Vertical Leap Exercise To Do In The Pool

April 1, 2015

Uh oh, I messed up…

My mom is going to kill me when she watches this video.

I’m wearing no shirt and you can see my tattoos.

Haha, just joking. My mom loves my tats!

My dad on the other hand…well, that’s a different story.

But it’s all good because I’m here to help you improve and if that means exposing my half naked body to the world then so be it.

I honestly was a little worried about releasing something online for the WHOLE world to see with my shirt off, but then I realized it’s not a big deal because haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate hate no matter what.

Ok, sorry no more joking around lets get right into this weeks video where I show you a vertical leap exercise you should do in the pool.

I don’t want to confuse anyone, because there are much much better things you can do to increase your vertical leap than this, but I will be slowly releasing new vertical leap exercises that are all to be done in the pool and once they are all live you will have yourself a complete workout that you can do.

And once you have the complete workout you will have something you can add to your weekly training schedule to directly improve your on court athleticism.

Lets get into the video now and after it I’ll make sure to break it all down and give you some more details.

So just like I said in the video you are going to be doing:

3 Sets Of 8 reps

It is important that you really swing your arms up because you will notice that this is where you feel the most resistance.

If you can improve the rate at which you do that then you will also help you jump higher in the games.

The reason that vertical leap exercises that you do in the pool are great for basketball players is that most players deal with knee injuries at some point in their career and by training in the pool their is not much impact on the knees and you can still strengthen your legs.

The pool is most commonly used in rehabbing injuries due to the fact that it adds resistance while removing impact.

Video Transcription

Hey guys, Augie Johnston at BallerBootCamp.com, Make sure you subscribe. I release a video every Wednesday. Now today I have a vertical leap exercise for you today that you are going to be doing in the pool. Every time you are in the pool you can work on this and the reason this exercise is so effective is well I'll tell you guys that at the end of the video. So, first like I said this is a vertical leap exercise that works in your form. So what you want to do is you want to get water about armpit height. So I am going to cut right now and I'll see you guys in a second. 
Okay. So now that we are here What we will be doing is that we will be going down and and we will be jumping up two feet and we will bring our arms as far back as we can. And we will are gonna throw as fast as we can forward and to try to use the momentum of our arms working on our technique to jump as high as we can out of the water now. So you are gonna bend down to about parallel with the floor of the pool, should be armpit height, and I will be doing now is jumping up and I'll show you guys in full speed right now. Okay. So what I want your guys to do with is do three sets of eight of that exercise anytime you're in the pool and you want to get a quick little vertical leap workout.
As far as what makes it such a great drill is because we are working on our form with resistance. Okay. So, it's one thing to go outside and work on your form just jumping, your jumping form which is great but what you can do with resistance and that's going to help improve your jumping ability. So make sure you guys subscribe, click that button below. Click the like button if you found this useful and watch more videos like this and leave your comment and let me know of any other pool workout exercise that you know of. All right, guys, we'll see you next Wednesday. My shorts came up. Let me tie them.

Chris & Sam Hytinen
Reply May 11, 2015

Augie,

Sam my 12 year old son will really like performing this exercise in our pool this summer! Keep up the good work! Chris Hytinen (Dad).
- Augie Johnston
  Reply May 13, 2015
  
  That’s great to hear! I have plans to post ALOT more pools stuff.
  - Daniel J Gonzalez
    Reply June 9, 2015
    
    Make more videos of vertical leap exercises
Daniel J Gonzalez
Reply June 7, 2015

Augie can you make another video for a vertical leap beacause I am a 14 year old 5’6 and I really want jump higher I want accomplished so If you can do that for me I’ll be very happy…
- Augie Johnston
  Reply July 12, 2015
  
  Yeah I’ll try my best to do that for you.

Vertical Leap Exercise To Do In The Pool

3 Sets Of 8 reps

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