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CNS and Jumping Higher

January 21, 2012 Read the full article →

How CNS Affects Jumping Higher You have something that’s probably more responsible for your level of athleticism than every muscle fiber and tendon in your body put together but few trainers address it. In fact everyone is so busy focusing on muscle strength and fiber type that they tend to forget about what’s causing muscle [...]

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Jump Higher with Serious Quads!

January 19, 2012 Read the full article →

Quad Strength is Important to Jumping Higher With all of the vertical jump training advice and information out there pointing toward the glutes and posterior chain (your back side) as being most critical when it comes to athletic power and jumping higher, the quads seem to be taking a back seat these days. This is [...]

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Jumping higher is impossible without this.

October 11, 2011 Read the full article →
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Without going pass the improvement zone, jumping higher is literally impossible.  Without this level of intensity you can never prepare place the proper stress on your body that generates explosive results.

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The Missing Link to Jumping Higher (and Staying Injury-Free)

August 26, 2011 Read the full article →
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Guest Post By Yuri Elkaim, BPHE, CK, RHN YurisYogaforAthletes.com Jumping higher. Ah….the holy grail of athleticism. Who doesn’t want to jump higher? After all, adding inches to your vertical means that you are becoming a more powerful athlete, allowing you to move quicker and dance circles around your opponents. But what if there was an [...]

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Rim Rocker Dunk For Cloud by Jacob Hiller

May 2, 2011 Read the full article →
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  Old dunk on a 10 foot rim.  I’m posting this for a friend who stuck up for me several times when it was unpopular. I’ve had this and many other vids for a long time but I haven’t posted them.  Many have said I can’t dunk or can’t jump and many of you have [...]

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The Shotgun Approach to Jumping Higher.

April 22, 2011 Read the full article →
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There are literally thousands of exercises out there, and many different ways to perform the exercises – sets, reps, intensity etc..  But which exercises are most applicable to jumping higher? I see many individuals, coaches, and trainers who seem to take the “shotgun approach” to vertical jump training. A shotgun approach is the idea to [...]

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The Six Benefits of A Good Vertical Jump Program

October 20, 2009 Read the full article →

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 [...]

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Vertical Training: Why You Don’t Want to Jump Habitually

June 15, 2009 Read the full article →

If you want the best results from your training, look for a program that will increase your max explosiveness. But if you do want to stick with habitual jump program, let’s call it optimized, maximized, or even modified habitual jump training. If you’re going to do the program, take away the reps. Well, don’t take [...]

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