Today we’re going to talk about what not to do if you’re trying to become more explosive, and a better, stronger, faster athlete.
We’re going to talk about training in volumes…
What type of volume to use when you train… because one of the number one mistakes is:
People train their Endurance and NOT their explosiveness.
You see…
When you do high-rep activity…
Meaning 10, 20, 30, 40, 100 reps in a set, you’re not training at a high intensity.
You’re training a lot of frequency. That’s what a marathon runner does.
When a marathoner is running, he’s just running for hours…. That’s not making him jump higher.
When you’re jump roping, you’re just jumping low for minutes and minutes and minutes….
That’s not training your explosiveness.
When you train your explosiveness, you have to train near or above the intensity of your highest explosive output.
When you do that, your body adapts, gets stronger, gets faster and it gets more explosive.
When you train at a lower intensity with higher rep, you’re going to train yourself to be a marathon jumper, not an explosive athlete.
So try not to train over 10 reps…
If you’re training over 10 reps, you’re mentally and physically dropping your intensity levels and you’re starting to train another aspect…
Many of you are saying, “I’m sweating,” “My muscles are getting fatigued,” “This is going to help me improve.” But it’s not going to.
…And it’s going to take you backwards.
That muscle fatigue and the lactic acid buildup is not what’s going to make you a stronger, more explosive athlete.
It’s training at higher intensities with very high specificity to your training that will make you more explosive…
Meaning jumping, sprinting, approaching the hoop… All the things you do as a basketball player or whatever your chosen sport is.
So that’s what you’ve got to do.
Don’t train over 10….
Train your HIGHEST intensity levels and watch yourself improve much faster.
So if you’re asking how come my vertical leap is getting lower? That is one reason.
…And we’ll talk about other reasons your vertical leap could be getting lower as well.
Also, send me your questions.
And if you haven’t already, download our best vertical jump exercise here.
We break down why this works so well and it’s the foundation for many things that we do with our athletes.
You can download it here… watch the video… go through the workbook and start using what we believe is our best single exercise.
Yes, there are many… But this is our best single exercise and something you can get started with right away.
And we’ll send you more videos after you download that workbook to show you things you need to be doing…
…what kind of sets, how often you need to rest and recuperate and recover (which is actually where you get your gains during the recover process).
And if you have that and you want to go further, we have the full Jump Manual, which is our comprehensive training, diet, and training all nine variables of your vertical.
We show you how to do it, when to do it and we give you access to a trainer, a coaching help desk to answer your questions and walk you through that process.
So guys, if you have more questions, send them to me and I will talk to you guys soon.
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