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The top 10 highest jumpers on the planet are all under six foot, except this guy. Wow
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this guy is really freaking handsome. But why is that? Why are all the highest jumpers in the world
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so short? I got this from Billy's video. Billy is the owner of Dunkademics, and he made a list
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of the top 10 highest jumpers he's ever filmed. This was based on flight times, vertical jump
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tests, or just seeing how close their head is to the rim, and then taking into account their height
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And it got me thinking, why are the highest jumpers also the shortest? Well, first we have to look at
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what leads to a high jump in terms of physics. There is one thing that is directly correlated
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to how high you're gonna jump, and that is impulse. And impulse is related to a change in momentum
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momentum being your mass times your velocity. The second thing that is going to dictate
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how high you're gonna jump is your takeoff velocity. Your mass is set
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So the one thing that has to be changed for you to jump higher is the velocity part of the equation
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Now this means that if you decrease the mass of the athlete everything else being equal they also going to jump higher And guess what is true about short people They lighter than tall people for the most part unless they really out of shape Cool So we answered that question but how can you use this information
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Cause I don't think you can cut your legs off and then you'll be able to jump that high. What you
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can do is get lighter. See, I looked up the stats and the average person in the U S is really close
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to being obese. That means that if you're watching this video, I'm a betting man that you're pretty
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close to obese. And I have two tips for you that I have seen work time and time again. And both of
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these tips fall under something called Pearson's law. You can't track it. You can't change it
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So the first thing you want to do is you want to track two things. The first thing is your calories
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in versus calories out. My favorite app to do this with is MyFitnessPal. I'm not sponsored by them
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And the second thing that I want you to track is your body weight. How often you track it depends
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on the person. Some people tend to fall into a rabbit hole of overthinking it if they're tracking
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too much. What I recommend is probably weighing yourself about once a week and just being aware
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of your weight and aware of what you're eating is enough for you to make changes in your daily life
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to cause you to lose weight
