Increase Your Vertical Jump: Three Simple Exercises To Add

Training is a regular thing for athletes. Most athletes spend more time training than they spend doing anything else, besides playing their sport. Unfortunately, there are times when even the best training programs aren't as effective as they once were. This is when you need to make some changes. Struggling with your vertical jump most likely means that you are not providing enough targeted attention to your leg muscles. You should add some new exercises, like the three in this article, to your training program. Increasing your vertical jump can be done with the help these exercises.

Sky Lunges

Quite simply, sky lunges are similar to regular lunges, except that there are extra steps that you do in order to make this exercise more challenging. From the normal lunge position, you reach your hands towards the sky. Then you jump up as high as you can and quickly switch your legs so that the front one is in the back and vice versa.

Super Squats

Super squats....may sound a bit rough, but they're really not too different from traditional squats. The only difference between a squat and a super squat is the jump that you add. You start in a normal squat with your hands flat on the floor. You are replacing your normal method of slowly raising and then slowly lowering back down with a quick jump. As you jump, you outstretch your arms upward and pull your knees up to your chest, king of like a tuck. When you land, you immediately return to the lowered squat position and repeat the process.

Double Calf Raises

Traditional calf raises involve a simple process of standing on the balls of your feet, raising yourself up, and lowering yourself back down. A double calf raise is a bit more complicated. Unlike the traditional calf raise, double calf raises are quick, rapid movements. The also involve a bit more stretching. Start by standing on the balls of your feet. Raise up, making sure to go all the way to the tip of your toes, then lowering quickly back down, and quickly back up again.

The best exercises don't really help that much if you aren't doing them correctly, or if you aren't giving your body enough time to recuperate from your exercising. Training all the time is okay, as long as you are taking enough time in between your training sessions to allow your muscles to heal. Failure to do this can result in injury, and in some cases, permanent damage to your muscles or tissues.






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