To extend jumping ability takes time and effort.  Claims of the easiest way to increase jumping ability by a hundred percent in one week aren’t realistic.  You have to have the right coaching, methods and workouts to excite the body to make the obligatory changes. 

If you use the incorrect workout techniques, you may never increase jumping ability.  In this piece, I will give you a few ideas which will help establish a good foundation to make you successful. 

1.  Increase jumping capability by progressively overloading your body so it must make changes.  These changes will enable you improve efficiency, coordination, and ultimately strength.  You should generally start a session with a heat up that is restricted to the activity that you’re going to be doing.  If you’re going for a run, kick off with a light jog, if you are going to lift weights, start with light weights and continuously increase the weight until you are at the workload you plan to use.  When doing exercises to increase jumping capability, you must start off with low level plyometric exercises ( light jumping ) like jump rope, skipping or ankling jumps.  This could get your body prepared for the high magnitude jumping exercises that are truly intending to make the changes. 

2.  Plyometric drills will help to improve the muscle coordination that’s important to increase jumping ability.  It’s no wonder that experts utilize the efficacy of plyometric training to advance their athletes to the next level.  Fundamentally, plyometric drills are jumping exercises.  You do not need fancy hardware to harvest the benefits you want. 

3.  Train fast, get fast!  Jumping is a high speed movement.  to get stronger at high speeds, you need to train at high speeds.  One of my fave witticisms is : Train slow, get slow.  Train fast, get fast!  Muscles reply to the specific coaching that they are put through as well as the rate you use to coach.  To increase jumping capability, you will need to train at high speeds.  Slow squats, dead lifts, and other traditional weight lifting exercises done at slow speeds are great exercises for strength.  However , they are not going to provide the quick transition from deceleration to the strong acceleration wanted to increase jumping ability.  That’s why plyometric training is so effective.

More info on increasing your vertical jump can be found at How to jump higher for basketball and how to increase my vertical.