plyometrics

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian плиометрический (pliometričeskij).

Noun

plyometrics (uncountable)

1. A form of exercise that involves the rapid stretching and contracting of muscles to develop muscular power.
   • 2015, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau, Random House 2015, p. 102:

     She was not one of those women who needed to endure complicated half hours of rubbing and prodding and explosive plyometrics before her body tensed and the dam holding back her pleasure burst.