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The Role of Diet in Increasing Your Verticle Jump

By Admin on January 2nd, 2010

The exercise programs which are properly scheduled can aid you in increasing your verticle jump beyond belief. However, a proper diet program is also needed in order to achieve higher vertical leap. The diet program helps in the cause along with the exercise programs. Below given is a recommended diet program that you can follow as you keep practicing the exercises.

For a breakfast, you can have a cup of wheat flakes or bran flakes, and one cup of skim milk. You can also eat one piece of whole-meal toast with peanut butter but not butter. Then one peach fruit or equivalent should also be included in breakfast. Your tea must include ½ cup berries with ½ cup yogurt. Protein shake with skim milk, and ½ cup orange juice should also be consumed.

For lunch, you can have rice with peach chicken, and two ounces of skinless chicken breast. Along with this, you should consume ½ can peaches, ½ tea spoon cornstarch, ¼ tea spoon salt, ¼ cup water chestnuts, ½ tea spoon grated ginger, ½ cup raw rice, ½ cup snow peas and little amount of olive oil. You can have ½ can peaches with ¾ cup cottage cheese, and English muffin with peanut butter for afternoon tea session.

At dinner, you should eat these following items; chicken teriyaki, four ounces of skinless chicken, 1/3 cup of teriyaki sauce, 1/3 cup of orange juice, ¼ cup of cooked rice, 1 can sliced water chestnuts, 1 cup broccoli, 1 tea spoon cornstarch, 1/3 teas spoon ginger, and ½ table spoon olive oil.

In between, you should not forget to take power drink after the workouts. You can prepare your own power drink. For this, first you have to mash 1 table spoon honey and a medium sized banana together. Then add the mashed thing to 1 cup of skim milk. You should also add ½ cup of orange juice to it. Next, you can add little amount of protein powder to that drink. Now your power drink is ready.

You will definitely be increasing your verticle jump with this well-planned diet along with the properly scheduled exercise programs, if you go according to the schedule.