The Most Important Muscle For Jumping

Today’s podcast is all about the quads! Their function and role in jumping, and what exercises best target it for most transfer to vertical jump gains.
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[@Clumsykae]

Tibialis raises and deep knee squats + careful warmups and listening to your body completely changed my athletic life

[@Whocares-z6v]

Crazy that listening to Isaiah's body would change your life like that. 😉 grammatic congruence, bro

[@Clumsykae]

@@Whocares-z6v 😭 bro

[@xwsora8664]

Dont lie, you can increase your vertical in a short amount of time a lot. I started training my tibs yesterday and now I can jump over the backboard off vert at least 70+ inches thanks to tib raises

[@yarn_boi]

Wow ❤ 💀💀💀

[@Grinchroy1]

watchout for the power lines ... i nearly got shocked de other day

[@logi-operations]

so inspiring

[@winz319]

that thumbnail is wild

[@timothyalarcon9184]

Yea i work that out twice a day and not seeing the results

[@qzplayspiano]

probably fatigued you gotta let your body recover and then you see results

[@Clumsykae]

@@timothyalarcon9184yeah maybe twice a day is too much, the body makes micro tears in the body then proteins fill in the spaces, you probably not giving your body enough time to fill those in and recover, recovery, rest is just as important as the workout and work ethic so it’s good to break sometimes

[@Lavdrim.Elmazi]

My favourite channel

[@HonLual]

The South Sudan kid they’re talking about. His name is Jimma Gatwech

[@JakeHJumps]

Thanks coaches ❤ just stared at myself in the mirror for an hour feeling my abs

[@anthonyanaya849]

Austin really needed that hug at the end

[@awedee.0]

I've recently incorporated an oscillating board into my training and was surprised what a week worth of training did✊🏽

[@rubenbettis2984]

Ouch.. Almost felt like a slight during the intro 😅 Happy to see you all still killin it and grinding none the less 💪🏽

[@qzplayspiano]

a few days ago for some reason i started jumping the highest i’ve ever jumped and i just started throwing down dunks. ended up jumping for like four hours i was having so much fun and now 3 days later my quads are still dying 😅

[@bendunksdpt]

“You can’t be a skater boy see ya later boy…” 🤣I love that song

[@Fingolfin30]

There’s not much of a difference between my standing vertical and approach vertical. Should I just be doing approach jumps more, or is there something more general to do? For example, lifting or sprinting.

[@LL-rc2ol]

i struggle wid samr ting

[@ates423]

I struggle with the same thing years ago haha now I’m dunking with both hands and improved it a little. I can’t jump higher off of speed still but my two-three step approach is much better than my standing now. Work on your quick contact time jumps, your penultimate step, powercleans, as well as box jumps

[@tommyprogress]

You might have bad technique or have not accumulated a lot of approach jumps over ur life

[@kylarsimmons]

Thanks lil bro

[@loukylouk6]

Love you guys

[@MagnoliaFN]

He said we should be (as a beginner ) squatting every other day but what king of squats like what would a complete beginner program look like for u to get ur bounce up ?

[@krisboudreau3475]

I think deep pause high bar squats as a foundation then u can do different partial ranges like box squats and pin squats. Quarter squats, half squats, parallel (powerlifting standard) and deep ATG squats. IMO every other day is too much, I think twice a week hard leg day is best and the rest of days rest or active recovery

[@alvikorlov]

Love it!!

[@jakobsmith6020]

could you guys make a video about cycles and how to program them?

[@MrChristwyman1]

i stopped progressing because of tearing my patella, glad to almost be back healthy

[@JJBed]

Isaiah eating the mic as usual in the intro

[@zedintheshed]

Thanks for the rotation information was wondering how long i should go before awitching my routine. Is an excercise like overload eccentric squats a transferable variation for a standard back squat or how do you determine which excercises can be subbed in? If anyone knows thatd be helpful

[@pond.filler-4503]

Hi isaiah I always thought posterior/hip strength is the most important factor for jumping, so is quad strength more important than posterior strength?

[@RUNITSTRAIGHT]

would be wicked if isaiah planted off a pressure plate unfatigued w/ a superslowmo high fps, high resolution camera & some blue danube playing in the background..

[@Stofferdyret]

John recommends 2-3 workouts per week per training cycle and 2-3 knee extension variations per training cycle. Does this mean that every workout should have a different "main lift"? Like back squat monday, front squat Wednesday and Bulgarian split squats friday?

[@Hensley_Jb]

Of course

[@Patriots2004]

Is there an equivalent exercise in terms of value that you get out of it if you do not have any knee extension equipment at your home gym?

[@davidopoku-ware2183]

How limited would a person be in doing body weight exercises to build quads?

[@madhavcb8168]

You guys need to seriously up your content making level.

[@jackbros3M14]

Woahh..🇵🇭 flag… who’s Filipino in these group?

[@lorenzofumagalli4846]

Sorry for the ignorance, what does OES means?

[@arkive19]

I see the Boricua flag back there 🇵🇷 wepa!

[@MrNastradamus96]

what is that word they keep saying? holy? ollie? owli? when he talks about the 3 progressions - jump progression, olly? progression and squat progression

[@alan-uv9wb]

Maybe olys like olympic lifts but im not sure

[@MrNastradamus96]

yeaah that would make sense- i think you’re right

[@paytonpp5549]

I have noticed that, as a volleyball player who is mainly jumping 2 foot right left, that my right VMO is way bigger than my left one. Should I try and balance this out?

[@becool4961]

I've got the same situation, I've still never got injured because of it but it might be a problem.

[@fubagaming5780]

Is it possible to increase vertical during offseason while still doing skill work for basketball.

[@Hensley_Jb]

Ofc. Plan appropriately

[@111soreal]

Is it ok to do leg curls?

[@joeynavaja133]

Proud Filipino here ❤

[@rayman2935]

Isint it the tibaialis anterior and the tear drop muscle?!

[@maxnels20]

no it’s obviously the psoas

[@luisbacaicoa7978]

What is austin yapping about

[@Tbell3007]

Can you bulk up and gain vertical at the same time? I dont know because if i train hard 2-3 times a week on jumping and running i wont really gain much weight, but if i dont do that and gain weight, then i wont be able to jump as high.

[@kyleanderson8670]

Depends on variables, if you are a two foot jumper who is clean bulking in a science based way, they definitely yes. But if you are a 1 foot jumper who is dirty bulking, you virt will temporarily go down a lot

[@hugocerf.91]

It depend on your actual weight and the quality of the bulk but « bulking » usually means eating trash and too much so be carefull if you want to maintain a good body composition My friend gained 5 kg in 2 month and it’s mainly fat wich is causing him knee pain as a basketball player

[@theheebs100]

1:42 Bruh, my kid woke up at 3: 45 this morning. You have no idea.

[@IsaiahRivera1]

My daughter been coughing all night, I know exactly what you are talking about haha

[@Clumsykae]

@@IsaiahRivera1Papa Rivera with a 50.5 inch vert

[@Hamza_aur]

I feel like the more elastic u are the looser your muscles look? When I started doing plyos my calve muscles started getting a looser look. Almost like the meat is falling off the bone. Like look at Isaiah his muscles look like they’re falling off the bone. Am I onto something or overthinking?

[@Hamza_aur]

@IsaiahRivera1

[@pernal9956]

unfortunately i cant afford the programm

[@yardlycathomas2191]

The thumbnail💀

[@martiallife2850]

❤❤❤

[@donqui672]

Philippine flag

[@Brandanmayhew]

Americano 🪿

[@moneybag_1644]

First

[@defgm7932]

Блин, вы говорите про меня,но я бедный, нету денег на вашу программу.

[@musclelessfitness2045]

Love your videos, but you're wrong 50% of the time, or more. Tyler Currie can jump high while being so skinny. Those jumping Maasai tribes can really getup without any gym workout. In track and field, although they lift some weights, they have less muscles than you guys. Of course it takes training and dedication, but it's mostly all about genetics and body proportions.

[@godofgamers3884]

If you watched the video you would know they recognized outliers like that Sudanese guy Isaiah mentioned exist but they obviously aren't the norm. Maybe they have elite genetics so they don't need jacked quads to jump high but the majority of people need biggish quads to reach crazy verticals. And again if you watched the video you would know that they said that one foot jumpers don't often have jacked quads. Track isn't a two foot jumping sport so it makes sense why they don't have big legs especially the speed jumpers which make up the vast majority of high jumpers. But if you look at power high jumpers and long jumpers, they tend to have very muscular legs.

[@godofgamers3884]

Also claiming they are wrong 50% of the time is a wild claim. I find they provide literally the best information regarding vertical jump. I'm curious as to what else you think they're wrong about.

[@musclelessfitness2045]

@@godofgamers3884 How many jacked people are there in this world that cannot jump high? ... a lot. The majority of NBA players cannot jump as high, even though they train really hard. It's actually an anomaly that these dunkers can jump extremely high compared to regular people or most athletes.

[@IsaiahRivera1]

You completely missed that John said it’s not just about muscle fiber size… it’s also about fiber typing, neuromuscular efficiency, tendon stiffness, rate of force development, and technique. Fiber size just increases the potential for force production. We’ve seen time and time again that when increasing fiber size, an athlete will dramatically jump higher when focusing on those other qualities later on in the year

[@IsaiahRivera1]

*as long as it’s sport specific muscle hypertrophy

[@openanewtoyandplay]

So I will be honest these types of videos don't do it for me. I don't want to feel like I am in medical school. I don't care about technical terms. What exercises work that part of the muscle and don't say squats? I have noticed the highest jumpers are very defined in that area. Front Squats, leg curls, hex? It seems like every damn leg exercise I do only works the back of my legs

[@VudrokWolf]

Maybe you should try another approach, for example I do calisthenics with plyometric movements but focusing on slow motion and progression to faster movements through the session, a lot of isometric holds during the session to recruit muscle mass.

[@Hensley_Jb]

This is how things truly work though. This is how the elite think and work. Just be simple if youre just starting. You shouldn’t be worried about minor differences like which type of quad work yet if you cant understand further complexities

[@YordanosTeshome-vp6rf]

my favourite channel