Chris Bernard – The Flight System

aught how to extract the maximum vertical jump potential, out of their bodies

The same vertical jump potential that’s allowed them to enjoy the spoils of superstardom

As I mentioned moments ago…

Everyone has the innate power to develop an impressive vertical jump that would EXCITE even the toughest scout.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of us…

Are burdened with a muscular block within our muscles which prevents us from expressing our highest vertical power potential

Few people know this but…

They automatically set off an inhibitory process…

FORCING YOUR MUSCLE TO RELAX

The protective mechanism is your body’s way of keeping your muscle’s from getting strained or injured.

Somehow…

Likely through their freak genetics…

Great athletes (like pictured above) have learned how to reduce the effect of the GTO receptors…

EVEN at the risk of exposing themselves to greater chance of injury.

In recent years, Exercise Scientists have discovered a special technique to not only shut off your GTO but also excite the muscle even greater…

Without exposing yourself to injury…

and the best part?

It can be used by anyone regardless their height, weight, or gender to seamlessly add inches to your vertical.

What makes “Vert Release” so special is not only does it train to decrease the inhibitory effect of the GTO but it nails the additional 4 steps responsible for an explosive vertical jump… all at the same time.

The Stretch Reflex is when your muscle contracts in response to being stretched.

Remember those GTO’s I was talking about? The same that shut the muscle down when it senses too much force?

Well, there is an opposing mechanism that senses when the muscle is being lengthened and it goes to work contracting the muscle…

In the same sense it feels it is in danger of injury.

If you want to gain a higher vertical jump you MUST focus on decreasing the effect of the GTO’s while maximizing the excitement effect of the Muscle Spindles.

Both of these mechanisms combined make up the “STRETCH REFLEX”

The “Stretch Shortening Cycle” (SSC) acts like a slingshot within your muscle..

When a muscle lengthens, it builds up elastic energy…think like a rubber band.

The energy is released when the muscle is immediately forced to shorten (like a vertical jump)

The sequence of lengthening, building-up, and releasing in itself is responsible for an impressive vertical jump.

But if we want to take it even further…

We must start by shutting down the GTO (as outlined in Step #1), increase the SSC and pair that with Step #3…

A motor unit is a motor neuron and the muscle fibers it innervates.  Groups of motor units work together to coordinate the contractions of a single muscle;

Motor Unit Recruitment is a measure of how many motor neurons are activated in a particular muscle, and therefore is a measure of how many muscle fibers of that muscle are activated.

The higher the recruitment the stronger the muscle contraction.

In the past athletes have tried a variety of different methods in an attempt to increase their motor unit recruitment with little to no success.

In recent years, we have discovered the best way to increase motor unit recruitment is to spend a significant amount of time strengthening the muscles at their isometric phase in correlation to the specific range of motion they utilize in competition.

By doing this we figure out which specific ranges that particular athlete must train in to recruit the highest motor units…

And display the explosive power throughout the entire movement.

The 4th and final step to developing an awe-inspiring vertical jump is…

Speeding up your Rate of Force Development.

Rate of Force Development (RFD) relates to how quickly you generate muscular force.

It is determined by how fast your muscle fibers are recruited, activated, and synchronized to perform a movement.

The key to increasing RFD is to generate as much force as possible at the beginning of a muscular movement before the Stretch Shortening Cycle comes in and robs the muscle of that potential energy.