Use the following categories to help you determine what plyometric workouts you need to do to improve whatever you are weakest in.

You need to find out what your jumping weaknesses are and work on them. Use the following categories to help you determine what plyometric workouts you need to do to improve whatever you are weakest in. Improving your weaknesses is easy when you have the right resources, and the resources are right here at your fingertips.

Use the following categories to help you know what aspect of your vertical you need to improve the most. After you have determined your weakest category, you should figure out which plyometrics can fit into the category. You can have more than one category that is weak, so just alternate.

Step 1:

If you are average in every aspect of your vertical, then you do not have to focus on one category. You could just focus on all of the categories. Only work on a specific category if you have an obvious weakness in any aspect of your vertical.

The most common category is vertical jumping height. All plyometrics are designed to improve your vertical height at least a little bit. You want to do exercises that have you jumping high up and put a lot of stress on your legs, teaching them how to jump higher.

Step 2:

Jumping speed is another category. If you want to improve jumping speed find plyometric workouts that require fast movements and a more than an average amount of repetitions. The faster the plyometric workout is, the better. So remember to move quickly when working on this category.

Step 3:

Jumping endurance is key for late in a basketball game, so you should definitely pay attention to this category. The exercises in this category require more repetitions than any other category. Look for workouts with less intensity so you can do a lot of them and work your muscular endurance the most.

Step 4:

Jumping strength is the last of the categories, but is just as important. If you want to break through fouls while jumping then you need to improve jumping strength. Weight lifting is the best way to improve jumping strength. Any exercise that requires weights would work though.

Once you know what category you have the most problems with in your jump, find the exercises that work to improve them. Pretty soon they will no longer be a weakness but strength.