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How To Increase Your Vertical Leap - Best Exercises To use

By James Redder

Knowing how to jump higher is one of the best ways to increase your sports performance? Most sports have a component to them that is enhanced when you have the ability to jump higher. We would even go as far as saying that in most cases the better your jumping abilities are then the better overall competitor you will be. The focus of this article will be on exercises you can use to jump higher.

Exercise 1 - Plyometrics This discussion will start with a regimen of exercises known collectively as plyometrics. Plyometrics has been especially effective in activating an athlete's fast twitch muscle ability which is largely responsible for their explosiveness and speed capabilities. The effectiveness of this form of exercising can be improved by doing it in the sand. Before embarking in this type of exercise be ready for a lot of jumping.

Exercise #2 Next on the list for exercises to improve your jumping ability is squats. The nice thing about this exercise is that in the process of doing it more then one set of muscles are trained so that you are comprehensively increasing your strength. The main point with this is to slowly build up to the point where you can comfortably squat your own body weight. Of course you want to increase from there but that should be the initial goal.

Third Exercise The final exercise we will look at involves exploding upward from a seated position. This exercise will help you train your muscle memory to get accustom to the motions available to jumping in an explosive manner. This will over time lead to an increase in your vertical leaping ability.

This article has quickly explained and demonstrated a set of exercises you can get started on today to assist you in jumping faster and higher. Now you just need to put a plan behind it and measure your progress along the way. The basic idea of the exercises is that you will exercise the same set of muscles you would when jumping but just harder. Your body will react by getting stronger in this specific activity, which is what you want right? - 26230

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