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This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute, in
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this video we're going over another
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great power exercise for the lower body -this is tuck jump. So I'm going to have my
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friend Jeremy come out, he's going to help me demonstrate. Now tuck jumps are like a
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repeated depth jump. If you guys remember the cues from depth jumps about how you
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try to land and explode quickly, tuck jumps are kind of the same mechanic.
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Jeremy is going to try to jump up as high as he can but then land and go right back
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up, land and go right back up, land and go right back up; and you'll notice I have
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added the agility ladder here and the reason being is again control. Power is
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nothing, it is useless unless an athlete can control it and be accurate with it.
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So Jeremy is going to do one thing you guys will notice right off the
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bat which is take a step, the reason he's taking a step is to help him with that
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eccentric load component, and then the rest of it is pretty much the same
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cueing we've been talking about. I'm actually going to let you go ahead and do
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one round of tuck jumps and then we'll break it down.
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It's tough, it's a tough exercise. So let's let's break down what you
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saw. Number one it was a jump, we've been doing these jumps on the box jump video,
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the depth jump video, it's still squat form. You know what squat form looks
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like, we want to keep his feet parallel, his knees in alignment, we want
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to make sure that he's not hunching over at the the upper back but that he's
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bending at the hip. You know all of that stuff. We know about eccentric load,
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well in this exercise you have no choice but to eccentrically load, you're coming
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down and you're coming down fast; which is where this exercise gets really hard,
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is to turn that amortisation phase around quickly and to keep that
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speed requires a tremendous amount of strength and power from the athlete that
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you have in front of you, in fact some studies show that this exercise might
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actually be harder than something like a depth
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jump, that it's actually more intense despite the fact that the were starting
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on the ground and ending on the ground. So let's kind of break this down just so
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they see one, I want you to kind of slow down your very first tuck jump, so
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let them just kind of see what that looks like. So take your step into your
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jump, so actually we want to start with our hands up here,
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so as you're stepping you should be going step down like this. Right
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exactly, let's do that one more time. So the
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same mechanics we keep working on, his hand mechanics have to match the rest of
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his mechanics, and then notice as he does that there's no pause at the bottom,
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that's that amortization phase we want to shorten that up as much as
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possible. Now all we have to do is get him to do this quickly and land softly
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like a ninja, the two hardest parts of this exercise, which may not happen today
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but then this is what we would be working on cleaning up over the next
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three or four weeks if this was his lower extremity power exercise.
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So let's just see one tuck jump and a nice soft landing. Almost almost, let's
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try that one more time, that looked good though, that looked great. Jay's going to be
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dunking again in no time, alright let's try this again. That was good.
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Okay so next thing I'm going to have him do is try to do two in a row and this time
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I'm going to bring back that control component with this ladder, I mean we
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have this ladder here for a reason. So I want you to step into one of these boxes
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purposely, and when you land you land in the next box you're going to jump
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immediately, and then I want you to land and stay put in the third box.
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So you're only going to do two jumps.
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Almost you kind of like jumped two boxes and then jumped on one. This
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is exactly how I would start with an athlete, it wouldn't be here do ten tuck
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jumps, there's no point in doing ten tuck jumps if somebody can't do two
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with control; and then once they can do two with control do three. Let's try it
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again - boom, that was a little loud but I'm going to let you go ahead and
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have three, alright so let's try three.
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If you guys are counting reps let's say he did two sets of two and a set of
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three and I want between six and ten reps per set, I would now give Jeremy his
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five minute rest and then on his next set same thing I'm going to do six to ten
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reps but I'm gonna make him stop when I see him start to lose control. Don't let
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people go all over the place, really keep working on this accuracy component. You
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want to give it one try all the way through,
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show them what crazy tuck jumps look like. Yeah he got a little far on
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that third one but that was four, you can imagine doing ten in a row
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hitting every box in the ladder takes some serious practice. Remember all of
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your cues still count and Jays doing a great job internalizing this stuff, he
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knows his squat form, he knows about his eccentric loading now, he's getting
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that quick amortisation no pause at the bottom, his speed is getting better and
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better he's starting to think now I don't need to do this harder I need to do it
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faster, and then obviously on this exercise we need some work on the softer
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landings, but I have seen athletes go through this thing like a ninja.
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You can barely hear them and it's an amazing
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thing to see, and definitely something that has nice transference to sport. I
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hope you guys enjoyed this video, I look forward to your questions, feel free to