Today’s athletes are more athletic and have the ability to run faster and jump higher than ever before. When it comes to jumping higher, whether you want to do it to dunk a basketball or improve your vertical jump test results, there are a few ways to do it. This Vertical Jump Bible review takes a look at one of the earliest programs that allowed athletes to increase their vertical leap. The system uses a lot of science based facts and research for its methods and training.   What is the Vertical Jump Bible? The Vertical Jump Development Bible is a complete ebook that is in PDF format. Users are allowed to download it immediately after buying it making it convenient and getting rid of the shipping costs. The ebook contains workouts formulated to build strength, power and explosive jumping using different exercises. It also teaches the athlete how to train, eat to get results and the importance of allowing the muscles to recover after an intense workout. Kelly Baggett, the book’s authoruses provides scientific research to back the choices of exercises and also the different types of training that are used.   Who is Kelly Baggett? Kelly Baggett is a performance trainer that helps athletes improve their athleticism and strength to get better at their respective sports. He developed the Vertical Jump Bible by experimenting on the methods himself. The same techniques he used in the book helped him go from a 23 inch vertical jump to 42 inches. Baggett firmly believes that by focusing on strength development, you will be able to improve your jumping ability. He also mentions that the reason athletes don’t get better is because they either: Did not train at all, or Did not know how to train correctly.   How Does the Vertical Jump Development Bible Work? The Vertical Jump Bible contains a lot of information and we suggest reading it from cover to cover because Baggett goes through the different histories of the types of training, the reasons why each type of training worksor does not work and also answers a few common questions about jumping ability. The main workouts of the book mainly focus on 3 major components: General Strength Training – overall strength of the athlete. Is not just focused on leg strength but overall strength including the core and upper body. Rate of Force Development Training – focuses on being able to deliver the energy/power as quickly as possible. The more speed you are able to push off the ground the higher you can jump. Reactive Strength Training – this helps with the bouncing ability and is related to plyometric exercises. Each of these types of strength and power training use different types of exercises. One reason why you’ll see the book use many different types of exercises and training. It also explains the importance of being flexible and how having a better range of motion allows an athlete to jump up higher. Made for Athletes of Different Fitness Levels One of the good points of the Vertical Jump Bible is that itsplits the routines into different fitness levels. There is a program designed for you whether you’re just starting out or have been training for years. The break down of the levels are: Raw Beginner Novice Intermediate Advanced For each level there are different workout charts and schedules. Exercises are also different to fit the level of the athlete. This means it does not matter where at your athletic career you are at.   Training and Exercises Compared to the other top jump training programs, this is where the Vertical Jump Bible gets a bit more complicated. It uses a lot more exercises, and also makes you do more workouts. The overall program works and at the end of it you’ll be able to jump higher. However, it will take more work and take out more of your time because there are more workouts and more exercises to do per week compared to the other good training programs for jumping. This leaves less time for training for your sport, school or work, while getting about the sameresults as the other jump workouts. To list down a few exercises, they include: Stretching Warm ups Weight lifting and strength training (different types of training) Rate of Force Development training Plyometrics (6 different methods) A bodyweight training program Post Workout drills   Vertical Jump Bible Review and Results Using the Vertical Jump Bible we’ve seen athletes gain anywhere from 6 inches to the 19 inches Kelly Baggett himself gained. The length of the program also depends on which fitness level you are in because some levels take more weeks than others. On our end, having gone through two other programs, the Jump Manual and also the Vert Shock, we noticed that there was a lot of weight lifting with the Vertical Jump Bible. It also had a lot more workout sessions per week that were split into the different training types listed above. The volume of training in this program is probably one of the main reasons we prefer other jump programs. If you do have the time and preferworkouts that take longer and require you to do more exercises, then you’ll be okay with this one.   The Pros and the Cons Pros The manual is very comprehensive in information. It contains scientific backed research, history and different factors involved in jumping higher. It offers different levels from raw beginner to advanced athletes so anyone can use it. Each of the exercises and workouts are explained step by step making it easy to follow. Kelly Baggett explains a lot of things, and answers a lot of common questions about jumping ability. Cons It is heavy on weight lifting, namely squatting. Be sure you know proper form and have access to training equipment. A lot of exercises and training sessions are needed. Compared to other jump programs, it requires more time and volume of work.   Summary The Vertical Jump Bible is a tried and tested jump training program that helps athletes jump higher. Because it is one of the earlier methods developed it uses a lot more exercises andrequires you to train more than some of the newer programs to get the same results. For this reason we prefer either using the Jump Manual or the Vert Shock system to improve your vertical leap.