How To Increase Vertical Jump

If you're looking to increase your vertical jump, you need to work on your strength, your power and your technique. Today, I'm going to look at power and how we can use the squat exercise to specifically help us more to generate more power, in our legs, to get higher. First of all, I'm going to show you a typical squat which you may be used to and then I'm going to show you how you can adapt it.

Notice my form's good, very slow, up and down. To generate more power, I'm going to do it much quicker on the way up. The second way is much better for power development.

Now, in terms of weight, I was only using a few kilos, it's very light, you should be looking at weight, you can only do three or four times so if you know your one rep max, drop down the weight by about ten, fifteen percent, and that'll be about it. So, remember, you do strength training, you do your power training, with the new technique. When it comes to power training, you've got power metrics and you've got Olympic lifting.

And you've got what I showed you here which is a normal weight training move but done on a quick concentric phase so you're quickly driving up in the concentric movement. If you do these things, you will definitely see an improvement in your vertical jump. |Dan Roberts demonstrates his power building techniques for better vertical jumps in this VideoJug tutorial.

Watch as he guides you through the exercises and shows you the ideal form to acquire when performing the moves. .