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Originally Posted by Malone32
I'm doing the Vertical Bible and of course there's basically nothing about upper body in it. There's just that small footnote that says you can work some upper body. I've read in other places that it will eat into your recovery time and thus be bad to do if you're focusing on just increasing your vert. Also there's the fact that upper body is only 5% of the vertical jump. I've heard that things like TVP have you work on upper body 3 times a week, so I don't really know what to make of it.
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If vertical is improvement is your goal then you don't need to do too much work for upper body. Work on your lats with pull ups and chin ups and also your shoulders particularly front delt raises. If you need to get strong for basketball or football then do what you need to do in order to succeed at your sport. It depends on what your focus is. However that 5% figure from what i have read is about right and really, in the big scheme of things, isn't a great amount. I think TVP over does it on upper body work. Another thing to consider is that squats and deadlifts being such full body exercises will release a lot of growth hormone and your upper body will grow to a certain extent as a by product - particularly with deadlifts which require a certain amount of upper body strength anyway.
Cheers
JDub
Working on Upper Body While Working on Vert
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