Jumping high has a lot to do with what types of exercises you do as part of your vertical training. The most important thing is to train for power and not for endurance. This may seem like common sense but there many jump training programs that have endurance training workouts in them.

So here we are going to look at the 2 best vertical jump training exercises to increase vertical leap. The science behind jumping is known as plyometrics and in order to improve your jump height, you have to train both muscle gain and speed.

Squats are among the best exercises for legs, but in order to apply them to jumping you need to do jump squats. This means that you will be using much lighter weight and jumping off the ground as high as you can, then landing back into another squat. Make sure you use light enough weight to go through these with good speed. If you feel yourself slowing down a little bit, it's time to lighten the weight.

Box jumps are a great way to teach you muscles to react quicker when jumping. When you do box jumps you need to focus on doing them as fast as possible. This means you should not reset yourself before every jump. You need to treat the ground as if it were hot coals. Try to only touch the ground for the little amount of time as possible.

Jump squats and box jumps are very important exercises and can improve you jumping ability greatly.