Wow! The linked video captures some serious jump training. I don't think too many mid- or long-distance runners can or should want to do very much of this, but a little might be beneficial. What do you think?
Vertical Jump: Russian Plyometrics Compilation for High Jumpers:
I would keep most *jumpers*--much less distance runners--away from some of those exercises. You have to have fairly high levels of basic strength (like being able to squat, say, 2 x bodyweight) before being able to do some of the more intense plyo exercises safely.
Some of the uphill (or upramp here, I guess) work that's shown is not too different from what Lydiard had his men do 50+ years ago, but you should probably go to the Lydiard site to get guidance on that. I note that that site includes some serious caveats. Injury prevention is key.
More generally: we know that distance running tends to kill an athlete's vertical. (This, too, was established decades ago.) It's not clear to me that long-distance runners, in particular, should try to undo that.
They can be done to a lesser extend, lower boxes /hurdle than you see in video,and match up with level of the jumper = high school, collegiate.
Maybe you cant jump over 36' boxes, but 30' rather. Or less grade of incline. etc
I've never seen this video, cool share.
I've done everything in this video except for the weighted bounds and the tire pull jump over a hurdle into the sand pit. I don't think I'd do either of those. I've also only done the uphill jumps and bounds that they are doing on stairs. I think that brings the risk level down a bit, since it puts the ankle into a more natural position.
I've never had any injury that I suspected was from plyos. I do set up my programming very carefully though and keep each session very limited and only 1 or 2 plyo sessions per week with one week per month with no plyos.
A lot of these we actually have our more dedicated sprinter/jumpers on the high school team do as well. Things like hurdle hops we let all of our sprint/jump athletes do, but some of the more advanced plyos we only let our athletes do who had an off season running/weights program with us. I also never do depth jumps with high school athletes, I think those should be reserved for older athletes or maybe a very exceptional 17 or 18 year old.