So, you are a ball player that is working out all day and night, practicing like a lunatic, but still you cannot jump high like your favorite basketball superstars and you desperately wonder what is it that you are actually doing wrong? Well, the answer to that is plain and simple. For sure you are using all the wrong jump workouts – period!

With that said, you need to mend your ways and start practicing plyometrics for vertical leap. So, what is this kind of workout all about? Continue reading and find out.

Plyometric exercises will increase your vertical jump because these exercise routines will help produce more of those fast twitch muscles in your entire body. Your body has slow twitch muscles as well as fast twitch muscle fibers and you can develop any of these two as you workout and exercise. For example, marathon runners need to develop their slow twitch muscles because they need these muscle fibers so they could out last their opponents. Simply put, slow twitch muscles are made exactly for endurance. Then again, as a basketball player, endurance is the last aspect that you will want to acquire. What you need are muscles that have the ability to respond quickly and can provide you with that explosive power whenever you make a jump.

By training with the use plyos, you can develop more of those fast twitch muscles and in effect, you will obtain that high and forceful vertical leap. One great plyometric exercise that will help you accomplish just that is the double box jumps. With this, you will need two elevated platforms of the same height. Simply stand on top of the first box, step off it then jump up onto the second box. You need to perform the “step off – jump back on” part as fast as possible. This particular routine will develop the reflexes of your legs and knees.