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Let America's leading authority on plyometrics help you tap into explosive power training with Jumping Into Plyometrics. You'll learn not only how to improve vertical and linear jumping abilities, but also how to increase upper-body strength.

Author Donald Chu shows you how to improve quickness, speed, and jumping ability while gaining greater coordination, body control, and balance through the use of plyometric training. In addition to explaining basic muscle physiology, how plyometrics works, and how to design the ideal plyometric training program for your sport, Dr. Chu shares 90 fully illustrated exercises from the seven categories of plyometric exercises. But more important, he reveals five of the most effective exercises for 19 specific sports, as well as the equipment needed, the starting position, and the action sequence of the exercise. Jumping Into Plyometrics is the most complete book ever written on plyometrics.

No one is more qualified to write about this form of explosive power training than Donald Chu, a noted columnist on plyometrics for the National Strength and Conditioning Association Journal. In addition to coaching athletes who have been on national and Olympic teams, Dr. Chu has served as a conditioning consultant for the Golden State Warriors, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Lions, and Chicago White Sox. He is owner, director, and a consultant to individual athletes at Ather Sports Injury Clinic in northern California.

Dr. Chu earned his PhD in physical therapy and physical education from Stanford University and is a professor of kinesiology and physical education at California State University, Hayward. In 1978, his only year as a head coach, Dr. Chu was named the Far Western Conference Track and Field Coach of the Year. He was also a 1989 nominee for the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Strength Coach of the Year. He is a registered physical therapist, a certified athletic trainer through the National Athletic Training Association, and an NSCA certified strength specialist.

Product Description

The new Jumping Into Plyometrics Video shows your athletes how to perform 21 core exercises found in the book Jumping Into Plyometrics. Using slow motion, freeze frames, and graphics, the video demonstrates, in detail, how each exercise is executed.

Like the book, the Jumping Into Plyometrics Video features seven categories of exercises that will improve your athletes' speed, quickness, and jumping ability while giving them greater coordination, body control, and balance. The categories include

• jumps-in-place,
• standing jumps,
• multiple jumps,
• box drills,
• depth jumps,
• bounding, and
• medicine ball exercises.

The video demonstrates exercises of low, moderate, and high intensity for each category and explains techniques for adjusting the intensity levels to make the exercises appropriate for any caliber of athlete.

Sport-specific applications and objectives are provided for each exercise so you can use plyometrics for training regimens in a wide variety of sports. Accompanying the video is a guide that describes practical tests for assessing athletes' skill levels and a reproducible chart for monitoring progress.