 on today's video we're going to show you how to increase your vertical jump with a jump rope. What's up players? What's going on ladies and gentlemen? Dan Whitmer from Zen Nude Fitness and today we're going to answer another highly asked question on our YouTube channel. I know I keep saying like this is the most asked question. This is top five most asked question. If you guys like this video please go ahead and give it a thumbs up below followed by a subscribe and then comment and let us know what you thought about the video because guess who answers them? This guy okay. All of our videos are sponsored by this great company Crossrope which makes our favorite jump rope out there that we always use in every single video and it's also the best jump rope on the market guys. 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The jump rope is a fantastic tool for increasing your vertical jump why would you want to increase your vertical jump well you might be a basketball player who's looking to get a leg up on the competition you might be playing soccer you might be someone who just crossfit and just needs to practice more explosive exercise or you might just want to be able to dunk a basketball so when that sexy girl is sitting over to the side it can be like yeah no yeah dunk I don't something I do so one reason that jumping rope is so good for increasing your vertical is you are training all the muscles necessary to execute a vertical jump to jump up and down in the air when you are jumping rope think about it you're just jumping up and down up and down there's very few exercises where you're consistently jumping up and down and training the muscles in every single area of your legs from your calves up to your quadriceps into your hamstrings and the glutes also jumping rope just like a vertical jump is a compound move meaning that you recruit multiple muscles in order to execute that move the more that you train those muscles that are needed to perform the vertical jump the stronger they're going to get allowing you to jump even higher and defy the laws of gravity now this is also the same reason why people like Brandon and myself for more advanced jump ropers can jump rope almost seven days per week and not experiencing not experience any pain because we've trained our muscles to do that it's like the people who can jog five to ten miles a day and don't feel any pain at this point and no soreness because they've trained their muscles to perform that activity a lot let's get into a workout next to maximize your vertical capabilities what I want you guys to do is follow along with me it's a pretty simple circuit so one thing about jumping rope to increase your vertical is you don't want to do traditional skipping like boxer skip yes that's fine but if we're really into if we're really looking into increasing the strength in our calves and specifically for getting a higher vertical jump remember when you do the vertical jump you're jumping off of two feet so we want to jump rope in the same manner one thing I'd like to clarify we get a lot of comments on our channel of people saying hey I'm a soccer player what jump rope workout should I do for soccer and people saying well I'm a basketball player what jump rope workout should I do for basketball I'm a boxer what boxer workout should I do and to be honest with you guys there's not a huge like I'm not going to give you this is the only workout that you need to do to in order to increase your vertical jump just understand that the simple act of jumping rope is a total body exercise so it's going to be effective for whatever sport you do you don't necessarily need to do it in a certain format jumping rope is just good for you in general all right ladies and gentlemen so for today's workouts we're starting off with regular balance and again the reason we're doing that is because when you do the vertical jump you're jumping off of two feet so we want to strengthen those muscles in the motion that we would actually be doing the vertical jump which is just the regular bounce so if you guys see here what I want you to do for this first minute is go at about a moderate pace 65 75 percent in the next 30 second session that's where I want you to speed it up a little bit and kind of train those muscles a little bit faster and faster and faster and faster good guys up next is jump rope regular bounce again and we are just doing 30 seconds of this what I want you guys to do is turn up the intensity a little bit so now we're getting into that 85 90 95 100 percent of your max intensity swing the rope as fast as you can and again guys we're just training that those explosive muscles in and around your calves your thighs your hamstrings so that you can jump high and defy the loss of gravity ladies and gentlemen next up now we're going to isolate each leg muscle so we're going to start with our right and then switch to our left switch back and forth between our right and our left just follow along with me guys as I switch back and forth good and lastly to train the explosive nature of these moves we're in 15 seconds of all out double underskies so remain up on your toes you don't want to ever land flat footed for this but remain up your on your toes and explode in this next part of the video what I want to cover is remember we're talking about how to increase your vertical with the jump rope but there are also other exercises that you can do in combination with the jump rope that will further enhance your ability to jump high for example you can do jump rope circuits in the intervals like we just did in that workout but you can add explosive exercises into it the best way to train yourself to jump high is just train and just jump high so things like box jumps tuck jumps star jumps any of those explosive calisthenic movements are definitely going to help you increase your vertical all right ladies and gentlemen this is dan whittmer from zen dude fitness thank you for tuning in to another tutorial we're here to get you lean we're here to make you happy with the jump rope and your body so if you have any recommendations please let us know and lastly guys if you love this channel if you love what we're doing here it would mean the world to us if you gave a little subscribe followed by a thumbs up for this video and we'll see you on the next one everybody