plyometrics
Sign in to saveAlso known as Plyometric Exercise
thumb|A US Marine performs plyometric jumps in [[Camp Foster, Okinawa]]
Research
2,276 papers- Comparison of Weightlifting, Traditional Resistance Training and Plyometrics on Strength, Power and Speed: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022
- CURRENT CONCEPTS OF PLYOMETRIC EXERCISE.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2015
- The Effects of Strength, Plyometric and Combined Training on Strength, Power and Speed Characteristics in High-Level, Highly Trained Male Youth Soccer Players: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024
- Effects of plyometrics training on lower limb strength, power, agility, and body composition in athletically trained adults: systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025
- Programming Plyometric-Jump Training in Soccer: A Review.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Etymology
- History
- Exercises
- Lower-body
- Upper-body
- Full-body
- Method
- As simple jumping
- Safety considerations
- Benefits
- Loaded plyometrics
- Unilateral plyometrics
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|A US Marine performs plyometric jumps in [[Camp Foster, Okinawa]]
Plyometrics, also known as plyos, are exercises in which muscles exert maximum force in short intervals of time, and activating a rapid stretch-shortening cycle. While commonly associated with jumping, plyometrics can include explosive upper-body movements, such as plyometric push-ups and switch-ups, with the goal of increasing muscular power (speed-strength).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “plyometrics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.