How I Was Able To Increase My Vertical Leap…

Hello, everyone and thanks for stopping by. If you are reading this then I assume that you are looking for a way to increase your vertical leap. Well, look no further, you have come to the right place.

My name is Brayden Fisher and I was able to increase my vertical leap by 12 inches. This didn’t come overnight, it took me about 7 months of HARD WORK. People ask me ALL THE TIME, how I was able to increase my vertical leap so I decided to write this article and explain it.

How I Was Able To Increase My Vertical Leap From 31 to 43 Inches

Before I give you the exercises that I used, we need to lay down a little foundation. We need to understand HOW to train properly and WHY we are training a certain way. The more we understand this the faster our progress will be.

There were two areas I had to focus on in order to improve my vertical leap: increasing my POWER and EXPLOSION.

Alright, Brayden that’s nice but what are you talking about when you say…POWER? The definition of power in our case is your STRENGTH X SPEED. During the jumping process, your power is the amount of force that you are able to apply to the ground to launch you into the air. The more power you have the higher you are going to travel.

I used a combination of strength training and plyometric exercises to get the best results.

Whenever I see people training their vertical jump they spend most of their attention on increasing the strength of their calf muscles. Just look at those stupid strength shoes, they completely focus on the calves. This is not the right way to train. Why? Because the majority of your leaping power (about 80 percent) comes from your quads and hamstrings, not the calves. That is why we are going to focus our training on developing these two muscle groups.

Ok, now that you understand the basics let’s get started.

The Best Exercises I Recommend to Increase Your Vertical Leap

If you implement these exercises into your workouts you WILL increase your vertical leap. Just remember, it isn’t going to happen overnight. You will have to train HARD and lift really HEAVY weight to get the results you want.

These are the exercises that I used and they worked really well for me. But everyone is different and will get different results. For example, if you already have really strong quads and hamstrings, doing heavy squats may not be the best option for you. Instead you might want to focus most of your attention on the plyometric training to develop your speed and fast twitch muscle fibers.

Although, as a general rule, if you can’t squat at least twice your body weight then hit the weights. If you can, then focus on more plyos. Here are a few of the top exercises I recommend:

- Squats – Deadlifts – Good Mornings – Hamstring Curls – Calve Raises – Knee Ups – Depth Jumps – 50 and 100 Yard Sprints – Use the Jump Rope

When doing the strength exercises we want to make sure we are lifting as heavy weight as possible and do no more than 3 sets of 8 reps. Try to train with 80-85% of your one rep max. This will insure that you are recruiting all of your muscle fibers and motor units.

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