Jumping Higher !

Hi Terry here,

Well, How to jump higher? That is the question! Would an extra 10 inches in your vertical jump make a difference to your sport, that could be basketball, or martial arts, any sport where jumping higher is important? Well for me in my game it certainly would, so I had a good look at the products that are out there on the net, read a lot and tried a few. By the way, I love my game, both to watch and play but like 90% of us I have a full time job, so I play when I can. The other point that is worth making; the more I practice for better off I will be.(hopefully!)  But as  I already mentioned, I only have a limited time each week to practice, so the jump higher exercises that I do, need to make best use of that time.  By the way for my sin’s my day time job is sitting in front of a computer, all that exercise with my thumb and index finger!! (using the mouse, just in case you were wondering!)

But I digress, back to the matter in hand. Some of the other courses out there that offer jump higher training are good in parts, almost as if they are written by professionals in nutrition, or fitness, but lacking the finer points. None of the ones I have tried were bad, but rather incomplete. Then a friend of mine told me about the “Jump Manual”, I thought well, I’ll have a look but never held out much hope. After getting it, I realised that it is anything but, just a manual. Personally, I think that the name “Jump Manual” is not the best, It implies that it is a reference book, that maybe you would only read a small part of it, like having an excyloodia, look up what you want, maybe read that page, then up on the shelf untill next time.

This is NOT the case with the “Jump Manual”, you get the manual in the form of a video course, it goes through every thing, all your excersise etc, and I think that this is  the good part, if you have some questions, there is some one at the end, via email, who knows what they are on about and  actually gets back to you!

But a word of warning, If you think that by reading the course and doing very little, you will be able to jump higher, forget it!! Thanks for dropping by, and enjoy your browsing, maybe catch you another time.

If on the other hand you want to inprove your game, or sport by jumping higher, and make the best use of your time, you could do a lot worse than having a look at the  “Jump Manual” and see what you think.

As I mentioned before, my time is limited so what ever training I do I want it to be the most effective use of my time, I want the most improvement, in the time available. Do some research; the time taken to do this is more than compensated for in knowing what you are doing is effective. One thing to remember is that just because the training seems neat, or that it is hard to do, does not necessary mean that it is an effective use of our time, I am not saying that it is not, either.

One of the popular UST at the moment is the Bosu balls, they are found in nearly all gym’s, they cost little from the gyms point of view, and are difficult to use, from the athletes point of view. But are they that effective in jumping higher They do have there place, mainly or non-competitive athletes get into shape, or for kids who are learning to train. If you have had an injury they can be great at getting knees and ankles moving properly.

But for the serious athlete UST Unstable surface training WILL train your body to use slower activation patterns, and undermine the development of power in your training program. There are well-documented studies have been done showing that these neat and difficult exercises actually train your muscles to improperly activate and lower your power output for your jumping higher

In times gone past, most people thought that the earth was flat, if you went too far you would fall off of theou  edge; now some 150 years latter we know that the earth is a ball. And so today, I am sure that in 150 years time many, of the things that we take as being fact a lot of them will have been proven false. Now although this is an extreme example, but with that in mind, having a healthy scepticism of the type of training we are using can help us choose the most effective training, like with a lot of things in life, don’t take everything on face value. And above all, enjoy your training!

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