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In basketball vertical jump ability is key to maximum success on the court. Here are two different exercises you can do to jump higher. The first is ankle bounces. In ankle bounces you stand with your feet a little closer than shoulder-width apart. Jump using only your calf muscles and pushing off of your toes. This exercise will improve your calve strength which is crucial to jumping higher. The other exercise is jump squats. In jump squats you need to crouch down into a squatting position and jump from that position. As you land you want to land in squatting position just like what you jumped from so you can jump again. Continue this for however many repetitions you decide.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 2:46 am and is filed under Sports.