To increase any athletes speed means improving on one or both of the following elements:
1. Increase the number of steps an athlete takes per second i.e. their cadence.
2. Improve the effectiveness of each time they make contact with the ground.
Increasing cadence is most easily improved by reducing the amount of recovery time between strides. This [...]

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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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Don’t do jumping exercises 7 days a week. Four or five days per week is enough. If you do it every day, you may give up after a week or two. The idea is to keep exercising for months, or years, consistently. Note that we have not organized an actual jumping program. [...]

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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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If you are a professional or armature athlete, and want to be a successful basketball, football, or volleyball player, it is imperative that you have the skill to jump as high as possible. This is a vital skill that will enable you to compete with others. You would need to constantly concentrate on training designed [...]

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Tip #3: Isometric stretching. Or PNF as it is sometimes called speeds workout recovery times. Stretching alone over the coarse of 1 month brought a 15% increase in lower body strength to the tested athletes. Now just imagine if it was isometrics stretching!Those elite gymnast that I’ve worked with can generate a lot of total [...]

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Tip #2: Forceful arm-swing. This is a commonly neglected jump factor that can account for 15% more lift. Try this, next jump you go up for I want you to deliberately concentrate on swinging your arms up fast, timing it with the jump. See what happens!

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