Elitetrack: Sport Training & Conditioning

Perhaps the most annoying thing with youtube are the performance coaches posting box jumps with garbage form and pointless heights. Box jumps done high enough prove that you are good with getting your knees up not getting your COM (center of mass) projected off the ground. Usually this leads to a landing that looks like the cover to Moby’s play album.My suggestion is land like a front squat with
 
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HAHA. That’s something I rant about too! It drives me nuts when people talk about 50 inch verticals when they really mean 28 inch verticals with extreme knees-to-chest abilities. Any time we do jumps on to or over objects I always instruct to get the hips up not the knees. Raising the box does little to NOTHING for training intensity and greatly increases the chance of injury (what do you think happens when someone misses a 50’ box jump?).