What plyometric exercises can I do to get my upper & lower body stronger?

Question

preferably natrual ones

Answer 1

Just gonna throw a few answers at you. Box jumping is underrated, give it a shot.  Olympic lifts are great for building power, also odd object training is very good.  Tire flipping, medicine ball/cinder block throwing, stuff like that. Be creative but be careful. Plyometrics does not mean jump training it means explosive training that uses fast movements.

Answer 2

Plyometrics, I think, means jump training. Not really an upper body thing at all. I suppose you could hold weights while you do it and create additional arm movements. I do jump squats and lunges and frog leaps. Also a side to side thing from one leg to the other. I don't have a name for it so i just call it that side to side leaping thing that I do. Add some push-ups and chin-ups/pull-ups and experiment with different widths and stuff. Chair dips work well. Too many things to mention. Start trying things and experiment. I actually discovered some good stuff by trying different things I see people doing in some of the workouts presented on the fitness channel. If you're into a martial art which incorporates jumping type kicks then practice those till you puke.

Answer 3

Squat thrusts, hitting a tire with a sledge hammer, bouncing a standard athletic dodge ball down as hard as you can for 30 seconds straight, of course all of the track and field jumps, and as mentioned above - box drills.

My favorite upper body pushing exercise is a push up where you push yourself completely off the ground and clap in the middle.  For an added challenge, set two blocks about two shoulder lengths apart, then do wide push ups with your hands on the opposite blocks, explode out, do a narrow push up between them, and then explode back out to the wide push ups back up on the blocks.  For pulling muscles, I like dumbbell snatches.

Answer 4

Go to www.fight-site.com, They have an article on plyometrics.

Also, a couple of days ago I went out and picked up a (roughly) 10 lbs. rocks and did throws with it. Where you squat down, then burst upwards and toss it into the air as hard as you can. Well, I did that around 30 times and I'm still extremely sore. I guess it targets all of your musles or something.

Answer 5

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/PowerExercises...