Endurance Bounding

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        • Participant
          djbmc on September 13, 2005 at 9:38 pm #11258

          Each season our jumping group begins with endurance bounding once a week for about 8 weeks.  We go from 3x50m of right leg, left leg, alternate leg bounding and 3x50m of split walks up to about 3x100m of each.  Our group feels that it helps our pre-season strengthening and endurance.  What do you folks think.  Oh we are all triple and long jumpers by the way.

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on September 14, 2005 at 7:44 pm #48505

          I'm not a fan of this type of thing. It trains qualities that aren't really necessary for performance in the jumping events and can easily teach bad takeoff mechanics.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Participant
          lorien on September 14, 2005 at 8:34 pm #48506

          Not a fan myself either, except for maybe some endurance bounding uphill ??? which is more of a general condition exercise and sufficiently apart from real bounding so that technical issues won???t be affected. Also, I never really liked longer single-leg bounding; somehow they seem too mechanical compared to the natural elastic response (or reflex) in the hop-phase of a triple jump ??? teaching an ???overactive??? forward knee-drive (leaving the rear leg almost vertical when the flight-time is too short) compared to a smooth hip ???opening??? (where the rear leg opens more horizontally) in an actual triple jump.

        • Participant
          djbmc on September 15, 2005 at 2:31 am #48507

          Good info, thanks.

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