How to Exercise to Increase Your Vertical Leap

We get a lot of questions about how to improve sports performance. Without a doubt, one of the most common is: "What exercises can I do to increase my vertical leap?" In other words, many people want to know how to jump higher. Well, here is some of the best information we've found...

From eHow.com:

Strengthening your legs and their fast-twitch muscle fibers can add inches to your vertical jump. This can help your basketball, volleyball or football game tremendously.

Steps:

1. Begin every workout by warming up your muscles and then
doing extensive leg stretches. Because you'll be building muscle
fibers that are used for explosive activities such as jumping,
stretching is of the utmost importance.

2. Jump rope for its excellent cardiovascular conditioning. This
step should never be skipped, as it will be an important
contributor to your results.

3. Sprint. This builds muscle, which will add to your jumping
ability.

4. Run stairs on your toes. Start by running up a flight, one step
at a time. Walk down and run back up, taking two steps at a time.
Repeat as many times as you can manage.

5. Do sets of elevated jumps (see the next section).

6. Do sets of explosive jumps (see the third section).

7. Do sets of double jumps (see the third section).

8. Rest your legs at least two days a week. Results will come
from sustaining the exercise program, not performing it
aggressively for a few weeks and then slacking off.

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