Thursday 25 March 2010

Vertical Training - The Difference Between Depth, Drop, and Box Jumps

Vertical Training - The Difference Between Depth, Drop, and Box Jumps

Ok guys today I want to talk to you a little bit about a very important vertical jumping exercise that is extremely important for increasing your plyometric ability and that is going to be depth jumps.

First of all it's important to understand that depth jumps are different from drop jumps or shock drops, as well as box jumps. See a depth jump is when you jump off a box at a certain height, absorb the energy into the ground, and then jump as high as you can upwards. That is a depth jump.

Now a drop jump or shock drop is when you jump off a box and just absorb the energy without the successive jumping into the air and a box jump is simply when you jump from the ground up into the air. So once again you've got your depth drop and shock drop, which are more or less the same thing, some may make a differentiation there.

And then we've got your box jump where you're simply jumping from the ground onto a box. Then you've got your depth jumps, where you're jumping off a box, absorbing, and then jumping as high as you can into the air.

Those of you who are on the Jump Manual know that this is an exercise we use on plyometric days as well as an integration on our strength training days. This is a very important exercise because it teaches you to do what you do in athletic competition, which is absorb force, and then transfer that force into the air. Now depth jumps do a few different things, but they do increase the tendon stiffness in your Achilles tendon as well as in other areas in your body so that you can properly absorb force. Now if that tendon is not properly stiff, if it's too soft, then you're not going to be able to transfer energy quickly enough to take advantage of the force that's being applied into the ground.

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Article By Jacob Hiller: Jacob Hiller is the creator of a bestselling vertical jump program "The Jump Manual", and he is considered one of the world's foremost authorities on vertical jump training. Click on the following link to visit his website: Jacob Hiller's Jump Manual

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