Pe Biomechanics

We choose to do a plyometric fitness session for our duathlon training. Plyometric training is a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted in explosive movements to develop muscular power and endurance. We applied this into our session by using a range of explosive movements such as leaps, bounds, jumps and medicine ball throws. We made sure we had a good amount of reps to challenge the people training and enough of a rest in between each exercise to recover.
There is different fitness components involved with plyometric training; these include muscular power, muscular endurance, aerobic endurance and muscular strength. Muscular power is “the ability to exert a maximal force in as short a time as possible” it is important to duathlon training as it builds up the power in your legs so that you can build up speed in your run and will also help with the swim. We applied in our session with exercises such as squat jumps and tuck jumps.
Muscular endurance is when a muscle or a group of muscles has the ability to sustain repetitive movement over an extended period of time; this is especially good for duathlon training as it is preparing your muscles to run and swim over an extended period. We applied this in our session by having 10 reps and 3 sets for each of our exercises and had a few exercises for each of the muscle groups which added to the endurance.
Aerobic endurance is having the ability to train continuously over an extended period of time without tiring too easily, this important for duathlon training as it will help for us to continue at a constant speed and allow us to push ourselves to our limits. We involved this in our session by having a circuit with a speed ladder, hurdles, bounding and two foot jumps which was done at a high intensity of 2 reps and 2 sets.
Muscular strength is a measure of how much force your muscles can exert, this is helpful in duathlon training because it will add to the strength in