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."

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