Video: How to Get a Good Vertical Jump of Up to 6 Inches

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Get a vertical jump of up to six inches by improving flexibility, strength and quickness through a variety of exercises. Learn different training drills for improving a vertical jump with tips from a personal trainer in this free video on exercising.

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Hi, I'm Ken Kashabura, personal trainer and freelance fitness writer, and today, I'm going to talk about how to get a good vertical jump. All right, when you want to get a good vertical jump you need three things; you need flexibility, you need strength, and you need quickness, okay? And there is a few different exercises you can do; mostly plyometric or ballistic training drills. And what we're going to be goin' through today; five-five-five squats especially made to put all three aspects of a vertical jump together into one. What you're going to do here is you're going to hold dumbbells or kettlebells in your hands, and what you're going to do is you're going to do five squats, very deep, very slow. Work on your stability, works on your flexibility, so you can get down deep into a squat and you can come up. So, you're going to do five nice and slow. The second five you're going to do is you're going to do five squats, but these are going to be very fast squats, okay? So five slow, and then five fast. And then, the last one you're going to do jump with the squats, you're going to do jump squats, so you're going to get down into your squat, jump as high as you can, come back down. You never stop moving during these five-five-five squats. Give yourself about thirty seconds. Get right back into it. Do about four to six sets. I'm Ken Kashabura, and that's how you get a good vertical jump.

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How to Get a Good Vertical Jump of Up to 6 Inches

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