P&P #11. It Is Virtually Impossible To Eliminate 'Plyometric' Exercises from Sports Training.
The opponents of 'plyometric' (shock rebound) training stress the dangers of this type of shock loading on the joints and advise that it should not be incorporated into any sports training. One has to distinguish between plyometric ACTION and plyometric TRAINING in terms of the definition of plyometric action to appreciate that this advice is virtually impossible to implement, since most sporting activities include running, jumping, recoil throwing and sudden changes of eccentric to concentric activity - and these activities all exhibit phases of PLYOMETRIC ACTION.
Plyometric TRAINING, on the other hand, refers to the formalisation of special rebound drills into a well-defined training package. But, if plyometric ACTION occurs so frequently in sport, is there really a necessity to devise special plyometric training drills? So, for the opponents of plyos we have a problem AND for its supporters we have another problem! Comment.
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