Jumping into Plyometrics: 100 Exercises For Power & Strength

If you're looking for a comprehensive book on plyometrics, check this one out. We use his system, and I can personally testify ... it works!


Excellent Resource for your Personal Library   December 12, 2000
Eric Swannie (Longwood, FL USA)
29 out of 29 found this review helpful

This is an excellent resource for the Strength & Conditioning professional. To begin with you get a little history and physiology of plyometrics. Then the author dicusses some of the basic nomenclature of plyometric training, along with the equipment that is needed.

The important part, of course, is the exercises themselves and the program design. There are nearly 100 exercises, each of them identified by symbols that show what sport can benefit most by a particular exercises. The exercises are divided into different sections: Jumps-in Place, Standing Jumps, Multiple Jumps, Box Drills, Bounding, and Medicine Ball. There is also a Sport-Specific chapter and sample programs for some top athletes. Programs include those designed for Lindsay Davenport (Women's pro tennis player, Rex Walters (NBA Basketball player), and Anthony Munoz (All-Pro offensive tackle).

This book includes information and exercises that can be implemented immediately into most strength and conditioning programs. I can highly recommend this book.

Eric Swannie, MA, ATC, CSCS


This book is essential   April 21, 1999
52 out of 58 found this review helpful

Jumping into plyometrics is the key book to get for any serious athlete. In todays competion an athlete must preform at maximal potintial to make it any where. This book gives hundreds of examples that you can use to become faster and quicker. This book is one of the only good books writen on plyometris today.


A Primer For Explosive Power For Every Athlete   July 13, 2000
Harry Sneider
21 out of 24 found this review helpful

Dr. Chu has put together an outstanding work showing very simple easy to follow exercises to increase athletic potential. As an Olympic level coach in the high jump, coaching the great Dwight Stones in 1984 and beyond, we used many of these principles in Dr. Chu's book and others that we developed. Let me emphasize the importance of having total physical strength as well as excellent conditioning before one is to follow these drills. There are many injuries that novice coaches and trainees can incur doing plyometric work. You will find some of the ways to do similiar drills in a less traumatic fashion in my book the "Olympic Trainer -- Fitness Excellence through Resistive Rebounding".