Hey, I was just about to post about this.... I have begun to start the idea of having a certain amount of "extra jumps" in my workouts each week, and I think I am going to start with a 5lb weight vest. I already do a really good amount of plyos, and intense ones at that, but I am so good at plyos in comparison to my actual jumps... I need to get on the motor pattern of jumping.
Personally I think the best time to implement extra jumps is outside of your workouts, the more time you can put between all your workouts the better.
I am going to personally start at 20 or so extra jumps a week off two legs, and play with things from there. Anyone else have any thoughts or experience with this type of thing? Honestly, one of the big mistakes I have made over the years is just not jumping enough during the week.
I posted a video on youtube recently advocating practicing max vertical jumps on top of your workouts every week or two, but it really should be done more than once a week I am really starting to think. I might have to delete that video, plus I look like a tool with my black eye.
A Russian high jump coach I have been talking to who worked with the 2000 olympic champion klyugin and jumped 7'6.5 himself back in the day.... they did an unreal amount of total jumping volume in their workouts, would make most of our CNS's burn up in a couple days, although they had worked up to that work capacity and were probably on some PED's.
Looking forward to thoughts and discussion. Also a random thought, what if you gave some of the TFB guys weight vests and had them just do their typical dunk workouts in 5-10lb vests for a couple weeks? A couple hundred dunk attempts in a light vest would probably guarantee some results. , think of Golden Child with even 2-3 more inches on his jump, haha.