DeFrancosTraining.com - Bulgarian split squat jumps

This exercise can be used as your main lift on dynamic-effort lower body day. Perform 5-8 sets of 3-6 jumps each leg. (Advanced athletes can wear a light weighted vest or hold light DB's.)

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• defrancos
• bulgarian
• split
• squat
• jumps
• plyometrics

[givebeesachance]

yeah this isn't a strictly plyometric exercise. The point isn't to get that CNS reaction you get from something like depth jumps, it's just to lift fast. It's the same thing as doing dynamic box squats or speed pulls for deads.

[zenpharaohs]

How would you decide between these and jump lunges?

[feeknocks]

what muscles does this focus on?

[ab40]

I'm gonna do that. I'll get a lot higher though haha

[katrinski]

sweet!!

[nomilkforsanta]

i think they are trying to exploit the stretch shorting cycle...

[wittejohan]

you must work on your balance, i had it too when i did this for the first time.

[jobby67]

TIGHT!!!!!!!!!!

[Gubernick7]

GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[barks217]

ground contact time is long as hell, guess its all about the concentric with this exercise