As a Strength and Conditioning Coach and Personal Trainer of vertical jump trainees, I often come across athletes and clients who lack patience or time. As a result, I find myself staring at the following text on a frequent basis:
My Primary Goal: To Jump Higher, FAST!
My goal in writing this article is to provide you with 3 main "fast-track" focal points of your vertical jump training. If you focus on these elements of your vertical jump training, you will give yourself the best opportunity to jump higher, fast, and reach both your vertical jump goals and sport-specific goals, in the quickest time-frame possible!
Before we go any further and talk about the "fast-track" elements of vertical jump training, we need to clear up your expectations. …show more content…
This is provided you emphasize the "fast-track" facilitators as outlined below.
To be completely honest with you, even when you do follow these focal points, however, you are still not guaranteed substantial results within 28 days - unsurprisingly, this will vary from trainee to trainee. What I am guaranteeing, however, is that vertical jump training with a focus on the training focal points below, will give you the best chance at jumping significantly higher, fast!
How to Jump Higher Fast, Focal Point #1 - Biomechanical Analysis
Improving jump-specific fitness attributes, mainly strength and power necessitates a process that brings about adaptation at the cellular level. This, however, chews up a lot of time, relatively speaking. In fact, it takes at least 48 hours to adapt from an intense vertical jump training session, subject to many factors.
Biomechanical alteration (or jumping technique), on the other hand, often takes only one training session (maximum: 1 …show more content…
These improvements result predominantly from neural adaptations, rather than muscular adaptations.
This gives us a pretty obvious clue on what we should be focusing on in our training, if we want to jump higher, fast! Neural Strength Training!
At the training program level, this means lower reps and a higher intensity!
How to Jump Higher Fast, Focal Point #3 - Active Recovery
You may be asking, why active recovery as the final focal point? Wouldn't we have to focus on more of the training to cram in as much as we can in the short time frame?
To put it simply, yes, we do need to cram in as much training as we can in the short time frame. And this is why we need to include active recovery as out final focal point to jump higher, fast!
You see, Training to jump higher necessitates training sessions with a large amount of intensity.
This level of training intensity brings upon a large amount of "damage" to your body that needs to be repaired, i.e. recovery, and this recovery can take time if nothing more is done.
So, because we're training to jump higher fast, and don't have time to recover, something's got to
My Primary Goal: To Jump Higher, FAST!
My goal in writing this article is to provide you with 3 main "fast-track" focal points of your vertical jump training. If you focus on these elements of your vertical jump training, you will give yourself the best opportunity to jump higher, fast, and reach both your vertical jump goals and sport-specific goals, in the quickest time-frame possible!
Before we go any further and talk about the "fast-track" elements of vertical jump training, we need to clear up your expectations. …show more content…
This is provided you emphasize the "fast-track" facilitators as outlined below.
To be completely honest with you, even when you do follow these focal points, however, you are still not guaranteed substantial results within 28 days - unsurprisingly, this will vary from trainee to trainee. What I am guaranteeing, however, is that vertical jump training with a focus on the training focal points below, will give you the best chance at jumping significantly higher, fast!
How to Jump Higher Fast, Focal Point #1 - Biomechanical Analysis
Improving jump-specific fitness attributes, mainly strength and power necessitates a process that brings about adaptation at the cellular level. This, however, chews up a lot of time, relatively speaking. In fact, it takes at least 48 hours to adapt from an intense vertical jump training session, subject to many factors.
Biomechanical alteration (or jumping technique), on the other hand, often takes only one training session (maximum: 1 …show more content…
These improvements result predominantly from neural adaptations, rather than muscular adaptations.
This gives us a pretty obvious clue on what we should be focusing on in our training, if we want to jump higher, fast! Neural Strength Training!
At the training program level, this means lower reps and a higher intensity!
How to Jump Higher Fast, Focal Point #3 - Active Recovery
You may be asking, why active recovery as the final focal point? Wouldn't we have to focus on more of the training to cram in as much as we can in the short time frame?
To put it simply, yes, we do need to cram in as much training as we can in the short time frame. And this is why we need to include active recovery as out final focal point to jump higher, fast!
You see, Training to jump higher necessitates training sessions with a large amount of intensity.
This level of training intensity brings upon a large amount of "damage" to your body that needs to be repaired, i.e. recovery, and this recovery can take time if nothing more is done.
So, because we're training to jump higher fast, and don't have time to recover, something's got to