Landing Mechanics of Plyometrics

PLYOMETRICS: LANDING MECHANICS
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📚Most athletes expose themselves to high impact landing while playing sports. Recurrent hard landings without deceleration control can lead to degeneration of the ankle, knee, and hip joints. Learning to land softly and to decelerate the weight of the body will significantly lower the force of impact and decrease the risk of injury across joints. For all the exercises in this series, focus on keeping the spine in neutral alignment, hinge at the hips and knees without allowing excessive valgus/varus forces at the knee; allow the weight of the body evenly distributed throughout the foot.
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✅You will need a box jump, resistance bands and dumbbells to perform the exercises in this series.
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🔘DL & SL Land – Land softly with the feet just shoulder width apart, the feet should both have equal contact timing when hitting the ground. Make sure not to have an excessive trunk lean and not to let the knees come together (knee valgus or knock knees)
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🔘DL & SL Stick & Jump – Same protocol as landing, the jump back up should be quick and explosive without much time spent for ground contac