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THPStrength — 368 episodes

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The Biggest Limiter In Isaiah Winning Dunk Man Isn't What You Think

2

Behind The Scenes Of Shaq's $500,000 Dunk Contest

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Does Doing Half Squats Limit Your Vertical Leap

4

How to Still Make Gains While Working Full Time

5

Why You Will Fail If You Write Your Own Training

6

Why You Should STOP Taking Caffeine To Jump Higher

7

We're Testing A Russian Plyometric Program

8

The Biggest Contest Of His Life (In Front Of Shaq For 500k)

9

How To ACTUALLY Bulletproof Your Ankles

10

Recover Faster From Training Using These Tools

11

Screen Your Mobility in 5 Minutes

12

What Is "Potentiation" And Can It Help You Jump Your Highest

13

The Worst Sports To Jump Higher

14

What Is The Biggest Vertical Jump Mistake (Pro Dunker Q&A)

15

At What Age Do You Hit Your Genetic Potential

16

How Do Drills Fit Into Your Jump Training?

17

Jump Training Gimmicks That Are Killing Your Vertical

18

Tendon Training: The Truth About Tendon Stiffness Most Coaches Get Wrong

19

This One Change Will Help You Reach Your Genetic Potential

20

The Exact Workout And Weights They Did To Get Healthy Knees In 24 Hours

21

Watch This If Your Knees Hurt When You Jump But Not When You Lift

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50 Jumps Three Times A Week Could Improve Your Vertical By 2 Inches

23

How Much Of Your Vertical Is All Genetics

24

The Best Squat Depth for Vertical Jump (It's Probably Not What You Think)

25

This Type of Cardio Kills Your Vertical Jump

26

This Set + Rep Scheme Can Increase Intent (Which Gives You Bigger Fast Twitch Fibers)

27

We Asked This 50 Inch Jumper Difficult Questions

28

What Is Our Favorite Exercise To Jump Higher?

29

How To Prepare To Jump Your Highest

30

How To Use Pause Squats To PR Your Back Squat

31

We Tested Training 3 Days vs 6 Days Per Week - Here's What Won

32

Getting Stronger But Not Jumping Higher? Here's Why

33

Messing This Up Could Make You Less Explosive

34

Every Time He Got Better At This He Jumped Higher

35

Your Arms Make Up +20% Of Your Approach Vertical Jump

36

Heavy Slow Vs. Light Fast Lifting To Jump Higher

37

We Tested Heavy Lifting vs Just Jumping for Vertical Jump — Here's What Won

38

We Test Every Athlete With This Plyo Test - Do You Pass?

39

Should You Use Knee Sleeves To Jump Higher?

40

How Many Days A Week Should You Train Explosively To Jump Higher

41

How to Have a Dunk Session (The RIGHT Way)

42

How to Jump Higher for Volleyball ft. Pro Coach Richard Tan

43

Every Part Of Your Jump Technique And How To Perfect It

44

How to Lose Fat To Jump Higher

45

How to Find Your Athletic Deficit

46

How Fast Should You Run To Jump Your Highest

47

Will Austin Be The First 50in 1 Foot Jumper?

48

How to Get The Perfect Penultimate Step for YOU

49

Which Technique Will Make You Jump Higher? (Long Vs. Short Penultimate)

50

Isaiah Rivera's Response To The New World Record Vertical Jump

51

He Broke The World Record (52 Inch Vertical)

52

How To Learn Trick Dunks (Even If You Can't Dunk)

53

Why You CAN'T Lift Heavy All Year Round

54

Why Other Jump Programs DON'T Work

55

1 Foot Vertical Test: How High Did Isaiah Go?

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How Do You Get More Elastic?

57

Can Anyone Get A 40 Inch Vertical? Identical Twins Compare

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How He Fixed His Back Pain For Good

59

How Long Does It Take To Go Fro A 24 To 40 Inch Vertical?

60

Why Knee Pain Can Be a Good Thing

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The Mental Shift Every Great Athlete Has Made (And Most Coaches Never Teach)

62

Isaiah Is Quitting Vertical Jumping

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Tendon Contribution Is 70% Of Your Vertical Jump: Here's Why

64

Should You Train Like A Sprinter To Jump Higher?

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How to Get Jacked AND Jump High

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The EXACT Program That TRANSFORMED His Athleticism

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The Exercise Will Get You To A 36 Inch Vertical

68

How Your Jump Sessions Should Look To Jump Higher (And Stay Healthy)

69

How To Use The 1080 Quantum: Rolf Ohlman

70

How Long Can You Do Specific Training To Jump Higher?

71

This Squat Progression Could Take Isaiah To A 55 Inch Vertical

72

How to Jump Higher Even If You're Injured

73

How to Jump Higher Off Multiple Plants

74

How We Are Jumping Higher Every Week

75

I Asked ChatGPT To Write My Jump Program

76

What Plyos Pair Better: Sprints Vs. Jumps

77

How One Of The Best Dunkers Ever Leveled Up His Vertical

78

How to DUNK If You're Under 6ft

79

How to Jump Higher Off 1 Foot (Full Guide!)

80

How We Would Coach Ourselves If We Were 18 Again

81

Can Stimulants Increase Your Vertical Jump? (Only Listen If You're 18 And Older)

82

You're Training Too Hard Too Soon (How To Fix It)

83

One Conversation Changed Our Whole Jump System

84

How Elite Jumping Is Built: Boo Schexnayder

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The Number One Recovery Metric That Correlates With Jump Performance

86

How To Get TRULY Explosive With These Lifts

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Advanced Jump Training: Overcoming Isometrics

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How To Improve Your Stretch Reflex

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How To Get Healthy Hamstrings To Jump Higher Long Term

90

How Elite Jumpers And Sprinters Train Part 2 Ft. Mike Young

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Machine Based Loading Is UNDER RATED

92

How Elite Jumpers And Sprinters Train Part 1 (Mike Young PhD- NBA Performance Coach)

93

Our FAVORITE Squat Protocol

94

The Biggest Mistakes When Writing Your Own Vertical Jump Program

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Being Tall Makes Jumping High Hard (But Here's How To Fix It)

96

He Ran A 4.45 Laser 40 Yard Dash (And He Has A 50In Vert)

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3 Tests To Tell If You'll Ever Dunk

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Sprinting Will Evolve Your Jumps

99

What's Stopping You From Hitting A 50" Vertical?

100

You Need To Understand These Sensations World Class Jumpers Feel

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You Need This To Reach Your Genetic Potential

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At What Age Can You Still Hit Your Genetic Ceiling?

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Improving This Could Get You Jumping Higher FAST

104

Ten Reps Of A Good Plyometric Is Enough To Jump Higher

105

How To Strengthen Your Knee, Achilles, And Back For Jumping

106

What Sports Scientist Got Wrong About Jump Training

107

Copy This FREE Jump Program If You Want To Jump Higher (Full Sets, Reps, And Progressions)

108

How To Your Biggest Weakness To Jump Higher (Deficit Training)

109

How To Use The Overshoot Mechanism To Jump Higher (Fiber Type Shift)

110

You Need More Rest Than You Think To Jump Your Highest

111

Advanced Russian Training System To Fix IT Band Syndrome

112

The Exact Calf Raise Progression We Use On World Class Jumpers (Exercises Included)

113

What Intangibles To All Elite Jumpers Have In Common

114

His 50 Inch Vertical Could Be Gone Forever

115

Strong Athlete Loses Bounce... Here's How To Get It Back

116

The One Question You Need To Answer Jump Higher

117

How Elite Speed Is Actually Built

118

One Of The Best Strength And Conditioning Coaches EVER (Rolf Ohman)

119

These Four Timelines Determine Everything About Your Training

120

Force Velocity Profiling Perfectly To Jump Higher

121

The Best Way To Improve Your Squat And Clean

122

Fast vs Slow Eccentrics: Which One Actually Transfers to Jumping?

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Do these stretches to jump higher

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When To Cut A Cycle To Jump Higher

125

How Much Power Did Isaiah Lose Training HARD

126

Do This To Jump Higher In 15 Minutes

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Isaiah Rivera's Plyometric Workouts Are Supercharging His Vertical

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He Jumped With 400 Pounds On His Back

129

Does Sprinting Make Your Approach Faster In Jumping

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All Time Short Approach Jump PR

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You're Tendon Might Be Lying To You

132

How To Fix Any Muscle Pull

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Isaiah Is VELOCITY Deficient

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Isaiah IS Ready To Test 51 Inches

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Training Harder Will Make You Jump Higher

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The Number One Reason You Aren't Dunking

137

Is Isaiah Ready To Break The World Record?

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12 Week System To Completely Fix Your Tendon Pain

139

Which Of These Squats Will Increase Your Squat The Most?

140

ANOTHER 50 Inch Jumper From THP?!

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The Formula For A 50 Inch Vertical

142

What Makes You Jump Higher: Power Clean Or Power Snatch?

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Is This KEY Lift CRUSHING Your Vertical Jump Gains?

144

The Key To Jumping High Off One Foot Explained

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Isaiah Rivera 50 Pound Squat PR

146

Get Your Knees Better By Playing Basketball

147

Best Beginner Vertical Jump Exercises

148

The WORST Workouts We've Ever Programmed To Jump Higher

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Run Faster To Jump Higher

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If You Make This Mistake You Will Jump Lower After Training More

151

Being Glute Dominant Will Fix Your Knee Pain

152

You Can't Get Better Without This One Thing

153

Why We Don't Need Strength And Conditioning Coaches

154

The Swamp: Getting Rid Of Tendon Pain In Pre-Season Hell

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Only The Highest Jumpers Understand This Secret To Vertical Jump

156

You're Losing Inches On Your Vertical By Making These 3 Mistakes

157

Max Strength Isn't Your Vertical Jump Deficit

158

How To Train Your Hamstrings To Jump Higher

159

Left Leg vs Right Leg Strength Differences In Jumping

160

THP213: Special Endurance 2 For ELASTICITY

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THP212: Bill Russel Elastic Vs. Wilt Chamberlain Power

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THP211: USSR High Jump Training

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THP210: Why Being Bulletproof Is A Myth

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THP209: Isaiah Tries To Break The High Jump World Record

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THP208: Tempo Running To Jump Higher

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THP207: Isaiah Is Trying High Jump Friday

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THP206: What To Do When You Don't Jump Higher During A Deload

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THP 205: We Did ATG Split Squats Today

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THP204: Isaiah Rivera Tells Donovan Hawkins How To Take His Crown

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THP203: How Strong Do You Have To Be For A 40in Vertical

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THP202: Intensity Vs. Volume

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THP201: How To Make Your Tendons More Elastic

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THP200: How To Get An IRL 2k Slasher Build

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THP199: Why One Set Of Squats At 400kg Is Sufficient

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THP198: Will Isaiah Break The World Record Next Week?

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THP197: Myth Busting Muscle Building (To Jump Higher)

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THP 196: How Jump Training Has Changed Over The Years

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THP195: Donovan Just Hit The Highest Flight Time Ever

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THP194: Isaiah Espinoza Was In The Air For A Full Second

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THP193: Why You Shouldn't (Or Should) Train Your Vertical For Basketball

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THP192: How Do You Start Jump Training With No Equipment

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THP191: The Three Best Exercises For One Foot Jumping

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THP188: Training Law Of Individuality

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THP187: Should Sprinting Be In Your Training

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THP186: Why Isaiah's 0.973 Jump Makes No Sense

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THP 185: What's The Difference Between An Eccentric Vs. Concentric Jumper

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THP 184: Someone Almost Broke Isaiah's Record Today

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THP183: How Long Should Your Sessions Be For Max Vertical Gains

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THP182: Isaiah Is The Best Dunker In The World Again

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THP181: 3 Things We Learned About Jumping In 12 Months

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THP180: Shooting The Sh*t While Zay Is At All Star Weekend

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THP179: Plyometrics DON'T TRAIN Your Tendons

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THP177: What The Highest Jumper Did To Perfect His Jump Technique

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THP176: Does Having Bad Tendons Mean You Will Never Be Athletic

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THP175: How Much Should You Jump At Each Age

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THP174: Results Of The Last 6 Months Of Training Isaiah

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THP173: Can I Replicate What It Feels Like To Jump 50 Inches To Jump Higher

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THP172: What To Do Be A Freak Athlete For Basketball

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THP 171: Knee Pain Guide + John Crashes Out

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THP170: Austin Is BACK (46 Inch Vertical?)

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THP169: Highest Jumper Flys Against All Odds

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THP168: Is Jumping As Much Genetics As We Think?

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THP167: How Strong Is Strong Enough?

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THP166: How To Fix Low Jump Days

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THP165: New WEIGHTED Plyo To Jump Higher?

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THP164: Best Training System To Jump Higher Off 1 AND 2

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THP163: Should You STOP Doing Isometrics

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THP 162: Does "Fancy" ACTUALLY Work?

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THP161: How Often Should You Train HARD To Jump Higher

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THP160: Why Every Other Jump Program Is Worse Than THP

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THP159: Does Ground Contact Time Predict Your Jump Height?

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THP158: This Is MORE Important Than Any Jump Exercise

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THP 157: How To Turn Your Tendon Into A Spring

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THP 156: Why Not Just Squat And Clean To Jump Higher?

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THP155: 5 Training Tips To Jump Higher This Year

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THP 153: Train BEYOND Failure To Jump Higher

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THP152: Do You Need To Lift To Jump Your Highest

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THP151: Will I Tear My Achilles Doing Jump Training

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THP150: Jump Exercises To Get Isaiah Rivera To A 51 Inch Vertical

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THP 149: What If I Don't Have A Hoop Or Low Rim

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THP148: Which Type Of Lifting Makes You Jump Higher

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THP147: F*ck The Haters

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THP146: Isaiah Hit The Hardest Dunk Ever After This Podcast

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THP 145: How Confidence Affects Your Jumping

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THP144: Is The Highest Jumper In The World On Steroids?

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THP143: How To BUST Through Plateaus

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THP142: How To Decide What Type Of Jump Training To Do

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THP141: Two Of The Highest Jumpers Talk About Their Training Ft. Donovan Hawkins

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THP140: When Do The Full Olympic Lifts Make Sense To Jump Higher

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THP139: How To Bounce Like A Deer

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THP138: How To NOT Tear Your Achilles While Jump Training

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THP137: Sets And Reps For VIOLENT Jump Training

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THP136: Is Hip Thrust A Key To Jump Higher

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THP 135: What Is The Scientifically Proven BEST Lift For Vertical Jump

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THP 134: The Differences Between Mason Baker And Donovan Hawkins (Two Of The Best Dunkers In The World)

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THP 133: Is Deadlift Worth Doing To Improve Your Vertical

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THP132: 5 BEST Jump Exercises With 1 Huge Weakness

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THP131: Who Jumps Higher 1ft Or 2ft

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THP130: Should You Jump Everyday To Jump Higher

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THP 129: How To Use Supra-Maximal Eccentrics To Train Your Tendon

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THP127: How To Shred Your VMO Jumping

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THP 126: Do Bigger Arms Help You Jump Higher

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THP125: Does Sprinting Make You Jump Higher?

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THP124: How To Jump Higher In Season + We Have A New Coach!

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THP123: How To Never Get Hurt Again Jumping

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THP122: How To Jump Higher In Ten Minutes Guranteed

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THP121: Post Activation Potentiation DOESN'T Work?!

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THP120: How To Use Intensity To Jump Higher

249

THP119: Why Power Cleans Sh*t On Hex Bar Jumps

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THP119: How Do REAL Elite Athletes Train

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THP118: How To Train Your Tendons To Become BOUNCY

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THP 117: Are Plyos Good Or Bad

253

THP116: Why Body Builders Jump Higher Than Power Lifters

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THP 115: Why The Highest Jumper Stopped Deep Squatting

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THP114: How Should You Eat To Be More Explosive

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THP 113: What Does The Perfect Jumping Athlete Look Like?

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THP 112: 10 Penultimate Tips

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Austin Is Switching To 2 Foot

259

FRESH TAKE ON Deep Squatting Vs. Quarter Squatting

260

Plyometrics For High Jump Verses Dunking

261

Research Deep Dive On Heavy Sow Resistance Training For Tendons

262

How Donovan Hawkins Became Arguably The Best Dunker

263

Heavy Slow Resistance Training

264

What Intangibles Do All Elite Athletes Have In-Common

265

You Can Get More Type II Fibers

266

What Is The THP Training Split?

267

Does THE MOST INTENSE PLYO Help The Highest Jumper?

268

Do One Foot Exercises Work For Jumping Higher?

269

Strength Standards Of TRULY FREAKY Athletes

270

How To Plan Training Using Specificity

271

How To Get Bigger Type II Fibers

272

How To Warm Up To Jump Higher

273

Why Isaiah Didn't Test 51 Inches At Dunk Camp

274

What Does The Highest Jumper In The World Eat?

275

What Is A "Freak Athlete"?

276

How High Would We Jump If We Had Never Touched A Weight?

277

Vertical Jump Training: The Four Laws Of Adaptation

278

Are you in pain or are you hurt?

279

The Largest Building Block In Periodization

280

Strength Vs. Power Vs. Speed Cycles

281

Are the hip flexors the secret muscle to athleticism??

282

Training the GLUTES to jump higher and be more explosive

283

How to train the hamstrings to jump higher

284

Biggest Mistakes We Ever Made

285

Speed Vs. Power Jumping OFF TWO FEET

286

What Is The Best Exercise For One Foot Vertical?

287

Q and A LIVE

288

nRSI: A Novel Way To Account For The Breaking Phase

289

What we've learned about the penultimate step in the last 10 years

290

How To Adjust Training For Knee Pain For Volleyball (in season)

291

How Austin and Isaiah Got Jacked

292

The Role Of Torque In Jumping And Training

293

Should You Sprint To Jump Higher?

294

The Five Steps For Getting Rid Of Knee Pain

295

Five Tips To Improve Your Penultimate Step

296

Why Plyos Are ACTUALLY Slow Concentric Contractions

297

A Scientific Approach to Training The Tibialis Anterior

298

How To Jump 6 Inches Higher In 7 Days

299

Do Weighted Vests Help?

300

THP Strength Standards

301

How To Train Your Tendons To Jump Higher

302

How Long Should Sessions Be For Vertical Jump Gains?

303

How To Get Better At Dunking (The Technical Aspect)

304

One foot jumping - what we've learned over 30 years of combined experience

305

The Truth About Jumping Higher

306

How to Jump Higher for Volleyball

307

How Important Is Deadlift For Jumping Higher?

308

Can Olympic Lifts Make You Jump Higher?

309

How To Get Stiffer Tendons

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If impulse determines jump height, why not maximize time? Ep. 7

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How To Jump Higher AND Stay Healthy

312

How Austin Got A 44+ Inch Vertical Off One Foot AND Two Foot

313

How Often Should You Jump?

314

How deep should you squat?

315

How To Become An Elastic Jumper

316

Why not just lift heavy and jump? Ep. 5

317

What THP would do differently if we knew now what we knew then

318

What happens when you get too strong?

319

Training that is TOO advanced

320

What is PFP (Patella Femoral Pain) and how do you fix it?

321

THPstrength Podcast: Are Chinese Dunkers Better Than Everyone Else?

322

How He Trained To Jump 27ft And Ankle Ending Injury: Daniel Bramble

323

Talking With One Of The Most Powerful Humans On The Planet

324

Is Hip Thrust The Best Exercise For Improving Your 1 And 2 Foot Vertical Leap

325

Should you deadlift if you want to improve your vertical?

326

How we increased our verticals by 8 inches

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HOW ISAIAH TESTED A LEGIT 50.5 INCH VERT

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World Class Long Jumper Shares Details About His JUMP TRAINING: Will Williams

329

Does Jordan Wesner Have The Longest Distance Dunk Ever?

330

This SUPER ATHLETIC 6'9" NBA Prospect Can GRAB The Top Of The Backboard! SZN3 EP3

331

How Austin Bourque Added 5 Inches To His Vertical Outside Of The Weight Room? SZN3 EP2

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Season 3, EP1. How Deep Should You Squat To Jump Higher?

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THP 36: Use Accentuated Eccentrics To Jump Higher

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THP 35: Does Adding A Curve To An Approach Make You Jump Higher?

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THP 34: Using the push-push to get more in game dunks

336

THP 33: Can You Jump Higher Off 1 Or 2 Feet?

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THP 32: Interview With THP Athlete CJ (@cj_champion)

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THP 31: Jump Higher With Your Arms

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THP 30: Q&A #1

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THP 29: Should You Jump Everyday?

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THP 28: Interview With Isaiah Edwards

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THP 27: Fixing Your Low Back Pain

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THP 26: How Upper Body Training Affects Jump Training

344

THP 25: Transforming Your Athleticism with Travis Reynolds

345

THP 24: All About Sprint Mechanics

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THP 23: How To Use Pain Scoring To Jump More

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THP 22: Nutritional Strategies for Athletes with Chris Barakat

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THP 21: When To Use Load Management

349

THP 20: How To Measure Training Intensity

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THP 19: How To Dunk In 45 Days

351

THP 18: How To Progress With Bodyweight Exercises

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THP 17: Matt Watson of Plus Plyos

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THP 16: How Flexibility Impacts Athleticism

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THP 15: Weightlifting to Maximize Athleticism

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THP 14: High vs. Low Bar Squat to Jump Higher

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THP 13: How to Properly Warm Up for Sport

357

THP 12: Does Tendon Stiffness Matter?

358

THP 11: Plyometrics Deep Dive Pt. 2

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THP 10: Plyometrics Deep Dive Pt. 1

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THP 9: Can You Maximize Athleticism On A Vegetarian Or Vegan Diet

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THP 8: How Important is Squatting for Vertical Jump?

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THP 7: Results of THP Training with @camydunks

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THP 6: The Diet of a Pro Dunker

364

THP 5: Baseball Training with Dean Jackson of Driveline Baseball

365

THP 4: What Makes A Perfect Jumper?

366

THP 3: 5'7 Dunker Area 51 Shares His Advice On How To Jump High

367

THP 2: How This Olympic Hopeful Became Bigger And Stronger Than NFL RBs

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THP 1: Penultimate Step Tips