Guest guest Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Randy I used the same technique you are mentioning, I connected the bands used in aerobic classes to my workout belt and to weights on the ground. I did this when I was training to play arena football. It increased my jumpimg ability greatly. When I started I was only able to touch a ten foot ceiling with my finger tips in just aabout 6 wks I could touch it with both hands with my palms(with the bands connected). Of course I used other exercises, weights, sprints but I really feel it helped. If you like I can send you an outline of the program I used. [Lawrence, to prevent a barrage of requests to you personally, would you be inclined to send it to the rest of the group so that all might be able to see it? Gray] Lawrence Haltom City, TX Randy Dixon wrote: > I haven't been able to find any studies of anyone using unloaded jumping to > increase vertical jumping height. My thought was: That by using a bungee > cord or rubber tubing and suspending it from a height and attaching it to an > athlete by a harness that it would unload the jumping and they would jump > higher, and and at a higher velocity. The principle being the same as > overspeed training in sprint training. Has anyone tried this or know of > someone that has? Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Randy I used the same technique you are mentioning, I connected the bands used in aerobic classes to my workout belt and to weights on the ground. I did this when I was training to play arena football. It increased my jumpimg ability greatly. When I started I was only able to touch a ten foot ceiling with my finger tips in just aabout 6 wks I could touch it with both hands with my palms(with the bands connected). Of course I used other exercises, weights, sprints but I really feel it helped. If you like I can send you an outline of the program I used. [Lawrence, to prevent a barrage of requests to you personally, would you be inclined to send it to the rest of the group so that all might be able to see it? Gray] Lawrence Haltom City, TX Randy Dixon wrote: > I haven't been able to find any studies of anyone using unloaded jumping to > increase vertical jumping height. My thought was: That by using a bungee > cord or rubber tubing and suspending it from a height and attaching it to an > athlete by a harness that it would unload the jumping and they would jump > higher, and and at a higher velocity. The principle being the same as > overspeed training in sprint training. Has anyone tried this or know of > someone that has? Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 I haven't tried this. I'm not sure how one would go about doing an " overspeed-type " training in this area. However, for increasing jumping strength, my basketball coach had a system where he had bungee cords clipped to a metal loop to the floor, and we clipped them to a belt/harness that we wore. It created resistance when we did the vertical leap. We would train with increasing amounts of resistance by adjusting the length of and the number of bungee cords used. It worked great, and added inches to several players' jumping heights. Diane Cinney Rochester, New York Randy Dixon <wolvhund@y...> wrote: > I haven't been able to find any studies of anyone using unloaded > jumping to increase vertical jumping height. My thought was: That by > using a bungee cord or rubber tubing and suspending it from a height > and attaching it to an athlete by a harness that it would unload the > jumping and they would jump higher, and and at a higher velocity. The > principle being the same as overspeed training in sprint training. > Has anyone tried this or know of someone that has? Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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