I workout 3 times a week doing Lunge Squats, medium weight, high reps. On days that I do them and I go to the basketball court I'm grabbing the rim. Days when I rest and recover my body but I go to the court just to see how well I can jump and that's it not playing basketball or no exercise at all but the single jump to see how high my jump's improving. I can only touch the rim. That's a big difference in inches from day to day. I'm trying to continue working out so that I can dunk. What's going on with my muscles and why on workout days I can jump really high and on my off days I can't hardly jump high?
2006-07-28 06:04:48 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Basketball
Your muscles are recovering from the last days workout... If you really want to improve your vertical jump you don't just have to lift. Try other things like when you are on the court run up and down the court doing lay-uos jump as high as you can each time do 25 of those. when you are done run down the court once jump up and down 10 times touching the bottom of the backboard, then run to the other side and repaet. Do this 4 times. This will teach your body to explode on the court and get your timing down. If you just lift you won't gain many inches. Other fun ways to improve is jump rope and roller blading.
2006-07-28 12:39:30 · answer #1 · answered by lolio_5 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
On days you're working out, your muscles have stretched and have more blood pumping through them. Also, it's the same reason why baseball players swing a heavier bat before they step up to the plate...because it tricks the mind to making the lighter bat seem easier to swing.
My advice, if you don't work out that day and want to jump higher, try doing warm up exercises, like ski jumps for a couple minutes and don't forget to stretch a lot.
2006-07-28 06:12:29 · answer #2 · answered by Philthy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because youre muscles arent warmed up....like ome ppl cant make a fist when they wake up...the muscles are becoming active once again
that being the reason teams and athletes STRECH before competitions so that thier muscles are..."awake" you could say and ready for most things you call them to do
CONTINUE stretching and lungeing it helps and WORKS
2006-07-28 09:46:30 · answer #3 · answered by lala 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be different adrenaline levels. When you play and want to win (and not look like a fool), you produce more adrenaline which makes you temporarly stronger than normal. When you are just playing around, you don't have that adrenaline rush.
2006-07-28 06:13:50 · answer #4 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋