THPStrength · John Evans, Isaiah Rivera

How Elite Jumping Is Built: Boo Schexnayder

March 4, 2026·1 hr 12 min·1 clip
Boo Schexnayder reveals the single strongest indicator for whether an athlete can handle high-volume plyometric training.
Legendary track coach Boo Schexnayder joins the THPStrength podcast to discuss his training philosophies for elite jumpers and sprinters, covering plyometric volume, Olympic lifts, athlete assessment, and periodization, with insights from his former LSU colleague Mike Young.

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A technical coaching discussion about elastic volume, athlete profiling, and why similar tests do not always point to the same elite profile.

This conversation stays on a narrow coaching question: what best predicts an athlete's ability to handle elastic volume on arrival. It moves through speed, power, jump training, transfer work, acceleration, and max velocity without losing the thread, and Mike Young gives the…

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You want a clearer read on elastic volume, not a loose chat about speed, power, and jump training.

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