How to Develop Patello-Femoral Dysfunction
Plyometric High Intensity Interval Training? Huh?? Plyometric training and HIIT are two very opposing concepts. Using plyos as a conditioning tool is one reason they get such a bad rap. It’s the same thing I wrote about with Olympic Lifts. Repetitive jumping is a great way to develop patello-femoral dysfunction.
It’s just another example of good tool in the wrong hands. Hopefully these clowns don’t work with other human beings. I am a HUGE fan of plyos but this is just absolutley ridiculous!!
I am all for making interval training more fun. But to have this many plyometric foot contacts in one session is just asking for trouble……..no matter how good your form is. Make it a general rule to stay around 25 foot contacts per session and no more than 100 in a week. Focus on quality not quantity.
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if you go to youtube to look at the video comments this is the first one that was on there when i looked ‘Nice video, but not exactly plyo. That stuff was more agility and core training. You guys want a plyo routine, again, go and get P90X. That is INSANE plyo. Your calves will be on fire. Your lungs will burn. And your heart will feel as if it is going to explode. The following day your glutes will hurt so bad that it is tough to sit and stand. The hams will feel as if you were banging some heavy squats out. Since you are in a squat jump position pretty much the entire hour you will get this effect”
Thats scary!! Was his screen name sum1shouldpunchmeintheface23??
when you say 25 foot strikes per session do you mean double foot, single foot, per exercise, or altogether?
Yes, altogether. 25 total per session.
I'm not sure if anyone still reads this but I'll give it a shot – I don't quite get why this is bad. I know that too much contact is not exactly the best thing for your knees, but does the floor surface matter? Also, this does not look entirely like plyometric training. Its more like small bounces around rather than a maximal force output.
How about programs that call for 20 jump squats after a set of normal squats? Does that count?
Even if the the jumps are not as large as a 42" hurdle jump, they are still foot contacts…. and literally hundreds of them. This is simply ludacris.
The question is, "is there a safer way to get a conditioning effect"? The answer is YES.
And "is there a better way to get a conditioning effect"? Again the answer is YES.
Yes 20 squat jumps after a set of squats would count. This is called complex training (strength to power). But it would look more like: set of squats for 3-5 reps followed by a set of squat jumps for 5 reps. Doing 20 squat jumps is not true power but rather power endurance….. Which I would choose to train differently.
Hope this helps.