Too many plyos

I remember Chuck Stiggins, the S&C coach at BYU, said that he does not do plyos until the athlete has reached a certain level of conditioning...at the time, we had a coach who believed in doing plyo boxes and bounds every day..and a lot of them. Stiggins suggested that he might be doing more harm than good, particularly if they were being done prior to a period of time in which the athletes developed a certain level of condition. pdow

Plyos 5 days per week?/ No way! Even the Russians wouldn't do that! Please be careful with plyometrics, you can burn out your athletes very fast and you can also injure them with too many plyometric exercises!!!
Coach Vogt

Thanks for your responses. I didn't really say what I wanted to. We never devote an entire workout to plyos. However, I have tried to incorporate broad jump bounds (5 to 10), high skips, line hops, and vertical bounds (10) into our form running / speed work. We usually just do this 3 times per week, if possible. I understand the dangers of doing too much. I went crazy with these types of exercises, and I think my overdoing this stuff as an athlete may have led to an above average amount of muscle injuries. However, I know of a jump program, Air Alert, that uses jumps 5 days a week and has very good results. Don't basketball players really have to do a plyo workout every day? I agree that you can overdo it, but would like to know specific guidelines for plyo training. I would be interested in reading anything you have on plyos. Please email me if necessary.
faustc@ahst.k12.ia.us
thanks