26.5 inch vertical jump at 6'0 and 209 LBS. Personal Record!

Matt: that was maybe your video ever.

Do you work at Walmart?

What a bizarre place to test one's vertical leap.

Can you dunk a basketball?

26.5 is actually horrendous for your height and weight. You should be over 30. Quite embarrassing actually considering your squat is decent.

coach tj wrote:

26.5 is actually horrendous for your height and weight. You should be over 30. Quite embarrassing actually considering your squat is decent.

450 on a hack squat isn't decent though. Hack squat is around 30 degrees so we're talking 225 + sled weight. Not good.

Swim Bike Run wrote:

coach tj wrote:

26.5 is actually horrendous for your height and weight. You should be over 30. Quite embarrassing actually considering your squat is decent.

450 on a hack squat isn't decent though. Hack squat is around 30 degrees so we're talking 225 + sled weight. Not good.

+1

Hack squats take the core and stabilizer muscles out of the movements. It also more quad than glute dominant, do more deadlifts or cleans

Your hack squat could be 330-370 depending on you hack squat ROM. Hack squats are easier.

3 seconds of video followed by 3 minutes of black screen. You are an interesting fellow!

Zion Williamson weights ~60-70 lbs more and jumps 20" higher

pretty sure he was measured at 40ish

Hack Squat is easier - false.

450 on a hack squat isn’t good - false.

26.5 is bad - correct, with context.

I’m guessing those posting saying hack is easier have never put 200 on a hack squat and given it a try :)

Probably one of the more realistic attestments of your abilities that you've posted.

You do realize that a 26.5 vert. renders all your sprint "timing" completely obsolete, right? You can't boast a 26ish/27ish vert and have anything even CLOSE to your claimed sprint times, I dont CARE about your "accuracy withing the way I time myself" bs. Its not even CLOSE to resembling what your actually doing. At ALL. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A 27" VERT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!!

A 26.5 vert means you're probably sitting right around a 5-flat-ish realisitic 40 yard dash. Breaking eight seconds is your only realistic goal over 60 meters, but you want to go on and on about trying to break seven. Sheeeeeeesh, if you wanted to support that kind of bologna talk, you should have claimed this was a 31" vert.

Why do you do all these like semi-assisted lifts?

Just do a LEGIT squat. Deadlift. Bench.

None of this other stuff means anything.

mattt london wrote:

Matt: that was maybe your video ever.

Was that black screen a belated tribute to George Floyd? Never had ole Matt as an SJW

There is no reason you cant get to 30 inches without increasing your hack squat and I doubt that increasing your hack squat by itself will do much for your vertical. You are incorrect when you say that increasing your squat will increase your power to weight ratio. It will increase your strength to weight ratio but those are different.

If you arent doing power cleans and plyos then you would probably make up most of the difference just from starting there. I have always liked to set up exercises in more along the lines of the french contrast training or potentiation clusters where you combine a strength movement followed by an explosive movement.

Please disregard all the ridiculous numbers people are throwing around on the vertical jump as well. If you can get to 30 inches standing vertical jump you are doing well. In the 2019 NBA draft combine the highest standing vertical was 36 inches and only 13 guys jumped 32 inches or higher. Russel Westbrook for example when he went to the combine only got 30 inches standing vert. The crazy numbers you hear are max vertical vertical where you are allowed to run into the jump. Even then there were only 7 guys in the 2019 combine that went 40 inches or higher. There are a couple of outliers but even then when you hear the crazy numbers those are max vert.

Good times are killing me wrote:

There is no reason you cant get to 30 inches

There's a very good reason. He's not talented enough to attain it.

Correct regarding strength to weight vs power to weight. NBA combine is not the best to use as there is an inverse relationship between height and vertical. The taller someone is, the worse their vertical is due to biomechanical levers and disadvantages of long levers. Better comparison would be NFL combine 6'0, 209 is the average of a Strong Safety - from the 2018 combine:

SS

6' 0.07"

209LBs

225 lb Bench: 18Rep

40 Yd: 4.53, with 1.6 0-10 yd split, 2.58 0-20 yd split.

Vert: 36 5/8

Broad: 10'-2"

height and weight line up with Matt, all the stats do not. If we're talking stats here, the shortest vert from that combine was 29.5. Dude wasn't drafted, wasn't picked up as a free agent, didn't even get a try out in the NFL, and got cut by the AAF.

I agree with what you're saying here. My point really was only that a 30 inch vertical is attainable by the OP, and at the same time a decent mark. I'm not sure he gets there however if his only approach is to increase ho much he can squat.

I'm entirely of the belief that even with proper training, OP couldn't get to 30.

It's unfair claim by me because I can GUARANTEE he would never train properly to legitimately get it, so one could always make the excuse that he just didn't train right and that's why he didn't achieve it.

But to be clear, if he had world class coaches they couldn't get him to 30.

mr. nice guy wrote:

pretty sure he was measured at 40ish

45 at duke!