Here are some things you can look forward to with our summer vertical jump training competition:
- full profiles of both competitors, including starting weights, body fat %, lifting stats, vertical jump (measured various ways), etc.
- periodic progress videos, pictures, charts, and visualizations of our increases in our jumping ability, training stats and other important factors
- daily logs of our training, you will know exactly what we did each day, how our different exercises are progressing, etc.
- diet and nutrition logs: we will be eating clean diets for the entire summer, and if we slip up at any point in time you will know about it
- rest/sleep/recovery: full logs of our rest, recovery, and sleeping habits.
- daily commentary on various aspects of anything to do with the competition that is on our minds
We are both eager to get this project started, but due to time constraints we must wait until May. So until then we have decided that we will both be focusing on improving our body composition and slowly preparing our legs for the summer. This means that for about a month we will be focusing on losing fat at a slow and steady pace while maintaining all of our lean muscle mass. We will also be performing short leg workouts that include squats, deadlifts, stiff legged deadlifts, light plyometrics, and other basic legs exercises to gear our legs up for the summer. We don't want to jump into 100% intensity vertical jump training without being prepared, but at the same time we do not want to be worn out when we begin the competition.
Incase you are wondering, at the moment I am 6 foot 7 inches tall, probably somewhere between 10 and 14% bodyfat, and a vertical jump that I would estimate to be between 23-29 inches? just a guess though, it is pretty average compared to other athletes, above average compared to the general population. My coauthor is around six feet tall, a solid build, and probably a slightly lower bodyfat percantage than me. He can dunk at that height so his vertical jump is above average, but there is room for improvement.
A week before we start the competition we will be performing testing, which will include a whole lot of measurements that we will use to gauge our success. This will include measuring our vertical jump in multiple ways, our body weight, body fat percentage, measurements of important body parts, sprinting and agility times, and more. We will video tape some footage of us jumping and dunking, along with pictures of our bodies and us jumping. Hopefully when all is said and done we will have some pretty cool before and after pictures and videos, as well as charts/visuals based off of the data we collected such as weight, BF%, bodypart measurements, etc.
Our one promise that we absolutely guarantee to our readers is that we will be reporting you no bull shit. NONE. If we go the whole summer and don't gain an inch of vertical you will know it, and if our gains are only modest you will know it too. There will be no inflated numbers, and IF one of us does gain a large number of inches it will be more than obvious in the before and after videos. We are going to figure out a way provide clear video proof of our gains, whatever they are.
Look at this blatant photoshop from the site of a vertical jump program which we will not name (pay close attention to some of the discrepancies circled, as well as the exact copy of the picture of the athlete, the white dots are from me making the circles, ignore them):
^^^^^ WE WILL NOT BS YOU LIKE THIS ^^^^^
Make sure to check back once in a while for updates, and especially in May when this whole thing gets underway. If you have any questions about, suggestions for, or thing you would like to see added to the competition, don't hesitate to shoot me an email at (support@vertjump.com)