Highlights about PlyoCity:

• Over 65,000 athletes trained in the last 12 years. (Largest in the US)

• Currently training approximately 5,000 athletes.

• Training athletes ages 8 - 64.

• Over 31 year background in jump training/plyometric training.

• Currently training high schools and sports clubs nationwide in 21 states.

• Mobile Training where instructors come to the athletes.

• Guaranteed 4-6 inches increase in vertical jump per athlete.

• Currently training multiple teams and both male and female athletes.

• Currently cross-training athletes in the following sports: Badminton, Basketball, Baseball, Boxing, Cheerleading, Diving, Football, Golf, Gymnastics, Handball, Hockey, Ice Skating, Lacrosse, Martial Arts, Rugby, Skiing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Squash, Swimming, Table Tennis, Tennis, Track & Field, Volleyball, Water Polo, and Wrestling.

• Plyo trainer to the following U.S. Olympic Athletes:

1. 3 Time Gold Medalist Karch Kiraly
2. 2004 Gold Medalists Misty May and Kerri Walsh
3. 2004 Bronze Medalist Holly McPeak
4. Mike Lambert
5. Logan Tom
6. Kevin Wong

About Coach Mike Rangel - Founder of PlyoCity Youth Development
Mike Rangel has been studying and training athletes for over 31 years. As a “High Flyer” at Long Beach State on the men’s volleyball team in the 70’s, Mike was recognized as someone who truly understood jumping.

Brief History of Plyometrics

Plyometrics is the term now applied to exercises that have their roots in Europe, where they were first known simply as "jump training." Interest in this jump training increased in the early 1970's as East European athletes emerged as powers on the world sport scene.

The actual term 'plyometrics' was first coined in 1975 by Fred Wilt, one of America's more forward-thinking track and field coaches. Based on Latin origins, plyo + metrics is interpreted to mean 'measurable increases.' These seemingly exotic exercises were thought to be responsible for the rapid competitiveness and growing superiority of Eastern Europeans in track and field events. Plyometrics rapidly became known to coaches and athletes as exercises or drills aimed at linking strength with speed of movement to produce power. Plyometric training became essential to athletes who jumped, lifted or threw.

"Plyometrics is defined as exercises that enable a muscle to reach maximum strength in as short a time as possible. This speed-strength ability is known as power," says plyo expert D. Chu.