| Your muscle physiology determines how high you can | | | | that these fibers can only last in total engagement for |
| jump. The human muscle tissues have two types of | | | | a very limited duration of not more that 10 seconds. |
| muscle fibers. The first type is called the fast twitch | | | | This is because they offer maximal energy and only |
| muscle fibers while the second is called slow twitch | | | | rely on blood sugar since within that duration, no |
| muscle fibers. A good understanding of these two | | | | metabolic process can be initiated and sustained to |
| types of muscle fibers will be of great use in your | | | | offer adequate energy. |
| jumping training. | | | | The slow twitch fibers however, pick up from there |
| At the outset, you should know that a normal muscle | | | | and are slow enough to allow metabolic combustion of |
| tissue contains these two types of muscle fibers in an | | | | energy and can be thus sustained form infinite |
| equal proportion of 50-50. For you to jump high, you | | | | durations. The only weakness here though is that slow |
| must create an imbalance in that proportion so that | | | | twitch fibers only offer a below maximal intensity in |
| your fast twitch muscle fibers are more than the slow | | | | terms of strength. |
| twitch muscle tissue fibers. The fast twitch muscle | | | | From this exposition, it is clear that your jumping training |
| tissue fibers are the ones that that give explosive | | | | must emphasize on the growth of fast twitch muscle |
| energy at the spar of the moment, taking only but a | | | | tissue fibers since that is what you need to execute a |
| fraction of the microsecond to engage fully. Sprinters | | | | jump at the spar of the microsecond. To train these, |
| rely on these fibers to offer a monumental bout of | | | | you need the heavy weight lifting exercise that use |
| energy the moment the gun fires. The only problem is | | | | maximal energy and only for a short duration. |