Learn How To Dunk By Training With Resistance

Are weights really even needed in order to jump higher or to learn how to dunk? Well let's take a quick look right here. Why do we even use weights? What's the purpose of training with weights? A lot of people say they don't want to use weights for training and let's understand why we would train with weights, if we would even have a need of weights for training to jump higher.

What weights provide to our bodies is a form of resistance, so what we really need is not weights what we want is the resistance. I'm not saying we shouldn't use weights because they help the process of placing resistance and stress on the muscles, on the body, and on the systems of the body.

Jump Higher With Different Forms Of Resistance

We are going to talk about how resistance does two main things. One, weights put tension on the muscle and two, they help send electrical impulses throughout the muscles. The tension causes the body to create more strength, and the electrical impulses teach the body to recruit more strength and muscle fibers, both needed for training how to dunk. So that is why we would use weights because it is a form of resistance, but there are lots of forms of resistance that can be used.

Train Your Body How To Dunk

You can use elastic to train your body how to dunk. You can use your own body weight by way of using one leg, increases the resistance per diameter of muscle fiber, so you can use one leg to create more resistance. You can also increase the velocity that you are moving, in order to increase the resistance and tension on the muscle. There are a lot of ways that you can increase the resistance on your muscles.

Weights are the easy way but perhaps not the best way to train how to dunk. I like to use elastic resistance and I also like to use higher velocities to create that resistance and create that electrical impulse through the muscles in order to jump higher.

So do you need weights to jump higher or to learn how to dunk? Every individual is going to have to decide. It is a very easy way to make a calculated stress on the body and to increase that stress by using weights to provide that resistance and also provide that electrical impulse that is so necessary to creating a training affect to learn how to dunk and how to jump higher. I hope that answers some of your questions and kind of clarifies of why we need weights in order to learn how to dunk.