PLYOMETRICS- Lower Body Emphasis
In my last installment I outlined upper body plyometrics and how to infuse the movements and training protocols in your own routine. The other half of plyometrics, the set of movements I’ll discuss today fall under the category of lower body plyometrics, or the plyometric exercises that are probably much more well known. I’m sure when you think about plyometrics, exercises like box jumps and squat jumps come to mind- all of which are high intensity forms of lower body plyometric training.
Fit and Focused With Allison Moyer: Contest Prep vs Life- Finding A Balance
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” ~Francesca Reigler
Sometimes it seems near to impossible to go through a contest prep without drastically doing a number on the remaining aspects of your life; jobs, friends, family, etc. Many times I have seen competitors do really well on their contest prep but only while heavily neglecting family time, relationships and even work. I also (too many times) see competitors fail at their prep, or cease to succeed in their diet/training endeavors because they simply cannot seem to strike a balance between the many facets of their life.
Training to Failure and Pyramid Setting
Bodybuilders differ greatly from that of the traditional athlete. Some strength and conditioning coaches actually don’t considered bodybuilders actual athletes. What? That’s nonsense, right? The reasoning is such because traditional athletes’ and bodybuilders’ training programs are very different. Bodybuilders utilize many, many different practices from the world of strength and conditioning, but the actual competition is different than that of a traditional athlete. Most practices that are utilized by bodybuilders are discarded or rarely use by athletes because they actually cause painful delayed onset muscle soreness or simply the development of too much muscular mass for the sport in question.
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