This week’s guest is Carl Valle of spikesonly.com.

Carl is, amongst other sprint and hurdle coaching talents, a speed technology expert. A current trend in athletic performance is jump testing, both as a means of assessing physical progression over the course of a training year, as well as a way of seeking to balance out athletes for the prevention of injury, and potential optimization of performance.

The vertical jump is the greatest display of power that an athlete can generally produce, so it does make good sense to have an adequate knowledge regarding testing and assessing the movement. After all, “what you measure, you improve”.

There are a lot of opinions on the best way to test power through the vertical jump, so Carl and I cover a lot of ground on this topic in this podcast.

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