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In response to
"I knew what a box jump was, I still don't understand the point of them though. -- nm"
by
sycor
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Polymetric exercise particularly helpful with explosive movements like, well, jumping. More generally good lower body exercise as long as joints
Posted by
JD (aka Jason Dean)
Jul 21 '22, 10:53
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and muscles are up to the high impact nature of the exercise.
Perhaps only applicable to me, it was one of the exercises that when part of a timed workout, was a good reminder that when tired, take a breath and focus, A second or two to slow down and prep to jump up on the box could save several minutes / pain in missing the jump. The super specific goal of landing on that box vs the various forms of failure.....get super tired and at least I kind of forgot about the consequences and with lack of focus, did all type of fails, jump not high enough, jump not evenly off of a two feet, jump high enough botch the landing.
Any of those fail modes really sucked ;-)
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