work on jumping higher and higher… if you have a front porch with a step jump onto the step and back of repeatidly in reps. As that height gets easier find a new spot to jump on and back off that is slightly higher (work on it day after day)
– dont run and jump.. just plain verticle jumps
Do plyometrics. Most likely all college programs do plyometrics these days in addition to weight training. This will improve your fast twitch muscle response and your quickness off of the ground.
Easily my friend. As I am white, i unfortunately was not born with hops, or do have much now. But as a tip from my basketball coach who I will have next year in high school, he told me to strengthen my core. Simply do wall sits for 2 minutes a few times a day and do walking lunges, squats and other excercises you’re bound to learn while living life. I have increased my vertical leap by 2 and 1/2 inches doing this.
Jumpsoles. I’m 5′1″ and 13 years old. I started with a 16 inch vertical. After 1.5 months, I have a 18.5 vertical and my miletime is 10 seconds faster.
You don’t have to follow the program exactly. Just walk around in them, do some step ups on a 1-ft box, and when you’re used to the shoes, you can start jumping up and down in them. I recommend 2 sets of 100 small hops each day.
Don’t worry about turning your ankles; these shoes are really stable. But jumping puts a lot of pressure on your knees, so it’ll be good to wear knee braces. You can walk around in the Jumpsoles as much as you want. That alone helps
Do you want to play better basketball or do you want to improve your vertical leap?
If you want to play better basketball, then spend more time on a basketball court, preferably only on a regular wooden basketball court.
I wouldn’t get into weight training, or jumping on or off steps (in fact stay away from stairs for any type of conditioning as it is dangerous and it is hard on the knees).
Larry Bird had zero vertical leap. But, he could play some ball.
Bruce Bowen, just last month named by 30 NBA head coaches as the #1 NBA defensive player in the NBA has average at best vertical leap, as the 6′ 6″ Bowen, his teammates claim cannot dunk the ball. One game this past year, Bowen got the ball over the rim but did not dunk it. Bowen led the European League in scoring in his early 20s averaging over 40 points per game.
Tim Duncan lost a lot of his vertical leap in 2000 when he blew out a knee big time but continues to be one of the leaders in blocked shots every year in the NBA and has made All NBA First Team since blowing out his knee (I think Second Team one of those years like maybe two years ago, but back to First Team this year) and was named #2 defensive player in the NBA by the 30 NBA head coaches last month.
I don’t think that 6′ 3″ Tony Parker has ever dunked a ball in his six years with the Spurs, but I could be wrong on that. Parker was just named NBA Finals MVP and for the last two years has made his living scoring exclusively in the paint. I know in 2005-2006 that the shortish Tony Parker who is very quick (I didn’t say extremely fast or a great jumper) led the entire NBA that year in points scored in the paint over guys who were 7 feet tall and Tony Parker is not known for his leaping ability.
The 2006-2007 MVP Dirk has about zero vertical leap.
The 2004-2005 MVP and the 2005-2006 MVP award winner in Steve Nash may be a good jumper but it doesn’t show in in block statistics, and I haven’t watched him much, but I have never seen him dunk the ball (although he may be able to).
My real question is do you want to play basketball or do you want to improve your vertical leap?
If you want to be a better basketball player then practice on your shot particularly your free throws and your basic fundamentals like dribbling, moving jump shots, and stationary jump shots, and full court layups.
I think if you spend more time out on the basketball court practicing on your own on your shots and fundamentals that you will get more than your share of jumping.
I kind of believe in doing everything the natural way as practice, practice, practice will build up your body the way it needs to be built to play basketball.
I do believe in pushups, pullups, situps, etc… the natural type of exercises.
Weights of any kind will throw off your shot.
I mean if you are going to go against Shaq, you might want to hit the weight room a little.
I am not being critical as you ask a good question.
If you want to be a better basketball player spend more time on your own practicing.
If you want to be a better vertical leaper, then start high jumping on a track team and forget about basketball, or, if you are tall enough, just stick to slam dunk contests (which based on personal experience are bad on your takeoff knee).
You will notice someone like LeBron doing a lot of dunks, but with each passing year fewer and fewer while saving the spectatular dunks for the big games.
Dunking the ball is the surest way of giving at least one knee tendenitus big time from personal experience.
I played against one guy in pickup games for 7 straight years three or four times a year who was 3 or 4 inches taller than me and who could outjump me easily by over one full foot. The dude went on to play 14 years in the NBA including starting in two NBA Finals; however, I could, and this is just fact, block his shot, sometimes fairly easily up until the time he was a senior in college. I never played him when he went NBA, but the year before he went to the NBA for a 14 year career, he refused to play against me. And, I had zero vertical leap.
As he never wanted to play against me in “pickup games” after leading his team to the small college semi-finals, I am sure that he learned real quick in his 14 year NBA career not to go to the basket with any of the weak stuff he did against me.
Can you believe that a two time small college All American and a future 14 year NBA career man, and he refused to play me after playing against me in pickup games for 7 years? And, I was just a “scrub” at basketball with zero vertical leaping ability, and he could outjump me by a mile.
Yes, the more vertical leap you have the better, but I believe you get better by practicing out on the basketball court instead of spending time in the weight room or doing pl….metrics or whatever that other guy called it.
Like I say, it all comes down to whether you want to be a better basketball player then spend more time on the court on your own practicing to be a better basketball player.
I am just trying to make a point with some examples and also trying to show you that you can be a better basketball player practicing by yourself on your fundamentals which will include a lot of jumping. So, now ask yourself what you want your vertical leaping for, and ask yourself if you want to become a better basketball player or a better vertical leaper?
One last example, I made the mistake of having a buddy talk me into coaching a high school all star game. I had a guy who was 6′2″ who looked exactly like Michael Jordan, and the dude had zero vertical leaping ability as I am pretty sure after coaching him for several weeks that he could not get close to dunking the ball. I didn’t know what I was doing as head coach of the only organized game I have ever coached which was a high school All Star game. My shorter Michael Jordan twin with zero vertical leaping ability scored 35 points in that High School All Star game which led to a 1 point victory and me retiring with a career organized coaching record of 1-0.
A month or two later, this exact same guy, the short Michael Jordan twin with zero vertical leaping ability led the local team to a national AAU Junior Olympics national title against the #1 seeded team with all of his scoring coming from the lane. And, I never saw him come close to the rim in any of those games which at least I wasn’t coaching.
Also, for a number of years, I played on City League teams and YMCA teams with a white guy who was 6′ 1″ tall who I was slightly taller than, but he always jumped center. This white 6′1″ tall guy never lost an opening game tip always outleaping his opponent by at least 6 to 8 inches. The taller his jumping opponent for the opening game tip, the harder it was for this short white guy to keep from breaking out into a big smile as he could easily outjump any opponent 6′ 8″ or taller with great ease no matter who his opponent was. And, this 6′ 1″ guy never practiced jumping; even though, he was a white guy, he could outjump anyone on the court and had won a state high school high jumping title which is no surprise. He was just a natural.
Practicing basketball on your own for a couple hours minimum daily will give you enough jumping for one day.
So, I want you to think about why you want to become a better vertical leaper. Or, really, do you want to become a better basketball player? If the answer is yes, then, head toward the nearest basketball court and practice 3 1/2 hours a day on your own with about half of that from the free throw line.
You can either do all of the other exercises like squats (very bad for your knees in the long run) or jumping on a little box, or you can shoot at a minimum 100 to 150 moving jump shots and 100 or more stationary jump shots in your daily practice routine.
The next time you see a step to jump on or a box to jump on or anything like that in the middle of a court during an organized basketball game, then, spend your time doing stuff like that. Personally, I would rather jump on practice layups and practice running and stationary jump shots.
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work on jumping higher and higher… if you have a front porch with a step jump onto the step and back of repeatidly in reps. As that height gets easier find a new spot to jump on and back off that is slightly higher (work on it day after day)
– dont run and jump.. just plain verticle jumps
Do plyometrics. Most likely all college programs do plyometrics these days in addition to weight training. This will improve your fast twitch muscle response and your quickness off of the ground.
Easily my friend. As I am white, i unfortunately was not born with hops, or do have much now. But as a tip from my basketball coach who I will have next year in high school, he told me to strengthen my core. Simply do wall sits for 2 minutes a few times a day and do walking lunges, squats and other excercises you’re bound to learn while living life. I have increased my vertical leap by 2 and 1/2 inches doing this.
Jumpsoles. I’m 5′1″ and 13 years old. I started with a 16 inch vertical. After 1.5 months, I have a 18.5 vertical and my miletime is 10 seconds faster.
You don’t have to follow the program exactly. Just walk around in them, do some step ups on a 1-ft box, and when you’re used to the shoes, you can start jumping up and down in them. I recommend 2 sets of 100 small hops each day.
Don’t worry about turning your ankles; these shoes are really stable. But jumping puts a lot of pressure on your knees, so it’ll be good to wear knee braces. You can walk around in the Jumpsoles as much as you want. That alone helps
Vertical leap?
Do you want to play better basketball or do you want to improve your vertical leap?
If you want to play better basketball, then spend more time on a basketball court, preferably only on a regular wooden basketball court.
I wouldn’t get into weight training, or jumping on or off steps (in fact stay away from stairs for any type of conditioning as it is dangerous and it is hard on the knees).
Larry Bird had zero vertical leap. But, he could play some ball.
Bruce Bowen, just last month named by 30 NBA head coaches as the #1 NBA defensive player in the NBA has average at best vertical leap, as the 6′ 6″ Bowen, his teammates claim cannot dunk the ball. One game this past year, Bowen got the ball over the rim but did not dunk it. Bowen led the European League in scoring in his early 20s averaging over 40 points per game.
Tim Duncan lost a lot of his vertical leap in 2000 when he blew out a knee big time but continues to be one of the leaders in blocked shots every year in the NBA and has made All NBA First Team since blowing out his knee (I think Second Team one of those years like maybe two years ago, but back to First Team this year) and was named #2 defensive player in the NBA by the 30 NBA head coaches last month.
I don’t think that 6′ 3″ Tony Parker has ever dunked a ball in his six years with the Spurs, but I could be wrong on that. Parker was just named NBA Finals MVP and for the last two years has made his living scoring exclusively in the paint. I know in 2005-2006 that the shortish Tony Parker who is very quick (I didn’t say extremely fast or a great jumper) led the entire NBA that year in points scored in the paint over guys who were 7 feet tall and Tony Parker is not known for his leaping ability.
The 2006-2007 MVP Dirk has about zero vertical leap.
The 2004-2005 MVP and the 2005-2006 MVP award winner in Steve Nash may be a good jumper but it doesn’t show in in block statistics, and I haven’t watched him much, but I have never seen him dunk the ball (although he may be able to).
My real question is do you want to play basketball or do you want to improve your vertical leap?
If you want to be a better basketball player then practice on your shot particularly your free throws and your basic fundamentals like dribbling, moving jump shots, and stationary jump shots, and full court layups.
I think if you spend more time out on the basketball court practicing on your own on your shots and fundamentals that you will get more than your share of jumping.
I kind of believe in doing everything the natural way as practice, practice, practice will build up your body the way it needs to be built to play basketball.
I do believe in pushups, pullups, situps, etc… the natural type of exercises.
Weights of any kind will throw off your shot.
I mean if you are going to go against Shaq, you might want to hit the weight room a little.
I am not being critical as you ask a good question.
If you want to be a better basketball player spend more time on your own practicing.
If you want to be a better vertical leaper, then start high jumping on a track team and forget about basketball, or, if you are tall enough, just stick to slam dunk contests (which based on personal experience are bad on your takeoff knee).
You will notice someone like LeBron doing a lot of dunks, but with each passing year fewer and fewer while saving the spectatular dunks for the big games.
Dunking the ball is the surest way of giving at least one knee tendenitus big time from personal experience.
I played against one guy in pickup games for 7 straight years three or four times a year who was 3 or 4 inches taller than me and who could outjump me easily by over one full foot. The dude went on to play 14 years in the NBA including starting in two NBA Finals; however, I could, and this is just fact, block his shot, sometimes fairly easily up until the time he was a senior in college. I never played him when he went NBA, but the year before he went to the NBA for a 14 year career, he refused to play against me. And, I had zero vertical leap.
As he never wanted to play against me in “pickup games” after leading his team to the small college semi-finals, I am sure that he learned real quick in his 14 year NBA career not to go to the basket with any of the weak stuff he did against me.
Can you believe that a two time small college All American and a future 14 year NBA career man, and he refused to play me after playing against me in pickup games for 7 years? And, I was just a “scrub” at basketball with zero vertical leaping ability, and he could outjump me by a mile.
Yes, the more vertical leap you have the better, but I believe you get better by practicing out on the basketball court instead of spending time in the weight room or doing pl….metrics or whatever that other guy called it.
Like I say, it all comes down to whether you want to be a better basketball player then spend more time on the court on your own practicing to be a better basketball player.
I am just trying to make a point with some examples and also trying to show you that you can be a better basketball player practicing by yourself on your fundamentals which will include a lot of jumping. So, now ask yourself what you want your vertical leaping for, and ask yourself if you want to become a better basketball player or a better vertical leaper?
One last example, I made the mistake of having a buddy talk me into coaching a high school all star game. I had a guy who was 6′2″ who looked exactly like Michael Jordan, and the dude had zero vertical leaping ability as I am pretty sure after coaching him for several weeks that he could not get close to dunking the ball. I didn’t know what I was doing as head coach of the only organized game I have ever coached which was a high school All Star game. My shorter Michael Jordan twin with zero vertical leaping ability scored 35 points in that High School All Star game which led to a 1 point victory and me retiring with a career organized coaching record of 1-0.
A month or two later, this exact same guy, the short Michael Jordan twin with zero vertical leaping ability led the local team to a national AAU Junior Olympics national title against the #1 seeded team with all of his scoring coming from the lane. And, I never saw him come close to the rim in any of those games which at least I wasn’t coaching.
Also, for a number of years, I played on City League teams and YMCA teams with a white guy who was 6′ 1″ tall who I was slightly taller than, but he always jumped center. This white 6′1″ tall guy never lost an opening game tip always outleaping his opponent by at least 6 to 8 inches. The taller his jumping opponent for the opening game tip, the harder it was for this short white guy to keep from breaking out into a big smile as he could easily outjump any opponent 6′ 8″ or taller with great ease no matter who his opponent was. And, this 6′ 1″ guy never practiced jumping; even though, he was a white guy, he could outjump anyone on the court and had won a state high school high jumping title which is no surprise. He was just a natural.
Practicing basketball on your own for a couple hours minimum daily will give you enough jumping for one day.
So, I want you to think about why you want to become a better vertical leaper. Or, really, do you want to become a better basketball player? If the answer is yes, then, head toward the nearest basketball court and practice 3 1/2 hours a day on your own with about half of that from the free throw line.
You can either do all of the other exercises like squats (very bad for your knees in the long run) or jumping on a little box, or you can shoot at a minimum 100 to 150 moving jump shots and 100 or more stationary jump shots in your daily practice routine.
The next time you see a step to jump on or a box to jump on or anything like that in the middle of a court during an organized basketball game, then, spend your time doing stuff like that. Personally, I would rather jump on practice layups and practice running and stationary jump shots.