Ryan's review
Jumping into Plyometrics
by Donald A. Chu
Ryan's review
Jumping into Plyometrics by Donald A. Chu
Ryan's review
rating:
A good starting point for plyometrics, but by no means comprehensive. Rather than a simple list of 100 exercises, I'd like to see more information on diagnostics - how do you identify issues, particular weaknesses, etc - and how do the exercises work together to address them. There's also no information in the "building a program" section about balancing stresses for particular muscles/muscle groups ... Chu gives a number of "contacts" (jumps/foot contacts) as a guide, but that doesn't seem sufficient; what if all the contacts are focused on the same muscle group? Seems like overkill ... like dudes that go to the gym and do dumb bell bench, bench, incline bench, decline bench, presses on a swiss ball, etc. It may only be 6 or so exercises, but they're all trying to achieve the same thing ... overkill.
Also a little disappointing that he doesn't talk at all about running besides "sprint" training.
Also a little disappointing that he doesn't talk at all about running besides "sprint" training.
