If you're one of those athletes who doesn't react well to high running mileage, researchers in Japan have a possible solution. In their study, published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning, ...

If you’re looking to up the intensity of your workouts and burn some serious calories, then it may be time to incorporate some plyometric exercises into your training. “Plyometric exercises involve ...

Plyometrics is a type of exercise that involves quickly stretching and contracting muscles to create explosive movements with bodyweight resistance, increasing muscle power. Examples of plyometric ...

Plyometric exercises can be incredibly valuable tools in performance enhancement. Powerful, dynamic movements are the hallmark of most sports, and adding inches to a vertical jump or slightly ...

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Background The influence of warm-up exercises on the muscle properties has already been investigated before. Strikingly, it still remains unclear which warm-up exercises should be performed in order ...

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Plyometric exercises require muscles to extend rapidly before they contract forcefully through movements, such as jumping and bounding. The stretch-shortening pattern ...