How To Increase Your Vertical Jump Through Creatine, Glutamine, And Ice Packs

Hello. This is Jacob Hiller from Free Vertical Jump Training dot com, also known as the Jump Manual. And what I’m going to be covering today is—you may have heard a little bit about nutrients or supplements you can take that will increase your jumping ability. And I just wanted to cover that so you’ll understand,  exactly what that is, what may or may not help, and if there really is a “jumping food” that might help you get some results. And first of all, I wanna come out and say there’s not any food that is specifically made for jumping. All the muscles that you use to jump are muscles that are the same as any other muscle in your body. So, really, the same thing that all your muscles need in your body which is, protein to build and restore your muscles and also the energy so that you can use the muscles. So basically, you need fuel and energy. And if you have those two things, you’re gonna be functioning at the highest level possible, and that’s really what’s important. So anything that says it’s specifically made for jumping is really just saying it’s for muscles in general, and it’s not any different. That being said, it is extremely important if you want to maximize your training that your diet is correct. Now, you don’t need to get faddy with the diet (F-A-D-D-Y not “fatty”), you don’t need to get overzealous about having this, , crazy diet—a diet is really one of the hardest things to keep with your workout. But it’s very, very important. Let me give you an example. When I was doing some weightlifting before, I wanted to get to two hundred and fifteen pounds. And at the time, I was two hundred pounds. I’m six foot four, two hundred pounds, very high metabolism, so, really hard for me to gain weight. I struggled for one year trying to get to two hundred and fifteen pounds. Very hard workouts. Very intense workouts. And wondering why I wasn’t putting on the type of muscle I wanted to put on. I was talking to all my friends who were bodybuilders, a lot them were a lot bigger than I was, and I was just wondering, what I needed to do. They all told me, “You need to eat more, eat more, eat more.” And I just kind of moved it aside and trained harder. So if you’re one of the people who’s out there training very hard and wondering where your results are at, this tip might help. So anyways, what I ended up doing is I changed to a fairly strict diet. I would have a protein shake in the morning mixed with some crushed up oatmeal, and then I would have one in the afternoon, at night. I would have a big lunch, a big dinner, and intermixed I’d have a total of about five protein shakes. Now that’s fairly extreme, and you don’t need to do that. But just so , what happened is I put on, in about four to six months, I put on thirty pounds of muscle. When I was training hard and eating right. I put that, I put it on quicker than I ever have before. And I’ve since lost all that weight. You look at me now: I’m actually about two hundred and five pounds now. I’ve lost all that weight. But I’m also not eating as strictly as I should be. So here’s what I recommend: you get a protein (and it’s best to have a whey protein, the best type is a whey protein isolate—a whey isolate), and the best time to drink your protein is in between, fifteen and forty-five minutes after your workout—as soon as possible after your workout. And that’s because your muscles are so drained of energy, that they need not only the carbs and the energy to get back in the strength, but also they need the protein, the amino acids to start building and repairing the muscles so that your workouts actually count towards strengthening those muscles. The protein drink that I recommend—and a lot of them will work as long as they have the amino acids, the carbohydrates, and as long as they have the whey protein, I recommend whey protein isolate, not a concentrate, a whey protein isolate. So what I use is Cydogainer. Directly after my workout, I’ll drink a Cydogainer. A lot times just, I have a very high metabolism, so I’ll sometimes in the blender, I’ll mix up some oatmeal, and I’ll grind it up real fine like powder and add it to it. It just makes it that much, that many more carbohydrates. So, that’s something you can do. I definitely recommend grinding the protein, the oatmeal before you put it in. Because if you don’t, it gets kind of grainy, and it’s not as good. So, if you’re looking to maximize your workout, get yourself a protein drink. Have it directly after you’re workout. If you’re looking to really build some muscle, drink your protein shake in the morning, at night, and right after your workout—so three times a day, at least. And, if you’re really looking to put on some weight, you can do it more along with, eating a balanced diet and everything like that. The other supplement I will recommend is creatine. And some of you—I, at least, was very, I was wary to try any supplement, but I trust creatine. And creatine works. You can just use a creatine monohydrate—you can get the cheap kind, the powder. And what a creatine does, is it’s gonna help you have harder workouts. So basically, your muscles need what’s called “ATP” “adenosine triphosphate” in order to function. Now if you have—creatine is actually made by your body naturally, so if it’s in your body, your muscles are already using it. If you have additional creatine, they can use the creatine to create more ATP in your body; and therefore you have more energy for your muscles, which means you can work out harder, you can work out longer. And so I use creatine—initially I didn’t, and I had great gains, but I just noticed that the creatine did give me a little extra pump for the energy—harder workouts. Basically, if you get a harder workout, you’re gonna have better muscle growth. Some people say, “Well, when you get off the creatine, are you gonna lose all the muscle?” No, when you’re done with creatine, you’re not gonna lose all that muscle. The reason that muscle’s gonna stay, as long as you keep using that muscles to its maximum potential, then your body tells itself it still needs that muscle; and so it’s not gonna atrophy or get rid of it. But if you stop working out and stop using creatine, you’re gonna lose that muscle as well. Another supplement I would recommend—these are all optional; these are just to optimize your workout. Any workout program is gonna give you results without using these supplements or dieting correctly. However, having the correct protein and the correct diet is gonna make a big difference. So, I’d also recommend glutamine. The reason I would recommend taking a glutamine supplement is glutamine, it helps your joints to repair correctly. So you’re putting a lot of stress on your joints when you’re jumping. I used to be a triple jumper, and so landing on one foot was putting a lot of stress on my knees, and so it was probably a good idea to take glutamine. It’s just an added bonus. You can get some pretty cheap glutamine. All the supplements I’m recommending here are included in the Jump Manual; and so you can find links. And I found the cheapest products that were also effective. So, I know that we’re all, sometimes we’re on limited budgets, so I hope that works. The last couple things I’d recommend is drink plenty of water. My rule—it’s kind of crude, but it’s my rule—is that if your urine is not clear, then you’re not drinking enough water. So just be careful of that. When you have enough water in your system, it allows your entire system to function more correctly. I also recommend a multivitamin. It’s not necessarily a need to have a multivitamin if you’re getting all your fruits and vegetables anyways; but most of us aren’t. So we could use the extra vitamins that help our muscles and our entire body to work at its maximum potential. And the last thing I’d recommend is ice your knees or ice your shins, whatever, if something’s getting sore, you better start icing it right away. A quick story: my knees were pretty sore after doing some jump workouts, and actually from triple jumping is really where I had the sorest knees, and I thought I was not gonna be able to play—, really play hard out on the court.  I wasn’t icing them because it took so long to ice. You get out the ice, and you rub it on your knee—it takes like forty-five minutes. Who wants to do that every day? What I found out is—I’m actually icing right now; I can show you what I use. I use a pack like this. You can get it at Wal-Mart. It just wraps around your knee, and that way when you get home, you just go to your freezer, wrap it around your knee, and you can go about your business without having to take forty-five minutes out of your day to ice your knees. Ever since I’ve started using these on my knees, I feel almost one hundred percent better. So, if you’re having pain don’t neglect to ice. Icing your knees will make a difference. And a lot of times doctors will also tell you to use ibuprofen or some kind of inflammatory agent to help—anti-inflammatory agent—to help kind of keep swelling down, and that’s gonna help out. So, just to kind of summarize: you need the protein; you need the carbohydrates to build the muscles correctly. If you’re working out hard, trust me: the diet is more important than how hard you work out. Once you get to a certain level, you just will not be able to gain weight without the protein. Like I said, I was training for a year just trying to gain ten pounds, fifteen pounds, couldn’t get it. But in about four to six months, I gained thirty pounds because I was eating correctly. And I wasn’t chubby. I’m not the type of person who can get chubby; I just come from a very skinny, high metabolism stock. So, I also recommend the creatine, the glutamine, a multivitamin, and ice packs. So, if you have any questions, go to my website. The website is Jump Manual dot come. Thank you. Bye-bye.