How come i can jump higher with 2 legs i jump high but when its one leg i cant jump as high?

p.s i am a basketball player


and any good workouts to jump higher on one leg?


ill really appreciate it|||Hm, I'm the other way.





But heres a vert. workout explanation, and if you want a formal one, edit your question asking for one by the books.





Hit the weights. Before anything, you have to put some muscle on your legs. Everybody always focuses on the calves, but thats only a small percentage of where your jumping power comes from. Training your glutes and quads are the most important part of the dunk. Do exercises like dead lifts, squats, and leg presses. Have one heavy day and one light day a week, with strict form. Just do 50 calve raises for each leg a day. 25 in the morning and 25 in the evening, and that should take care of your calves.








Plyometrics. After a month of just weightlifting with legs, do some plyometric exercises. You can do some weird jumps and awkward moves, but if you want to gain some hops simply, go with the old fashioned jump rope. Buy some 3-10 pound ankle weights, strap them on, and do at least 200 jumps Mon-Fri. Also, do raise jumps. These are when you jump as high as you can with your hands on your head and bringing your knees up to your chest. Do 15 jumps every other day. You can do other exercises after your body gets used to these to shock your body.








Stretching. If you stretch every morning after you wake up, prepared to gain some hops FAST. Not many people know this, but stretching helps loosen up your muscles, causing them to avoid injury, cramps,and fatigue. It helps to gain looser muscles to maximize your leap, move them faster, and utilize them to their full ability. Without stretching daily, your only loosing your vertical jump.











Abs. They help you with everything physically, including your vert. People always do exercises that have up to 25 reps. Why not treat them like a normal body part that you are trying to get bigger and stronger? When you bench, the only way your going to go heavier is if you add weight. Long story short if you add weight to your ab excercise that WONT cause you back strain, I wouldn't be surprised if you had an 8 pack in less than half a year, of course if minimal fat and maximal protein and calories. One of the best ab excercises is the ab pull down, which is when you go to a normal pull down machine, hold on to the handles, get on your knees with your body straight,








After you have been training for about 3 months, take a week off of any leg related exercises. This will help your legs tremendously.








Eat like an animal. If you wont to become one you have to eat like one. If you are between the ages of 13 and 22, you should be having at least 3000 calories a day, and one gram of protein per pound of body weight.








Get rest. That's where you get strong. If you do these kinds of activities then you should be getting at least 8 hours of sleep a night and no more than 13 hours a night.








Supplements are great for you. But not steroids or HGH or anything like that. |||two leg jumping uses more strength and a little bit slower muscle contraction than 1-foot jumping. People who are better off 1 foot have better plyometric ability than strength. It is very difficult to switch from being better at one to the other.


If you improve either of the two jumping styles, you'll improve both. You pretty much do the same stuff for either, but you can kind of tweak things a little bit to focus on one or the other. For example, when doing plyometrics, you want to limit your ground contact time as much as possible to focus on 1-foot jumping.


Either way, you need to develop strength and explosiveness, with strength being the first step. Check out this guy http://youtube.com/jumptrainer His website is great.|||one leg calf lifts.


put the front of your foot on a edge, like the stairs, and push your body up, you can use dumbbells to increase results|||Jumping off of 2 legs in basketball is better than 1