Abdominals are often touted as one of the “secrets” to increasing your vertical leap, but can a six pack really increase your vertical?
In order to answer this question we should first understand what role the abdominals play during a vertical jump.

Abdominals work in conjunction with the hip flexors to perform 2 main roles.

Abdominals [...]

Let’s get real for a second.
I’m assuming…

You want results from your training.
You want the best results in the quickest possible time.

Just because it is neat, and just because it is difficult does not mean it is creating the desired training effect.
This sounds silly, as well [...]

The most important thing for me as a personal vertical jump trainer is getting you higher in the air. Now you’re going to hear something that you may not believe—there’s no elaborate equipment required.
It should come as a relief for you that you don’t need a lot of fancy gizmos to get you in the [...]

The 6 Steps to Improving Form to Jump Higher
1. When you get in the gym, make sure you’re warm, that your muscles are elastic. Make sure that you’re stretching them and all the inverse muscles. So if you’re on your quads, you need to make sure and stretch your hams, and vice versa. And once [...]

How to Make Jake’s Take and Shake
Ok, so here’s how you make one. You need a small jar. It’s got to be plastic, and it’s got to have a screw-on lid. You need a water bottle; and it needs to be the same width as the jar; and it must have a small mouth. You [...]

Here’s a quick breakdown of how many inches you can expect to gain, and how:
Most athletes stand to improve their vertical 2 – 6 inches from form
alone. Often this can happen quickly and certainly produces some exciting testimonials.
Athletes who have excess body fat to lose can gain inches. If you are 20 % body [...]

A vertical jump program, when effective, will have you…
1. Jumping higher (vertical)
2. Running at a higher top speed (sprint speed)
3. Reaching your top speed faster (first step quickness / starting speed)
4. Improving reaction time and reaction strength (quickness and reactivity)
5. Improving your overall strength
6. Finding the ability to maintain anaerobic activities such as sprinting [...]

You’ve seen this posted in tons of forums and websites:
The #1 vertical jump exercise!
Then the article is followed up by telling you the #1 exercise you should be doing to increase your vertical.
There are a couple problems with this.

Most of these articles are written by marketers, who know very little about vertical jump training, but [...]

The truth about it is that diet and supplementation can be really annoying. I’ve found the best way is shakes; but shakes can be messy. You can’t carry around a tub of protein with you—and if you could, you can’t scoop it into a small-mouth bottle or clean up the bottles.

Almost every basketball player is troubled by one big question- How to jump higher. Unfortunately, the answer to this, despite being a very simple one, is known only to a very few.
Having a great jump improves your game by atleast 50%, even by the most cautious estimates. This leaves many upcoming players looking for [...]