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If you’ve been a part of the vertical jump community, then you’ve likely come across some of the workout programs that are available online.
One such program goes by the name of BoingVert and looking at it from a surface level, it seems pretty good.
If you’re already familiar with this program, you’ve likely seen some of the promotional videos, adverts, and testimonials that show amazing results.
But is this the case, or is it the good marketing and branding that just makes them seem like one of the better jump training programs out there? Does BoingVert actually work?
I decided to purchase the program myself so I could review the contents and decide whether or this is a program that is worth investing your time and energy into.
So in this BoingVert review, I’ll tell you exactly what it has to offer is and if it can truly lead to amazing results.
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What Is BoingVert?
BoingVert is a vertical jump training program grouped alongside other popular programs such as Vert Shock and The Jump Manual; its focus is to help users increase their vertical by as much as 12 inches over 6 months.
It accomplishes this goal by splitting the program into two parts. The first part is the first 16 weeks which are focused on training through the use of plyometric exercises that build both speed and power.
The second part is the next 11 weeks where you swap from plyometric exercises to pure weight training and focus on only building strength.
You hone yourself with plyometric exercises and then transition to weight training, performing each of these two in isolation.
This sounds great, but with the goal in mind of increasing one’s vertical, other vertical jump training programs simply get the same if not better results in a much shorter time frame.
You have jump training programs like Vert Shock which takes only 8-weeks to complete, and The Jump Manual which only lasts 12-weeks.
The reason why the program takes so long is that it originally lacked any weight training resources, so in 2016 it was revamped to include the 11 weeks of strength building.
The weight training however seems forced in conjunction with the plyometric exercises, and the creators don’t seem to make an effort of integrating the two at all.
What Do You Get With BoingVert?
With this program, if you purchase the entire course, you get access to a Plyometric and Weight Training program.
You also get access to a lot of background knowledge and pieces of information regarding your vertical jump, some of which are helpful, but most of which seem rather pointless.
The Many Different BoingVert Products
Various BoingVert purchasing options
The various BoingVert products you can purchase are:
BoingVert Animal – This is the original 2011 program that is 16 weeks long and focuses primarily on plyometric exercises to build both speed and power.
BoingVert Monster – This is the weight training portion that was added in the 2016 update.
It includes 11 weeks of weight-training that develops strength and should be done after completing Animal.
This program is still available for purchase, although there’s no way to access it on the official site without searching it up.
BoingVert V3 Air Warfare – Air Warfare is a 12-week program that is similar to Animal but at the same time also makes use of weight training.
It seems like a hybrid that mixes Animal and Monster, but they still recommend that you follow-through with Animal and Monster, so I don’t understand the point of this option.
BoingVert Savage – I’m not too sure what this is; on the homepage, it’s titled as the “weight room program” and the website is consistent with this title in the shop, so you would imagine this would replace Monster.
Well, Monster is still purchasable on the official site, and in the shop, Savage is also labeled as Air Warfare in the description.
The website is in drastic need of maintenance as it has a lot of misleading and confusing information.
Upon purchasing, you’re also provided with additional information in what are called “BoingMINIS”.
BoingMINIS – This includes BoingDGT, BoingCORE, BoingDIET, BoingDESK, BoingSWISH, BoingMIND, BoingBREATH, BoingCOLD, BoingFORM, BoingSECRETS, and BoingFLEX.
The BoingMINIS is like a bonus to get people to buy, but it comes off as an unnecessary addition.
It seems like they want to stretch the Boing name and slap it onto everything they can for marketing purposes, but it just looks ridiculous.
BoingVert Pricing
So how much does BoingVert cost anyway?
You can get Animal by itself for $9, with no weight training components included.
You can get Savage for $27, although I really can’t verify what this option grants you.
You also have an option that gives you Animal + Monster for $17, which seems to be the best deal as it contains both of the main jump training programs.
You can finally purchase Lifetime for $79.95, which acts as a sort of membership that gives you access to all current and future programs and products.
I didn’t know what to pick myself, so I figured I would just choose the lifetime option to get access to everything and avoid having to purchase anything else later on.
Who Created BoingVert?
The creators are two very well known people who have had a very positive reputation as both trainers and certified professionals.
Shawn Myszka
Shawn Myszka
The founder of BoingVert is Shawn Myszka, someone who has a pretty good reputation and has been the trainer for some of the top athletes in Minnesota.
Shawn has been an NSCA certified strength & conditioning specialist since 2003.
He’s both the co-founder and Athletic Performance Director of Explosive Edge Dynamics where he consulted NFL players.
Shawn has been heavily involved as both a consultant and speaker for a variety of sports and athletic organizations.
He has also been on top of other brands such as Movement Mastery and was even a former National-level competitive bodybuilder
Shawn has an extensive list of credentials and this is a testament to the knowledge and experience that he has acquired as a professional trainer.
Kelly Baggett
Kelly Baggett
Kelly Baggett is a certified trainer that helped with making BoingVert Monster by bringing his experience with both weight training and strength building.
Baggett has been a certified trainer since the age of 21, specializing in athletic performance and spending years studying every resource he could get his hands on.
His reputation comes from the value he provided the vertical jump community with his successful book title the “Vertical Jump Bible“.
The Vertical Jump Bible was originally published back in 2006, but this book has been very influential, acting as the foundation for many modern vertical jump training experts and programs.
So from what we can see, the creators have a strong background and a strong sense of legitimacy, but how well does that carry over into the actual program?
How Does BoingVert Work?
After purchasing, you gain access to your dashboard which is composed of a few buttons to access different areas, and text at the bottom reminding you to go through the Animal Program first, and then starting the Monster Program, with a three-week break in-between the two.
Each portion works on a separate goal with regards to increasing your vertical jump; the animal portion improves speed and explosiveness through plyometrics, and the monster portion builds strength through weight training.
Ideally, the two portions when combined should thoroughly maximize your vertical, thereby allowing you to jump higher.
In both the Animal and Monster program, you have a bunch of exercises listed, each of which is divided into separate muscle groups and functions.
This all may seem a bit overwhelming, and although they categorize exercises, there’s a lack of information regarding the importance of each exercise.
BoingVert Animal
BoingVert Animal
We’ve made it to the first portion of BoingVert, the Animal Program.
This part is focused on performing plyometric and body-weight exercises, meaning no gym equipment or weights are required, and at most, you need a bench.
When you first enter you’re greeted by Shawn himself where he introduces you to the Animal portion.
He emphasizes the program’s legitimacy by saying how it is based on scientific advancements made in the field of vertical jump training.
He also goes into how this jump training program will help improve your form by embedding the correct habits and practices.
From here navigation becomes confusing as you search for the actual workouts, but you’ll eventually make your way around to find the Jump Philosophy eBook, the printable workout log, and the instructional videos that guide you through each exercise.
It’s recommended that you first read through the Jump Philosophy eBook, a 32-page pdf that acts as a preface to the Animal portion by explaining the different components of a vertical jump.
It talks about various important factors which range from the warm-up and cool-down you perform to the muscle groups at work during the process, and even how you absorb the impact of landing when you’re back on the ground.
A good bit of the information is useful, but some of it is based on theory and to understand some topics requires a certain level of understanding.
BoingVert Animal Workouts
After reading the 32-page pdf, you move on to the Animal Workout Log where you can access pdf files that contain the exercises you’ll be performing.
BoingVert Animal Exercises
The problem with the workout plans is that there is a log per each day of the 16 week training period, which adds up to a total of 93 pages you have to download and print.
They missed the ball here and could have easily reorganized the workout logs to have one log per week, like many other vertical jump programs (but hey you could just reorganize it yourself).
Along with the workout plans, you have access to instructional exercise videos that show you how to perform each exercise, with each video being replayed in slow motion so that you can better analyze the technique.
Moving onto the program itself, it’s divided into 6 phases, each of which is about 2 to 3 weeks long:
Phase 1 – General Body Preparation
As the name states, during this phase, you adapt your body in preparation for the upcoming phases.
You’re primarily focused on improving your stability to make sure you can safely perform compound exercises, although you do still improve your vertical jump through the exercises in this phase.
Phase 2 – Jump Mastery
In phase 2 you learn to synergize the muscles in your body and hone the correct movement patterns when jumping, both of which will translate to your ability to jump higher.
This synergy also builds coordination amongst the different muscle groups which will improve your form as you slowly adapt to the habit of jumping.
Phase 3 – Force Absorption
The third phase focuses on increasing the energy you have when you bend your knees and squat down, right before you jump.
During this action, you have a large amount of potential elastic energy that builds up and is waiting to be released, but you unknowingly waste this energy when you don’t put it to use.
By learning to direct the elastic energy accordingly while at the same time increasing your overall energy through force absorption, you’re able to jump much higher.
Phase 4 – Jump Acceleration
Now in the fourth phase, we’re much more focused on becoming explosive through quick movements in a short period.
Achieving quicker muscle contractions with an increased rate of force is our goal, as this reduces the amount of time jumping which reduces the amount of energy lost, and also increases overall force when pushing up.
Phase 5 – Reactive Emphasis
In the fifth phase, you’re improving upon your reactive strength, which is your ability to react to a change in direction as quickly as possible while jumping.
Because this phase involves building our reaction time by changing our direction while jumping, we’re gonna be looking at a set of very intensive plyometric exercises.
Phase 6 – Jump Mastery
We’ve come back to jump mastery from phase 2 where we are similarly building our coordination and our technique when jumping.
Learning to properly jump is crucial to increasing one’s vertical, and as such, I think they do a good job of emphasizing this point.
In the Animal Program, you divide your attention into separate areas which, at times, can simply overcomplicate the process, and the workload itself is questionable as each set of intensive plyometric exercises has a large number of repetitions.
BoingVert Monster
BoingVert Monster
Now that you’ve finished the Animal Program and taken the 2-3 week break, now you come back to BoingVert Monster, the latter half of the program which consists of 11 weeks of weight training.
Although some exercises don’t include weights, you’re mainly focused on building strength through resistance, which is going to translate towards the overall force you have when jumping.
BoingVert Monster Workouts
A strange choice was to change the log background from the previous white background in Animal to the now black background with Monster.
BoingVert Monster Exercises
It seems like printing the workout logs is no longer an option, unless we want to run our printer dry.
This leads you to be on the website nearly at all times just to follow the log, time that is heavily detracted from the workout itself.
Moving onto the program, Monster is divided into 4 phases:
Phase 1 – Adaptation and Activation
In phase 1 you adapt your muscles to the action of performing weight training, activating them to better accommodate for the following phases where you will include more resistance in the exercises.
Phase 2 – General Strength
In phase 2 you perform basic weight training exercises that primarily focus on your legs, but act as a good foundation from which you can start to truly build strength.
Phase 3 – Max Strength & Power
Now that you have a solid foundation for building strength, your main focus in phase 3 is to perform weight lifting exercises that maximize overall power through a heavy load.
Because you’re making use of heavy equipment, the total amount of repetitions is dialed back to balance the workout.
Phase 4 – Max Power
In phase 4 we get into explosive movements, similar to plyometrics, but still use weights and resistance training to build our strength.
Here you’ll see the greatest results as your body, now adapted to weight room training, is better positioned to tackle explosive exercises that incorporate weights.
Throughout the Monster Program, you will also have access to instructional exercise videos just as you did in the Animal Program, and each week will consist of three days of training.
BoingVert Pros And Cons
Now that we’ve gone through all that this program has to offer, let’s take some time to reflect on everything as a whole, and see both the good and the bad.
Pros
Pricing is Low
Although the purchasing process was a hassle, you can get this program for a rather cheap price. If you just want to get it in segments, you can simply purchase the Animal or Monster Program separately.
I do however have a gripe with lifetime, as they haven’t added much to the site as additional content that would make spending $79.95 worth it.
It just seems like a better buy to purchase everything separately.
Extensive Amounts of Information
You could practically fill a book with the information they provide
When looking back, the Animal Philosophy eBook covered a lot of ground in terms of valuable information that you wouldn’t get anywhere else.
In this respect, I think Shawn did a fantastic job incorporating all of his knowledge into a single eBook that gives a practical foundation for understanding the vertical jump.
It is very extensive, covering various topics like footwear, cooling down, and impact absorption, all of which are pretty handy bits of information to keep in mind.
Quality Exercise Instruction Videos
The videos are quick to the point by focusing solely on the exercise and are then replayed in slow motion so that you can better examine the form used.
I like how direct the videos are structured, but responsiveness is sometimes lacking alongside the audio, and during the Animal Portion specifically, video quality takes a dip.
Reputable Creators
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the creators of BoingVert, truly their legitimacy simply can’t be disputed; Shawn Myszka is fairly well known and has had lots of experience in not only bodybuilding but being a trainer for various athletes.
Throughout the program, you’ll see various examples of Shawn showing you his expertise and knowledge through the information that he provides you.
As for Kelly Baggett, his legacy as the author of the Vertical Jump Bible more than exemplifies his expertise on all things related to vertical jump training.
Regardless of the faults that the program has, it does contain valuable content from creators who clearly show that they are more than qualified to handle this topic.
The Animal Program
Great plyometric portion
The Animal portion is 16-weeks of plyometric exercises that don’t include weights; I’m quite fond of this section primarily because it doesn’t require the use of special equipment.
Instead, you can perform the exercises from home and at most need a bench or elevated surface.
You can also get by just fine with the Animal Program, but considering that some of the exercises overlap and there’s a lack of focus with this section, it would probably be better if you went with another purely plyometric program like Vert Shock.
Considering it’s more refined and can be accomplished in just 8-weeks, it just seems like a better choice.
Tons Of Exercises
The amount of exercises you’re given access to is plenty and each one helps with increasing your vertical jump in some aspect.
It does, however, feel like the exercises are rather scattered apart and at times overlap, making you feel as though the program needs refinement.
Cons
Purchasing Is A Problem
The entire process of deciding what to buy is overcomplicated, and this is due to a lack of maintenance on the website which leaves you with unclear options that have confusing descriptions.
Considering you have what appears to be five different payment options, those being the Animal Program, Animal + Monster Program, the Savage Program, BoingVert V3 Air Warfare, and Lifetime, purchasing is made much more complicated than it needs to be.
Poor User Experience
The website layout and presentation are fairly bland and basic, and navigating through the website is a learning curve as you click through a series of buttons to eventually arrive at the destined webpage.
Monster Is A Separate Program
Overbloated weight-training portion
The Monster portion seems forced into being the latter half of the program, but it just does not work well with the Animal Program. Considering the two focus on entirely different goals and accomplish these goals in different ways, they don’t connect well and instead work better as separate programs.
The Animal Program also hasn’t been touched since it’s debut in 2011, and as such, no effort has been made to integrate the two.
Another program that does a much better job of mixing plyometric and weight training exercises into one cohesive workout plan is The Jump Manual. It’s much more effective in its approach to increasing your vertical, and that’s saying a lot considering that the program is a couple of years older than BoingVert itself.
Lack Of Refinement
The program carries a lot of different exercises, and although I like to have varied options, trying to follow each day’s workout session is a case of performing new exercises that over-complicate the process.
This is shocking to see considering it has good exercises and the philosophy of the program is well defined, but the amount of exercises is unnecessary and their inclusion seems scatterbrained.
Doing all of these exercises can also have a negative effect as you increase your workload for no reason, and in the process prevent yourself from getting better results.
There’s also no real explanation behind each of the exercises; while you’re given an in-depth view of how vertical jump training works, the exercises are just given to you with no reasoning as to why you should use them.
The Program Is Long
The program is 30 weeks long, which is 7 and a half months of exercising for the sole purpose of increasing your vertical.
Prepare to schedule your days seven months in advance
That’s a long time of having to perform lots of exercises, and unfortunately, the program is designed for you to see real results only after you follow through with the entire course.
Again, this gives off a lack of focus in their approach to training, and in the end, you’re left with a program that is stuffed to the brim with exercises, which unnecessarily extend the time it takes to finish it.
No Basketball Related Material
You may have come into the program looking to learn how to dunk, but all you get is a program that only really focuses on getting you to jump higher.
As for dunking techniques or tips, there isn’t any of that included, which seems strange for a program that carries the tagline “We Create Dunkers”.
Conclusion
So, is this program worth buying?
Well, looking at BoingVert as a whole, it just fails to hold itself together and comes off as an incomplete program in desperate need of refining. The website is laid out poorly, there’s an unnecessary amount of workout logs, and exercises are just thrown in with no predefined purpose.
The Animal Program has been left untouched and as such feels a bit dated in terms of presentation, and mashing the Monster Program alongside it doesn’t help things at all.
There are key points of this program that when looked at individually, show a lot of potential for a great program.
I also don’t doubt that with this program you can potentially get results, as the pieces to improving your jump are definitely in there.
But as it stands, having to deal with a program that is inefficiently structured for the next couple of months doesn’t sound all too great.
So I wouldn’t recommend BoingVert as a vertical jump training program that you should get.
For a plyometric workout program, you have a program like Vert Shock that delivers results way quicker.
And If you’re more inclined to using weight training and want a program that includes resistance exercises along with plyometrics, then The Jump Manual is a better option.
Considering those are two programs that are more much solid in their approach and get results in a much shorter time-frame, I can’t see any reason to get BoingVert for anything other than as a resource for information.
