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Volleyball jump training is very intense but the results are well worth the amount of effort put in. When I say intense, I don’t mean that you will be spending hours in gym, but you will be go all out with the exercises you should be doing. Make sure not to over-train your body when doing any sort of jump training program. People tend to want to do too much to quickly and then they get frustrated that they aren’t seeing results from their over-training. The human body does not respond well to being over-trained when it comes to jumping. You have to make sure that you are giving yourself enough time to rest between workouts. If you can barely walk, don’t try to do a plyometric workout, rest a day or two more and it will be for your benefit.

That said, lets look as some great plyometric exercises for volleyball you can do to help you learn how to jump higher. The first exercise is the clean. Cleans are very important because they build explosive speed while also developing strength in your legs and low back. You need a strong core to be able to jump high and cleans help build the core for jump training. Once you can do your weight on the cleans, you will be ready to start a real plyometric workout which will include box jumps.  Read more...

Volleyball is a sport unlike any other and it requires you to be able to jump and be very explosive in many movements. The best thing you can do to guarantee a spot on any volleyball team is to be able to jump higher than other people. This is not impossible even if you can’t jump high right now. If you understand the human body and how it works you will realize that jumping is just like any other skill you can improve. You can increase vertical leap for volleyball just as easily as you can train your body to pass well or set the volleyball well.

To increase your vertical you have to train specifically for that, it won’t happen by just playing a lot of volleyball. You need to follow a jump program that is well designed and chances are that if you are in high school your coach does not have the expertise to increase your vertical jump to the potential that could be reached so it’s up to you to take matters into your own hands. In fact I would dare say that 99% of coaches don’t know the proper way to train for vertical jump increases.

So how do you go about increasing your vertical for volleyball? Easy, you work at it. Find out what muscles in your legs are the weakest and start with those. You can’t have 1 muscle way weaker than another. You need to do training with weights on separate days from training with jumping exercises known as plyometrics.