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assante74 Posts: 185 Joined: 2001/10/19	2003/07/30, 12:53 PM What exercises are good for explosiveness? What areas would a person have to work to become explosive?
assante74 Posts: 185 Joined: 2001/10/19	2003/07/30, 08:59 PM I heard that stomach muscles are very important in obtaining some type of explosiveness...is this true?
timbaland Posts: 192 Joined: 2002/12/23	2003/07/30, 10:55 PM Explosiveness all comes from the legs. Squats are very important, go down fairly slowly and explode up. Something else that I found that helps is running at changing speeds. For example, I did a basketball program for explosiveness. One of the exercises was to run at about 3/4 of your sprint, then speed up to a full sprint. Once you reach a full sprint slow down to 3/4 again and repeat. Looking at all the great basketball players now, they have several speeds to play at. This has greatly helped my game in blowing by defenders. You probably could mix this program up a little to run at different speeds at different times, etc.
k1972pat Posts: 154 Joined: 2003/06/10	2003/08/06, 07:08 AM I agree with timbaland on the squats. Squats by far are the best exercise for explosiveness. Another good exercise is doing vertical jumps. Do like 3 sets of 10 to 15 as fast as you can.
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2003/08/06, 12:29 PM This is an interesting site for what you are asking...http://www.isu.edu/~andesean/SIMSEM.htm...Rev may be able to enlighten you with some info. -------------- Great people never want it easier, they just want to be better! Ron
gatormade Posts: 1,355 Joined: 2003/10/01	2003/10/01, 03:56 PM Power cleans are the best choice if you can do them correctly. Squats go hand in hand with cleans. Jump training is another way to develop explosiveness. I use the power cleans, squats, and the vertimax with the volleyball players I work with. www.gatorzone.com
gatormade Posts: 1,355 Joined: 2003/10/01	2003/10/04, 08:56 AM I also like various jump training exercises such as: Cyclic split squats depth jumps to and number of jump skills rapid fire jumps Plane old squat jumps Step and jump 1 legged jumping exercises I also like the jerk and the snatch. Heavy deadlifts are good.
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2003/10/04, 11:58 AM And you were right in thinking that a lot of explosiveness comes from strong core muscles, don't neglect those. " All force generated by upper-and lower-body musculature either originates, is stabilized by, or is transferred through the trunk and low torso." - Stronger Abs and Back, Dean Brittenham/Greg Brittenham, Human Kinetics Press
GOWAR Posts: 361 Joined: 2001/10/24	2003/10/05, 02:55 AM CLEANS and PLYOMETRICS are suppose to be some of the best things to do to improve explosiveness, as well as squats, sprints, squat jumps, theres so many.
gatormade Posts: 1,355 Joined: 2003/10/01	2003/10/05, 04:50 PM I have some nice trunk med ball circuits if anyone is interested.