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- From: spiegel@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Spiegel)
- Subject: Re: JUMPING!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.000015.16441@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Sender: news@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (News)
- Organization: Personal Opinions Inc.
- References: <1992Nov17.175556.859@megatek.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 00:00:15 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- In article <1992Nov17.175556.859@megatek.com> max@megatek.com (Max Elliot) writes:
- >From article <1992Nov16.170146.6849@walter.cray.com>, by sonic@bearpit.cray.com (Curtis Swanson):
- >> In article <1992Nov14.210502.8888@ac.dal.ca>, whare@ac.dal.ca writes:
- >> |>
- >> |> Once again I ask. Any way to increase vertical leap?
- >> |>
- >> |>Anybody?
- >> |>
- >> |>AT ALL!!!!!!
- >> |>
- >> |>Please, I beg of you.
- >> |>
- >> |> Stephen, boy who looks at weak legs, Hare.
- >>
- >
- > Man! All this talk of calf-raises and special shoes and squats and
- > etc...
- >
- > I'll tell you an amazingly well kept secret on how to jump higher,
- > farther and quicker:
- >
- > JUMP.
- >
- > Yup. That's it. JUMP. If you want to improve your kill shot in tennis,
- > do you do some specialized curls, and then weighted push-ups? No! You
- > practice the kill shot. If you want to jump higher, do excercises which
- > are essentially jumps! Try doing interval/wind-sprint workouts on a
- > football field, and mix in some jumps. Start at the goal line and jump
- > on one leg out to the 50 and back on the other leg. You should feel a
- > real burn in your quad and calf. Feel it? good. Now more jumps! Try
- > hopping on both legs (standing broad jump) (ooh, that sounds racy!)
- > out to the 50 and sprint back. Again! etc...
- >
- I would add, buy some ankle weights and jump. Most sporting
- goods stores have them, usually leather filled with powdered
- lead. Strap write on. Wear them when you run, jump rope
- and bench jump. That's right, get a bench, getg along side
- it and jump back and forth across it. Also, there seems
- to be correlation between speed and vertical jumping.
- When U of Wash recruits football players they are willing
- to accept vertical jump measurements for 40 yd speed timings.
- So put on those ankle weights and do some sprinting also.
- I found out about the ankle weights by asking the guys in
- high school who could slam dunk (one of them was even only
- 5' 7"), and they all recommended ankle weights. One guy,
- Sal Johnson was 6'4" and could almost touch the top of
- the backboard. Sal said he wore his ankle weights all the
- time . . even to bed! (sleeping that is)
-
- Mark
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