When you think about the very best volleyball players you know, what is the first thing that comes to mind? What do they all have in common? I would bet that they all have the ability to jump high! If your goal is to be a great volleyball player yourself, then you must learn how to jump higher, which is where this jump manual will come into play. This jump manual will help to increase your vertical leap through the use of plyo-metric exercises.

The wonderful thing about volleyball is that you never have to jump while actually having to hold the ball like you do in the game of basketball. This is to the players advantage because it can actually add inches to their vertical leap with a good arm swing. The jump manual will show players how their arms should always stay straight as possible, then go back behind them as far as possible in order to help them get to most out of their jump.

Then the jump manual will look at some plyo-metric exercises that will aid players who play volleyball. Plyo-metrics are seeing how fast you can jump on something in a certain length of time. The type of exercise is known as the box jump. The box jump is where the player will get a box that is at a height that is fairly difficult to jump on. They will time themselves to see exactly how many times they can jump up on the box within in ten seconds. Some may feel that ten seconds is a short period of time, but you want to train speed and explosiveness, not endurance.

The jump manual will also take a look at an exercise know as ball trow, which are great since the player will be using a weighted medicine ball. The player stands near a wall, squats with the ball, then jumps up and throw the ball as high on the wall as your can. When doing this exercise, only do ten, but trying to do them as high as you possibly can. Focus on jumping as high as you possibly can each time.