You may or may not have heard of plyometric training – especially if you are exclusively a distance runner or recreational runner.  If you haven’t, this is understandable; until very recently, plyometric training was thought to not be useful for distance running.

A recent study from the University of Technology Sydney, in Sydney, Australia, suggests otherwise.

Plyometric training is dynamic exercise designed to build explosiveness and power in muscles by developing muscular strength and elasticity, as well as improving reaction times in the nervous system.  One can see how this is highly useful for most sports, as well as sprinting, but what about distance running?