Want to add a few more inches to your vertical jump but don’t have time to go to the gym and lift weights every day? Well here’s a set of exercises that you can do at home! For the first exercise all you need is a sturdy box that is about knee high (or a little shorter) that won’t shift on the ground and can support your weight, and for the last two you just need a little room.
1) Simple Up and Down Box Jump
The first jumping exercise is called the up and down box jump, and the name of the exercise pretty much tells you what you have to do. For this one, face towards the box, jump up onto it then jump back down to the ground. It’d be easy to slack and not really jump back down from the box, but it’s important that you put as much effort into jumping down from the box as you do jumping up onto the box, since this will help your vertical jump increase the most. When you do this, focus on really exploding on each jump to and from the box. Pretend like the box is a lot higher then it is.
2) Jump Stop Jump
For this exercise, pretend you’re playing basketball and you’re about to move into a jump stop. Then right after you do the stop, jump as high as you can. It’s pretty simple, but if you don’t know how to jump stop just check out some videos on YouTube or ask someone who plays basketball.
3) Salmon Jumping
For the third exercise, put a piece of string down on the ground or pretend there’s an imaginary line on the ground. Now keep your legs together and jump back and forth on the left and right sides of the line at a nice, fast pace. You don’t have to jump high for this exercise, all you have to do is focus on short, really quick moves.
These exercises are examples of plyometric exercises, and are the same kinds of vertical jumping exercises NBA pros do to keep their vertical jumps as high as they can have. For info on plyometrics and how to jump higher, go here
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