The muscles in our body are like a rubber band. If used constantly, the rubber is as flexible as it can. You can pull it to its limit without breaking easily. However, like the rubber band if not used, the human body can become stiff that can easily break. However is used over and over again, the flexibility is recovered and can again be used to its maximum capability.
Our body works on the same concept in a way that if you train its strength and flexibility, you’ll attain the maximum capacity of your own body in time. However if you leave your body stagnant, your body will forget how to do things and end up shocked after doing it again. However even if your body is left stagnant and trained to do things right again, your body will attain the full capacity again.
Our jumping ability can be compared to a rubber. Train it, and you’ll increase the height. Leave it in one place and it won’t develop. The abilities may deteriorate as well.
Increasing your jumping ability by 50% is not impossible at all. You just need to work on your lower body. All you need is the right knowledge and the right mindset.
To jump higher, you need to work on the calf muscles, hamstring, quadriceps, stretching and plyometrics. Drinking milk helps on hardening your bones because you need to have a solid base for high impact training.
Before starting, stretching is very important because stretching gives you a bigger range of movement. Stretching reduces friction, stress and tension on the lower body during sprinting, running and jumping.
Plyometrics works on conditioning the legs and making it get used to the impacts that a jump can give. My cousin taught me one and I’ve been doing it twice a week. I get a high platform and I jump side to side using that platform. I jump as high as I can. The impact I feel on my legs makes me get used to it and makes the legs stronger.
Hamstring and quadriceps workouts are very important when it comes to plyometrics. The hamstring muscle is what we used when we take off. Quadriceps is the primary muscles that we use for jumping, walking and running. This muscle connects the hip joint and is the most important part of any training because the explosiveness of a jump will depend on the strength of the calf and the overall work on the body is done by none other than the quadriceps.
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The Health Authority [http://www.thehealthauthority.com/health-and-fitness-tips/want-to-jump-higher/] website
