Jessica Scott

Explosive power is the ability to generate a lot of force very quickly.

It is not necessarily lifting the heaviest load.

It's about moving a lighter load very quickly.

It's used for mobility when you're walking up and down stairs.

If you stumble or catch yourself while walking down the sidewalk, explosive power is what allows you to catch yourself and not fall.

Explosive power is really about when you need to change direction very quickly.

How quickly can you change your strength into movement?

It's really important to start slowly, and it's not jumping straight into doing explosive power movement.

You need to start by including aerobic exercise first and starting with strength training.

You need a baseline level of strength before you start layering in some of that quick training that we do for explosive power.

How do you know when you're ready?

Usually if you've had a consistent training for at least three months, so that can be three days a week of aerobic training or walking or cycling, and at least one day, maybe two days a week of resistance training or strength training.

Once you've had at least three months of that, then you can start to layer in those quickness movements or that explosive power training.

One of the ones that we really like to start with is in a stable chair, doing three very quick standing up and slowly sitting back down in a chair.

And you repeat that three to five times.

just standing up very quickly that starts to train explosive power and these can be done in your home it doesn't necessarily have to be at a gym and once you've done several weeks of movements like that then you can start to layer in jump squats where you're jumping up and then going into a squat position and again it's about doing these lighter loads with good mechanics

And it's about speed.

Yeah.

The standing up quick is one that you can do at work or anywhere.

The other movements that you can do are push-ups, even on a wall.