You’re religious about intervals, you diligently do your strength training and your recovery game is on point – and yet, your ...

Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Outside’s Sweat Science columnist, covering the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports. New perk: Easily find new routes ...

When it comes to engaging, full-body workouts, few are more efficient or accessible than plyometrics. With these jump exercises, you can practice agility and build strength at the same time. Many of ...

Plyometric exercises can be incredibly valuable tools in performance enhancement. Powerful, dynamic movements are the hallmark of most sports, and adding inches to a vertical jump or slightly ...

Plyometric training is a great way for athletes to build explosive power. Performing plyometrics one to three times a week can increase your vertical jump, speed and strength. The gains athletes make ...

Running is a series of actions. If you could prime each one with an explosion of energy, you’d become faster. Plyometrics is your gunpowder, so pack your muscles with fire power and leave your old PBs ...

I recently wrote about how running with a can of Pringles helped me improve my form—an ingenious trick from my high school coach that taught me to keep my hands relaxed. The story got me thinking: ...

Plyometrics, also known as jump training, are fast, powerful movements often used by athletes to jump higher, run faster, throw farther, or hit harder, depending on the sport. You don’t, however, need ...

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Who knew all that training like a kid would come in handy for your fitness? The scientific-sounding but refreshingly straightforward plyometrics, or jump training, is used by elite athletes to boost ...

Skipping is seen as a kid-only activity. Yet it has been shown to have benefits at any age as a way to practice "explosive" movements safely and build and maintain fast twitch muscle fibers which ...