Rub chalk on your fingertips and stand with your dominant shoulder against a wall. Reach up as high as possible and touch the wall, leaving a chalk mark.
Then, without moving, bend your knees and jump up as high as you can. Reach high on the wall with your dominant arm and place a new mark on the wall. Measure the distance between the two points in inches to obtain your vertical jump height.
Good vs. Average Vertical Jump Height. The average, or 50th-percentile, jump is about 17 inches. The 10th to 20th percentiles run from Above-average vertical jump score is the 60th to 70th percentile, which ranges from 18 to 19 inches.
An excellent rating is 20 to 21 inches, which is the 80 to 90th percentile. How to Increase Your Vertical Jump. Tips for High School Jump Training Those just entering their teen years are more prone to injury than adults because skeletal growth is so rapid that muscular strength may not support the rate of growth. So keep the following tips in mind: Always incorporate a proper dynamic warm-up and static cool-down before and after every workout. Stay properly hydrated. Don't work out similar muscle groups on consecutive days.
Give yourself at least two full days off a week. Wilt got his bench press up to pounds. Shaq could only bench about , probably less now. Wilt was 63 when he died. While not impossible, dunking at this height will be tough for most people. He will need to jump around 30 inches to reach the hoop and by adding additional 6 inches, he can dunk perfectly with a 36 inches jump.
It is unlike to dunk with that height but it is not impossible. As long as a person has the right combination of height and leaping ability, anybody can dunk. This means female basketball players can definitely dunk. However, they do not dunk as often as male basketball players.
Men are generally taller and more athletic than their women counterparts. If, you are tall, you may assume that you have long legs and arms, which is true in many case, but not always.
Measure your vertical jump :. After that, you just have to estimate the space that is between your standing reach and your jum and you got your vertical. Even, if we are from the same gender, things always vary. You will see a table below, that shows, usually, the vertical jump for men is from 16 to It is estimated to be average and for women, it is from 12 to 19 inches. Another bigger factor is the age. Additionally, you can add some more inches to what it is determind genetically, that will contribute you jump higher.
There are quite a lot of studies, but the peak of your highest vertical would be between 20 and 30, although, it can in most case increased. One of the main important thing still remains and it is to work as hard as you can to jump the right way and train and you will have success to increase it overtime.
But the teen ages are very important, because if you have started earlier to start your muscles it will be better. Lets dive into some statistics related to the age and the average vertical jump.
When, you take a look at it above, as mentiond the moment to reach your maximum is between 21 and 29, whic is obvious, because there are people who grew taller at Keep in mind that, these are estimated and may vary to person.
And they are taken from people that already.
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