After speaking with coaches across multiple gyms about vertical jump and explosive development, a few patterns keep showing up:
- Athletes want clearer ways to measure progress (not just “feel better”)
- Core strength keeps coming up as the missing link between force and usable jump- Posterior chain strength is doing double duty: performance + injury prevention
- Gym training alone only solves part of the problem - sport environment and mindset do the rest
- Overloading and poor recovery are quietly stalling progress
Starting to see that jump performance isn’t a leg problem - it’s a system problem.
Curious how others are seeing this play out in their gyms.