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Are you spending hours and hours on the court doing basketball workouts to jump higher and not getting the results you expect?
This could be because you are making one or more ofthe 3 common mistakes that athletes make when doing basketball workouts to jump higher.
Mistake 1: You are not training ALL of the muscles which are involved in jumping: It's not just your quads, hamstrings and calves which are involved in jumping. There are also much smaller muscles which if you train these will help you increase your vertical leap.
Mistake 2: You are training your muscles incorrectly: Many people will try and train their muscles by doing lots of repetitions of exercises, but this only helps with endurance. To increase vertical you need to train your muscles for explosiveness rather than endurance. You must train your fast twitch fibers my doing fewer reps and explosive movements to jump higher. This is similar to a sprinter. Do you think a sprinter would run 10km in a day to train for a 100m race? No they run 100m a few times to get their explosiveness going.
Mistake 3: Only focusing on one method of training: There are 3 ways of training to increase your vertical jump including plyometrics, jump training and weight training. By only focusing on one of these three methods you miss out on the effects that the other methods contribute, and so by focusing on all 3 methods you can increase your vertical jump by more!
Did you find these tips useful? To find out more on basketball workouts to jump higher then check out theVertical Explosion Training Guide
