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Originally Posted by johndecena
That's where we differ. I would suggest doing any endurance type exercises AFTER your power lifting. Your body will use it's short chain energy first no matter if you are lifting, or riding a bike. After those energy stores are gone, your body then uses it's long chain (endurance) energy.
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Actually, I don't think we differ at all. I agree that endurance-type exercises are best done after heavy or explosive lifting. Plyos however range from intense "true" plyometric exercises like depth jumps to less intensive/ sub-maximal effort hopping. High intensity plyos are best done first; quality not quantity is important here. Low intensity plyos can be done before or after; but if you are trying for conditioning using high rep, low intensity efforts you may be better off doing those after your lifting. Like I said it really depends one what you are doing and the workload involved. In many ways you need to see what the purpose is of the particular exercise that you are doing and then you can decide where it fits in your routine.
Just remember that with "true" plyos you want to land softly, decend quickly and minimise ground contact time in your plyos. Anything that you do beforehand that detracts from the above is bad; anything that improves your ability to the do this is good.
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