Re: Vertical Jump (personal help)

January 26, 2002

,

Are you training for a specific sport or is your only goal to jump

higher at this time? Also, have you measured your strength deficit?

This will help you know whether you should be training explosively

or for overall strength gains... a great article on the subject is here:

[Actually, it would help if the author cited those of us who have written

texts on the issue of strength deficit, because he doesn't distinguish between

strength deficit and explosive strength deficit, for a start. He also fails to

mention that there

are at least four different ways of executing the vertical jump test (with or

without

arm swing). One needs to be very cautious when trying to popularise what others

have written -- or at least quite directly from their work. His article on the

strength

deficit test simply tried to repeat the single example that authors such as

Zatsiorsky

and I cite, namely the vertical jump. What about other muscle groups and

different

types of strength and power deficit? I discussed some of the differences some

months ago

when I described several different types of standing press and push press, as

well as

different types of halted and ballistic squat - see our archives. That article

may seem

to be great, but it is simplistic and missing a great deal. Mel Siff]

Sincerely,

Grant Hansen

Asst. Renegade Coach

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" ball0837 " <ball0837@a...> wrote:

> I am looking for anyone who would like to help me make a program to

> increase my vertical jump. So any expert who thinks they could help

> please pass on some advice here and we can get started.

>

> john sutton

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