Vertical Jump Nfl vs NBA and Nba stars true Vertical and Height

[ManlyStanley69]

[COLOR="Magenta"]Let me make a few things clear as a personal trainer:

1. NFL players do have better verticals than NBA players. The reason is because they train properly to gain inches on their vertical. NFL players have great core and shoulder strength which helps in a vertical leap, but mainly they lift a lot more legs than NBA players do which is much more useful in gaining in vertical than plyometrics or dunking

2. NFL players have more than likely been on advanced workout programs for years while most NBA prospects don't even have a real workout regimen until college.

3.A decent percentage nba players jump off of one foot primarily.

4. I have never trained any NBA players yet.[/COLOR]

[KWALI]

U can't gage effort so all these things are circumstantial at best. In particular when you talk about combines which are much more important to Football players than Basketball players

[lefthook00]

When you're forced to back squat, front squat, hack squat, jump squat, box squat, squat with chains, leg press, power clean, hang clean, clean n jerk, lunges, step ups, deadlift, stiff legged deadlift, & rack deadlift SINCE YOU WERE A CHILD, you're fast twitch muscle/tendon strength/explosiveness is going to be off the charts. You're going to be way stronger, way faster, way bigger.

Fact is, NFL players are str8 up WAY MORE SAVAGE than NBA players. NBA players are fairys compared to NFL players. This is not a diss on NBA players, it just comes down to what each sport requires.

[NBASTATMAN]

Vince carter vert is not 34.5 inches at all, seriously. There is no way a WHITE defensive end can out jump the greatest dunker ever.

Yea Vince was 6ft 6 and his head was always around the rim.. That alone would be a 42 inch vertical...

[Jinxed]

Yea Vince was 6ft 6 and his head was always around the rim.. That alone would be a 42 inch vertical...

He has a running start vertical of 43...his no step vertical is 36...Really not that hard to understand.

[restoman45]

He has a running start vertical of 43...his no step vertical is 36...Really not that hard to understand.

lol...dont forget...common sense is not that common haha...you can post something 100 times and someone keeps on posting the same thing over and over lol...

[el gringos]

Do we keep forgetting that these are completly different sized people?

if you took only the basketball players between 5-8 and 6-2 or 3 than I'm thinking the athletic test results would be very similar to nfl skill position players

I think its partly the way they are trained like many here have said, but mostly just remember that a 6-6 guy looks small on an nba court but a 6-6 guy is basically only smaller than an offensive tackle or 2 on each team and looks very very tall compared to the average nfl player

[lefthook00]

Do we keep forgetting that these are completly different sized people?

if you took only the basketball players between 5-8 and 6-2 or 3 than I'm thinking the athletic test results would be very similar to nfl skill position players

Besides strength, true. By the way, a 6-6+ person jumping 30+ inches in the air is insane.

[CoryThaGr8]

nfl players put in alot more work in the weight room the nba ers

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

When you're forced to back squat, front squat, hack squat, jump squat, box squat, squat with chains, leg press, power clean, hang clean, clean n jerk, lunges, step ups, deadlift, stiff legged deadlift, & rack deadlift SINCE YOU WERE A CHILD, you're fast twitch muscle/tendon strength/explosiveness is going to be off the charts. You're going to be way stronger, way faster, way bigger.

Fact is, NFL players are str8 up WAY MORE SAVAGE than NBA players. NBA players are fairys compared to NFL players. This is not a diss on NBA players, it just comes down to what each sport requires.

Egzzzzzaccctly. Thsi man knows wut's up.

You forgot sprinting with parachutes though. This is just how it is. The training makes them who they are, but the majority of their vert comes from isometric leg strength, cores, and shoulers.

Basketball players like Shawn Marion and Shawn Kemp though can jump "at will" and have superior "plyometrix" type jumps. They can generate force with the proper technique, and dunk basketballs.

NFL guys are just Pure. Raw. F*cking. Power. But yes they do have a couple inches. Still dunking, running, sliding and transitioning into basketball movement may be difficult for them.

[el_locoteee]

I pretty sure that the no step vertical of a NFL player and a running start vertical is about the same. In the other hand NBA players no step and running start vertical are widely different. Because they train to jump while taking 2 step (or more steps like Lebron).

But here is the difference, and NBA player is tall and usually have pretty long arms that allow then to reach so high is ridiculous. Plus they are trained to jump again and again while running up and down the floor like crazy without getting tired.

[Mdog1]

Thing about this is that NFL players are on the feild for halfish of the game where as NBa players would be on the court for 35+. Therefore they would be trained differently. A football player is built for power and built for short stints of PT where as basketball players are built for endurance and doing the smae motion over and over. Basketball is unlike any other sport really. Basketball can be considered an endurance sport and a power sport where as football is simply power. A player needs to have the stamina to do the same thing for 30 minutes a night, but a football player only needs to be able to do the same motion for maybe 5 minutes at a time. Basketball there is less breaks in play then in football which has one after every play.

Basketball is a harder sport to play then football because you need to be in good shape powerfully and endurance wise.

[Godfather]

NFL defensive backs and wide receivers are the greatest athletes in the world.

[PK3434]

NFL defensive backs and wide receivers are the greatest athletes in the world.

true but most of them are former basketball players who couldnt shoot.

[2LeTTeRS]

true but most of them are former basketball players who couldnt shoot.

That or they didn't grow enough to be an NBA shooting guard.