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In any sports event, where athletes need to jump, vertical jump becomes one of the main key areas where improvement is required to compete with others. Jumping is an explosive movement, and can be improved with extensive training. Most of the basketball professionals, can achieve up to 28 to 34 inches of vertical jump, and this requires both strength and power along with dedicated exercises to reach that capability. You will need to first develop the kind of strength required, and than get on to the power exercises, which are more explosive in nature.

The two kinds of exercises - strength and power

To improve your vertical jump, you would need to go through two kinds of exercises: strength and power.
Strength exercises are softer, and are especially made up of controlled movements, such as squats and step-ups.
On the other hand, power exercises are more explosive. Power exercises should never be taken up without having completed the sufficient amount of strength exercises.

Strength exercises - How are they handled

Strength exercises make you stronger, and prepping you for the power sessions, which will ultimately improve your vertical jump. Strength exercises build within you the endurance that you need which ultimately aids and prepares you for power training. In such exercises, every muscle in the body has been categorized, for women as well as men. For example, there are sets of exercises where you can work-out on your chest, triceps, shoulder and abdominal muscles, while another set the exercises are meant for developing your biceps, back, the leg muscles. It becomes very necessary for you to breathe regularly and correctly while doing the exercises, and also avoid stressing your body. You should always do these exercises under instruction, and repeat the number of sets as suggested. You would need warm up before starting any exercise routine, making sure that you are wearing the right adaptations as required. As you exercise, you should have a spotter present who can help you with the manner in which particular exercise should be performed.

And now for some power exercises

Power exercises, on the other hand, are tougher and explosive. This should be done only after you acquire enough strength to withstand the stress of these kind of exercises. Power exercises provide you with a faster method of improving vertical jump. As an example, using a medicine ball for exercises has proven to be a great way to add those few inches to your vertical jump. However, holding medicine balls in your hands, you wouldn't be in a position to swing your arms as you would want when you are taking a leap, and that will make it harder for you to perform.

While exercising for the improvement of vertical jump, you should increase your body weight with the help of extra weights on your ankle, or by wearing a weight plate. There are restrictions on your exercising performance when you do work-outs with medicine balls. But with weights worn on your body, you will have your arms free to do the jumping exercises. Weight lifting is another exercise which definitely contributes in increasing vertical jump. The primary muscles that start to react as you leap are your quads, hips, glutes, and calves. These are the muscles that get conditioned with power exercises. There are several weight lift exercises that improve these muscle conditions.

When you leap vertically, a very complex muscle movement happens in your body, which requires very close synchronization. The improvement of this synchronization results in improvement of your vertical jumping. The muscles involved require specific development through exercise trainings. The traditional exercises that we know, such as strength training, explosive types of weight lifting training, plyometrics, and Olympic lifting provide you with the right body conditioning to improve vertical jump.

Alex Dale is a fitness expert. You can find his fitness experiences and recommendations posted at the increase vertical jump blog. Just follow along as he posts his thoughts about the subject, and learn how to apply them to your life.

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Sometimes a change of perspective can make a huge difference for parents when their childrens behaviour worries them. This point was evident recently when I was involved in a minor disagreement with one of my daughters.

I was annoyed that she dug her heels in and refused to give me any ground while we discussing the issue of bed-time. As she went off to her room with a victorious look on her face I said through gritted teeth, She can be so pig-headed sometimes. I just wish that she would give in occasionally. She is so determined.

My wife reminded me that my daughters determination was the same quality that I had been admiring on the basketball court about an hour earlier. She was right. I was nearly hoarse cheering my daughter as she ran up and down the court like a terrier. She was involved in every contest, burrowing in, determined to get the ball and do the best for her team. She continually encouraged her team-mates when the game wasnt going their way. Giving up is not in her nature. As a parent I was so proud of her tremendous tenacity and will-to-win.

Yet here I was little more than an hour later cursing the same quality that I admired in a different arena. Her never-say-die attitude in sport had become never-give-in at home and I wasnt comfortable with that.

I cant have it both ways - a daughter who is tiger in sport but a pussy cat at home. The strong-willed girl that I cheer in basketball is not going to become a quiet, acquiescent little thing at home just to appease her father. So I shrugged my shoulders, thankful that my daughter knows what she wants and has the determination to achieve it.

This same determination has been an asset in many areas of her life. It has helped her overcome earlier reading difficulties and is being put to good use as she tries to improve in other areas at school.

My challenge as a parent is to channel her behaviours rather than change her or snuff out her determination to get what she wants. My daughter will learn in time that she cannot always treat every situation head-on and that to get her own way sometimes it is essential to give a little ground. In the meantime I will have to change my own way of dealing with her if we are to avoid unnecessary conflict. It will make for interesting times when she enters adolescence!

As a parent it is easy to see only the negative side of childrens behaviours. At times we are so close to our children or tired and fatigued that we lose our objectivity and our sense of proportion goes out the window. When they fail to meet our expectations it is often hard to look for a positive side.

Often it takes another person, a neutral observer to paint a brighter picture. A friend told me of her surprise when her sons teacher commented on his creative, artistic streak. She informed the teacher that she found the assessment strange as the only creativity she ever saw from her son was the endless chaos of an untidy bedroom. She admits that she sees the mess in a different light since then.

Another friend who was so tired of her son continually asking her questions that she dubbed him the walking question mark was heartened when a friend congratulated her for having such an inquisitive son. You are lucky to have a child who asks you questions. I just wish my children showed the same attitude to learning, said the hapless mother who was frustrated by the lack of curiosity of her off-spring. One childs vice is another childs virtue. It just depends on the perspective that you take.

No matter how infuriating our kids can be if we look hard enough or even change our perspective we can see a positive side. The same qualities that may annoy parents can be an asset in the schoolyard, classroom or even the workplace a few years down the track. Stubbornness is a short step away from assertiveness which is an admirable quality for both sexes. Attention-seekers while draining for parents can be very gregarious and have a stack of friends. Bossy kids who love to give orders can make good leaders provided you show them how.

Effective teachers look for opportunities to turn childrens more dubious behaviours into assets. Talkative kids are given opportunities to use their verbal skills legitimately through oral reports and other classroom activities. Strong-willed children are encouraged to be independent, take more responsibility for their own learning and be involved in decisions that affect them. Those children who have difficulty sitting still often excel in activities like sport, art or drama when given the chance.

The way that adults see childrens behaviour affects how they treat them. Trying to find a positive side even when children are getting up our nose is not only a sanity-saver but helps us enjoy rather than simply endure our kids.

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Off-season or In-Season Individual Development Workout

This is the best Individual Development drill that we have seen. It develops:

1. Ability to shoot free throws under pressure

2. Conditioning

3. Footwork coming off of a screen or cut

4. Three-point shooting

5. Mental Toughness/Competitiveness

6. Making shots under pressure

Basketball players are highly competitive people by nature; therefore it is beneficial to design drills that provide an opportunity for players to compete against other players or against themselves. The competition increases the player's enthusiasm for the drill and results in better intensity during the training session. The Two Minute Drill requires only one player. The players compete against themselves for their best score. However, it is extremely helpful to have someone timing the drill.

Many players practice free throws by shooting 100, 200 or possibly more in each practice session. While volume shooting is an important part of developing confidence and rhythm on free throws, this type of practice does not subject the player to the same conditions that exist while attempting free throws during a game. Pressure and fatigue are just two factors that may affect free throw percentage. To be a successful free throw shooter in games, players must be able to step to the line a make two in a row while fatigued and under pressure.

The Two Minute Drill is designed for player to do just that. Players must step to the free throw line and make two pressure free throws while fatigued. The objective of the Two Minute Drill Game is for the player to move from level one to the highest level possible. In order to advance from one level to another, the player must make a power lay-up, a spin-and-catch intermediate shot and a three point shot. The player must shoot until he/she has made each shot, even if s/he misses each one four times, the level is not completed until each of the three shots goes in. After making the three-point shot the player immediately (with no rest!) steps to the free throw line to shoot a one-and-one free throw. If the player makes both free throws he/she advances to the next level and repeats the same sequence. If the player misses a free throw he/she must remain on that level.

The drill is timed for two minutes. The stopwatch only runs while the player is shooting shots from the field, like a game. It does not run during free throws. If there is no one to time the player can wear a sport watch to time him/herself. The timing of the drill is very significant to its effectiveness because the clock pushes the player to run hard after rebounds and to shoot shots that are more game-like. However, if no timer is available, the player must push him/herself to go hard. To make it competitive, the shooter can be limited to a total number of misses or to commit that the first missed free throw will end the game.

Players compete each practice session against the highest level they have ever achieved. They may also compete against other players by seeing which player reaches the highest level in a given amount of time.

The game may be altered to more benefit to post players. Post players may choose to substitute the three-point shots or the intermediate shots with jump hooks or other post moves. It is easy to come up with several other variations to keep the drill from becoming monotonous.

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Relive the glory with this blue ringer tee commemorating the 1982 UNC Tar Heels' National Championship. The National Championship eluded Dean Smith and the University of North Carolina in six previous trips to the Final Four, and this year Smith pinned his hopes on a talented core that featured such stars as Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins, James Worthy, and Matt Doherty. The Georgetown Hoyas had their own star-studded lineup featuring Patrick Ewing, Eric "Sleepy" Floyd and Fred Brown, with their own National Championship dreams. In a back and forth game, UNC found themselves down late in the championship game once again. With under a minute to play, Sleepy Floyd knocked down a jumper to give the Hoyas a 62-61 lead and force Carolina to call a timeout. With the championship about to escape Smith for the seventh time, he called on the heroics of his star sophomore, Michael Jordan. With 15 seconds left to play, Jordan hit a jump shot from the left side to give the Tar Heels a 63-62 lead. The Hoyas had one last chance and hoped to steal the title from UNC when Fred Brown looked to pass the ball to teammate Floyd at half court, but instead passed it directly to James Worthy. Worthy's steal, along with his 28-point effort sealed the victory for the Tar Heels. Dean Smith's seventh Final Four trip was a charm and the University of North Carolina Tar Heel's were NCAA National Champions.

Coming into this season there were obvious picks for the next Western Conference champion like the defending champion San Antonio Spurs who are always a contender, the Dallas Mavericks who will be looking to avenge the early loss in the first round last season and the Phoenix Suns that added veteran Grant Hill to their lineup in the off season. Although all of these teams are still on pace to be best in the West, there are a few unexpected surprises in the West this season.

There are three teams in the Western Conference that continue to amaze and improve as the season progresses: Los Angeles Lakers, New Orleans Hornets and Portland Trailblazers

The Portland Trailblazers came into the season on a sour note with their number one pick Greg Oden having season-ending surgery before he could even play his first game in a Blazer uniform. That kind of took the wind out of their sails coming out of the gate, but not for long as their young superstar Brandon Roy put his team on his back and rallied the troops to a very impressive start with the promise of a playoff spot come June.

The New Orleans Hornets have to be the biggest surprise out of these three as rookie of the year Chris Paul has become a real leader and on of the top point guards in the NBA just behind Steve Nash and Jason Kidd. If the playoffs started today, the New Orleans Hornets would be the number one seed in the West, pretty amazing considering they were no where near making the post season last year.

Then we come to the never ending saga of the Los Angeles Lakers who have been the NBA's equivalent of a drama filled soap opera all off season long with questions and trade rumors about the NBA's best player in Kobe Bryant. Even though the Lakers' future looked very dismal and eminent for disaster when the season began, somehow, someway Kobe Bryant and company were able to pull it all together and become one of the league's best teams with most of the credit going to up and coming center Andrew Bynum who is looking more and more like the future of the Lakers and the next great center in the NBA.

Who will come out on top in the Western Conference? Who knows, but one thing is for sure, as the season moves closer to the playoffs, basketball fans are in for a treat as it is looking more competitive than ever in the West!

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