Vertical Jump Training: Explosive Vs Endurance Training

Hi. This is Jacob Hiller with Free Vertical Jump Training, also known as the jump manual dot com. The reason that I’m making this video is that I just spoke with a friend, a great basketball player, the guy’s six foot ten just looking to do something to increase his vertical because he’ll really be unstoppable at that size if he’s got a nice vertical jump. He bought one of the very well-known programs out there—I’m not gonna name any names, because I think a lot of the programs do a lot of things right, and I’m not here to make any enemies. 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. If you do that, you’re gonna be training your jumping endurance and not your jumping explosion. Now I know I say that in a lot of the videos that we talk about, but unless you understand that, you’re gonna train for months and months and months and months, and not gonna get the results you’re looking for. In fact, you’re gonna finish that workout and be so sweaty and so tired, and your muscles are gonna be so burnt, that you’re gonna feel so good about the workout. You’re gonna think, “ what? I’m sure I’m gonna be jumping higher after that workout.” But it’s not the case; and let me give you one example that I think will help you understand this. Let’s say you were training to run the hundred yard dash. And in the hundred yard dash, it’s all about speed; it’s all about explosion. And let’s say I had a program and I said, “Hey, listen, I wanna help you run the hundred yard dash better.” And I gave you drills to do. And these drills consisted of one-mile runs and two-mile runs. And after those workouts, you were so tired, your legs were just dead. But here’s the problem: during those one and two-mile workouts, you’re not gaining any speed, really, on your hundred yard dash—possibly a little bit; but if you’re already pretty fast, and you’ve trained your fast twitch muscles to be a certain strength, you’re actually gonna lose speed. You see, when you train, if you’re not training your explosion, what you’re training is you’re training your muscles to be more developed for endurance training. So, if you’re doing a program right now, I would just recommend that you take your intensity level way up; and you take the number of repetitions way, way down. Because here’s what happens: anytime you pace yourself during an exercise where you’re trying to train yourself for maximum explosion or maximum muscle contraction, you’re gonna short-circuit yourself. It’s not gonna work out right. So, I had a friend and he was wanting to do some vertical jump exercise, and I recommended to him one exercise that’s all about explosion; and he just does this one exercise every night before he goes to bed. And he’s noticed a fairly significant increase doing one exercise. Now I’ve done the program—in fact, the program that I just received from my friend, I did awhile back. And I noticed some results with it. But I didn’t notice the results that I want. And so I’m just here to tell you, look over the website a little bit; read some of the principles; feel free to contact me, and I will call you back, and we’ll go over the different things that will get you the explosion you’re looking for. But just remember: if any of the drills or exercises are asking you to do really anything over fifteen reps, anything where you’re pacing yourself, you’re jeopardizing your training—that you might be gearing your training more towards endurance training and not towards explosion. So I hope that helps. Thank you.