Jump your way to better strength and fitness
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Jump your way to better strength and fitness

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Athletic feats are not just for athletes. Given that astronauts lose muscle and body mass on a space flight, they needed an exercise that could keep their fitness levels high, and the study says “while trampolining, as long as the G-force remained below 4-G's, the ratio of oxygen consumption compared to bio mechanical conditioning was sometimes more than twice as efficient as treadmill running.” It also adds that there was “more than twice the force measured at the ankle during jumping than while running on a treadmill”. You jump high or far and feel like the Hulk when doing so,” says an article on gymshark.com titled The 6 Best Plyometric Exercises for Speed and Power. These are going to be the best plyometric exercises for speed, teaching you how to be elastic when jumping and sprinting.” When you jump, you are working on all these metrics, which are important for when you are cycling or running or even reacting to something on the road while driving. The Movement System’s 5 Levels of Jumping movements: This is a great starting point because it also teaches you how to ready the body for a jump and how to land.

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