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Stair jumps are a versatile and impactful plyometric exercise with a key advantage—accessibility. Unlike specialized gym equipment, stairs are available in most stadiums, bleacher stands, or even common areas like schools, parks, or gyms. Whether you're outdoors on public stairs or using a staircase at home, stair jumps are an easy-to-access way to enhance your training.

In this overview, we dive into the mechanics, benefits, and applications of pogo hops, demonstrating how they can transform athletic capabilities by increasing speed and agility. We'll also explore how to incorporate pogo hops with various tools and variations to maximize their effectiveness.

Athletes need to be fast, strong, and explosive. In all sports, the attributes of speed, strength, and explosiveness contribute to being a better athlete, an elite athlete.

One of the greatest implements for improving overall athleticism, particularly speed and explosiveness, is the hurdle. High hurdles and mini hurdles come in heights as low as 6” and typically up to heights of 42”, though some athletes, namely high jumpers and very capable leapers, use hurdles of even higher heights.

As a kid I used to love swinging on the school yard swings. I’d try to see how high I could get myself to swing. Being young and in elementary school, I felt like I was super high.

Being quite the risk taker and wanting to have the feeling of flying, I’d jump off the swing at its highest point when recess ended. The momentum of the swing would launch me higher into the air and I’d come crashing down to the ground with extreme forces, landing with both legs.

I didn’t know it at the time, but this was one of my initial experiences with plyometrics and depth jumps.

Box jumps can be done from with different size boxes and from different positions to target the postures in which you want to build power. We recommend starting...

Doing plyometrics for athletes and the general population is great for improving joint stiffness and elasticity when jumping and producing a ton of force......

Stability is the first quality that the Hydro Weight can improve. By having moving water, the athlete is forced to use their core to a very high degree while....

Skill position football players need to be explosive. On the field performance is highly dependent on how fast athletic tasks can be performed...

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