Jumping requires your body to execute a series of complex motions, using your muscles to transfer a burst of power from you to the ground, propelling yourself upwards. The most effective way to increase the vertical distance in your leap is to jump more. However, there are additional techniques and exercises that will help hone your body, focusing its power, and increasing your jumping height.

There are a variety of programs that can be found either in books, online, or through fitness experts to help increase vertical leap. Many help you focus on the work that you do on the court. This focus is just as essential as jumping drills in order to increase the height achieved by your vertical jumps.

Nevertheless, there is strong evidence that the most important factor to increasing your leaps is the strength of your lower body muscles. That is to say, having powerful legs and strength is directly related to higher vertical jumps. An assortment of studies have arrived at that specific conclusion – exercises that focus on your legs, such as squats, allow you to jump better.

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The squat exercise is the ultimate athletic motion for your legs. This exercise strengthens some of the largest and most powerful muscles in the body – quadriceps and glutes. Furthermore, this movement also targets the hamstrings, lower calf, and the lower back. All of these muscles are used during a jump, making them vital areas to improve.

Incorporate the squat exercise into your daily fitness program will most certainly yield noticeable improvement. However, a word of caution must be noted. In order to gain serious improvement, you will need to use heavy weights with fewer repetitions. As such, consider having a coach or fitness trainer observe your initial attempts with the squat exercise, allowing them to correct any potential issues, and begin with lighter weights, slowly increasing as you gain competence with the exercise.

Personally, I began using squats during my rehabilitation after a knee injury resulting from vertical training. After I was fully recovered, I continued using squats in my routine because I found I was achieving better results than I had when using my original program. I feel that the exercise is also the reason I have yet to injure my legs since I begin training again. After conducting a little research, I have found that nearly every pro athlete incorporates the squat into their fitness program.

I have enjoyed high levels of success since utilizing the gym as part of my vertical training program. I feel that using squats is perhaps the most effective way to increase your vertical jumps. Hopefully, this information has been worthwhile and you are considering including squats into your personal fitness training program.


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