2 ways, well really one way, 2 methods. You need to improve your quick twitch muscle fibers in your calves, that’s what allows people to jump extremely well. One way to do it is strength shoes. They sell these specially designed shoes so that your heels never touch the floor, you walk around in them for an hour or more every day and you WILL see results. The cheap way of doing the same is to do ‘jumps’ as I call them. When working out, take a dumbell in each hand (20 pounds in each is enough to start with), stand in front of a mirror and jump (concentrating on your calf muscles) 100 times. Do three sets like this and once again, at 2-3 times a week at least, you WILL notice results. Good luck and good training.
the most simple way is to just jump straight up and down a bunch of times. i know it sounds stupid and obvious but it works. start off by standing straight and jump as high as you can while reaching for the sky, when you land repeat the process, this will get your muscles used to jumping and it will improve your jumping if you do this exercise a lot. repetition is key. for added strength attach leg weights while you do this, to give you even more explosiveness.
Yes, but it doesn’t mean you’ll be able to dunk.
I could dunk when I was 14. I simply kept trying to grab higher on the net, and then the rim, and then a tennis ball, football, volleyball, and finally a basketball.
There are some great lifts that Olympic weight lifters do, and these guys end up having 30-40 something inch verticals, the lifts are difficult.
Well….Our coach has us doing this drill right now that he says is guranteed to make us touch backboard-he said it worked on his team when he played-
We chop for 1 min. straight-[take 15 sec. break]-Then we put our hands in the air and jump up and down as many times as we can for one minute-[take 15 sec. break]-He then has us get in our stants…for one minute-[take NO break]-Then he directs us a way to slide in our defensive stants for one minute-[take NO break]-Then backpeddle.sprint.stants.slide.backpeddle.sprint.stants-Do that for one minute mixing it up every little bit-
You are supposed to repeat this for 30 minutes 2-3 days a week….though we started out at 15 mins.
He said when his coach had him and his team do it-all of his teammates and him could touch rim by his senior year!! I am a girl but I want to touch the backboard OR rim someday-its one of my goals!! I am believing him that it works-but you can deff. feel the burn after you do it-BELIEVE ME!!
February 21st, 2009
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2 ways, well really one way, 2 methods. You need to improve your quick twitch muscle fibers in your calves, that’s what allows people to jump extremely well. One way to do it is strength shoes. They sell these specially designed shoes so that your heels never touch the floor, you walk around in them for an hour or more every day and you WILL see results. The cheap way of doing the same is to do ‘jumps’ as I call them. When working out, take a dumbell in each hand (20 pounds in each is enough to start with), stand in front of a mirror and jump (concentrating on your calf muscles) 100 times. Do three sets like this and once again, at 2-3 times a week at least, you WILL notice results. Good luck and good training.
the most simple way is to just jump straight up and down a bunch of times. i know it sounds stupid and obvious but it works. start off by standing straight and jump as high as you can while reaching for the sky, when you land repeat the process, this will get your muscles used to jumping and it will improve your jumping if you do this exercise a lot. repetition is key. for added strength attach leg weights while you do this, to give you even more explosiveness.
Yes, but it doesn’t mean you’ll be able to dunk.
I could dunk when I was 14. I simply kept trying to grab higher on the net, and then the rim, and then a tennis ball, football, volleyball, and finally a basketball.
There are some great lifts that Olympic weight lifters do, and these guys end up having 30-40 something inch verticals, the lifts are difficult.
Well….Our coach has us doing this drill right now that he says is guranteed to make us touch backboard-he said it worked on his team when he played-
We chop for 1 min. straight-[take 15 sec. break]-Then we put our hands in the air and jump up and down as many times as we can for one minute-[take 15 sec. break]-He then has us get in our stants…for one minute-[take NO break]-Then he directs us a way to slide in our defensive stants for one minute-[take NO break]-Then backpeddle.sprint.stants.slide.backpeddle.sprint.stants-Do that for one minute mixing it up every little bit-
You are supposed to repeat this for 30 minutes 2-3 days a week….though we started out at 15 mins.
He said when his coach had him and his team do it-all of his teammates and him could touch rim by his senior year!! I am a girl but I want to touch the backboard OR rim someday-its one of my goals!! I am believing him that it works-but you can deff. feel the burn after you do it-BELIEVE ME!!