Medicine Ball Exercise

The other day I showed a video of Latif Thomas explaining the importance of acheiving triple extension during ground contact (or whilst still in contact with the starting blocks) during the beginning of a sprint.

Olympic Weightlifting is a great way to develop a forceful triple extension of the hip, knee and ankle joints. As discussed in my post on triple extension, there are other ways of loading up this movement pattern as well.

There are a whole host of reasons why a coach may decide not to use the Olympic Lifts with his athletes. If you decide that Olympic Lifting is not appropriate in your circumstances, but you still want to develop a strong triple extension in your athletes, give this simple medicine ball exercise a try.



Another advantage of this exercise is that, because the jump transitions straight into a sprint, all of your athletes will buy into it. They are likely to (straight away) see how it will benefit their performance.

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