted lunges, and my all time favorite, box squat jumps, where you would have either one or multiple boxes or comprable things about 24 inches tall, and you jump on and off.  Those primarily focus on your quads.  More great exersizes that would help would be to target your abs, with simple exersizes such as crunches, targeting both sides as well as the core, and planks, supporting your body on your arms with a low center of gravity for as long as your body can sustain, moving to the sides to equally build abdominal muscle.  Those are some workouts that I do to build up, let me know if they help.
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You can find more at the web site cited, but here is a definition (from that site) that may help:\n\n"Isokinetic exercise utilizes machines that control the speed of contraction within the range of motion. Isokinetic exercise attempts to combine the best features of both isometrics and weight training. It provides muscular overload at a constant preset speed while a muscle mobilizes its force through the full range of motion. For example, an isokinetic stationary bicycle set at 90 revolutions per minute means that despite how hard and fast the exerciser works, the isokinetic properties of the bicycle will allow the exerciser to pedal only as fast as 90 revolutions per minute. Machines known as Cybex and Biodex provide isokinetic results; they generally are used by physical therapists."\n\nAlso, try pointing your search engine at "isokinetic therapy" and "isokinetic exercise".\n\nPhysical therapy is a broad field with many different practitioners and methods of therapy. It appears that isokinetic therapy attempts to exercise muscles at a constant (iso) level of dynamic motion (kinetic). So, in the bicycle example given, the patient would be instructed to pedal against a certain resistance (friction, electrical, wind, etc.) until a certain "speed" was reached and then maintain that speed. Any attempt to pedal faster would result in increasing resistance to restore the speed to the desired level. As the patient tires, presumably the resistance would be decreased to allow the same "speed" to be maintained. Thus the muscles (in this case mainly the thigh and calf muscles) would be forced to extend and contract at a certain fixed rate against a load.\n\nCompare this to lifting a fixed weight versus straining to move an immovable object. In both of those cases the muscles contract, but lifting a weight also involves motion while the second one does not. So, isokinetic exercise attempts to combine the two.
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The only thing in the weight room that will possibly make you jump higher is probably the jump rope.  Do an internet search for "plyometrics"; those should help with speed.  Going to a track and doing interval training is a pretty good idea too.
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eggbeater, either both legs circulating at once or kick one beat with one leg and one beat with another.  Feel free to email me with any other training questions. I'd love to help you out
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Plyometrics.  Also try decreasing you rest time in between sets to about 45 secs while increasing your weight.  YOu might also want to change exercises.  Check out the link below -- it lists tons of weight exercises.  Also try varying your cardio by increasing speed or time or incline.
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Squad, Dumbbell Lunge, Calf Raise, Leg Press, Leg Extention, Leg Curl
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They're all clones of Curves.  I have one near me called Liberty Fitness.  \n\nGo in and look at the equipment and ask about training. Choose the one where the training sounds less like compensating for inadequate equipment.
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Practice, practice, practice.\nJumping on a trampoline has improve vertical leaping.
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Weight Training.  Here's a complete list of exercises:\n\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/fitness/Strength_Exercises.html
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About the same thing as acrobatics, or gym stuff (running, leaping, getting in shape.)\n\nCheck out this > http://www.answers.com/topic/acrobatics
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You could split up the how it helps the body to something like - cardiovascular effects, psychological benefits, pulmonary benefits.  That adds 2.  The types you could even split up based on what you have - like eccentric, concentric exercises, plyometrics, CV training - that sorta stuff.  Places you can go - home exercise programs (you know like videos, home exercise equipment, just running aroudn your area) vs going to a gym.  Another topic - personal trainers and their benefits.  Ok, that's all I can think of, but I hope that helps.
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Isometrics. Its excercises you can do relatively easy. Look them up on the web but I knew somneone that did them all the time for their kneck and face and they where chiseled! Looked great!