You can enhance your flexibility by stretching regularly, focus more on your ankles, knees and hips. Do this and you'll jump higher in two weeks and amaze yourself.
Second, get working on those abs. Strengthen your abs especially the inner. You don't need to have a six-pack to jump higher, all you need is to strengthen it. Abs play a crucial role in every powerful jump. So, if you want to get higher jumps, crunch up.
Third, exercise and strengthen the muscles in your feet, especially the dorsi-flexors which decrease the angle between the leg and foot. These muscles are stabilizers so that when you jump, you are able to carry or pull your feet up. The best exercise for the dorsi-flexor is by walking around using the heels but not letting the balls of the feet touch the ground. Walk in this manner until you can feel that burning sensation, people will laugh at you - but make a note of them, and next time you see them on that basketball court - slam a dunk right in their face!
Lastly, exercise those cute toes. Ballet dancers are not the only people who should do this. For people who jump, this is an essential matter. This adds to the power in pushing your feet to the ground to give you that springing up movement. If we notice, these toes are the last to leave the ground when we jump. Thus, we need to strengthen these to enhance and add force to our jumping endeavor. The exercises for the toes include curling and uncurling them for many times (maybe when you are not doing anything), or pushing up onto the tip toes and holding them in the position up to ten seconds.
There are the simple steps. Now, if you have the will to do these, you will surely jump higher in two weeks and be the next sports icon in your team or even in your community.
In sports such as basketball, it is important to be able to jump high off of one foot as well as two feet. However, when jumping off of one foot or one leg (or off the approach as I like to call it) you can usually get up much quicker. Sometimes in basketball you don't always have time to plant and jump off of two feet. So here are 5 ways to increase your jumping off of one foot.
Step Ups
This is an exercise that will without fail help to increase your one-foot jumping. You ever notice those players in basketball who are just so fast, that it looks like they just run off of the ground when they jump? Or you ever watch a high jumper in track & field? These are the athletes who usually can jump very high off of one leg.
If you also want to jump higher off of one leg I recommend you go out and work on your sprinting. Sprint work has always beat up my legs. I can remember days of grueling sprints on the track. But when I got on the court, I usually noticed results in a fairly short amount of time from my efforts. Sprinting is very important if you want to jump higher.
Lunges
The great thing about lunges aside from the fact that they flat out help you jump higher, is this. Not only do they build your quadriceps, but they help your balance, hips, and glutes (butt). All of which, are very important if you want to jump higher.
Second, get working on those abs. Strengthen your abs especially the inner. You don't need to have a six-pack to jump higher, all you need is to strengthen it. Abs play a crucial role in every powerful jump. So, if you want to get higher jumps, crunch up.
Third, exercise and strengthen the muscles in your feet, especially the dorsi-flexors which decrease the angle between the leg and foot. These muscles are stabilizers so that when you jump, you are able to carry or pull your feet up. The best exercise for the dorsi-flexor is by walking around using the heels but not letting the balls of the feet touch the ground. Walk in this manner until you can feel that burning sensation, people will laugh at you - but make a note of them, and next time you see them on that basketball court - slam a dunk right in their face!
Lastly, exercise those cute toes. Ballet dancers are not the only people who should do this. For people who jump, this is an essential matter. This adds to the power in pushing your feet to the ground to give you that springing up movement. If we notice, these toes are the last to leave the ground when we jump. Thus, we need to strengthen these to enhance and add force to our jumping endeavor. The exercises for the toes include curling and uncurling them for many times (maybe when you are not doing anything), or pushing up onto the tip toes and holding them in the position up to ten seconds.
There are the simple steps. Now, if you have the will to do these, you will surely jump higher in two weeks and be the next sports icon in your team or even in your community.
In sports such as basketball, it is important to be able to jump high off of one foot as well as two feet. However, when jumping off of one foot or one leg (or off the approach as I like to call it) you can usually get up much quicker. Sometimes in basketball you don't always have time to plant and jump off of two feet. So here are 5 ways to increase your jumping off of one foot.
Step Ups
This is an exercise that will without fail help to increase your one-foot jumping. You ever notice those players in basketball who are just so fast, that it looks like they just run off of the ground when they jump? Or you ever watch a high jumper in track & field? These are the athletes who usually can jump very high off of one leg.
If you also want to jump higher off of one leg I recommend you go out and work on your sprinting. Sprint work has always beat up my legs. I can remember days of grueling sprints on the track. But when I got on the court, I usually noticed results in a fairly short amount of time from my efforts. Sprinting is very important if you want to jump higher.
Lunges
The great thing about lunges aside from the fact that they flat out help you jump higher, is this. Not only do they build your quadriceps, but they help your balance, hips, and glutes (butt). All of which, are very important if you want to jump higher.
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