Tips on Jumping Height

There's a good deal of preparatory exercises to help you build up to the point of being able to jump as high as you want to. Here are some tips.

Jumping is like one big squat. It also helps a deal with your flipping height. Exercises that you can do are things like squats, pistol squats, jumping squats, and jumping lunges. Also, weighted squats help with jumping height. Since squats are a jumping motion without your feet leaving the ground, I'll stress those the most since they're the best exercise for jumping.

   If you don't have access to weights, there's always the body weight alternatives. You have squats, jumping squats, pistol squats, and those weird lunge variations. Doing things like jumping as high as you possibly can as many times as you possibly can across your backyard or something would be great for getting height gain. Practicing the motion helps a lot.

   Now that I've covered stationary jumping height, we'll talk about momentum now.

   Do you ever see people break dancing, doing parkour, tricking, gymnastics, or just plain showing off and wonder how they could possibly get so high? There's an art to it.

   Momentum is where it all comes from first of all. Running is the key part to getting your height, but remember that punch I talked about in front flips? Same thing with running and jumping as high as you possibly can. Slam dunking a basketball is a different story because you can't throw your hands, but with general jumping height to do something like a divers somersault where you run and jump as high as possible and dive into a somersault.

   Or generally running and jumping over something. How hard could it be? It's not very hard, but to gather momentum and get some decent height, you have the glide, the punch, and the crunch. The crunch is when you crunch your legs in to avoid additional objects or whatever. Usually it's a natural response, so it's not too hard.

   Good luck.