In fact, the ability to accelerate quickly and jump high correlate well with each other. Instead of wasting your time I'll break speed and leaping ability down and show you the exact qualities your workouts must target and then give you the secrets, or exercises, that will enable you to hit those targets and make the most of your training time.Ī lot of you may wonder if the exercises to improve one area (speed or jump) work to improve the other. I'll give you some of the top proven exercises for both speed and vertical jump improvement. In this article I'll attempt to shed some light on these questions and help you avoid going round and round playing a game of pin the tail on the donkey searching for that elusive magic bullet.