Explosive techniques are mostly specific to the muscle groups being trained that day. Example: A1) Jump squat A2) Back Squat. I use these exercises primarily for motor unit recruitment. Motor units are responsible for activating different muscle fiber types. Although difficult at times, I assume these warm ups to be less taxing and actually help prepare for a more difficult lift. What concerns me however, is how easily they could be over used. A body weight jump squat although much less in tonnage compared to your squat, is equally exhausting to our energy substrates (things we burn during training) like CP, ATP and glycogen. Not to mention it jacks your heart rate up! So with energy supplies having a distinct time frame before being fully depleted, we have to decide how many is to many. We wouldn't want to take away from our meat and potato exercises to often in place of less measurable choices.
So I use them once within an athletic template usually at the beginning of a session due to high energy levels. But will use more often in a hypertrophy program to accommodate people's love of them pumps. I like supersets in this case. Example: A1) DB Flat Bench A2) Band Press burnout.
Olympic lifts are also explosive lifts, but due to the high coordination level of theses exercises, I would do them with supervision of a professional. I was writing making reference mostly to plyometrics type training. If you never use explosive lifts in your training, I would reconsider. If not for any particular reason, just for the change from the norm .
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