Vertical Leap Programs: What It Takes To Succeed

This is going to take some real mental energy. It’s your responsibility to understand proper training when you hear it, and no one can do that for you, and as long as you entrust that responsibility into someone else’s hands it’s simply not going to happen. And really uncertainty is going to be caused by your lack of knowledge. So, once you understand these principles you’re going to be freed as far as you are going to have the correct knowledge and the power’s going to be in your hands. So failing to do this is really going to result in potential failure again! This is going to take commitment.

So here’s the golden rule. Do the training principles make sense? If they make sense than you need to take a step forward. If it doesn’t make sense, then you need to find something that does. Never make a decision based on hype, based on testimonials, or other things that you’ve seen.

Here’s what correct vertical training is really all about. The first thing you’ve got to understand is strength plus quickness equals explosion. So when strength and quickness are applied during the same muscle contraction, explosion is the result. So you’ve got to maximize your muscle strength and you’ve got to maximize your muscle quickness and neurological response to create that explosion.

Endurance vs Explosion

Training your explosion is counterintuitive. Most of you are training like this. You go out there and you train for an hour, you’re training very hard and you’re sweating and you feel the burn and you think you’re training correctly. Most of you are not. You have to train in what’s called the improvement zone. So basically improvement zone means this:

If your maximum vertical jump is 32 inches, and most of your training is done at a 12 inch intensity, what are you really training yourself to do? You’re training yourself to jump at 12 inches over a long period of time. You’re training your jumping endurance. Any time you pace yourself, any time you try and incorporate less intensity to accommodate more repetition, you’re training your jumping endurance, and not your explosion.

That’s going to be really hard to change your paradigm on that. Never pace yourself, always emulate explosion, and always push to the max. If you push to the max you’re going to climb a little bit each workout and that’s going to be noticeable over a period of time. You’ve got to work smarter and harder. This is all about quality versus the quantity. I’ve known tons of people who have trained very very hard with minimal results.

Let me give you another example. If you were a sprinter training for the 100 meter dash, and your coach said you’ve got to run two miles every day, and it’s going to train you for that 100 meter dash. After that workout you’re going to be tired and sweaty and what are you going to be? You’re going to be training your endurance. No sprinter is going to train by running the mile or two mile to run the 100 meter dash. You’re training the wrong type of muscle fiber.

So as long as you continue training your endurance, you are not going to be training the right type of fast twitch muscle fiber. It’s going to give you a false sense of progression.

You need to have a multi-faceted approach when training your vertical jump. That is how you get results very quickly.

Let me give you an example: if you were a race car driver and you want to create a race car that goes faster, you could give it a more powerful engine. That’s obviously going to make it go faster. But how much more effective is it going to be if it you put on a more powerful engine, make the gears right so it’s more torquey, put better wheels on so that it grips better on the road, put better cooling on the engine, and then put better aerodynamics on the car. If you do all of these things to your vehicle, put better gasoline in the car, all that type of thing, you’re attacking that problem from so many facets and each one is going to add a little bit of effectiveness.

There’s nine variables to your vertical jump training. Each is going to contribute to upward explosion and momentum. Training multiple facets is going to create greater and faster results. For example training your flexibility correctly is going to give you more leverage on jumping power, your form, your fuel, your stability and balance. Learning how to tweak your vertical jump is going to help you tweak every aspect of your vertical explosion.

Now nutrition is huge. It is huge. Guys, people die because they have incorrect nutrition. People get cancer and other diseases from incorrect nutrition. Why is it so far-fetched to believe that extreme muscle power is created by correct nutrition? So why don’t we realize the difference that it makes and actually take action on it.

Nutrition is a discipline. It’s hard to get right. But once you get it correct you’re going to maximize your workout. Your muscles are going to get broken down each workout and if they don’t have the proper nutrition to build them back up and strengthen them and prevent injury and have correct maximal muscle gains, you’re missing out on a whole lot.

Now I’m going to tell you this over and over again–a lot of people are–but most of you aren’t going to capitalize on it. An effective muscle gaining diet isn’t something that you can’t fit into your day. Simply taking whey protein after each workout is going to make a huge difference and there’s a whole lot of other things that you can do to make sure that your muscles are building at their maximal potential.

You also need the correct practices and techniques. Once you understand what your new mode of training must be, you also have to train the right muscles and train them the right way. Basically correct principles coupled with the correct techniques will equal your success. You’re going to need a mentor. You’re going to have questions, and you’re going to have legitimate exceptions to any training program, because there’s no one-size-fits-all, no cookie cutter program out there.

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