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Sorry I couldn't resist.
NO barbell, just bands.
http://www.verticaljumping.com/power_jumper.html
The Portable Power Jumper is composed of bands that attached to holders you wear around your ankles. You loop the bands across your shoulders and they stretch as you lift your torso away from your ankles (where the bands' ends are secured) in a jump. The resistance obviously grows as the bands stretch, forcing you to accelerate more than usual in order to get the same velocity off the ground.
Using too much band resistance defeats the purpose. Just a little band resistance fires up your nervous sytem to make you move faster (and hence jump higher) once the bands are off. Too much resistance turns this back into a weighted squat practically and moves you from speed over to the strength side of the speed-strength curve.
You don't HAVE to buy the PPJ. You can use a couple of mini bands. Loop one under each foot and then over the neck and then jump.
Again, this may not be what you need. But it helped me. A little accomodating resistance "taught" my body how to move more quickly, develop force faster, etc. This was after a couple years of doing nothing but heavy squatting and deadlifting. I'd gotten much better at moving heavier things slowly, but I hadn't practiced moving quickly. The band jumping "turned the speed on". What was amazing was how quickly it did it. Immediate improvement after just a few triples with the bands. Gains promptly slowed down after that and I never got to 30" before I had to take a break from lower body work. But 2" in one day isn't bad (and indicates that I just really needed something to force me to move faster with my existing strength).
honestly, just do depth jumps.
I'm guessing you don't realize I'm the guy who had to drain all that fluid out of his banged up knee every day for a couple of years..?
And don't assume that I didn't try depth jumps. You seem exasperated that the bands worked better for me than the depth jumps did. Why is that?
NO barbell, just bands.
http://www.verticaljumping.com/power_jumper.html
The Portable Power Jumper is composed of bands that attached to holders you wear around your ankles. You loop the bands across your shoulders and they stretch as you lift your torso away from your ankles (where the bands' ends are secured) in a jump. The resistance obviously grows as the bands stretch, forcing you to accelerate more than usual in order to get the same velocity off the ground.
Using too much band resistance defeats the purpose. Just a little band resistance fires up your nervous sytem to make you move faster (and hence jump higher) once the bands are off. Too much resistance turns this back into a weighted squat practically and moves you from speed over to the strength side of the speed-strength curve.
You don't HAVE to buy the PPJ. You can use a couple of mini bands. Loop one under each foot and then over the neck and then jump.
Again, this may not be what you need. But it helped me. A little accomodating resistance "taught" my body how to move more quickly, develop force faster, etc. This was after a couple years of doing nothing but heavy squatting and deadlifting. I'd gotten much better at moving heavier things slowly, but I hadn't practiced moving quickly. The band jumping "turned the speed on". What was amazing was how quickly it did it. Immediate improvement after just a few triples with the bands. Gains promptly slowed down after that and I never got to 30" before I had to take a break from lower body work. But 2" in one day isn't bad (and indicates that I just really needed something to force me to move faster with my existing strength).
