How to Properly Prepare Yourself for Quality Vertical Jumping Workouts
One important factor that many athletes overlook in their training is properly preparing themselves for their vertical jumping workouts. If you find yourself ever going straight from what you were doing right into your first set you are more than likely at fault of this, and not nearly maximizing your potential gains. What should you change? The answer is the following:
1. Take time to ease out of the hectic world that surrounds you. Put a few minutes aside to relax and prepare your body for the arduous vertical jumping workout that lay ahead.
2. Eat and Supplement (if you use supplements): Eating before a workout will give your body the neccessary energy to blast through your vertical jumping workouts with full strength and intensity. Imagine you were going on a long road trip, would you dare attempt to make it to your destination without filling up your gas tank? Food is the fuel of the body, so eat up. We recommend a food sourse high in carbohydrates and protein. The carbs will supply you energy while the protein will give your muscles a the building blocks they need to grow.
3. Take five minutes to mentally envision the vertical jumping workouts and exercises you are about to perform. Imagine yourself blasting through the workout, using perfect form during every single set, and each and every repitition. Also picture yourself doing each and every exercise with full effort and intensity. This will help you to see what you need to do before you ever even begin a set. Numerous studies have been done on visualization, commonly leading to the same conclusion that visualizing what you are about to do before you take action often leads to better results.
4. STRETCH! Stretching is one of the most important aspects of a successful and fully optimized workout, yet it is all to ofter over looked and skipped all together. Stretching is one of the best ways to prevent injury during vertical jumping workouts, and will start the process of lossening up your tight muscles, getting them warmed up and ready to go. Which brings us to the next point...warming up.
5. Using a few simple movement exercises such as jump roping, skipping, jogging, etc. to get your muscles into workout mode. This is a must because the exercises that you will be doing during your vertical jumping workouts will be far too explosive and strenuous on the body to go straight into. Warm up exercises will help you bridge the gap between stretching and your actual vertical jump workout.
Putting it all together. You are relaxed, fueled up, mentally prepared, lossened and warmed up now. It is now time for you to begin your vertical jumping workouts and perform them exactly as you envisioned, with perfect form and the utmost intensity on each and every set and repitition. This is the proper way to get ready for your training, and by doing so you will help your results sky rocket through the roof and see gains in your vertical leap that you never thought possible.
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