The best exercise to increase your vertical jump is the power step up. Find a bench either outside or in a gym place your right foot on the bench then pushing off with the right leg explode upward until your knee straightens and your right foot leaves the bench. Perform 2 sets of 15 reps ensuring that you alternate feet between sets. In approximately four weeks this exercise will become easy and no longer provide a challenge. To progress the exercise perform the exercise holding a medicine ball. Keep the medicine ball close to your chest until you explode upward then thrust the ball forward out in front of you. This adaptation to the exercise will cause you to use your chest, shoulder, arms, and abs while increasing the effect of the exercise.
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