To improve your form and increase the power of your vertical jump, today we're going to be talking specifically about rapid and synchronized counter movements. When we're talking about counter movements we're talking about the movement that happens right before you explode. I call these rapid and synchronized counter movements because you also want to synchronize how all these movements take place, especially the upper body and the arms.
If you're going to take maybe a two step vertical, which is to take two steps and jump off two feet from a vertical, think about your arms. A lot of people are going to place their arms behind them a little too late or a little too early, but you want that to be perfect. As soon as you land you want your arms to be already swinging upward so that they can all orchestrate an upward propulsion. Think about that as you jump into place to explode.
When your arms are perfectly timed, they can be coming forward and that counter movement can be quick and they can all explode forward. Now if you're not using your arms in your jump very much yet, you want to learn how to do that because you can generate a lot of additional force. Whether you have a ball in your hands or not, you can generate a lot more upward propulsion if you have your arms involved in the movement.
One way to do that is with a medicine ball. A great exercise is to throw a medicine ball off the wall or up in the air and you catch it so that's going to create the eccentric contraction or the stretching. As you catch it you're going to go down and explode immediately upwards and throw the ball as high as you can into the air because that's going to help you get your whole torso and your arms involved in the movement in a plyometric action.
And then I would recommend practicing your vertical jumping form directly after that or in between sets so that your body is recognizing that that strength needs to be used for that specific action.
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