3 THINGS THAT GREAT JUMPING ATHLETES DO WELL 🔥

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3 Things That Great Jumping Athletes Do Well

3 Things That Great Jumping Athletes Do Well. When you first start training your vertical, what are some common elements?

Usually, it’s: Get stronger, get your squat up, and do some plyometrics. This usually helps improve one’s leap quickly at first, but a flat-line will eventually hit in many.

Perhaps then, some training methods can get switched up, a re-organization of a weekly training structure to reflect your strengths and weaknesses, as well as general adaptation pattern in training.

At some point, however, just looking at power training and outputs will not continue to help athletes maximize their vertical if the right technical elements don’t exist.

This isn’t to say that a simple cue or set of cues is the answer. Too many coaches would have you believe that just pushing harder into the jump or snapping your hips down faster are all you need to push past the technical barriers keeping you or your athletes from maximal height.

But the human body doesn’t work like that. It’s smart. It takes what it has, and uses it all quite well to escape the pull of the earth as best it can.

When there is a technical roadblock, we have to be intelligent with how we approach it. Often times, a “constraint-based approach”, coupled with an awareness of proper technical elements, is a key factor in the road to an ultimate jump.

Eventually inter-muscular coordination becomes more important than intra-muscular coordination, so to speak. In other words, raw power can only get one so far. The technical nuances of elites should be woven into our entire training regime.

So with that, what are some of these key elements of elite jumping? I’ll list a few that I find very important, that I learned from coach Adarian Barr.

Shin drop
Winding elbows and working “far to close”
Access to the inside edge of the foot

Great jumpers can really lower their center of mass (hips) well, getting into a jump. This isn’t just the result of being told to do so, but it happens when the shin can fall forward in a manner, as the athlete moves, that allows them to lower the hips while easily getting into the next step. This is the essence of the “squatty run” exercise I learned from Adarian Barr. It’s about learning to move forward in a good posture while dropping the shins and timing the movement.

The second element is being able to have elbows and arms work from being wide outside the body, to “colliding” back in with the torso at the instant of takeoff. It’s working from out-to-in. This wind of the fascial system is something you don’t get from lifting weights, but rather a purposeful attention in plyometrics. Check out this video from elite trainer, Marv Marinovich, and check the arm action by the best jumper of those in the session.

Finally, great jumpers can get to the inside edge of their foot quickly and effectively. Athletes who have big weight room numbers, but can’t jump are often heel-heavy and tend to really lean on the outer edge of their foot. They don’t have a lot of power potential that runs to the inside edge, and they also tend to lack the hip internal rotation that comes with it. See 1:10 in this video for an awesome example of inside edge access in the lead leg:

If you enjoyed these three ideas on jumping, and would like to learn more, and see how principles of elite jumping play out in action across many elite athletes in track and field, basketball, volleyball, and more, then I have an awesome webinar coming up with Adarian Barr that will help you to understand jumping to an even higher degree, and help ordinary athletes (or yourself) break through technical roadblocks, as well as avoid performing the cues and instructions that can put a ceiling on your ultimate performance.

It’ll go down Thursday, May 14 at 9AM PST, and a recording will also be available for those who signed up. I hope to see you there. .
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Link do Video: https://youtu.be/fBAMTzRvBI8