It is official! The authors of both Vertfreak101 and Vertical Mastery, Adam Linkenauger and Jack Woodrup respectively, have agreed to work with us here at Vertical Jump Explosion on a summer vertical jump training competition, which we will begin in early May. Myself and my coauthor will be personally using these programs to increase our vertical jump as much as possible. We will be following these two vertical jump programs to perfection, including our training, diets, recovery, and sleeping habits. You will be able to follow our progress daily, including logs of our training for that day, what we ate, how we recovered, and how much sleep we got. Every aspect of our training will be recorded, including before and after videos of our jumping and dunking abilities. Use this page to navigate through the content of this competition.
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Here is the post we published when we initially came up with the idea:
http://www.vertjump.com/2011/04/vertfreak101-vs-vertical-mastery-summer.html
The results of the 2011 VJE vertical jump competition:
Initial Testing- these are the tests and measurements we took before the competition began
Retest #1 - (estimated mid-June 2011)
Retest #2 - (estimated mid to late July 2011)
Final Summer Retest - (whenever we finish our respective programs, sometime in August 2011)
Note: Due to differences in personal schedules, different program lengths, and more, our programs will almost certainly end at different times. We are already pretty set on continuing this vertical training past summer, so if either of us finish before the "final testing" we will just continue a new cycle of our respective program until the other finishes.
Author interviews:
Jack Woodrup, Vertical Mastery interview:
Before the competition
Adam Linkenauger, Vertfreak101 interview:
Before the competition
Vertical Jump Training Logs
Want to follow our vertical jump training and read our daily logs containing information regarding our workouts, diet, recovery, and sleeping habits? By clicking on any of the weeks below, you will be able to read all about that week.
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