Jumping Higher with Plyometric Exercises
I started playing beach volleyball 4 years ago and realized that I would have to learn how to jump higher if I ever wanted to be able to spike a volleyball. Whether you want to learn how to jump higher in basketball so you can slam dunk or in volleyball to be able to spike, the principals are the same. I struggled for years trying all kinds of workouts to increase my vertical leap. I would go to the gym and squat massive amounts of weight to realize that after tons of work my vertical would only be 1 inch higher after a couple of months. I thought that maybe it was just normal to only get 1 inch for a few months of work but my knees were starting to feel it from the really heavy squats week after week. After a year of this my vertical jump was a few inches higher but no where near where I wanted it to be.
So I started searching the internet for jumping programs and came across the Jump Manual by Jacob Hiller. On his page there was a big title that promised 10 inches to your vertical. I thought that there was no way that could be true and was very skeptical because of my own experiences. After reading all of the testimonials on his page of people getting results very quickly I decided to buy his jumping program. I was so excited that I started it the next day and boy was it different than what I had been doing. Apparently I was going about it all wrong. I mean I was doing a few good things but I was also doing a lot of things that seemed like they would work because they got me sore but in reality they weren’t really helping my vertical jump improve at all. You can imagine my surprise of adding 1 inch to my vertical leap during the first week. I was so stocked and mad at the same time. Why did I waste a whole year and many hours in the gym doing a workout that wasn’t efficient? You live and learn I guess. The training for jumping higher is a lot different than the normal workout I would do in the gym and had very good plyometric exercises that I would have never known about.
Click here to see the Jump Manual Workout Page.