How It Works
TOPJUMP! Editor's Note: Once in a rare while something new comes along that really has merit. Top Jump is brand new and actua lly pr oduces significa nt im provements in Verti cal Jump and Explosive Power. We highly endo rse Top [ump for high schools and colleges. It's expensive but if you can swing it, you ought to do it.
Walt Palmer 7-1 Utah Jazz Forward TOP JUMP: HOW IT WORKS A Retractable Ball is secured from a Breakaway Boom. Just set the ball at any desired heigh t from an easy-to-use Digital Read out Mechanism. At our UPPE R LIMlT Tra in in g Ce nter, we tell a n ath lete to get 10 jumps, for exa mp le a t 9-0feet. H e then records that mark. Next week he'll try 9-lfeet. Just rebound the ball! The athlete must jump up with two hands. Tha t' s a grea t plus. It' s moti vati on al and it produ ces results.
ORDER TOP JUMP NOW! COST: $2200.00 805 WEST 2400 SOUTH By Dr. Barry Brown T he new est for m of t rain in g , (at le a st to th e w es ter n worl d) e m p loys a m oti v ati onal b ased achievemen t system of training call ed TOP JUMP. This program initia lly req uired sub jects to success fully jump a nd ring a bell 10 co n sec u ti ve tim es to com p le te a workout ses sion . It wa s seen that m ere stre ngthening of th e ju m pi ng m uscles is no t e no ug h to in cr ease -ju m ping ab ility, but ra ther an explosive, task sp ecific movem ent need ed to be employed .
A ca re fu lly co n t r o lled s t udy u s in g 21 mal e c o ll egia t e foo t b a ll play e r s de m onst r ated th at a co m b ina tio n o f s tre ng th, power weig h t tr ain in g and TO P JUMP ( a gr oup d es ignat ed SP ]) produ ced s u p erior increases in ex plos iv e power (both verti cal ju m p a nd 5-hop tes t) co m pared to o ne g ro u p using TO P JUMP a lo n e (a b o u t o n e - ha lf th e o b se r ve d in creases of th e SPJ g ro u p) o r an o th er g ro u p usin g s tr eng th , p o w er a n d pl y om etric tr ain in g (the SPP grou p ). In only 15 sessio ns, the SPJ g ro u p increased m ore th an 2 .1 ' ~ co mpa red to o n ly 1"
in the TJ gro up and no improvement am ong th e SPP a thletes. This data wa s p resented a t th e 1990 Nation al St ren gth a nd Con di tio ning Assoc iatio n researc h me et in gs in San D iego , a n d was submitt ed fo r p ublic ati on in th e Jo u rn al of Appli ed Sports Scien ce. Pe rha ps, the m ost im po rta nt finding of this study w as th e rela tions h ip between the number of jumping a ttemp ts of th e g roup usin g TJ a nd the im provemen t in ve r tica l jump . A th le tes jum ping fewer tim es (w hich co u l d o n ly occ u r if they we r e s ucc essful in th eir a t te m p ts) s howe d mu ch g ra ter im p r o vem en ts (a correlation of -.99 for yo u stat istica l bu ffs).
This implies that rep et ition is not the key to improvem ent in ver tical jump. Ra th er, successfu l rep et it ion is the significa nt fac to r. Su b s e q ue n t r esearch whi ch has jus t b een com ple ted an d wi ll be re porte d in fu ture BFS issue s ha s s hown e v en m o re dra m a tic gains in ex p los ive power when com bin ing TOP JUMP wi th a streng th and power progra m . In orde r to max imize increases in ve rtica l jump and exp losive po w er, it ap pea rs esse n tia l (as evide nced from th e exis ting profes sio nal litera ture) to: 1) Pro vid e ma ximum mo tivation during train ing. 2) Enable a thle tes to receive instant feedback.
3) Make th e training routi ne "spor t specific" . 4) Elim inate th e need for a coac h or trainer to pro vide th e m oti vat ion (tha t is, ac t as a " w hipp ing boy") for th e a thlete to achi eve a maximum performance. Exactly, h o w d oes TOP JUM P wor k? Th e next iss u e of BFS wi ll fu rth er di scu s s th e co n ce p ts , principles, a nd d ata co lle cted in severa l co n tro lled studies using TOP JUMP a nd o the r trainin g mod es.
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From BFS Magazine — November/December 1990. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).
