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You Can Jump Higher By Doing Less
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Are you serious about your vertical leap training?
Correct practices to increase your vertical jump is very COUNTER INTUITIVE.
The vertical leap is an explosion caused by the sudden contraction of fast twitch muscles. Because of this, vertical leap training must be "anaerobic." Too frequently athletes are training in a way that that is mostly "aerobic".
What is the difference in training?
Basketball players 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 plummet.
Sprinting, like jumping is a more anerobic event. Do you see sprinters running long distances as part of their training for sprinting? NEVER! Then why so often do vertical jump programs have us PACING ourselves during our vertical leap training regimes?
NEVER NEVER NEVER PACE YOURSELF DURING YOUR VERTICAL JUMP TRAINING!
You have seen it before. Athletes running flights of stairs or out of breath from doing speed ladder drills. Or maybe you jump rope for 20 minutes and you are worn out. You are going to say to yourself, "Now that was a good workout, surely that will increase 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 be disappointed. You have to train explosively and not endurance to increase your vertical leap.
"Explosive" training will seem unusual at first. You don't end up with the same burn as training for endurance. In a few ways training explosion is easier, it just requires a good deal more focus and short term energy.
99% of all athletes that follow these suggestions will benefit incredibly just by decreasing repetition and increasing intensity.
Doesn't exercising less to get improved results sound like something you would like?
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