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Jennifer Didonato: Hi! Welcome to MadefitTv. I'm your host Jennifer Didonato and this is episode number 63. That's right. 63, we're getting up there. MadefitTv is everyone source for health and fitness information and entertainment. And its were fit bodies don't just happen, they're made. So, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much, once again for all the emails that I've received during my holidays. I was on vacation, honeymoon for my wedding, I got married in Los Vegas.So, if you wanted to see some pictures of all the crap that I check out number 62. It was very good, well by the way. So, I'm half a new back and getting back to my routine. Now, speaking of routine there is something that you can incorporate into yours if you want to drum roll, jump higher. I'm going to show you some techniques to incorporate in your program to help you with your vertical jump. I know a lot of guys like to do that kind of stuff, you know with the basket ball and just with overall training, but I'm wanted to incorporate some new ladies out there; you doesn't have to be -- you don't to be super perfect. I think lot of times people tend to shy away from certain sports specific trainings because they think that they have to be like awesome at it, and it's not case. It's all about personnel goals and that's we want to work on today. Now, the reason why vertical jumps are important, it incorporates plyometrics, which you can check out in one of my previous episodes about plyometrics. But what it does is, is it basically challenges your muscles in a contracting stage as well as the lengthen stage because you want to control as well and that improves and optimizes your overall muscle tone, your muscle strength, your muscle endurance. Also, if you're feeling like you're in a plat tone, you know what? This is something you can try, they could also increase fat burning possibly because you're working in those higher heart rate as soon as you're hitting those high heart rates in intervals. So to start, first I just want to say, you want to make sure that you are conditioned slightly, you want to be able to squat a good amount of weight about half of your body weight or at least leg press about half of your body weight to start trying these moments. If not, check out some of my other leg on MadefitTv episodes to start working you right up to it, so you can do this episode right now. So, to start I want you to grab, you know whatever pound weight you have because if you've never done this before like any additional pound that you're going to be adding is going to be on helping and improvement of your jump. So you're going to want to hold either plate weight or a bar bell or a dumbbell, you want your feet to be parallel to each other, so its little bit and your feet about hip width apart. I want to give me about 15 jumps, I want you do squats, so you're in a sitting position, you know your knees are over like saying the ankles, your butt is down, you're going squat and jump. What I want you to do is control on the downward, see how I'm exploding on the jump, its falling down on the downward, exhale at the top as high as you can, as high as you can when you're doing your quads, your knee starts to die, I don't know how many that's been so far, it has been a lot of time. Now I want you to set it down immediately after those. I want you to do jump squats without the weight as high as you can. You're going to notice, you can jump higher without the weight. Male Speaker: great into the back. Jennifer Didonato: Yes. Male Speaker: You swinging it. Jennifer Didonato: That's a good point. What Chris just said, it's like with bad, you know when you're a baseball player and you put a weight on your bat and you're swinging it. When you're doing, you're just conditioning your body to put the amount of force against it, but you're adding weight. So, it tricks your muscles, it tricks your body because your body thinks obviously, I need to just put on like 10 or 20 extra pounds, that was a 20 pound weight I shouldn't have used it for this only crap. About squatting you earlier, and definitely squatting now. So, another good thing to use also are those weighted vests that you could use. Trying that, do it maybe a few days or week you can't feel the burn the next day or that lactic acid, you know the muscle tares a little bit. So, make sure that you give yourself a good recovery about two days. Let's go and announce me. So, the next movement that you can try after you can listing with that is you want to do, you want to try some elevations, you know I have a box here got it -- fall of the ground roughly. So what you want to do is, after you've done that for a couple weeks or maybe if you feel confident, you want to try it on elevations, but the key here is to make sure that you're controlling on the downward and you also want to focus on -- you don't want slam your feet on the box, you want to have your feel parallel to each other, just like I showed you. You're going to jump up. Control. Jump down and control, try to keep the chest up, nice and controlled. So the more you do that and you feel like, oh, that's not too bad. I want to increase the height go for, and then you're going to notice that you're jumping higher and higher and it doesn't feels hard as it did when you're using the weight. You're jumping higher; you can even do it, go up in the baseball court and try hitting the rim has and -- Chris always does or even by one of those measurement things you can plan your wall and see. Now that's one way to do it and you can also improve your agility by jumping over a box and controlling, jumping over and so you clear the box. What I want you to clear the box. What I want to focus on to is making sure that you're not slamming your feet, you want to control because that is working the muscles on the lengthen stage. Meaning, when your muscle is not contracted, but you still want to control it like I always, you know the best example on a bicep curl when you're contracting, but then you're also resisting the weight on the downward because when you released your muscles lengthen. What you want to do is challenge on the release, so that is what the plyometrics does. And you'll notice the more you do this, increase the weight on those jumps, before you do the other jumps, you're going to notice higher and how you're going to feel away more on you may quicker on your feet, it's great for hockey players, its great for basket ball players, soccer players or just to incorporate into everyday routine. Now, if you have any questions please email me at jenny@madefittv.com, I just want to say and I wish something beginning that these workouts that I do -- sometimes I get emails where people are like, you know do that's not, you know that's not hard enough or you know what you're talking about, you got to do this on anything. These videos are made for everyone. I don't want to single anyone out and I want to be just for beginners or just for advanced people this is something that everyone can use. So, if you feel like certain things are not challenging enough, I highly encourage you to increase the weight or increase the reputations or do whatever it takes to help challenge you. So, I just want to open everyone's mind to different types of training. So that said, let me now how you feel Jenny@madefittv.com and you can also subscribe to MadefitTv and I know lot of YouTubers are there. If you want to see more of my videos, just subscribe to MadefitTv. You just click on it and go to the link subscribe and there you go; you get the updates, the earliest updates on the videos, emails that right to you and also one - what is that iTunes. And on iTunes you can subscribe through there as well and you can even also give a review on iTunes. We'd like know what you guys think and I'm also on Twitter, I love talking people on Twitter@jennydidonato. I'm on Facebook@jennydidonato and just get me on email me, message me I love to hear from you guys. So, thanks so much for joining us for this episode of MadefitTv. I think, I'm finally starting to cool down right now, like you know maybe you guys can send me a video and show me or send me a link to your plyometrics or certain advances that you guys have made you know maybe we can do like a pushup, you challenged against you. You probably win. Alright, thanks so much for joining. I'll see you next time. Bye. What's up guys, everytime after an episode I like to chat with my viewers, so if you are wondering. Well, why isn't she chatting with me? I can, you can go to madefittv.com and go to chat with me live and every Saturday afternoon I chat with the viewers right after my podcast and you can even watch the podcast live, sometimes you can catch a little blueprint and all, and then so I definitely want you guys to join me. And if you like to, I can answer your questions check on madefittv.com at noon on Saturdays.

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Jennifer Didonato: Hi! Welcome to MadefitTv. I'm your host Jennifer Didonato and this is episode number 63. That's right. 63, we're getting up there. MadefitTv is everyone source for health and fitness information and entertainment. And its were fit bodies don't just happen, they're made. So, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much, once again for all the emails that I've received during my holidays. I was on vacation, honeymoon for my wedding, I got married in Los Vegas.So, if you wanted to see some pictures of all the crap that I check out number 62. It was very good, well by the way. So, I'm half a new back and getting back to my routine. Now, speaking of routine there is something that you can incorporate into yours if you want to drum roll, jump higher.

I'm going to show you some techniques to incorporate in your program to help you with your vertical jump. I know a lot of guys like to do that kind of stuff, you know with the basket ball and just with overall training, but I'm wanted to incorporate some new ladies out there; you doesn't have to be -- you don't to be super perfect. I think lot of times people tend to shy away from certain sports specific trainings because they think that they have to be like awesome at it, and it's not case. It's all about personnel goals and that's we want to work on today.

Now, the reason why vertical jumps are important, it incorporates plyometrics, which you can check out in one of my previous episodes about plyometrics. But what it does is, is it basically challenges your muscles in a contracting stage as well as the lengthen stage because you want to control as well and that improves and optimizes your overall muscle tone, your muscle strength, your muscle endurance. Also, if you're feeling like you're in a plat tone, you know what? This is something you can try, they could also increase fat burning possibly because you're working in those higher heart rate as soon as you're hitting those high heart rates in intervals.

So to start, first I just want to say, you want to make sure that you are conditioned slightly, you want to be able to squat a good amount of weight about half of your body weight or at least leg press about half of your body weight to start trying these moments. If not, check out some of my other leg on MadefitTv episodes to start working you right up to it, so you can do this episode right now.

So, to start I want you to grab, you know whatever pound weight you have because if you've never done this before like any additional pound that you're going to be adding is going to be on helping and improvement of your jump. So you're going to want to hold either plate weight or a bar bell or a dumbbell, you want your feet to be parallel to each other, so its little bit and your feet about hip width apart. I want to give me about 15 jumps, I want you do squats, so you're in a sitting position, you know your knees are over like saying the ankles, your butt is down, you're going squat and jump. What I want you to do is control on the downward, see how I'm exploding on the jump, its falling down on the downward, exhale at the top as high as you can, as high as you can when you're doing your quads, your knee starts to die, I don't know how many that's been so far, it has been a lot of time.

Now I want you to set it down immediately after those. I want you to do jump squats without the weight as high as you can. You're going to notice, you can jump higher without the weight.

Male Speaker: great into the back.

Jennifer Didonato: Yes.

Male Speaker: You swinging it.

Jennifer Didonato: That's a good point. What Chris just said, it's like with bad, you know when you're a baseball player and you put a weight on your bat and you're swinging it. When you're doing, you're just conditioning your body to put the amount of force against it, but you're adding weight. So, it tricks your muscles, it tricks your body because your body thinks obviously, I need to just put on like 10 or 20 extra pounds, that was a 20 pound weight I shouldn't have used it for this only crap. About squatting you earlier, and definitely squatting now. So, another good thing to use also are those weighted vests that you could use. Trying that, do it maybe a few days or week you can't feel the burn the next day or that lactic acid, you know the muscle tares a little bit.

So, make sure that you give yourself a good recovery about two days. Let's go and announce me. So, the next movement that you can try after you can listing with that is you want to do, you want to try some elevations, you know I have a box here got it -- fall of the ground roughly. So what you want to do is, after you've done that for a couple weeks or maybe if you feel confident, you want to try it on elevations, but the key here is to make sure that you're controlling on the downward and you also want to focus on -- you don't want slam your feet on the box, you want to have your feel parallel to each other, just like I showed you. You're going to jump up. Control.

Jump down and control, try to keep the chest up, nice and controlled. So the more you do that and you feel like, oh, that's not too bad. I want to increase the height go for, and then you're going to notice that you're jumping higher and higher and it doesn't feels hard as it did when you're using the weight. You're jumping higher; you can even do it, go up in the baseball court and try hitting the rim has and -- Chris always does or even by one of those measurement things you can plan your wall and see.

Now that's one way to do it and you can also improve your agility by jumping over a box and controlling, jumping over and so you clear the box. What I want you to clear the box. What I want to focus on to is making sure that you're not slamming your feet, you want to control because that is working the muscles on the lengthen stage. Meaning, when your muscle is not contracted, but you still want to control it like I always, you know the best example on a bicep curl when you're contracting, but then you're also resisting the weight on the downward because when you released your muscles lengthen.

What you want to do is challenge on the release, so that is what the plyometrics does. And you'll notice the more you do this, increase the weight on those jumps, before you do the other jumps, you're going to notice higher and how you're going to feel away more on you may quicker on your feet, it's great for hockey players, its great for basket ball players, soccer players or just to incorporate into everyday routine. Now, if you have any questions please email me at jenny@madefittv.com, I just want to say and I wish something beginning that these workouts that I do -- sometimes I get emails where people are like, you know do that's not, you know that's not hard enough or you know what you're talking about, you got to do this on anything.

These videos are made for everyone. I don't want to single anyone out and I want to be just for beginners or just for advanced people this is something that everyone can use. So, if you feel like certain things are not challenging enough, I highly encourage you to increase the weight or increase the reputations or do whatever it takes to help challenge you. So, I just want to open everyone's mind to different types of training. So that said, let me now how you feel Jenny@madefittv.com and you can also subscribe to MadefitTv and I know lot of YouTubers are there.

If you want to see more of my videos, just subscribe to MadefitTv. You just click on it and go to the link subscribe and there you go; you get the updates, the earliest updates on the videos, emails that right to you and also one - what is that iTunes. And on iTunes you can subscribe through there as well and you can even also give a review on iTunes. We'd like know what you guys think and I'm also on Twitter, I love talking people on Twitter@jennydidonato. I'm on Facebook@jennydidonato and just get me on email me, message me I love to hear from you guys. So, thanks so much for joining us for this episode of MadefitTv. I think, I'm finally starting to cool down right now, like you know maybe you guys can send me a video and show me or send me a link to your plyometrics or certain advances that you guys have made you know maybe we can do like a pushup, you challenged against you. You probably win. Alright, thanks so much for joining. I'll see you next time. Bye.

What's up guys, everytime after an episode I like to chat with my viewers, so if you are wondering. Well, why isn't she chatting with me? I can, you can go to madefittv.com and go to chat with me live and every Saturday afternoon I chat with the viewers right after my podcast and you can even watch the podcast live, sometimes you can catch a little blueprint and all, and then so I definitely want you guys to join me. And if you like to, I can answer your questions check on madefittv.com at noon on Saturdays.

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How to Jump Higher

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