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Increase Your Verticle Jump By Improving Your Fitness

You have to keep your body fit if you want to increase your verticle jump. You can maintain your body’s fitness by balancing the four components namely; cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength, muscle endurance, and Joint flexibility. Cardiovascular Fitness: This can be achieved by doing regular aerobic exercises. Jogging, swimming, basketball etc., are the examples of [...]

Widespread Misconceptions about Verticle Jump

There are some widespread misconceptions regarding verticle jump. The most common one among them is that the process of lift off the ground commences from a run-up instead of a standstill. Another misconception regarding verticle jump is that only several hours of training everyday can increase the verticle jump ability. There are some people who [...]

The Simplest Way to Measure One’s Verticle Leap

There are few ways which are used to measure a person’s verticle leap ability. The simplest way of measuring verticle leap is to make that person to reach up against a flat wall and noting down the highest point he/she can reach flat-footed (standing reach). It goes like this. Make him/her stand on a flat [...]

Verticle Leap – What Is It?

In today’s sports world, a sportsperson should possess some required abilities if he or she wants to stay in a popular team for long period. One of those required abilities is verticle leap or verticle jump. Verticle leap is much needed in basketball, volleyball, football and other sports. Verticle leap is defined as the capacity [...]

How to Increase Your Verticle Jump

The success of your verticle jump is directly influenced by the  Strength and speed you exert, in other words,  When you train for increasing your verticle jump, you need to increase your power, and Power = Strength + Speed. Speed Speed is one of the main components that will determine how high you can leap, [...]