The secret to intense focus during vertical jump training.

The effort and focus you apply to your training will directly correlate with the results you receive.  This is especially true with training to jump higher.  Jumping higher requires high intensity and ardent focus. There are of course many ways to increase the intensity of your training and intensify your focus.  Diet, rest, music, visualization all work.  There is perhaps one that can have such an amazing affect on your efforts and results short term AND long term. This technique is often underused or considered not necessary in jump training. If you are not doing this, you are missing out on what could be the missing boost to your vertical leap training. The technique is…

Measure the result of your effort, then exceed yourself.

Measuring your training has a magic effect. I’ve seen it time after time. I first noticed the amazing affect of measuring your training when working with some general fitness athletes.  Before measuring and having specific performance goals the effort was low.  Going through the motions was easy. However, as soon as we measured the exercises athletes will double and sometimes triple their results.  It’s nothing short of magic. Of course a driven athlete will already be applying  a great degree of effort, but the month in month out effort can be hard to quantify.  Results and the intensity of training can become nebulous. However, if  you know exactly how fast you must move, or how much weight you must lift, or how high you must jump the markers for progress become quite visible, it it becomes easier to tap into the necessary effort to bring about greater results.

If you are not measuring your vertical jump training efforts you are doing yourself a great disservice.

If you are a Jump Manual user we provide the tracking sheets and what and how to measure each exercise.  Use the tracking sheets.  See your progress.  Push yourself to higher level.s Without this level of tracking you can only get a subjective feel for your training intensity. Tracking also gives us greater insight into if you are overtraining and what type of techniques we can use to avoid that overtraining. Measuring and tracking places the markers of progress in plane sight and allows us to pursue them with greater vigor! It’s easy to put that extra effort in when you can see it.  And it’s this extra effort that makes all the difference over time. Tracking also makes the process of customizing your training much more objective.  As the correlation between your results, increased strength, increased quickness, and energy levels become more clear, we can easily tailor your program according to your situation. We are also coming out with an mobile app very soon that makes this measurement and tracking process very simple! We have been tracking and analyzing training results for years now and the increased availability of data is always drawing a much clearer picture of the most effective methods. For those who care we are actually investing in a state of the art system to be able to track and measure nearly every aspect of the training and performance of our private clients. Everything from joint angles, EMG muscle activation, to acceleration/velocity/and power curves, ground contact times etc..  What this means is we will have more data than ever before with which to evaluate and assess the affects of exercise.  It means our training methods will get better, because we’ll be training smarter than ever before. Don’t worry!  Even if your not one of my “in person” clients, you will still benefit from the this information.  You just won’t have my wonderful company ;)  You’ll be hearing more about this soon.  It represents a considerable investment but it will allow us the ability to further increase the speed at which our clients and you get results.