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 [...]

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 [...]

Improving you vertical leap can be very difficult, given the lack of scientific training methods and insufficient emphasis upon important factors such as nutrition and avoidance of injury. If you are an aspiring basketball player, you must always be wondering how to Increase your vertical leap, and might have even given up, possibly at somewhere [...]

Jump training is of two types- one improves your endurance, the other improves your vertical explosion (a combination of the strength and quickness you pack into your jump). While endurance training is simple and does not require special knowledge, so is not the case with getting the best vertical explosion. The jump manual specializes in [...]

Recently we’ve been talking about how you can increase and improve your form and increase the power of your vertical jump. Today we’re going to be talking specifically about rapid and synchronized counter movements. When we’re talking about counter movements we’re talking about the movement that happens right before you explode. And so, before you’re [...]

Okay guys, I want to talk about why people fail to increase their vertical explosion and why you don’t have to. I want to lay down exactly how you can start increasing your vertical in the next two weeks or quicker. The first thing is, why do people not succeed? The first is a lack [...]

How did you first get started sports, and what led you specifically to jump training?

As a youth I had an obsession with my excelling in performance as well as training others do to the same. I liked to run, do push-ups, pull-ups, and sit-ups for fun. When I went to visit friends at a [...]

When you first begin to work towards reaching your vertical leap goals, you may not be putting exercises to increase flexibility on your list of to-dos. But this would be a mistake. There are many benefits of flexibility, for what I call a synergistic effect; the results you’re getting from other aspects of your training [...]

Common myths in vertical jump training

For decades, athletes have had to either have incredible natural talent, ingenuity, discipline, or all three to achieve results in vertical jump training and have a vert of 40 inches or more. In the last 10 years, enormous strides have been made in the vertical jump training field with the [...]

Fast Twitch Muscle Fibers: What Are They?

Fast twitch muscle fibers play an important role for launching the human body in the air. People are separated in two types when it comes to these muscle fibers. The first type is the person who is born naturally with a high density of these muscle fibers. Type two [...]