How to Increase Your Vertical Jump
Channel: Athletic Engineering
Date: 2021-02-04

Here's how you can quickly learn how to increase your vertical jump - it's very simple. Most athletes think strength produces power. In order for any strength to translate into power, the right timing is needed. This means, rhythm is necessary. If you have poor rhythm, your ability to express power will be greatly limited. Only with good timing will you be able to express natural athleticism.

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Here is a quick lesson on timing, and how timing determines how high you can jump. This applies to any athletic movement where you're trying to generate kinetic potential and translate it into power, speed, explosiveness.

Timing is everything. That's why we talk a lot about rhythm. If you don't have rhythm as an athlete, you won't have much explosiveness, speed, power agility. 

You might have strength, but in order for that strength to translate into power, you need rhythm and timing. 

To jump higher, the best, most athletic and intuitive jumpers are more relaxed and they know right at the precise time when to punch to unweight.

There is no point in trying to muscle through a movement to try to produce more power, speed, or agility.

What you're trying to do is become weightless, so that that weightlessness can translate into acceleration. And the acceleration, contrary to popular belief, does not come from your muscle effort. It comes from gravity.

Your muscle is used to reposition your body so that the stick, which is an extension of your body can transfer the acceleration of gravity towards the objective. 

So instead of trying to accelerate the stick with your arm, you need to learn how to completely relax and focused on transmitting power. 

When it comes to jumping, I need my energy to go into the direction I want to go, which is up.

Why would I put force down when I want to go up?

Any downward force is reflexive. It's a consequence
It's not the intent. The intent is: I'm trying to go up.

Takeaway points:

Start to be more aware of your timing. If you're an athlete and you want to be more powerful, faster, more agile, then work on your rhythm.

The greatest athletes, like Muhammad Ali, Bruce Lee, Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson - you would describe them as they are dancing around opponents. Because they have impeccable rhythm.

The second takeaway point is try to develop your perception of instead of using your muscular force to apply power, try to develop your perception of using the acceleration of gravity.

The free energy that's available to you.

Yes, you need muscular force - your muscles need to be strong to support your body weight to facilitate this whole process happening. Don't consciously apply muscle force to apply power. Relax and use the free power that's available to you.

By working on your vertical jump training in this way, your body will work a lot more naturally, you will be able to get more effortless power and speed, and probably most importantly, you won't get injured as much or as badly, and you won't develop chronic injuries from simply moving with poor biomechanics over the course of your athletic activities.


0:00 How to Increase Vertical Jump at Home
0:42 Timing is everything for athletes
1:01 Example drill on expressing power
1:48 Qualities of athletes with great vertical jumps
2:45 How to have a more powerful throw
3:39 Pushing down is a waste of energy
4:00 How to increase vertical jump
4:50 Pushing into the ground vs. unweighting
5:33 Conclusion


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