For those who don’t know who I am, here’s a bit about my background, and how I ended up in the business of helping athletes of all sports, and ages improve their athletic performance!
If you are interested in remote 1 on 1 coaching, in person coaching, or online training programs, you can find all 3 linked in my bio!
I’ve been jumping pretty high lately 😀
If you want to jump higher, my bio has links to an online vertical jump program, as well as 1 on 1 coaching.
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I can’t even describe how important this jump was for me to hit. I needed to PR after a brutal 6 months of training. I can’t lie, I’m super proud of my self after this one…you can hear it in my reaction 🤣
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7’10 standing reach, 11’6 max touch
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Plyometrics are an essential tool in training. Here are 3 of my favorite Plyometrics to program for the athletes that I train 👇
1. Maximal Repeat Pogos: This is a staple in my programming, and is essentially interchangeable with drop jumps (though they each offer some unique benefits). Repeat Pogos challenge stiffness and reactivity at the lower leg specifically, which is a quality that many youth and/or non elite athletes lack. The cue is to get off of the ground fast, while also jumping high.
2. Depth Jumps: Another staple in my programs, depth jumps challenge reactive strength moreso at the knee than the lower leg. My favorite cue is to simply jump as high as possible, worrying less about getting off of the floor as fast as possible.
3. Sprinting: An unmatched stimulus, and the biggest plyometric staple in my programs outside of jumping itself. Neural drive is through the roof, without a ton of compressive forces at the knee. This allows you to achieve a relatively specific stimulus without having to worry about your jumpers knee (a common problem within the jump community)
Want to jump higher? Online and in person coaching is linked in my bio!
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I always trained the hardest. As the years progressed, I began training the smartest too. A bachelors degree in Exercise Science, a CSCS, and thousands of hours dedicated to understanding what drives human performance will teach you some things!
If you too want to jump higher, check out the links in my bio for online and in person training plans that utilize the same principles which helped me transform my vertical!
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If you want to be an elite jumper, you should have at least a 6 inch difference between your max approach and max standing vertical. If you don’t, it’s likely because of one or both of these keys 👇
1. Your approach jump mechanics simply aren’t great. Approach jumping is far more complex than standing jumping. It’s not unusual for a really good athlete to have a good standing vertical without much practice. The same can’t be said for approach jumping. The most common errors that I see are poor approach acceleration (taking no speed into the penultimate), hopping into the jump, poor plant/block leg timing, and poor arm swing timing. The best way to fix this is to study great jumpers who jump with the same plant as you, and practice a ton! Check out my other reels as I’ve posted several regarding jump technique.
2. You lack the necessary outputs to jump well with a high velocity approach. You can have the best technique in the world but if you aren’t capable of produce force in the necessary timeframes, you won’t jump high. One of the main reasons that you should be able to jump higher with an approach vs standing is the contribution of your stretch shortening cycle (SSC). Thinking of this as your ability to be elastic, and utilize elastic energy. Reactive strength is the primary quality that allows for an efficient stretch shortening cycle, and I find that many athletes lack reactive strength at the lower leg, and knee which in turn limits their jump performance. How do you know if this is you? This often shows up as excessively long GCTs in jumping despite good form. Visually, it will look like you’re spending way too much time transitioning from down to up. Here, a good training program including both strength training and plyometrics can help target both the neural and structural adaptations necessary to improve your performance.
Want to jump higher? Check out the links in my bio for online training plans!
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Jump high, dunk hard 😤
Want to jump higher? Check out the links in my bio for vertical jump programs and coaching!
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How should volleyball and basketball players train to jump higher? It’s actually pretty simple…
With the volume in which most athletes participate in sport, it’s hard to fit in a ton of strength and conditioning training. Now in reality, an athletes best bet is to have periods of time where they offload sport specific volume and allocate more time and resources to S&C work but many athletes aren’t willing to do this.
What’s the next best option? To train qualities that you don’t get through your sport in lower volumes. Basketball and volleyball players don’t get max velocity sprint exposure through sport. They rarely get to practice maximal effort jumps in an isolated setting. They also don’t get exposed to high levels of sustained muscular tension. Low volumes of exposure to these stimuli can make all the difference neurally, and structurally not only in improving athletic performance, but also avoiding injury.
Want to jump higher? Links in my bio for online vertical jump programs!
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Want to jump higher? Take your training seriously. This means training really hard, really smart, really consistently, for a really long time. Go build 😤
Links in bio for online training and coaching!
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I coach athletes full time, so naturally I analyze hundreds of vertical jumps every week. Here are the most common mistakes that I see…
1. Rising up during and/or after the penultimate step. You don’t want to vertically jump out of the penultimate, but rather push/jump horizontally. Many athletes use their penultimate step as almost a pre jump, before the real jump. This often causes them to pop up instead of lowering into the plant leg, reducing the penultimate steps ability to aid in generating effective impulse during the jump itself.
2. Poor foot contacts. Many athletes strike the floor with their heel on both the plant and block legs. While striking the floor on the heel is great for the plant leg, we want a ball of the foot contact from the block leg. You’ll often see that athletes who double heel strike also make the mistake listed under the first point (they pop up during the penultimate step).
3. Improper arm swing timing and mechanics. As a coach, I find this issue the hardest to address but it’s HUGE in maximizing jump height. Many athletes short the arm swing range of motion, and don’t get into much shoulder extension, but poor timing is also a common issue. It’s common for athletes to swing their arms too early which mitigates how impactful the arm swing will be in augmenting jump height. You want a bunch of shoulder extension (hands at ear level, and you want the arms to be pointing down at touchdown of the block leg).
4. Inability to approach from distance. If you tell an athlete to do a max effort jump, it’s common for them to start just a few steps back of the target and take a slow approach without any real acceleration. If the goal is to maximize jump height, a longer approach in which you accelerate is key. This often simply comes down to an athlete lacking the repetitions but also the outputs to approach with real velocity. This is where a proper strength and conditioning plan is key.
If you’re looking to improve your vertical jump performance, check out the links in my bio for coaching!
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Jumped really high here, felt like Spider-Man on the landing 😅 Rim is between 9’9.5 and 9’9.75.
Want to jump higher? Check out the links in my bio for training plans!
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