Explosive Power
"15 Things you should know before beginning depth jumps"
Mel Siff
"Depth jumps require special preliminary preparation such as a significant volume of barbell exercises and traditional jumping, short sprints and skipping over a period of several months. One should begin at a relatively low height and increase it gradually to optimal height. It makes sense to begin jumping upward and forward only after sufficient training to jump strictly upward."
SpeedEndurance.com
"Are cleans and other Olympic lifts necessary?"
Kelly Baggett
"Just like any other explosive movement, the clean (or snatch) can help bridge the gap between total strength and total useable strength, if that is an area lacking. However, by itself it isn’t a miracle exercise. ... a good clean is really a demonstration, or indicator, of explosiveness, just like a fast sprint and a good vertical jump are good demonstrations of explosiveness."
Higher-Faster-Sports.com
"The benefits of explosive strength training for rugby football"
Bruce Ross
"Rugby football involves prolonged physical engagements between players where they are subjected to loading substantially greater than their own body
weight. An ability to very rapidly generate force is advantageous in these areas of physical engagement. In addition to basic strength training, players need
to undertake activity-specific training for explosive strength."
MyoQuip Blog
"The effects of a 6-week plyometric training program on agility" Michael G Miller, Jeremy J Herniman, Mark D Rickard, Christopher C Cheatham and Timothy J Michael
"Not only can athletes use plyometrics to break the monotony of training, but they can also improve their strength and explosiveness while working to become more agile."
Journal of Sports Science and Medicine 5:3
"The effects of plyometric, weight and plyometric-weight training on anaerobic power and muscular strength" Rahman Rahimi and Naser Behpur
"The results indicate that short term plyometric training is capable of improving the vertical jumping ability, muscular strength and anaerobic power but its combination with weight training is even more beneficial."
Facta Universitatis, Series: Physical Education and Sport
"Explosive exercise" Meg Stone, Mike Stone and Hugh Lamont
"in order to elicit maximum responses all strength training should incorporate maximum efforts regardless of the weight used ... training for maximum explosiveness requires emphases on both maximum strength and explosive training"
Coaches' Infoservice
"Explosive necessity" Chad Waterbury
"As defined by strength expert Yuri Verkhoshansky, explosive strength consists of three distinct strength qualities: starting strength, acceleration strength and absolute strength."
www.dragondoor.com
"The importance of the vertical jump for all sports"
Kelly Baggett
"Coaches can look at the vertical jump of a player and immediately tell how explosive of an athlete they have on their hands. This explosiveness is key for a football player and has a high carryover to pretty much any sport requiring speed, agility, quickness, and explosive power as most sports do."
Higher-Faster-Sports.com
"Jump higher - best exercises to jump higher and increase vertical jump"
Kelly Baggett
"Will jumping higher make you run faster and vice versa? Generally speaking, the answer to that question is yes. In fact, the ability to accelerate quickly and jump high correlate very well with each other. Any time you increase your vertical jump and train yourself to jump higher, you'll nearly always notice you also get faster and vice versa."
Higher-Faster-Sports.com
"Nick Tatalias on explosive strength training for rugby" Bruce Ross
"Nick Tatalias suggests that forwards who are exhausted after scrums and mauls may need greater strength and better anaerobic rather than aerobic conditioning. He argues that changes to the Laws of Rugby have increased the proportion of explosive actions in a game and consequently the need for explosive strength training"
MyoQuip Blog
"The plague of the mediocre athlete: 'no glutes equals no results'" Kelly Baggett
"Due to their natural strength and the leverage advantage they have over your legs, the glutes should always be the primary muscles that drive lower body movement."
Higher-Faster-Sports.com
"Plyometric ability - react like a cat and explode like lightning" Kelly Baggett
"Reactive ability is displayed when your muscle/tendon complex "reacts" to force and is stretched prior to muscular contraction. This is known as plyometric strength, reversal strength, reflexive strength, elastic strength, rebound strength etc. Jumping, sprinting, and just about anything requiring high movement speeds are inherently reactive or plyometric dominant activities."
Higher-Faster-Sports.com
"Plyometric bench press training for more strength and power" Kenny Croxdale
"during 1-RM bench presses, the bar decelerates for the final 24% of the range of motion. At 81% of 1-RM, the bar deceleration occurs during the final 52% of the range of motion. The accompanying deceleration phases result in significantly decreased motor unit recruitment, velocity of movement, power production and compromises the effectiveness of the exercise."
Strengthcats
"Posterior chain versus anterior chain: which is more important?" Jack Woodrup
"Strong and powerful hamstrings are the major muscles that drive the negative part of the jump. The more powerful they are the more powerful the reflex will be and the more upwards thrust will be ultimately generated. Strong, powerful quads, glutes, and calves then provide the rest of the power to finish of your jump."
verticaljumping.com
"Rugby union: explosive power: which forms of training are best for increasing short-term energy supplies and explosive power?" Alun Williams
"probably the most important aspect of strength training for explosive power is that the athlete consciously and maximally attempts to move the load as fast as possible during the concentric phase of weight training, independent of the apparent speed of the motion then produced."
Peak Performance
"Stage 1: introductory concepts for explosive power training" Tony Bauer and Dwayne Fuchs
"Explosive exercises increase the recruitment of motor units and muscle fibers as well as increase the firing rate of the motor neuron."
Coaches' Infoservice
"Training principles for jumpers: implications for special strength development" Nelio Moura and Tania Fernandes de Paula Moura
"Special strength training being done throughout the season, because training effects are absolutely specific;
"Quality of training (technique and power produced in each repetition) is far more important than quantity (tons lifted, or number of jumps performed)."
coachr.org
"The vertical jump development bible" Kelly Baggett
148-page e-book by a master coach
Higher-Faster-Sports
"Vertical jump secrets" Mark Sias
"Everyone I have taught this method so far has experienced an immediate gain no less than 2 inches and some as much as 5 inches!"
Brian Mackenzie's Successful Coaching
"Weight lifting for sports specific benefits" Clive Brewer, Mike Favre and Linda Low
"Training to improve sports performance should encourage the incorporation of rapid stretch-shortening cycles into training movements to enable the athlete to produce maximal forces. This occurs in plyometric actions, where the amortisation phase needs to be as rapid as possible."
Coaches' Infoservice
"Weightlifting: the relevance to other sports training" Loren
Z F Chiu and Brian K Schilling
"The concert of physiological, neurological, and mechanical adaptations suggests that weightlifting exercises and methods may be the single most effective
type of training for athletic performance."
Rugbystrength.com
"What is the most direct means to achieve strength gains specific to the demands of jumping events?" David Kerin
"I have come across some very interesting articles that represent a fresh look at jumps-specific strength training. Independently, the articles suggest that the eccentric contraction that occurs at the plant, and strength training designed to improve this phase of a jumping action, might deserve greater consideration in the search for improvements in event performance."
gillathletics.com
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