Thursday, September 24, 2009

Great Ways to Jump Higher For Basketball

So you can't dunk. Who cares if you can't can't even touch backboard. Your okay with not being able to dunk on someone. Are you really content with just taking lay ups the rest of your basketball career? I hope not. If you are ready to take your game to next level, keep reading.

You need to begin by doing some power exercises. To dunk you need the leg power. If you want the Explosiveness to jump out of the gym you need some strength in those basketball of yours. You can start with Squats, and can do some weight lifting to really build up that quad muscle and get you to jump higher.

Another way is to do some calf raises. You basketball be needing these calf muscles for quick jumps. If you have ever seen a kangaroo jump that would sum up the way you will be jumping by using your calf muscle. Those quick, spontaneous jumps is exactly why you need to work on you calf muscle. So grab some books, find a staircase, and do those calf raises.

Lastly if you want to to jump higher, you will have to increase your speed. Do some speed training. Head out to the track do some hard running. Sprint instead of jog. Run as far as you can by sprinting, hard sprinting. This should increase your speed and make it easier to start dunking on people. What does speed have to do with anything? Speed has a lot to do with how high you jump.

If you work hard enough you will be dunking on people easily. Opponents will fear you. You will not only be able to jump higher, but you will be faster as well. So get out there, stay focused, workout, and you will find yourself jumping higher in no time.

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