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Hello, how are you doing? Thanks for reading my article. Since you are here, I am going to assume you are interested in learning how to increase your vertical leap. If so, you have found the right person to teach you.

My name is Brayden Fisher and I was able to increase my vertical leap by 12 inches. This didn’t come overnight, it took me about 7 months of HARD WORK. People ask me ALL THE TIME, how I was able to increase my vertical leap so I decided to write this article and explain it.

How I Was Able To Increase My Vertical Leap: We Need To Start With The Basics

Before I give you the exercises that I used, we need to lay down a little foundation. We need to understand HOW to train properly and WHY we are training a certain way. The more we understand this the faster our progress will be.

I was able to increase my vertical leap by focusing on improving two areas: my POWER and EXPLOSION.

Alright, Brayden that’s nice but what are you talking about when you say…POWER? The definition of power in our case is your STRENGTH X SPEED. During the jumping process, your power is the amount of force that you are able to apply to the ground to launch you into the air. The more power you have the higher you are going to travel.

In order to get the optimum results I had to use a combination of strength training and plyometrics.

Most people spend WAY TOO MUCH TIME focusing on their calves when trying to improve their vertical leap. These are not the muscles you should be worried about. 80 percent of your jumping power comes from the quads and hamstings. Since these are the muscles that give us most of our power, we are going to focus on improving their strength.

Alright, we have covered the basics. Now for the good stuff…

The Best Exercises I Recommend to Increase Your Vertical Leap

Now for the good part. So which exercises are the best to increase your vertical leap. Keep in mind that you are not going to increase your vertical overnight. If you want to see results you have to TRAIN HARD and lift very heavy weight with low reps.

Just because I was able to increase my vertical with these exercises doesn’t mean that these are the best exercises for you. For instance, maybe you already have really strong quads and hamstrings. If this is the case, then doing heavy squats may not give you the results you want. Instead focus on plyometrics and developing your speed and fast twitch muscle fibers.

A good rule to go by is if you can’t squat at least twice your body weight then you should focus on the strength program. If you can, then focus on plyometrics. My favorite exercises I used to increase my vertical leap are:

- Squats – Deadlifts – Good Mornings – Hamstring Curls – Calve Raises – Knee Ups – Depth Jumps – 50 and 100 Yard Sprints – Use the Jump Rope

When doing the strength exercises we want to make sure we are lifting as heavy weight as possible and do no more than 3 sets of 8 reps. Try to train with 80-85% of your one rep max. This will insure that you are recruiting all of your muscle fibers and motor units.

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