High Jump Drills
By Jim Giroux, MF Athletic/PerformBetter
In the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, sprints and jumps were on stage. United States sprint dominance was as evidenced by world records and medal counts. Bob Beamon (US) long jumped past 28 and 29 feet. Dick Fosbury (US) also gathered attention for his medal performance. He took off in [...]

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Do you feel like your feet are glued to the ground? Try to grab the net or rim and get nothing but air? Need a few more inches to get those rebounds or get that volleyball spike over the net? Here are a few steps and tips to get you soaring!

Understand that muscles do have [...]

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Tip #7 Build fast twitch muscle fibers, speed up slow twitch fibers. If you want to make leaps and bounds first we have to stop the bleeding! By this I mean no more slow-twitch inducing exercises like aerobics. Ask yourself does the sport your involved with require power or endurance? If you’re a football player, [...]

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Tip #4: Inner abdominal strength. I’m not referring to the rectus-abs you get from sit-ups, you already know they’re important. I’m talking about the transverse abdominal wall, underneath them, which plays a key role in every power movement & you can make them stronger. Suck in your stomach with a deep breath, try to imagine [...]

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When compared directly with the leading insoles on the market, it was found that sprinbak insoles offered a 3 times as much resilence than the competitors.
How can it beat the others by so much? Well basically back when springbaks were invented, they made a number of patents, which by law prevent other insole companies & [...]

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As I mentioned in part one on how to jump higher I decided to get on the phone and grill over 13 world class strength coaches on their vertical training methods. How can you go wrong when you have over 13 of the nation’s best experts teach you first hand what they know on vertical [...]

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