Vertical Jump
Are Bad Landing Mechanics Slowly Breaking Down Your Body?
In the world of sports performance, we're obsessed with force production. How much force can our muscles produce, and how fast can they do it? Jumping is one of the [...]
How an Elite Club Volleyball Team Learned to Jump Higher Without Any Actual Jump Training
In February 2018, I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to train the 14- and 15-year-old girls volleyball teams of the Chicago Elite Volleyball Club. These girls have been [...]
Hack Your Biology and Increase Your Vertical Jump With the Depth Drop to Box Jump
The best way to improve your vertical jump is by doing plyometric training. This type of training includes ballistic hops, skips and jumps that enhance the stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) in [...]
Jump Higher With These 10 Tips You’ve Never Tried Before
For some athletes, vertical jump height is a major pain point. Everyone wants to jump higher, and when no one's proud of a weak vert. Those with the right DNA [...]
The Simple Diet Change Found to Help Athletes Jump Higher and Sprint Faster
Many athletes seek an edge to increase their vertical jump. Whether it’s a special supplement, lengthy stretching routines, Vertimax workouts, etc.—we're all after quick results. Unfortunately, explosive ability just doesn’t [...]
3 Ways to Develop Fast-Twitch Muscles
So you want to be as strong as the Hulk, as fast as Flash, and as awesome as Superman. The secret to unlocking your superhuman potential may just lie...
Saquon Barkley Just Demolished the 2018 NFL Combine
Saquon Barkley just proved himself as one of the greatest athletes in NFL Combine history. While we’d heard of Barkley performing some astonishing athletic feats in college, you’ve often got [...]
Build Figure Skating Power With The Dumbbell Split Snatch
If you have experience with figure skating or have been watching the Winter Olympics, you'll know the sport requires explosive power combined with the agility to land gracefully. This means [...]
New Study Shows You May Not Need Olympic Lifts to Increase Your Vertical Jump
Dunking a basketball, catching a football over a defender, elevating to spike a volleyball are all athletic movements where a big vertical jump is a huge advantage. If you are [...]
The Freak Show: The Insane Athletes of the Jacksonville Jaguars Defense
All great defenses have a nickname. The Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense led by Joe Greene and Jack Lambert were intimidatingly dubbed the “Steel Curtain.” The Minnesota Vikings defenses of the 1970s [...]