IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXPLOSIVE EXERCISE AND PLYOMETRIC EXERCISE?
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Doing explosive exercises will result in the ability to produce force more rapidly. The ability to produce force more rapidly can be especially advantageous for athletes. Sports such as basketball, volleyball, and soccer all involve explosive, powerful movements. If the individual trains using methods that decrease the time to perform a movement, power output increases (Fleck and Kraemer, 2004). That is, they require the athletes to move very quickly and forcefully in order to jump, accelerate, or defend against an opponent.1
Plyometric maneuver is involved of developing eccentric muscle tension (lengthening) prior to the concentric contraction (shortening) so that the stored elastic energy can be utilized to gain maximal speed of shortening with power while performing an explosive movement. Plyometric training enhances both neural and elastic aspects of the stretch-shortening cycle, such as the squatting motions before soccer players’ leap into air. “Plyometric conditioning” is a term used to describe exercise drills that consist of leaps, bounds, skips, hops, and jumps down from and up to boxes.1
To know more about the difference between explosive exercises and plyometric exercises, watch this clip taken from the 'Practical Program Design for Physios' by Nick Tumminello on Trust me-Ed.
If you want to learn more about this topic, you can watch Nick Tumminello's lecture here:
Sources:
1. Papanikolaou Zisis; The effects of an 8 weeks plyometric training program or an explosive strength training program on the jump-and-reach height of male amateur soccer; Journal of physical education and sports;online; pg 594-600; 2013
2. Lecture 'Practical Program Design for Physios' by Nick Tumminello on Trustme-Ed.
