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Hi all,
I'm Russell. I found this forum a week ago or so from searching articles/videos on how to increase vertical leap. I am posting a public video to show I'm not lying about things and future video's will document my progress. Due to my weight, I tried a vertical leap in my apartment, and upon landing, it hurt. I'm guessing my vertical leap is about 12 inches now. When I played playground basketball in the 1980's and early 90's my vertical was somewhere around 31 to 33 inches. I was just about 1/2 inch shy of being able to dunk on a 10 foot rim. I could dunk on a 9' 11" rim though.

Here's the link to my video's of my start to improve my health, and my invention of a hand spread stretcher.

https://youtu.be/oHjt3MDpSn0

https://youtu.be/8JtQiu4PHqE

Hi LBSS

I'm wanting to get back into shape to play some basketball. Also, I had a former neighbor who was older than me, but she was so obese she could hardly walk and had to use one of those walkers to hold on to, to help her walk and not fall down. Her age was probably late 60's. I need to lose weight so as not to end up like her.

But there is more. I scoured the internet for articles on increasing vertical leap. I'm not disputing that those methods don't work, but many of those exercises that involve jumping like weighted squat jumps, box jumps etc.. These exercises are hard on the knees. I have developed a theory about how one simple exercise that does not  involve your feet leaving the floor, (like jumping hard 200 times a day). I searched the internet to see if anyone else has published an exercise like I just started doing, but I could not find anything like it. I will not reveal what the simple exercise is, because the exercise only takes about 15 minutes to do, and you do it 3 times a week. If my theory works and I can increase my vertical to be able to dunk on a 10 foot rim at 60 years of age, within one year of starting this exercise, would you consider that something extremely valuable?

I recently found an article from 1987 describing Karl Malone's strength training program. https://www.si.com/vault/1987/11/09/116554/lets-get-physical-finesse-is-taking-a-backseat-as-teams-vie-with-each-other-to-get-the-big-bangers-who-can-tough-it-out-under-the-basket    The article stated he lifted weights for 4 hours a day. I am not dissing him as a respected Hall of Fame player. But was his success on the basketball court due to weight lifting 4 hours a day? I don't think so. He could have lifted weights one hour a day and still be a Hall of Fame player. Did his lifting program get him a 45 inch vertical leap? No.

I am looking to disprove the notion that extreme exercise efforts is required to develop a high vertical leap. I'm going to video record everything I do and date stamp when it was recorded. Most of the video's will remain private. I will make public, video's of my weight loss at first. And later when I lose enough weight to jump higher, (as I am right now too heavy to do jumping) I will post those video's public.

If it doesn't work and I'm wrong, then I guess I'll fade away and disappear in time.

Sorry for the long post. Thank you for asking that question.

Let me add that my weight loss efforts are paying off. I've lost some 28 lbs since mid August.

fascinating. seems unlikely that you have unlocked a secret to jump training that went undiscovered or undeveloped by generations of professionals, and i'd say that it's impossible to get really good at jumping without, well, jumping, but who knows? i hope you're right. if you figure out how to dunk at 60 years of age, with your current state being "unable to jump 12 inches without hurting knees," then hell yeah i'd consider that valuable.

in any case, good work on losing all that weight so far and good luck on continuing to get in shape.

side note: it's funny that you'd point to karl malone, who had a 28" standing vertical (i.e. ~4" worse than mine when i was training for it; i am not a super athlete) and wasn't exactly known as an above-the-rim player. whatever training he did worked for him like gangbusters.

fascinating. seems unlikely that you have unlocked a secret to jump training that went undiscovered or undeveloped by generations of professionals, and i'd say that it's impossible to get really good at jumping without, well, jumping, but who knows? i hope you're right. if you figure out how to dunk at 60 years of age, with your current state being "unable to jump 12 inches without hurting knees," then hell yeah i'd consider that valuable.

in any case, good work on losing all that weight so far and good luck on continuing to get in shape.

side note: it's funny that you'd point to karl malone, who had a 28" standing vertical (i.e. ~4" worse than mine when i was training for it; i am not a super athlete) and wasn't exactly known as an above-the-rim player. whatever training he did worked for him like gangbusters.

I'll try and see if it works. I worked out for 15 minutes today and it felt good. Much easier on the knees. In fact, so easy, I may try it every day instead of Monday, then Wendesday, then Friday. My theory about the method I am employing is based on logic that persons with exercise science degree's already know how to it, but do not recognize it. I have a friend who has that degree from OSU and am thinking about asking her if she agreed to keep my explanation confidential, I would tell her what I do and ask her thoughts about it. It is so stupidly simple, I could explain it in a few sentences, and the logic of it would be perfectly clear. This is why I will not reveal any info that may give it away, it is so simple to understand. Just to repeat. I am only doing one exercise, and it only takes 15 minutes to do. No upper body exercise at all, and no jumping at all.

welcome (again).

if you can get it done (dunk at 60) that'd be some pretty impressive stuff. going to be very tough, but who knows. regardless, could improve strength & body composition considerably as part of the journey.

just be careful getting back into jumping IMHO (in my humble opinion). don't rush that, and perhaps do your jumps on a good wooden springy gym floor - not concrete for example.

i do like this sentence: "I am looking to disprove the notion that extreme exercise efforts is required to develop a high vertical leap."

achieving higher performance with less extreme efforts would be nice. extreme efforts would be after one has reached the advanced stages though, after many years of training. at that point, some of the methodologies used & intensities of workouts can be quite high, which does carry more risk.

i'm personally not a big fan of "top secret" stuff. to me it'd make more sense to "disclose" the exercise, and if it makes sense, other people can try it as well etc. even if people didn't believe in it or try it etc, if you do, that's all that really matters. belief systems are very important. all good tho.

Could someone please explain how to add a respect point to another persons comment? I can't find out how to do that. Thank you.

it's just the up vote on each post. that'll do it.

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Anybody on this site purchase "The Mythbuster" (Jordan Kilgannon) tutorial on jumping higher? Just curious.

there are no secrets in the world of jumping.
If you look around, a lot of the Pro Dunkers lift weights - how much force you put into the ground is helped by having larger and stronger legs and hips, if your not born with them naturally

If you think about throwing an object as heavy as your body into the air, how would you improve that ability?
Easy, get a lot stronger so the body is relatively easy to fling around.
For the same reasons shotputters build a big bench press, yet the human body is far heavier than a shotput!

If you have to buy a product, I would recommend Vertical Jump Bible by Kelly Baggett.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUQy0ont5Pk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUQy0ont5Pk</a>

Just found this article on vertical leap and here is the age related vertical leap levels.
The link is here:   http://www.homeexerciseequipmenthq.com/average-vertical-jump/


Vertical Leap by Age

When it comes to the human body, one thing that everyone goes through is aging. With age, things change, including how our muscles perform. During our younger years, they are still developing all the way until we get to our 20’s and until just past 30 years old.

After that, the development stops and starts to go the other way.

The changes in our bodies muscles also show in average leaping ability as we age. During the younger years we develop and then start slowing down.

The chart below shows the average vertical leap by age for men.
        Age   Average Vertical       
      18 to 20 years old   19.5 inches      
      20 to 29 years old   20 inches      
      30 to 39 years old   17 inches      
      40 to 49 years old   14 inches      
      50 to 59 years old   11 inches