I love power and strength training!! Life is easier when you are strong. Having been a strength and conditioning coach for almost 20 years in Motosports, for some reason motorsport athletes shy away from strength, I hear athletes all the time say that they don’t want to get big. Strength doesn’t always mean big, and truth be told big doesn’t always mean strong. Like anything in fitness, it’s all about find the right dosage. How about power? Olympic lifts, plyometrics? This is often another area of training that is overlooked. Plyometrics work on the nervous system, the nervous system recruits muscle fibres, the firing frequency and the synchronization of how effectively motor units are activated. Plyos can help to increase the firing frequency, in other words increase the rate at which muscles fire. Plyos strengthen the muscle tendon complex, every muscle in the body has attached tendons at the end that connects it to bone.
Here is an intermediate plyo, single leg lateral hops: