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You never want to work your leg muscles every day as it will have a negative effect on your jumping ability. Doing them for four to five days per week is sufficiently enough. By doing it every day, giving up after a week or two is most like to happen to you. The idea of exercises especially jumping exercises is to keep you performing them for months, years, or lifetime consistently. Increasing vertical jump exercises are such a good way to become healthy and improve your leaping ability.

Before you start the exercises, you should warm up your muscles first. Stretch properly and do some jogging for a few minutes. You can also do jumping rope if you have a jump rope for the warm up. This will help to get your muscles loose. Doing some stair runs is another great way to get loose and ready for your workout. Once your stretching and warm up exercises are done you can move onto your workout.

To how to jump higher, these exercises will work the best: Start off with deep knee bend squats. This is performed standing and slowly bending the knees while maintaining the straightness of your back. Slowly bend down as low as you can get and then rise up as slowly as you bend down (this should not hurt). You will want to do about 10 to 20 reps and work your way up to more as you get stronger.

The next vertical jump exercises is the deep knee bend jumps. Bend down at the knees and then jump up as high as you can. You want to do 15 reps of this exercise and work your way up to more as you get stronger. Then raise yourself up to your tip toes. Perform this exercise by raising up onto the tips of both your toes in a standing position and then lowering back down. You want to do about 25 to 40 reps of this exercise. If you have weights (5 to 10 pounds), you can hold them while doing this exercise. Following these simple exercises you can start to increase your vertical jump and start to jump higher.