When I talk about bodyweight its more about strength relative to it. What you should do is test your reactive jumping. Jump up and touch the backboard then immediately jump again. Do this three times. If you have good reactive jumping you will probably jump the same height or higher on the rebound. If not you will jump lower. Often natural jumpers have very good reactive jumping.
[quote]Bowzer wrote:
FightingScott wrote:
Bowzer wrote:
Olympic lifting isn’t the be all end all for explosiveness. The dynamic effort that is seen in Westside works well for explosiveness.
True. Olympic lifting isn’t the end all be all for explosive actions such as tackling or delivering a knockout punch. Speed box squats are superb for developing horsepower and all that other Westside stuff.
But Olympic lifts pretty much are the end all be all for jumping high (unless you can alter your genetics with some other training method). If you train like an Olympic lifter in the weight room you will jump really fucking high. The Olympic weightlifting events are pretty much centered around whose jump can move the most weight.
You jump with a weight. How much more functional can you get in terms of training to jump high.
I don’t feel thats true at all. Squatting can greatly help one’s vert. The learning curve for Olympic lifts is greater than the big 3. I’m not saying to completely avoid Olympic lifting, but to neglect the benefits of squatting and even deadlifts to build one’s vert is absurd.
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Squatting is pretty much essential for Olympic lifting. If you don’t front squat, overhead squat, back squat, or do good-mornings you won’t be able to make your vert or Olympic lift numbers go up as fast as you’d like.
I’ll agree that Olympic lifts require a learning curve to gain the flexibility to do full cleans and full snatches but I think we can both agree that slow lifts combined with power -versions of Olympic lifts are easy enough to learn and are both the best way to improve one’s vert.
I’m only 5’9" and can get a good couple inches above the rim, still trying to get those extra couple so I can dunk but here is the routine I’ve been doing that has helped my vert go up like crazy. Add this and then eventually do isometrics and you should be there.
[quote]Shadowzz4 wrote:
When I talk about bodyweight its more about strength relative to it. What you should do is test your reactive jumping. Jump up and touch the backboard then immediately jump again. Do this three times. If you have good reactive jumping you will probably jump the same height or higher on the rebound. If not you will jump lower. Often natural jumpers have very good reactive jumping.[/quote]
Most basketball players even unnatural jumpers have good reactive jumping. Most will even have better reactive than straight vertical because everything requires a jump after a jump. (jumpstop, 1 step jump shot, rebounding) However people that don’t naturally jump that high and play all their lives are usually limited by leg strength.
VJB.
The Vertical jump Bible is the best programme on the marjet and for $20 it’s good.
I got it 