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- From: steve@agropyron.forests (Steve)
- Subject: Re: JUMPING!
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Message-ID: <Nov18.033611.44451@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:36:11 GMT
- Reply-To: steve@agropyron.forests
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- > I would add, buy some ankle weights and jump. Most sporting
- > goods stores have them, usually leather filled with powdered
- > lead. Strap write on. Wear them when you run, jump rope
- ^^^^^
- > and bench jump. That's right, get a bench, getg along side
- > it and jump back and forth across it. Also, there seems
- > to be correlation between speed and vertical jumping.
- > When U of Wash recruits football players they are willing
- > to accept vertical jump measurements for 40 yd speed timings.
- > So put on those ankle weights and do some sprinting also.
- ^^^^^^^^^
- > I found out about the ankle weights by asking the guys in
- > high school who could slam dunk (one of them was even only
- > 5' 7"), and they all recommended ankle weights. One guy,
- > Sal Johnson was 6'4" and could almost touch the top of
- > the backboard. Sal said he wore his ankle weights all the
- > time . . even to bed! (sleeping that is)
- >
- > Mark
- >
-
-
- A word of caution, many up-to-date running coaches would cancel your team insurance
- if they saw you running with ankle weights on, especially if you were
- doing sprints with them. The added weight X knee-to-ankle lever arm = knee problems.
- This is a very easy way of hyperextending the knee, hence the invention of
- weighted shorts (seriously) to increase the "resistance" of a running workout.
- try fartlek, plyometrics, running backwards, jumping rope, etc. but beware the ankle
- weights while running.
-
- -steve
-
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