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 Philosophy Behind The Jump Manual: Working With Jacob Hiller
For athletes training from The Jump Manual I try to make it as simple as possible. I realize athletes don’t want to swim through hundreds of pages of material that they can’t immediately use. However, I do think it is important for an athlete to correctly [...]
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 [...]
4. Diet information. You MUST know what to eat to increase your gains. You have no idea the difference it makes.
5. A guarantee of a specified number of inches. If they won’t let you take it back if it doesn’t work, simply do not buy it in the first place. Beware of programs [...]
Two Common Mistakes Athletes Make In Vertical Jump Training
Not training for optimal performance.
That means train at high intensity. Optimal performance is high intensity, so training at low intensity means that you are not training for optimal intensity. Understanding that alone will begin to help you make serious improvements. Treat each repetition of an exercise like [...]
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 [...]
Choosing between Vertical jump training programs can be challenging, since each trainer has a different idea and each school promotes a different technique, and has its own advantages. So which one helps you Increase your vertical jump? The answer is not one but all. That’s right- Jumping training is not as easy as it seems. [...]
