Today I want to talk to you about something called “Habitual Jump Training.” Some of you have heard of it– one of the very first programs available for training your vertical was a habitual jump training program and there’s a lot of people out there who have used the program or who are currently using the program.

I just want to shed some light on how you can get the best results, or basically, how this program works. For those of you who don’t know, habitual jump training is basically repeatedly jumping in order to make your body become accustomed to that activity and thus improve. So the precept is very simple. I like how in the videos it talks about the kangaroo effect that eventually happens because you’re jumping over and over again.

What it is going to do is teach you to do is to jump at a certain level for a certain period of time: it will increase your endurance. For those of you who have noticed results on habitual jump training, there’s a few reasons. The first one is that it is teaching you the mechanics of jumping, and there’s a benefit there.

The other thing is, although there’s a lot of volume, for many of you doing the program, for the first 10 or 20 reps, you’re probably jumping a lot higher in the beginning, so you’re doing more reps, and your intensity is going to lower. So most of your gains will be taking place at the very first portion of this workout, when the intensity’s high, with more maximum effort.

The problem is, when you habitually jump over and over, you’re training your endurance, not your explosion. This means that eventually your gains are going to stall out. Therefore, if you’re looking for max gains in your vert, jump at max explosion every time; don’t wait for gains to come with habitual jump training.

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