Work Out Less To Jump Higher


Are you serious about your vertical leap exercise program?

Correct practices to improve your vertical jump is very COUNTER INTUITIVE.

is an explosive act caused by the sudden contraction of fast twitch muscle fibers. Because of this, vertical jump training ought to be "anaerobic." Too many athletes are training in a way that that is mostly "aerobic".

How is training different for the two?

Athletes looking to improve have been told that long distance running would increase their vertical. This is big misconception. Training with the cross country team can make your vertical leap to shrink.

Sprinting, like jumping is a more anerobic exercise. 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 leap training exercises?

NEVER NEVER NEVER PACE YOURSELF WHILE TRAINING FOR VERTICAL LEAP!

Maybe you have also seen these before. Athletes running flights of stairs or dog tired from doing speed ladder drills. Or perhaps you jump rope for 20 minutes and you are worn out. You are going to say to yourself, "Now that was tough, surely that will improve my vertical."

This is not explosive training, so they are NOT going to see the results they thought they would. I guarantee you, they will not like the results. You have go to train for explosion and not endurance to improve your vertical leap.

"Explosion" training will feel awkward to start with. You won't get the same burn as training as you have in the past. In some ways explosion traing is easier, it just requires a good deal more focus and short term energy.

99% of all athletes reading this right now will benefit incredibly just by decreasing repetition and increasing intensity.

Doesn't exercising less to get more results sound like the best of both worlds?

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