This is great as you will most certainly improve your form and technique with practice, so while this can work over the long term, there are also other additional ways to go about it. One way to do is to pair a heavy compound exercise with some jumps.

Here is a basic workout, or group of exercises that you can add into your leg workout:

Superset 1:

• Heavy Squats (Heavy, but do not compromise form) | 4 sets or between 8 and 6 reps.
• Box jumps. At a comfortable height. Don’t try to go too high when doing this, especially not when starting out. Perform between 5 – 10 reps for each set.

Superset 2:

• Heavy leg press (Again, do not compromise form and control!) | 4 sets or between 8 and 6 reps.
• Box jumps. At a comfortable height. Don’t try to go too high when doing this, especially not when starting out. Perform between 5 – 10 reps for each set.

After a few months of implementing this sort of workout into your routine, you should see some improvement in your box jumps when training them on their own.

 

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Below are a few things to remember and a few exercises or ways to do exercises that you can include in your workouts. Make sure to include some sort of jump work at least once a week.

Jump more

Just jump more, get used to jumping up. To be more specific, swing your arms and jump straight up, bend your legs and bring your knees as high as you can while touching your hands to your knees and then landing back down. You can do these jumps for reps.

Do jump squats

Similar to the free standing jumps in the previous point, with jump squats focus on going down a bit lower when you start. So squat down and then explode up and jump as high as you can. (You don’t need to bring your knees as high for jump squats).

Squeeze

Make sure to contract your abs and core, and squeeze your glutes as you explode upwards into the jump.

Box jumps

Box jumps are a great exercise to increase your jump. They are also a great way to measure your jump and see where you are at. Start low and slowly build it higher and higher as you progress. Do 4 sets of 5 – 8 reps each.

 

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Be consistent

Do not expect to start jumping now and in two weeks think that you will be able to double your jump. It takes time, months and months, of consistent training every week to successfully progress and make your jump look easy and natural.

Land like a cat

If you want to have an effortless and smooth jump, practice the landing. Practice coming down and landing on the balls of your feet lightly. This will take many, many reps of practice.

Weighted box jumps

Another exercise that can be done is to do box jumps with a weight (preferably using a weighted bag) on your shoulders. Don’t worry about jumping extremely high here, rather jump a lower height and be safe.

Olympic lifts

Doing exercises like the snatch, clean, and clean and jerk will help with explosiveness as well as hamstring and glute activation and strength. Basically, this will translate into helping you explode more when you jump.

Strengthen the right muscles

Train your back, glutes and hamstrings in order to get them stronger as a lot of explosive force is generated from theses muscles. Doing compound weighted exercises such as deadlifts, squats, and back extensions can be beneficial and can help strengthen them.

Combine the weights with a jump

Do a set of heavy compound movements such as squats or deadlifts and then go straight onto a few reps of box jumps. You may not jump as high as you would normally jump on the box jumps but this is just fine. Over time you can build it up. Be sure to rest a few minutes in between sets.

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