Video: How to Increase Vertical Leap for Basketball

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Basketball players can increase their vertical leap by building up their calf, thigh, hamstring and glute muscles through plyometric drills. Enhance jumping ability for sports with helpful advice from a Division I coach in this free video on playing basketball.

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Hello, I'm Tony Ingle, basketball coach at Kennesaw State University. We're a division one school here in Georgia. Alright how do you increase your vertical leap in basketball. The best way to increase your vertical leap is by jumping. You must build up your leg muscles. You gotta build up your calf muscles, your thigh muscles, your ham, your glutes and you've got to be able to, to explode with some power and some strength. And the best way to increase your jumping in basketball is critical. But the best way to do this is, as Jeff is going to demonstrate, his feet are parallel, he's got a good base, about shoulder length apart, and now this is called a plyometric drill. And what we do is we have different levels. You will start here, and then you go up and up and even higher. But Jeff is going to show you a plyometric drill here to help increase your vertical leap. Jeff, alright one, two, three. Okay, now also what increases your jumping is if you want to jump rope. Okay, another way is if you want to, is you could jump over this or bring any kind of apparatus to where you could jump over it. Any kind of way that you can jump improves your jumping. That's the basic rules of increasing your vertical leap in basketball.

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How to Increase Vertical Leap for Basketball

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