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Vertical training: the difference between depth, drop and box jumps

Ok guys, today I want to talk a little bit about a very important vertical jump exercise that is extremely important to increase your plyometric ability and that will be the depth jumps.

First of all, it is important to understand that depth jumps are different from drop jumps or crash falls, as well as box jumps. Seeing a depth jump is when you jump out of a box at a certain height, absorb the energy on the ground, and then jump as high as you can straight up. That is a depth jump.

Now a drop jump or impact drop is when you jump out of a box and just absorb the energy without the successive jumps in the air and a box jump is simply when you jump from the ground into the air. So once again you have your depth drop and impact drop, which are pretty much the same, some may make a differentiation there.

And then we have his box jump where he just jumps from the ground into a box. Then you have your depth jumps, where you are jumping out of a box, absorbing and then jumping as high as you can in the air.

Those of you who are on the Jump Manual know that this is an exercise that we use on plyometric days, as well as an integration into our strength training days. This is a very important exercise because it teaches you to do what you do in athletic competition, which is to absorb force and then transfer that force into the air. Now depth jumps do a few different things, but they increase the stiffness of the Achilles tendon, as well as other areas of your body, so that it can absorb the force properly. Now if that tendon is not properly stiff, if it is too soft, then it will not be able to transfer energy fast enough to take advantage of the force that is applied to the ground.

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