Today at boot camp our entire workout was plyometrics. For those of you who don't know what plyometics is "Plyo" is KILLER, ok, I'll be more specific.... here's a tid bit about it from http://www.sportsmedicine.about.com/
What are Plyometric Exercises?
Many athletes and trainers use plyometric jumping exercises to build power and speed, improve coordination and agility and effectively improve sports performance. Plyometric exercises are specialized, high intensity training techniques used to develop athletic power (strength and speed). Plyometric training involves high-intensity, explosive muscular contractions that invoke the stretch reflex (stretching the muscle before it contracts so that it contracts with greater force). The most common plyometric exercises include hops, jumps and bounding movements. One popular plyometric exercise is jumping off a box and rebounding off the floor and onto another, higher box. These exercises typically increase speed and strength and build power.
Back at Bootcamp
At boot camp, Rob gave us 3 plyo exercises, we'd do each one for 45seconds, switch to the next, etc. until we had gotten through all three exercises to form a set........then we repeated that same set 3 times.
We had 4 different sets so it really tooks us through the entire workout. My calfs kept cramping up something horrible from all the jumping. I'll need to drink plenty of water so that I don't have those charlie horses to deal with.
Plyo has always been one of the hardest workouts we do but it's a phenomenal workout and your body feels it all day long!
At the very end we finished with core and stretching.
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