Looking for specific exercise to improve my jumping. If you can point me to web pages that would be great.
2006-08-23 09:57:18 · 9 answers · asked by T-rocker 1 in Sports ➔ Basketball
Get a barbell, go to an alternating lunge position (like kneeling down to ask a girl to marry you, only not quite all the way to the ground) Then jump as high as you can with the barbell on your shoulders and switch legs. Repeat for sets of 15 - 20 3 times, once on Monday and once on Friday.
Do sprints. Set up a 40 yard sprint and time yourself on it. Run it ten to twenty times (not right in a row, take some time to do it) on Tuesday and Thursday.
Get lighter. If you have any spare body fat, cut your daily calories by about 10% and eat six times a day instead of three (small meals.) Drink lots of water.
Doing all three of these things should add some significant inches to your vertical jump.
- Cai
2006-08-23 10:07:36 · answer #1 · answered by cailano 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do some jump rope every day and get down real low to the ground like a squat and jump as high as you can. keep doing this along with leg strengthening exercises like lunges and calf raises and you should jump at least two centimeters higher. :)
2006-08-23 11:12:30 · answer #2 · answered by In Like Flynn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is an quite good exercising called bounce squats. in this exercising, you bounce and then squat approximately one-third of your standard squat weight. This exercising facilitates and it additionally strengthens your legs so as which you will take the landing greater desirable. additionally in case you're taking cones and hop over them returned and forth, for approximately 20 reps your leaping top might desire to develop, by skill of February 2007.
2016-10-02 11:12:02 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just keep jumping around. The more you do it, the more muscle you'll add to your calves and the higher you'll jump. Take Larry Bird for example...The man got his hops by diggin a hole in the ground and jumping in and out of it. Once he was able to do it easily, he just made the hole deeper and started again. Its as simple as that.
2006-08-23 10:05:13 · answer #4 · answered by chowda 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
stand with your toes on a 2x4 and do calf raises. You can really do this with anything not just a 2x4. it will make your calves rock hard and improve your vertical jump.
2006-08-23 10:03:28 · answer #5 · answered by answer_man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ride a bicycle and walk a lot
2006-08-23 11:01:14 · answer #6 · answered by 13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lunges and calf raises
2006-08-23 10:02:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try out:
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2006-08-25 02:38:00 · answer #8 · answered by uwilmakeit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
squat jumps; bend your knees and get low, then jump as high as you can
2006-08-23 10:18:15 · answer #9 · answered by cubscaps33 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋