Explosive Strength

Join the track team and lift weights.

or

Sled Sprint

but if your not running you will have no real football speed. Contrary to popular belief, powerlifters and olympians that don’t run, are not explosively fast.

and for jumping you should at minimum have one day of jumping a week if not more.

Two things you need

  1. Limit Strength
  2. Rate of force development

This is from one of Kelly’s Q and A’s off of www.higher-faster-sports.com and sums up what you need to do nicely:

"When it comes to evaluating where to direct your training efforts it is very individual. You only have about .25 seconds in the vertical jump to apply as much force as possible to elevate your body in the air. In simplistic terms, to increase this proficiency you can either:

A. Increase the speed and rate at which you apply your force in the movement. (rate of force development)

B. Keep velocity and rate of force development constant, while increasing the amount of force you have to draw from.

Option A would call for explosive training (lighter weight with greater acceleration), plyometrics (depth jumps), and other rate of force development methods.

Option B would call for muscular development training and strength training.

You can increase your vertical jump either way but it’s best to find your weaknesses and train for them. The same program approach will not work for everyone. One person may be able to put 20 inches on their vertical jump with nary a plyometric drill in sight, while others need the exact opposite approach.

What I’d suggest you do is test your reactive (plyometric efficiency) with a version of Schmidbleicher’s reactive vertical jump test. At your height and jumping ability, stand on about an 18-inch box and perform a depth jump, measuring your height jumped.

Step off the box about the same as the height of the box. (so land about 18 inches away) Try to use the depth jump to enhance your height jumped and measure it. Compare the height of this jump to your regular stationary jump (down and up).

Stepping off the box and hitting the ground allows you to build up more force which your body must absorb, stabilize, and react to. This is the definition of “plyometric” so performing a depth jump automatically boosts plyometric/reactive contributions.

If the depth jump is higher than the stationary jump this will usually indicate well-developed reactive/plyometric functionality, with a need to improve the amount of force you have to draw from. (Strength training and perhaps muscle growth training supplemented with shock jumps).

If the depth jump is lower than the stationary jump this indicates an untapped plyometric potential and reactive training should be emphasized.

So you will need more “spring-like” training rather than muscular training. If the 2 are fairly close together you will find a well rounded approach (strength, explosive strength, and reactive efficiency) will give you the best results."

Power cleans.

[quote]elano wrote:
Power cleans.[/quote]

He probably heard you the first time.

[quote]Brucelee69 wrote:
I really looking for explosive strength for two main goals

  1. Football
  2. Increase my vertical jump[/quote]

powercleans
snatches
squats
pylos
deadlifts
sprinting
1 leg/ 2 leg jump drills (aka dot drills)

[quote]xb-C wrote:
The 0-lifts are a good start if you can find a coach.
I’d also suggest box jumps, broad jumps, 30-40m sprints and weighted medicine ball throws.[/quote]

X2

You would want to use the Dynamic Effort Method, and Ballistic lifts.

The olympic lifts are an excellent indicator of explosive strength…so whereas progress on the first two methods cannot be measured like training for limit strength…if your olympic lifts are going up you know that the other methods are doing the job.

One thing i do with my athletes is squat with bands and immediately following it up with box jumps…

Try deadlifts w/bands

And Hang Cleans