Nathanael: What's up everybody? And welcome to another
video. My name is Nathanael Morton and I am a vertical jump coach, and I have helped thousands
of athletes increase the vertical jump higher and dunk at basketball. I will help you do
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let's get to it.
Nathanael: So far in this series, I have reviewed Vert
Shock, Flight System by Overtime Athletes, Vert Code Body Weight by PGF Performance,
Isaiah Rivera's vertical jump coaching, Nick Britz's program, Flight School by the Lost
Breed, bouncekit by Jordan Kilgannon, Vert Code Elite by PGF performance, knees over
toes guy's vertical jump training program, Fat Don't Fly once again by PJ performance,
BoingVert, and Jump Attack by Tim Grover. The link for that playlist will be down below.
If you want to watch any of the other videos or programs that I have reviewed.
Nathanael: Today ladies and gentlemen, we are going to
review the vertical jump program by Chris Staples, which is extremely funny to me because
I couldn't find it anywhere. I was searching the internet for this program. I could not
find it. And I gave up. Then I decided to procrastinate and watch a YouTube video. And
the advertisement on the YouTube video was Chris Staples jump program. And I clicked
the link and I bought the program. So I was like all that searching for nothing. So this
just means that we need to procrastinate more often. Vertical Jump for Ballers. Vertical
Jump for Ballers is the name of his jump program. And let's take a look at this intro video.
Nathanael: All right, so there you have it. Anyone can
increase the vertical jump, and he's going to give you force absorption, force production,
elasticity, technique. He's going to give all of this to us I hope, but I already bought
this, so I'm not going to take you through that process. I'm going to jump straight into
it. I have not looked at it yet, so I'm going to look through it. And these are going to
be my first reactions. And this is my review of Vertical Jump for Ballers from Chris Staples.
Let's get it.
Nathanael: To start it off, this program is $27. Remember
Vert Shock was $67. Flight System by Overtime Athletes was $134. Vert Code Body Weight was
$85. Isaiah Rivera's coaching was $89 a month. Nick Britz's program $67. Flight School by
the Lost Breed was 29.99, Bounce Kit by Jordan Kilgannon was $77. Vert Code Elite is 27.95
per month , or $275 for lifetime access. Knees over toes guy's coaching is 49.50 per month.
Fat Don't Fly is 89.95. Boing Vert was $7, cheapest by far. Jump Attack was about $15
depending, it's a book and you can get the PDF online.
Nathanael: So this program is $27, definitely on the
cheaper end of the programs. So let's see how good it is. Week one, we have three sessions
this week, and he doesn't tell you when to do these sessions. So if I were you, I would
do the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Now I'm going to look into this. Maybe he does
tell us. But Monday, Wednesday, Friday would be a good plan. We have a dynamic warmup,
which you always need. Do you warm up? Think about it. Do you do warmups, a dynamic warmup
before your vertical jump sessions or before any workout? Because if you don't, I can promise
you, you're getting less results. Studies have proven that you'll get more results from
your workout session if you do a dynamic warmup first. So we have a dynamic warmup.
Nathanael: We have a Base the Base section. Which I think
he meant build the base, and it's a lot of core. He has force absorption. He has force
production. He has elasticity. He has everything in here that he promised you. When we watched
that cool intro video. One thing that I really, really like, that no other program does, is
they actually tell you what you are working on. He tells you what each exercise is specifically
targeting. So you are targeting force absorption. You are targeting force production. This exercise
you're targeting elasticity. So you can try to be bouncy. Right here, we're doing multidirectional
work. Right here, we have techniques. So I already love this. I liked that he tells you
what each exercise is specifically targeting, and what you are building up when you are
doing each exercise. Not many programs do that. I do that in my membership programs,
not to toot my own horn, but I tell you, you're working on jump technique. You're working
on explosive power. You're working on reactive speed or reactive strength. So I love that.
Nathanael: Let's take a look at these exercise demonstrations.
All right guys, so I'm going to be honest, this exercise demonstration is completely
fire. This is he's doing it right. Okay. So if you click the workout section, you can
look and it shows you just a demonstration. If you just want to glance at it and then
go do it yourself, you can just look and see how to do this Mikan Drill. Or, if you want
the actual tutorial, you can click the tutorial and he explains how to do it right there.
Chris Staples: All right guys. Next, we've got the Mikan
Drill. We're going to do the one foot gather, the two foot hop, and then the two foot gather.
Nathanael: And ladies and gentlemen, not only does he
show us how to do this exercise, he is stunting on us all by spinning a ball on his finger.
Remember, this guy was a Harlem Globe Trotter. Now he is a professional dunker. This dude
is a beast to be honest. I haven't watched too much of his stuff, but I've heard of Chris
Staples. It's hard to not hear about Chris Staples.
Nathanael: Another thing that I love guys, which I actually
like a little bit better than my training app that I used to train my members, is that
it gives you the rest time right here. So you can just click next. And then it tells
you how long to rest. For me, I have to type it in there. Rest 60 seconds. For him, you
can actually click next and it will tell you to rest. So session one, two and three of
week one are actually all the same workout, which is fine. That's how I have it set up
in my body weight program.
Nathanael: So far, this is a body weight program. There's
no weights as of now, which is fine. You guys all know that I think that weights will help
you get more inches on your vertical jump. But look, this dude probably is the best dunker
in the world, so we cannot argue with him. You can get your vertical jump extremely high
using body weight only.
Nathanael: The exercises in this first week are very
good. I would just say, make sure that you rest one day in between these sessions. But
guys, he covers all angles. He gives you a dynamic warmup, force absorption, force production,
elasticity, multi-directional. It gives you deceleration. It gives you core jump technique.
No stone is left unturned.
Nathanael: All right. So week two is very similar to
week one. It's a little bit different. It's three days a week, once again. So if you do
get this program, you could fit something into those off days you could put in mobility.
So, I think that you should do this Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The three sessions.
You could do mobility, you could do upper body, on the off days, which would be Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday. I always think that you should leave Sunday as a rest.
Nathanael: We've got some medicine ball work for force
production. We've got some elasticity with our shoes off, which we did in week one as
well. But sometimes you just need to get your shoes off. You need to let your feet see the
light of day, and you need to do some ankle bounces, or some jump rope, or some baby bunny
hops, or some jumps, or some skips with your shoes off. And that is going to build the
elasticity in your Achilles tendon and in your Patella tendon, but mostly Achilles tendon.
But ,I love that because you need that to jump as high as possible.
Nathanael: Week three, we have some eccentric pistol
squats. So we are now building the strength. I just posted a video with knees over toes
guy. One of the best exercises that you can do is single leg pistol squats if you don't
have access to weights., We got a spring spring jump for elasticity.
Nathanael: So one thing that I will say is that so far,
this program is a little bit more geared towards beginners. So if you are an advanced athlete,
this might not be the program for you. But if you are, if you've taken a long rest due
to quarantine, or if you're a beginner or you have a child or a friend who is a beginner,
and this is just so far, we might get further into the program and he might have some more
advanced stuff. But as of now, the sets, the reps and the exercises are a little bit more
geared towards beginners. Which is good, because if the first exercises that you have in a
jump program are crazy advanced, that's when you give people jumpers knee. That's when
like the Lost Breed hurdle jumps day one. That's when you get jumper's knee, patellar
tendonitis, when you do too much, too quick, and you overload your tenants. So I love that.
Nathanael: I will say that he has a lot of medicine ball
work in here, which if you don't have a medicine ball, or you don't have space to do medicine
ball exercises, then I would like to see some variations of things that you could do if
you don't have access to that. He has depth squat landings. For me, I call these shock
jumps. I think every single program should have this because this is force absorption.
You need to work on force absorption. You need to teach your body to absorb the force,
because every vertical jump training program is teaching you to jump higher. So you are
jumping higher and higher and higher. If you don't teach your body how to land from that
increased vertical jump, that's when you get knee pain. So every single program, or for
you if you don't have money for any of programs, add shock jumps, or he calls them depth squat
landings, add these for force absorption into your training.
Nathanael: And don't go dropping off of a 40 inch box.
I'm sure you can do it, but I would start with a six inch box. The next week 12 inch.
The next week 18 inches, then 24 inches, then 30 inches. If you don't have knee pain land,
don't allow your knees to cave in or out and land on the balls of your feet force absorption.
Do it.
Nathanael: So we are in week four. And the things that
I liked the most about this week is his technique section. So he has a section on stationary
break step, on stationary gather step, stationary penultimate step, and stationary approach
step. And if you click the exercise and then you click tutorial, he actually explains all
of this to you. So very good explanation of jump technique right here.
Nathanael: In week five, we have depth squat jumps with
a weight ball, which is a very good exercise. It's going to teach your body to absorb the
force, and then quickly change directions and produce that force. Working on the stretch
shortening cycle. So, that is very good. We have power skips in week five. Guys, this
is one of my favorite exercises. Before I ever get into my weights, I always do three
sets of backward sprints, three sets of power skips, three sets of forward sprints. Then
my CNS is complete. My central nervous system, CNS, is completely fired up, ready to go.
Then I get into my weights. I've already done my explosive plyos, and then I get into the
weights and I crush it and increase my vertical jump even more. So power skips, great exercise
to include.
Nathanael: In the next week, we have depth pogo jumps.
So if you haven't noticed by now, he is very big on depth jumps, which depth jumps are
one of the best exercises on the planet, except where people go wrong with depth jumps is
they do too much volume. You cannot go out and do depth jumps every single day. For him,
he has two sets of six reps of depth jumps. That is perfect. So three times a week, I
like to do depth jumps, three sets of five, and I do it once or twice per week. Don't
go out and do tons of reps for depth jumps. But, depth jumps are very good.
Nathanael: Do you want to know the best plyos on the
planet? I'll tell you right now. Depth jumps, sprints, bounding, jump sessions. You got
to jump to jump higher, and repeated squat chops. Those are the five best plyometrics
that you could possibly do. And then if you count like sled pushes or sled pulls, those
are similar to sprints. Those are very good too.
Nathanael: Please do me a favor. If you are going to
do his program, follow his sets and reps religiously. It's going to seem like you're not doing a
lot. Two sets of six reps does not seem like a lot of work, but depth jumps fry your central
nervous system. So you are going to jump way higher by doing his program. But if you go
out and you do more than he says to do, that's when you're going to get into trouble. So
follow his sets in his reps, religiously. If you're going to do this.
Nathanael: All right. Ladies and gentlemen, I have seen
all that I need to see. I'm actually very very impressed with Chris Staples program.
And I say that because not everybody who can jump high knows what they're doing. I want
you to listen to me close. Not everyone who can dunk a basketball knows what they are
doing. I asked somebody, I went and played in a men's league and there was this dude
with a freaky vertical jump. He must have had a 45 inch vertical jump. He could dunk
any way that he wanted. I was throwing them. Oops. I was having a field day.
Nathanael: And being the vertical jump coach, he didn't
know that I'm a vertical jump coach, I asked him, "Hey man, what did you do to jump higher?"
He said, "When I was in the 10th grade, I did a lot of calf raises." He hasn't done
anything since. 45 inch vertical jump from just playing basketball. He's like probably
six, three. Huge Achilles tendon, a freak. Basically a kangaroo. This man was a kangaroo
in a human body. He's going to tell you, you should have been doing calf raises in the
10th grade.
Nathanael: My point is guys, not everybody knows what
they're doing. But Chris staples, he can jump extremely high, and he knows what he's doing.
And he knows how to coach you through you taking your vertical jump to the next level.
I highly recommend this program. It doesn't use any weights. This is a body weight program.
And I thought it was for beginners, but as we get into the weeks, I would gain some insight
just from this program, because I don't do a lot of those Depth jumps, and I think I'm
going to start to after watching this.
Nathanael: All I have to say is good things. It's a good
app. It's a good program. There's good exercises. It's good sets and reps schemes. He leaves
no stone unturned. As I said earlier, you have force production. You have force absorption.
You have elasticity. You have eccentric work. You have strengthening. He gave you core,
he gave you jump technique. he gave you everything. So I highly, highly recommend this program,
and it follows the correct progression.
Nathanael: So definitely recommend this program. Check
out his YouTube channel. I know he's a lot bigger than me. Probably doesn't even know
who I am, but I'm a huge fan. I'm going to go watch some of his videos. There is a link
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