Can jogging REALLY improve speed and vertical jump ???
Only if you are either very out of shape or very fat. If you’re overweight then jogging or any other form of exercise can help you lose weight which will give you a better power to bodyweight ratio but that’s about it. In fact jogging is one of the worst things you can do if you’re interested in strength, speed and explosiveness. High volume endurance exercise causes muscular endurance adaptations that are totally opposite the type of adaptions you want for speed and power. In fact, the average marathon runner has a vertical jump of less then 12 inches. There is an inverse correlation between the volume of endurance activities and the ability to display power through vertical jump, short sprints etc. Even with their often gargantuan size, you won’t see any olympic shottputters or olympic lifters doing endless laps around the track and it’s no secret they are exceptionally fast in the short sprints and have extremely high vertical jumps. If you’re interested in maintaining the muscular
