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Friday, November 20, 2009

How I Was Able To Increase My Vertical Leap...

By Brayden Fisher

Hey, how's it going today? I appreciate you visiting my website. Since you are reading this article, you are probably interested in information on how to increase your vertical leap. You are definately in the right spot.

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: We Need To Start With The Basics

I know, I know, you want the exercises...but we need to learn the basics before we get started. The more we understand HOW we should train and WHY we are training this way, the faster and better our results 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.

One reason I had such great results was because I used a combination of strength and plyometric workouts.

Most people spend WAY TOO MUCH TIME focusing on their calves when trying to improve their vertical leap. These are not the muscles you should be worried about. 80 percent of your jumping power comes from the quads and hamstings. Since these are the muscles that give us most of our power, we are going to focus on improving their strength.

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

The EXACT Exercises I Used To Increase My Vertical Leap From 31 to 43 Inches

It's important to note that you will not increase your vertical overnight. You are going to have to work really HARD and lift VERY HEAVY weight with low reps 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.

A good rule to go by is if you can't squat at least twice your body weight then you should focus on the strength program. If you can, then focus on plyometrics. My favorite exercises I used to increase my vertical leap are:

- 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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