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. [...]

Improving your vertical leap is not as easy as it might seem. Many athletes try extremely hard and give up, convincing themselves that they have reached their best already and just do not have it in them to jump higher. But the truth of the matter is that Improving vertical jump exercises are badly modeled [...]

A lot of young athletes often wonder what the right thing to do is. While jump training, what should the concentration be on? One look at the jump manual will give you the answer- it is not one aspect, but nine different ones that you must focus on, with equal importance, if you wish to [...]

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.

It’s something that trainers get all the time, and I think a lot of people are encountering the same type of question. It has to do with training your quickness and your reactive ability. A lot of people start a really good training regime—it’s going to include very high intensity events with low repetition; and we’re not talking weight training here, we’re talking plyometrics and quickness training.

Vertical training is central to sports such as basketball. Having a poor vertical jump can impair your game by 90%. An effort must be made to develop a ‘vertical explosion’- a combination of strength and quickness, ensuring that you propel the maximum distance, rather than focus on merely jumping.
The jump manual as an [...]

But I did notice that in the program, it asked him to do a crazy number of repetitions. In some cases, they wanted him to do up to one thousand repetitions of a certain exercise. Now I’m just here to tell you right now, do not do that.

But I recommend you do your heavy lifting with five sets. The first three sets should be very heavy weight. Keep your reps below ten, and do them very explosively. If you do it explosively, that’s what you’re trying to train: your explosion.

Strength is INCREDIBLY important for your vertical jump training efforts.
When you are looking for a solution to increasing your vertical think first of all, at increasing your strength in general.
If I gave you a backpack with a bowling ball in it, you strapped that sucker on, and tried to jump, what would happen to your [...]

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.