The Triple Jump- one of the hardest disciplines in athletics

For almost everybody triple jump is the most difficult and complicated discipline in track and field, and its athletes have to go through one of the most rigorous training programs.  If you, as an athlete decide to practice and get to the top,   the first thing you have to do is work unconditionally on the fundamental basis of the triple jump.  For example you have to learn the basic principles of coordination, work on obstacles to implement time and space, especially the sense of rhythm.  

If your aim is, like I said before, reaching the elite, you have to be prepared to train at least 5 or 6 days a week in total 18 hours a week. Why?  The training programs to get to the elite are composed of a lot of jumps including plyometric jumps, speed, media resistance, strength, weight explosive, weights circuit for the triple jump, and technical work jumps with speed. One very important thing that you have to work on is the work “on fibers”, this is what gives you the possibility of reaction between jumps, I mean the ability to be as little as possible on the ground- and for a triple jumper, the less time you're on the ground, the farther you're going to jump the distance.

“Fiber work” is an area where the coach has to have a lot of experience and knowledge of how to implement the jumper's reaction in continuity with the speed and almost perfect technique.       If you as a coach make mistakes in the training program intended for  Fiber, the CONSEQUENCES for the athlete may be catastrophic, with injuries such as    

      

-        -   groin strain

-        -   Distension / rupture of the hamstring

-         -  Chronic inflammation of the patellar tendon (jumper's knee)

-         -  Injuries of the lateral ligaments of the ankle and others.

Fiber is an area of work that the coaches have to maintain in all seasons, as are many of the exercises that the athlete performs during the preparation phase. Many coaches change the training system, according to phase and cycles, but my experience as a professional coach, convinced me that many of the exercises that athletes have made ​​in the preparation phase are fundamental exercises for the triple jumper development. Like I said triple jump is not easy and people have no idea what an athlete must do to jump a centimeter.  Triple jump is a discipline with a 90% risk of injury, but the technical work reduces that risk to nearly 10%. if you have a good coach, working on the technical basis and the development of new exercises designed for each individual athlete and who works intensively the technique such as the coordination of arms and legs, the knees, feet and body position, also of course fiber work, you will develop the skills, between strength and power, and so, you will create a perfect balance as jumper.