{Basketball Discussions} Exercises to Increase Vertical Jumps

[Melba Hemingway]

There are a number of different ways and exercises to increase
vertical jumps. Of course, like anything, some ways are better then
others. How then, can you find good exercises that give results, and
not just waste time and sweat? You can start by understanding what you
need for a good jump.
Physically, a jump is based on two things, strength and speed.
It takes a lot of strength to lift your own body weight off the floor,
and even more to get a significant height. For this reason, exercises
to increase vertical jumps need to focus on increasing muscle
strength.
It also takes speed to get off the ground-- muscle speed. If your
muscles aren't moving fast enough, most of that strength gets wasted.
You have approximately 0.2 seconds to get all the strength you can
into your jump. Any strength expended before or afterwards is wasted.
That means getting your muscles moving quickly is crucial to getting
the most out of your jump.
This creates a small problem. Put simply, most traditional strength
training builds slow twitch muscle, which doesn't do much good in
training for a good vertical jump. Exercises to increase vertical
jumps to need include both speed and strength training or else they
won't give the return on effort to be worthwhile.
And, speaking of muscles needing strength and speed, what muscles are
we talking about? There are quite a few muscles involved in a vertical
jump, most especially the p-chain and quads. It's important to note
that unless all of these muscles are have approximately the same
strength, the extra strength of the muscles with greater lifting power
will not be used. Your body knows that all it's muscles need to work
together, and that if anyone muscle is putting significantly more or
less power in than the others, you are going to get hurt. For this
reason all of your muscles are automatically 'downgraded' to use no
more strength then the weakest muscle involved.
Obviously there is a lot that goes into finding good exercises to
increase vertical jumps. And there is no reason to reinvent the wheel
yourself. A lot of other people have spent a great deal of time
putting together the best exercises to increase vertical jumps into
some great training programs.

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