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Jump Higher, Faster

The most important part of growing your vertical jump is to train your legs to create a certain type of muscle. When strengthening your legs their are two routes all athletes go towards when strengthening for their sport. Long distant runner and boy builders build their legs o create something called a slow twitch muscle. Slow twitch muscles help with endurance and strengthening. For sprinting and sports with need lots of jumping athletes train to create fast twitch mus- cles. Basically the opposite of slow twitch muscles that cre- ates explosive power in your legs. To gain a vertical jump its crucial to work towards increasing strong fast twitch muscles.