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 [...]
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 [...]
Improving you vertical leap can be very difficult, given the lack of scientific training methods and insufficient emphasis upon important factors such as nutrition and avoidance of injury. If you are an aspiring basketball player, you must always be wondering how to Increase your vertical leap, and might have even given up, possibly at somewhere [...]
Jumping is very important to a few sports, basketball among them. In basketball, having a good vertical jump alone can improve your game by a great deal. Thus, workout for basketball players often involves vertical leap exercises. But, the problem with these traditional exercises(which most basketball jump programs advocate) is that they concentrate too much [...]
If you’re one of those people who’ve gotten stuck and been on a plateau for too long now, exercises to increase your vertical jump is the answer. Poor technique and repetitive training can sometimes make you feel stagnated and put a block on your growth, giving you the impression that you’ve reached the summit. [...]
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 [...]
Tip #5: The Overspeed Jump. You will not find this jump drill in any manuel, ebook, or training programs. If you ever get bored of doing the same old plyometrics here is a completely new exercise to add to the mix. Plyometrics seek to train the nervous system to speed up reflex action for jumps, [...]
