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How to jump higher than normal?

Asked by Jenske , Last updated: Apr 06, 2024

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L. Hawkes

L. Hawkes

L. Hawkes
L. Hawkes, Teacher, Memphis

Answered Sep 16, 2020

You would like to jump higher but doing that will require some effort.

Some of the things that you can do are the following:

-You can start building your leg muscles first because this will definitely be something that you need.
-There are some exercises that you can do to start building your leg muscles like doing squats.
-You can start by trying to jump a little bit higher than usual.
-You can make use of something that will measure if your jumps are getting higher.

With all of these things in mind, you may actually get the type of jump that you want to get eventually.

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R. Barnes

R. Barnes

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R. Barnes
R. Barnes, Analyst, PhD, Clinton

Answered Sep 03, 2020

There are a lot of people who feel that they would need to know how to jump higher, but they do not know how to begin.

These are some of the things that you have to do:

• Make sure that you will enhance the muscles that you normally use to jump higher. This means that you need to do some leg exercises.
• Know the proper way to jump. You need to align your muscles and bones properly so that you can jump well.
• Get to know the different exercises that will help you jump higher than usual. For example, doing the depth jump will allow you to know how to jump properly. The more that you do this exercise, the better.
As long as you would do all of the steps that are mentioned above, you will be able to jump higher than usual.

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Elena Sheldon

Elena Sheldon

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Elena Sheldon, Director of research, Diploma in Arts and Science, Berkeley, California

Answered Aug 27, 2020

There are many sports such as basketball and football, where it is critical for the athlete to jump high. If they are having issues with jumping high, they can do these exercises to help train their body into jumping higher.

One of those exercises is the depth jump. To do this exercise, follow these steps:

• First, stand on a 10-30 inch high plyo box

• With each foot, step off the box

• Land on the floor with both feet

• Once landed, as quickly as possible, jump high into the air.

• You would repeat those steps until you reach the number of reps you wish to do.

• Do this often so that the height of your jump will increase.

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