Posts tagged plyometric
Dancers training under cloud of uncertainty

No one can predict what the next several months are going to bring. But if you’re able to identify specific and measurable goals, you’ll be in a better position to stay in shape and even develop new skills. Most importantly, remember that you’re not alone and that if you’re feeling anxiety over the uncertainty of your career or a return to live audiences, it doesn’t mean you’re flawed. It means you’re human.

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Dancers: Quarantine Plyometric Progressions

…one of the most important things to understand about plyometric training is that it is as much about connective tissue preparation as anything. We’re used to thinking about building strong muscles, but we forget sometimes about building healthy connective tissue. And the important thing to remember about connective tissue is it takes longer to adapt to training than muscle, so it’s critical that we slowly progress training with this idea in mind or else we risk building injury into our training.

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Four Dancer Concerns, Corresponding Strength and Conditioning Solutions

Younger dancers in particular often need help learning when to breathe, when to brace, and when to use a martial arts-style exhale to produce maximum power. Counterintuitively, the work our people do on the yoga mat reinforces this connection between breath and power by installing a sense of mindfulness around breath. You can’t use breath effectively if you’re not in touch with it. That’s one of the ways we use yoga to help a dancer perform at her peak.

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Off-Season Strength and Conditioning for Dancers

Too many dancers skip the general strength and conditioning phase and jump right into the dance specific work, which is in part why studies on dancers tend to show that they lack both the strength and the conditioning their activity actually demands. This is the precise recipe for injury: asking the body to do something for which we haven’t prepared it.

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