First Steps Needed Before You Start Your Increase Vertical Jump Training

These three steps are necessary before you attempt to start your training exercises to increase your vertical jump. One, set challenging but realistic goals, two, construct a workout plan, and three, Do the workout you have planned. This will be a great start in order to see improvement or real change in your vertical jumping.

Lay out Pragmatic Ambitious and Measurable Goals

When you set your goals, they need to be specific, measurable, realistic and challenging. For some, this might be a reasonable goal. When setting goals, keep in mind your current fitness level, and how much time you are willing to spend in training. Example: I want to increase my vertical jump by 10" in twelve weeks. As you can see, this is specific, the progress can be measured, and could be both realistic and challenging for some athletes. Some athletes who have a good fitness level might set a more challenging goal like doubling their vertical in 10 weeks. Some poor examples might be: I want to jump higher, I want to slam dunk a basketball. Even though slam-dunking is great incentive to keep training, it is better to set specific and measurable goals.

For example, if you know you are 9" from touching the rim, your goal should be increasing your vertical by 14" to insure you will be able to dunk. You can measure this progress, and reaching this goal results in dunking.

Design A Workout Plan

In future lessons, I will give you ideas on setting up a good plan. For now, you just need to know some kind of plan is required. Successful people from all walks of life have this in common; they all had a plan or strategy in mind to follow. It is best to have your plan written down and reviewed regularly, so you can keep focused on what your created plan.

Implement Your Created Plan

Once you have a goal and have created a workout plan then ALL you need to do is Do it! Eliminate all excuses, sacrifice, and get an accountability partner. Change is never easy, but when you accomplish your goals, it will be worth it!

It is also helpful to write down your initial performance and workout stats. You can make better adjustments on your original plan if necessary, making it harder or easier.

The goal of this lesson was for you to understand the importance of setting goals, creating a plan and working it to completion. If you are in the position to be able to use the same information that the pros use, go to Online Vertical Jump Training Program called Jump Manual.