A jump program would be an instant buy for me. I don't think I've ever come across one that isn't trying to shill equipment or is completely inadequate (bodyweight only for example). I'm a volleyball player and there's a major gap in sound S&C advice for our sport. P.S. can't wait for the Strength Velocity curve video for volleyball as well as the "coaches react" if that ever comes.
I agree. I have had trouble finding proper S&C for volleyball. Because of blocks, shorter players can't really compete in any level without a somewhat decent vertical unless they play libero. But the advice for jump training online is mostly people telling you its either impossible to increase your vertical, or that you can double it in 6 weeks. Both of which are clearly incorrect.
This is such fantastic content. I come from an academic background where we do paper reviews/journal club etc., and as I have been getting more into my training, I haven't found much discussion that's nuanced and thoughtful like this, AND discusses the original sources. Please keep making these videos!
Interesting as always. Nice catch! It's surprising they didn't just get the participants to log and provide their concurrent training/activities. Then they could have quantified the stress contribution from the plyometrics. Or maybe they did and didn't include it? It would be interesting to have one of the authors reply in the comments!
Just a side-note, if you lads did wind up putting together a hops program, I'd encourage you to chat with some local Parkour practitioners (or even Clarence?) to talk about landing technique. It's kind of a sport based around managing and dissipating impact to some degree. So assuming you had good landing technique, you might be able to accumulate more volume things like depth drops and depth jumps, without destroying your knees or ramming the head of your femur into your hip on every landing. Anyway, great video - interesting stuff as always! Cheers.
There is another potential contributing factor that distribution of the groups lead to the trivial results based on the idea that the group they were assigned to was not trying to elicit a stimulus in the underlying category that is their primary deficit. Some athletes may have the requisite stiffness and power capabilities but lack force at zero velocity in the bottom of the squat where then that strength focus elicited a change in the direction they needed to improve a jump. This would speak to some of the intra-individual differences that lead to large outliers and then trivial results.
Where can i get a sikastan republic tshirt lads? You refused my visa application because of the sub 200kg back squat, but surely i can at least order a t-shirt? 8)
If you were to design this study, where would you put the plyo training in the yearly plan? If like you said, high velocity training is best done with out any other training, then you'd get athletes in their off season (if they have an off season). I think a lot of coaches would "lend" you their athletes around the end of their general prep phase or somewhere closer to competition because it's generally where they start focusing on power or speed but it's also the period where they will be doing increasingly more training specific to their sport.
a bunch of athletes from 20 to 27? what's their height and weight? what about their level of strenght? how many years have they been practicing their main sport? Dudes... when i try to read those studies in order to adjust my training choices, i always get more doubts than valuable infos
