That's what I was going to say. No shade to this woman, she's clearly working hard. But she BARELY cleared the top of that box, which led to her only catching the edge, which led to it tipping over and a pretty serious injury that actually could have been a lot worse. Someone her height and weight should have been on a shorter box, something she could have easily cleared in order to have good consistent repeat jumps. All about working within your limits.
30" Box jumps are already hard to perform cleanly as a man, harder as a woman, and harder as a big woman still. Dumbass trainer who allowed this (if any)
Yep. They're definitely not the safest exercise you can do, but we uses to do them every day at basketball practice and never had any injuries. You just had to stop at the height that was your limit.
Those are just light plywood boxes. They will fall like in the video if your balance and technique are bad. I have never seen those boxes bolted down or anything.
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u/Bors713 1d ago
Box jumps are fine, but as with any exercise make sure you’re working within your limits.