Every basketball player's dream is to be able to dunk like Michael Jordan, and there is only one way to do it, increase your vertical jump. Your legs and your core body are the most important parts of the body that help with jumping. Warming up and stretching are also very important when training on your vertical jump because they help prevent injuries. One year that I was training I was on my seventh strait week doing a program called Air Alert and I strained my hip flexor because I didn't stretch properly. Once you are injured your training goes to waste because all the conditioning that you have done is lost.
Squats are a very good excercise for your legs. They can be done with or without weights but remember to keep your feet flat on the floor, shoulder width apart, and don't let your shoulders be in front of your knees. Toe raises is another exercise to help you with leg training. These are done by just standing regularly, or as I like to do it on the edge of a stair, and you raise you foot as if you were standing on your tip-toes. Jumping rope can be used as a warm up or as a regular workout and it helps with both speed and jumping.
Medicine balls are very helpful tools to help you with leg workouts and also core workouts. They can be used to do sit ups, on an declined bench, and the also help when doing reverse sit ups for your lower back. Depending on how hard you want to work there are different weighted medicine balls. Here is a video that shows different execises using a medicine ball.
Squats are a very good excercise for your legs. They can be done with or without weights but remember to keep your feet flat on the floor, shoulder width apart, and don't let your shoulders be in front of your knees. Toe raises is another exercise to help you with leg training. These are done by just standing regularly, or as I like to do it on the edge of a stair, and you raise you foot as if you were standing on your tip-toes. Jumping rope can be used as a warm up or as a regular workout and it helps with both speed and jumping.
Medicine balls are very helpful tools to help you with leg workouts and also core workouts. They can be used to do sit ups, on an declined bench, and the also help when doing reverse sit ups for your lower back. Depending on how hard you want to work there are different weighted medicine balls. Here is a video that shows different execises using a medicine ball.
Dedication is the most imporatant aspect of any type of weight training because it all depends on how hard you want to work. I know that it is hard work but if you want to increase your vertical jump that's exactly what it takes, hard work.
No comments:
Post a Comment