Step1
Add strength training to your exercise regimen. Grab a set of dumbbells, one in each hand, and lunge. Stride far enough so when you bend your knee, your legs form a 90-degree angle with the floor. Pause briefly, and then lunge with the other leg. Do six repetitions each for this exercise.
Step2
Work on plyometric exercises. [...]

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Tip #8: Waveloading. Here is another good instant vert. Trick you can play on the nervous system. Load your body with some weight before jumping, like say jumping with a medicineball. What happens is your body will recruit more motor units in the working muscles, allowing the work to seem much easier when you don’t [...]

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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 #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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Tip #1: Visualize. Try this trick for instant vertical jump increases. Test your jump by seeing how high on the backboard you get. Now close your eyes and vividly imagine yourself exploding upwards to a goal you have. Next, imagine all the muscles in your legs getting stronger & bigger. Then you should focus on [...]

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Perform these exercises 3 - 5 times a week.
Warm up first. This is always a must. As stated previously, warming up consists of doing stretches, a couple minutes of jogging and of course rope jumping. Also run up and down the stairs for a while. Don’t do this too much as you might wear your [...]

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