Improve Your Vertical Jump By Working Out Less

Are you serious about your vertical jump routine?

Correct practices to increase your vertical leap is very COUNTER INTUITIVE.

Jumping is an explosion caused by the sudden tightening of fast twitch muscles. Because of this, training to improve jumping should be "anaerobic." Too frequently athletes train in a way that develops mostly their "aerobic" endurance.

How is training different for the two?

Basketball players have been told that long distance running would increase their vertical. That is big misconception. Running long distances like that can make your vertical leap to shrink.

Sprinting, like jumping is a much less aerobic event. How often do you see a sprinter running long distances as part of their training for sprinting? NEVER! Then why so often do vertical jump programs make us PACING ourselves during our vertical jump training exercises?

NEVER NEVER NEVER PACE YOURSELF WHILE TRAINING YOUR VERTICAL JUMP!

You have seen it before. Athletes running up and down stairs or out of breath from doing speed ladder drills. Or maybe get done jumping rope for 20 minutes and your legs are so tired. You are going to say to yourself, "Now that was a good workout, certainly that will improve my vertical."

This is not explosive training, so they are NOT going to see results in explosive moves. I assure you, they will not like the results. You have go to train explosively and not endurance to improve your jumping ability.

"Explosive" training will not feel right to start with. You don't end up with the same burn as training for endurance. In some ways explosion traing is easier, although it requires a great deal more focus and short term effort.

99% of all athletes that follow these suggestions will benefit incredibly soley by decreasing repetition and increasing intensity.

Doesn't doing less to get improved results sound like a winning combination?

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