You’ve heard it before probably more than a hundred times over but the saying that “Practice makes perfect” is actually true. However, practicing jump does not just mean that you should go up and down with no actual force or effort. In practicing jumping, the best way to improve is by practicing the way you would jump in your sport.

If you are a basketball player who dreams of dunking ball after the other, find a ring and do exactly that. Once you have already mastered dunking in that ring, find a higher one and try to dunk again. You are slowly pushing your body out of its comfort zone, making it exert more effort to move forward faster and making it adapt to what you want it to do sooner.

However, take note that practicing jumping that is specific to your sports does not cover all the aspects you need to take note of when aiming for a higher jump. Some areas, say weight training, still needs to be performed in the gym or your backyard using weights.

If you want to jump higher in basketball, it is important that you know what exactly it is that will make you do just that will yield results faster. This way, your body will be more accustomed to it and it will give immense improvements faster than you can say “Shoot that ball.”