Jessica Scott

And if you've already done an aerobic exercise day or a resistance exercise, your muscles are likely to be a little bit fatigued and not able to generate that explosive power that you want to train.

That's one of the benefits of doing this explosive power is that you can get a lot of benefits in a pretty short amount of time.

So in as little as 20 minutes, you can complete a lower body and upper body exercise workout because you want those movements to be short and high quality, and you do not want to get to fatigue.

You can do as few as five different types of exercises up to 10 different types of exercises.

And again, we're starting with three to five repetitions and doing that three

three times.

So in total, you might be doing 15 repetitions of your squat jumps, for example, and then 15 repetitions with a medicine ball where you're doing chest press or throwing it against the ground.

So there's a lot of different movements and motions that you can get in in a very short amount of time.

I think you can incorporate explosive power training into your daily life throughout the day.

Even if you are in an office or you're working at home, a great way to incorporate this is when you take a movement break.

do some of these quick explosive power exercises, whether it is some jump squats beside your desk or some clap pushups or jumping jacks.

There are a lot of ways that you can incorporate explosive power training into your daily life.

Explosive power is critical for performance if you are an athlete.

Whether it is throwing a ball, catching a ball, sprinting from base to base, diving for a volleyball, explosive power is the basis of performance for many, many sports.

That's the critical piece is explosive power can be really helpful, not just for performance, but also for preventing injury.

And we know with a lot of rec leagues, for example, there are cases of torn Achilles tendons or torn ACLs because of those very quick movements that are required when you're doing team sports, for example.

And explosive power can help train your body so that when you do those explosive movements, when you're in the middle of a game or a match and you're really focused on winning or achieving that first base, that is really helpful to have that training so it can prevent injury.

I'm about to do that.