Everything can be pointless and useful. It depends on its use and your level of understanding.

Below is a image of a few examples of tools I’ll use to implement shock with my athletes and myself.

Various tools made to but used in a shock variation

Shock defined by VERKHOSHANSKY

The essential element of the Shock regime is sharp, compulsory muscular tension, initiated by the body's impact (collision* with an external object.

Shock exercises defined by VERKHOSHANSKY

are characterised by the sharp impact of external forces during the pliometric (eccentric) phase provoked by of the body's collision (shock, bump) with the vertically falling external object (sport devise) or by the vertically falling body collision with the motionless object (ground)

Principles, methods, and tools

Principles over methods and tools are tentative

The principles are simple

- Make the training hard than the event the Individual is training for

The methods

- Rapid Reps

- Sticks

- Stick n x amount of rapid reps

Tools

Various list of things found over time that work for some and not for others.

Examples (see picture above)

- Ankle strap

- Arm strap

- Racket handle

- Sticks various lengths and thicknesses

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