Thursday 22 January 2015

Vertical training exercises

So vertical training is very cheap you don't need lots of equipment to do it. All you really need is your own body weight and a skipping rope and somthing to jump over. This is what I used to do my vertical training. This is a reason why I kinda decided to do vertical training because you don't need much. I did my vertical training in my garage so it was kinda cold. Oh another thing you need running shoes or volleyball shoes when you do your workout. You can honestly use mostly anything around you to do this workout an example would be like use stairs to do calf raises and don't let your heal go to far down because you could stretch the calf muscle and pull it which would be bad. So that picture you see with the square and says jump on it that's what I did over the 5 gallon pail. I did 10 reps everyday expect sunday, I skipped on both feet 100 times then on one foot I did that with both feet 50 times, then I did quads I used 30 pounds 5 reps 3 times.  

Saturday 17 January 2015

Vertical training 4

So when I was in Hawaii it was a difficult trying to work out on my vertical training when I was on vacation. All you want to do is spend time with your life family and chill by the beach and have a good time. First week I did not to vertical training because the jet leg just killed me and my family. The second week I started to work on my vertical training it was interesting I would watch the clippers play and just work out in front of the tv, I didn't use my skipping rope or jump over anything I just used my own weight. I worked our for the last three weeks I walked on sand for 40+ plus minutes in the hot sun when i got to hot I jumped into the ocean to cool off. But then I realized I could and train in the ocean also so I tried over jumping waves were kinda big but it was fun  or if the wave I would still try but I would get knocked down then I would just get back up and keep going. Then I would walk in shallow water and just walk through the water because the ocean is pushing bad pulling you so that another exercise that I did.

Monday 12 January 2015

Vertical training

Hi my name is Riley and I'm doing my passion project on vertical training I've been playing volleyball for 6 years now school and club volleyball and I've realized that now I need a higher vertical, I'm 6'2 and I have to jump higher if I want to get over blocks all the way over there hands if I want to score more than I do now. It will help me get scouted to colleges or university's in the future because I'm not that big for a volleyball player so I need to help my self in another way which would be to increase my vertical. I want to improve my ability as a volleyball player as much as I can. I'm doing this because I don't want to stop playing volleyball just because you need height for the game so I'm going to help myself to improve my vertical. I've been working on my vertical for almost weeks now and it has been going very well so far. But it's been hard also between volleyball practices and tryouts because I don't want to decrease it so much so I can't jump at all. I stop doing it because it would of been hard for me on my legs to try to jump as hard and high as I can stop I let my legs have rest for three days before I had my tryouts. My tryouts were successful and I made the team that I wanted to be on so we have a month off till I start to practice with my new team. So I'm going to train for that month I have off and when my month is done hopefully my vertical has increases a decent amount to make my game a whole lot better and a interesting year for me as a player.