Are you looking for a way to increase your vertical hops? Well if you are ready to dominate your opponents on the court, I have a solution for you. It isn’t unreasonable to increase your vertical jump by 25 inches if you find the right solution.
How do I know this?
I was rather short as a basketball and volleyball player. I knew that if I was going to compete with the big boys I would have to make up for my height by increasing my vertical hops. The problem was, I didn’t know where to look or how to do it.
It took me a long time but I finally discovered the secrets to jumping higher. Once I started to implement those secrets, not only was I jumping higher but I was quicker and more agile. I realized that agility and jumping high go hand in hand.
Now, after years of research and education I have narrowed down all of the information that I have uncovered in to simple secrets to jump higher and improve my vertical hops.
I am going to share one of the top secrets with you. This one principle will help anyone increase their jumping ability in less than 7 days when applied correctly.
What is the secret? I call it balanced deceleration.
Balanced deceleration refers to the ability to slow your body down and prepare to jump under control and balanced. Too many times I see athletes lose their balance as they prepare to jump. That doesn’t mean they fall over, but subtle movements that tweak their center of gravity away from the center of support result in wasted energy that will not be translated in to impressive vertical hops.
For example, I was training an athlete who loved to dunk off of one foot. The problem was that when he tried to jump, he wasn’t able to transfer all of his energy into a vertical explosion because he had to quickly gain his balance before he jumped.
This lack of balanced deceleration wasted valuable energy that was needed to launch him into the air. Therefore his vertical leap suffered. We needed to find a way to effectively transfer his horizontal momentum into vertical height.
So what was the solution?
The first thing we had to change was his ability to balance on one foot from a standing position. It wasn’t long before his balance improved enough that he was able to reach for objects with his hands while balancing on one foot.
The improvement he made just from that simple exercise was impressive. However, that was just the beginning. The real improvement was yet to come.
We then trained him to stop suddenly without losing his balance through a progressively more intense and specifically designed exercise.
He was then ready to transfer all the momentum of his forward movement in to a vertical explosion. The results to his vertical hops were incredible.
I have since tweaked and revised these exercises to improve vertical hops more effectively and in less time.