vertical jump training

Vertical Jump Training, and How to Avoid Groin Pain and Injuries

November 26, 2009 Read the full article →

Groin pain stinks and you need to make some tweaks and additions to put this problem in the can. The problem is likely NOT due to flexibility issues of the groin, especially if you have focused on stretching it. Rather the problem is likely lack of strength in the adductor region as well, [...]

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Starting Strength and Vertical Jump Training.

November 26, 2009 Read the full article →

Starting strength is your ability to begin a movement with high levels of strength, and thus high levels of speed.

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  3. How to jump higher with non weight / bodyweight vertical jump exercises.
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The Philosophy Behind The Jump Manual: Working With Jacob Hiller

October 21, 2009 Read the full article →

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 [...]

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Do I Have To Buy A Lot of Equipment to Jump Higher?

October 21, 2009 Read the full article →

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 [...]

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Two Common Mistakes Athletes Make In Vertical Jump Training

October 20, 2009 Read the full article →

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 [...]

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What Is The Best Vertical Jump Training Exercise?

October 20, 2009 Read the full article →
Strong but slower

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 [...]

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Ballistic Training Equipment For Vertical Jump Training – Cormax

October 15, 2009 Read the full article →
Cormax Vertical Jump TRaining Equipment

Ballistic training is one of the best ways it increase your strength and condition your nervous system for high performance in the vertical jump. One of the problems with traditional resistance training (like squatting) is that you cannot “release” the resistance or throw it, or even jump with a lot of weight on your back. [...]

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Vertical Jump Training: Explosive Vs Endurance Training

August 14, 2009 Read the full article →

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.

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How To Jump Higher With Strength Gains – How Important Is Strength?

August 14, 2009 Read the full article →
vertical jump training and muscle

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 [...]

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Jacob Hiller ESPN Interview About Vertical Jump Training.

August 7, 2009 Read the full article →
Vertical jump awards

Jacob Hiller’s ESPN interview with Kenny Roda about vertical jump training. Jacob Hiller ESPN interview Part 1   Jacob Hiller ESPN interview Part 2   Jacob Hiller ESPN interview Part 3  

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