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JUMP HIGHER with these 5 Exercises.
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Mar 27, 2025
5 exercises 1. KB Swings 4 x 25 2. Trap Bar Jumps 4 x 5 3. Glute Hip Trusts 10,8,6,5,4,3 while increasing weight 4. Weighted Back Extensions 3 x 10 5. Calf Raises (Toes In, Toes Out, Toes Straight) till failure Once this channel reaches 50k subs, I'll drop a FREE vert program. sub here: Vertical Leap Training Videos: My Ebooks: FREE VERTICAL LEAP TRAINING: www.jclarkthejumper.com Check me out on other Socials Twitter- @jclarkthejumper TikTok- @jclarkthejumper
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What is going on everybody
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Jay Clark the Jumper here and today I'm giving you guys 5 exercises to help you jump higher
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And I'm going to create a challenge today. When my channel, because I'm being positive, when my channel hits 50,000 subscribers
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channel all we got to do is get 50,000 subscribers so share with your friends you know run up the
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content do what you need to do help me get there and I'll give away a free program so without
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further delay I'm going to get into the five exercises that help you jump higher I'm doing
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these all in one workout so they can all be done together to create one good workout the main focus
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of this training today is posterior chain. And if you don't know what your posterior chain is
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it is a chain of muscles in the back of your body. That's where the posterior comes from. Post is the
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back. And the chain just refers to how they link together. So it obviously starts at your traps
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back, glutes, hamstrings, calves, and it's all the muscles that run on the backside of your body
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A lot of these muscles are really active when completing sprinting, jumping, just all athletic movements
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So developing that posterior chain is going to help you jump higher. So we're going to get started with the first exercise, which is a weighted kettlebell swing
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Now, the kettlebell that I'm using, I found a guide online. If I can find it again, I'll post it in the link
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It's a homemade kettlebell. That way I can kind of go a little bit heavier
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It's supposed to be adjustable, but I've had it for a while and it's kind of it's stuck
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But the kettlebell I using is 50 pounds I did Four sets of 25 which is 50 pounds for me is relatively light I a pretty pretty strong guy So this just I using this as somewhat of a warm up get the blood
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flowing get you know get get blood into the areas but the kettlebell swing is a great exercise for
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cardio for jumpers specifically because you're getting that very explosive movement without you
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know being counterproductive to what you do as a jumper. So the kettlebell swing is the first
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exercise that I like. I did four sets of 25. You can play around with the sets and reps but I'm
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using it as a warm-up to get the blood flowing, get the body ready for the exercise. The next
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exercise that I did in this workout is trap bar jumps. So a lot of people use the trap bar as a
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replacement for the deadlift just because the position of holding the trap bar to the side
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is more closely related to vertical jumping than an actual deadlift because with a deadlift
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the weight is sitting in front of you where the trap bar is to the side. So you can kind of load
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your hips a little bit better and it just translates better to vertical jumping. What
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I'm doing with the trap bar jumps is I'm really focusing on amortization phase, that phase in
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between lowering and rising. A lot of people get stuck in that area, so I'm really focusing on
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hitting the ground, applying pressure, and getting off the ground as fast as possible
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With jump training, remember this, quality is more important than quantity. 10 good jumps is
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always going to be better than 1000 mediocre jumps. It's all about quality. So the focus
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here I just doing four sets of five with five quality explosive movements off the ground hit the ground explode off of the ground The third exercise is glute hip thrust Now I discovered this exercise I want to say in 2012
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Brett Contreras, the glute guy, he's been, you know, talking about glute training for
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a long time and I discovered him and I incorporated this in my training and immediately found a
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huge, huge help in my vertical leap training, my sprinting, just having stronger glutes
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And a lot of times, especially as track athletes, when you have injuries, the first thing a
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physio or a PT wants to say is your glutes aren't turned on. So by strengthening my glutes, I have reduced a lot of the injuries that I've had
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And I've noticed that I've jumped a lot higher by incorporating glute hip thrust into my training
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I incorporate when I do my hip thrust I mix it up in today's workout I'm going heavy so we're doing
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high weight with very low rep and I'm just kind of descending as the weight gets heavier
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the amount of reps I do go down and I'm just really focusing on just driving through my glutes
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just you know squeezing my glutes together imagine that there's a marble or a coin and you know you're
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trying to, you know, pinch that coin. One of my coaches says that pinch the coin. And, and
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but it's a, it's a great, it's a great ogy. It's a weird one, but it really helps with the
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glute hip thrust. The fourth exercise is going to be weighted back extensions. Now, obviously
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if you're familiar with my videos, you know, I'm a pretty strong guy. So a lot of the exercise that
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I do I have loaded the weight my biggest recommendation is you know swallow your
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pride find a weight that is challenging but you know attainable as well don't
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just look at you know my videos and say he lifting a lot of weight I gonna lift a lot of weight and then I gonna jump high I put a lot of effort in time to develop the strength to do this so you want to make sure that you building and progressing the right weight if you not able to do back extensions weighted yet
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that's okay but just build into that so I'm doing I want to say 22 pounds 10 kg for weighted back
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extensions and really just focusing on keeping my hips tall in that sideways position and you know
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once again, you know, I'm squeezing, squeezing the glutes, keeping everything tight and, you know
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slow and controlled on the way down and squeezing up on the way up. Fifth exercise to finish off all
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of this, we're just going to do weighted calf raises. And it might not seem like a challenging
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exercise, but this is something, you know, this is a finisher. So you're going to find a, I like
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to call it a challenging weight and then dial it back a little bit and we're going till failure
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So we're loading up the weight. We're going to do three sets, toes in, toes straight and toes out
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That way you're hitting all angles. As a jumper, you come in at a lot of different angles and you
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need to just make sure you're strong in all different positions to be the best jumper that
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you can be. And this is my entire workout. I'll make sure I put the actual workout that I did
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in the description so you guys can check it out. Once again, once this channel gets to 50,000
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