Vertical Jump Help

[quote]Airtruth wrote:

[quote]death_ak wrote:

[quote]Airtruth wrote:
run
sprint
jump

or hang around a track and do whatever workouts they do. If those are true squat numbers your legs are strong as hell but that’s hard to believe unless your 25+. For you not to be able to at least run and dunk off of one leg would mean you have cement blocks for legs. They need to get moving, and trying to make up for lack of years moving them with some jumps might help you here and there but you won’t really get to dunking.
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well, i started doing sprints like couple weeks ago, i definitely gonna keep doing it. I think i was doing too much lower body strength exercises. and FYI, i am 28.[/quote]

Have you tried jump squats?

Also the air alert program, or the program that comes with jump soles would probably help you a lot.

I would probably drop the weights to once a week and increase the reps. You may need a few sets where your struggling if you care about your squat numbers but for jumping drop the weight and do “rhythm” squats.[/quote]

This is awful advice. Air Alert should change its name to “fast track to tendonitis”. The jumpsoles program is better, but there are about a million better things to do with your time.

work on your approach, jump/sprint as often as you can without negatives effects, get your hangclean up and lose bf. If your squat is legit these should help a ton.

For the record, here’s me at 5’9" and 30 years old after two major knee blowouts-