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 [...]
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 [...]
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Hello. This is Jacob Hiller with the Jump Manual dot com. I’m just here to explain a little bit about how the jump manual got started. When I was in high school, I wanted to jump higher than anybody else. I wanted to be able to jump from the free-throw line and dunk
Or perhaps you aren’t sure how to perform a particular exercise. Whatever the case, getting your questions answered by a professional trainer will be of paramount importance to you.
Isometrics are static contractions: muscular contractions where the muscle is contracting without in reality moving. An isometric contraction occurs any time you hold a weight in a set position, known as a yielding isometric contraction, or pushing/pulling against an immovable entity, called an overcoming isometric contraction.
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 [...]
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Discipline is not and it never was, and it never will be easy to come by. So even if you have the right information, a lot of that hard work is going to be up to you. And what’s more, there’s also a lack of true experts to answer the questions that you need to [...]
