That Thing Looks Intimidating! Is VertiMax Hard to Use?

In short, the answer is ‘no.’ The intimidating look? We can understand that, especially if you’ve never worked with VertiMax before. But what nearly all of our users find is that its uses for agility and speed training become crystal clear the second you begin to use it. Whether it’s a sprinter’s workout or a training program for strength, VertiMax makes life easy.

In fact, our largest customer group consists of parents buying VertiMax for child athletes who average 12 years in age who quickly become familiar with VertiMax and its uses.

With that said, our user’s DVD and training manual come in handy, as do our numerous online videos. While the VertiMax itself can be easy to configure and use, the above-mentioned tools will help greatly in teaching proper form and technique, which is the difference between peak performance or potential injury in anyexercise scenario.

There’s no assembly required either, and the second you take the VertiMax out of the box, it’s equipped for use. Are you ready for the game-changing workout you’ve been waiting for?

What are Some VertiMax Workouts for My Players?

Got five minutes? We’ve got a comprehensive jump training workout for your athletes or team. Designed for athletes from all sporting disciplines, VertiMax jumping workouts are both quick and extremely effective. Here are two of the most comprehensive ones we’ve developed.

Quarter Quick Jump: This exercise, which applies resistance only to the waist, is one of the primary exercises that should be performed in every VertiMax workout. Why? It is the most effective fundamental exercise you can perform to develop explosive leg power. The recommended workout focusing on explosive power consists of 5 to 6 sets of 6-8 repetitions, two to three times per week. The key? Giving it your all on every set. After all, the goal is maximum power. Click on the video to see a demonstration. training-basics

Quarter Quick Jump w/ Leg and Arm Loading This patented exercise, which can only be performed using VertiMax, simultaneously applies loading at the waist and arms while jump training. Did you know that 10-13 percent of vertical jump performance results from arm-swing velocity? That’s the key to this exercise, as it improves both explosive leg power and arm swing velocity to maximize the vertical lift component and maximum jumping height of the athlete. This exercise is recommended for athletes of ages 14 and older who are strong jumpers. As is the case with the quarter quick jump, the recommended workout focusing on explosive power consists of 5 to 6 sets of 6-8 repetitions, two to three times per week. Click on the video to see a demonstration. Click on the video to see a demonstration. training-basics

As you’ll see from the videos, VertiMax’s advantage is that it covers all facets of a jump. And that’s the VertiMax difference!

VertiMax for Basketball Players

Strength does not always equal power. And in basketball, when vertical jumps, lateral quickness and speed are make-or-break abilities, knowing the difference could mean everything to your game.

Consider this tidbit from our website:

Traditional speed and performance training consists mainly of weight training, plyometrics, speed and agility drills, running with parachutes and pulling sleds. All these exercises focus primarily on over loading and improving the power producing capabilities of the quads, gluts and calves, the muscles that provide driving power when our foot is planted on the ground and pushing. That's great for developing power to increase our drive velocity and speed when the foot is planted on the ground. However, when your foot leaves the ground, how fast it can accelerate in the direction you are running and make ground contact to drive again is the other half of the speed equation. Power to generate airborne foot speed will greatly impact how fast you are! And guess what? The muscles that provide the power to accelerate the airborne foot are NOT the quads, gluts and calves; they're the hip flexors, abductors and adductors. If you do not allocate training time appropriately and effectively to those muscle groups, you will never reach your full speed potential.

Included in optimum basketball training are off-platform basketball speed training, broad jumping, acceleration drills, isolated hip flexor and glute training, jumps with arm loading, and lateral shuffles – all done with the game-changing VertiMax system.

Beginning to understand some of the difference? If you are, then you’re not alone. 11 NBA teams are on board, as well, and two should stick out to you right away – the Miami HEAT and Oklahoma City Thunder, the two teams that squared off in the 2012 NBA Finals. The rest are the Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, Denver Nuggets, Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers.

Bruce Weber, head coach of the University of Illinois men’s basketball team agrees, too. "After implementing VertiMax in our off-season strength and conditioning program, our basketball team's cumulative vertical jump capability in shear inches increased by a magnitude that I have not seen in my 26 year coaching career. The VertiMax has made every player on my team a more dominate athlete providing me a more competitive team to work with. After seeing what VertiMax has done for my program in three short months, I can't imagine any coach not making VertiMax an integral part of their team's strength and conditioning program."

Want to learn even more for yourself? Click here! vertimax.com/basketball-training

Why Does VertiMax Work?

You’re skeptical, right? You’re an athlete, after all. What could VertiMax do that the equipment and training that you do in the gym can’t? Well, you’re about to find out.

We looked at all of the movements that would be necessary for powerful, explosive movements in sports and we broke them down. We took everything we knew about training in the gym and built it into a better product that took plyometric training, quite literally, to new heights. In short, we designed VertiMax meticulously.

Did you know, for example, that arm swing velocity accounts for 10 to 13 percent of an athlete’s vertical jump? VertiMax is the only system in the world that can simultaneously train explosive leg power and arm swing velocity by loading both the legs and arms while jump training. This unique feature allows athletes to train all vital explosive elements of the vertical jump for maximum gains.

What’s more? All athletes regularly training the drive or pushing phase of the running motion (squats, plyos and cone drills), but how often do you dynamically load the foot when it breaks contact with the ground? Most athletes never train the muscles that accelerate the leg when it breaks contact with the ground. What does that mean? If you’re one of them, you have a lot of untapped speed potential – potential that only Vertimax can help you develop.

Want to learn more? Click here to learn even more about VertiMax, and how it’s turning good athletes into great ones!  

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