Vertical Jump Test Paper

Introduction:

The vertical jump test is the determining test for assessing an athlete's ability to explode with tremendous power and propel them upwards. It has been an essential test for numerous years and a key factor for sports such as football and basketball in measuring physical aptitude. Athletes spend hours training to improve their vertical jump through plyometrics. Plyometric training is type of workout that helps trains the muscles to exert maximum force in a short period of time, creating power. Plyometrics can be trained using a span of materials as resistance to achieve the similar outcome of improving explosive power. The two major materials that are used are resistance bands and free weights dumbbells. This arose a question: In the sense of improving vertical jump, how do resistance bands compare to free weight dumbbells in improving vertical jump? To determine the outcome for this study, there will be a controlled study with a group of athletes and nonathletes training on either the

The data was taken using a Tandem Sport vertical challenger. At first, all of the participants were measured for their standing reach height by standing up against the wall and reaching as high as they can with their heel touching the ground at all times. The chart below displays the grouping of the free weights and the resistance bands for the study, as well as their standing reach height. After the standing reach height was taken, the initial vertical jumps were taken. To measure the initial vertical jump, the participants had to stand directly under the Tandem Vertical Challenger with their feet flat on the ground. With that stationary position, they had to jump as high as they possibly can to see their vertical jump. Each of the participants were given three tries to get the most accurate initial vertical. After jumping, the vertical jump was concluded by the equation, (Initial jump- Reach Height= Vertical