Dr. Andy Galpin

As far as I know, and actually I checked around with a bunch of colleagues on this, there's no scientifically verified world record for this.

Guinness has their own records.

The scientific publication is a little bit different.

And so I actually called a friend of mine, Paul Fabrice.

Paul is a world-renowned basketball trainer, has coached and worked with some of the best basketball players in the world.

And I asked him, and he told me basically, in his opinion, 48 inches or so is the highest he's ever seen.

This would be a standing vertical jump.

If you were to get an approach, say maybe two or three steps to run in, you might be able to jump into the low 50s.

But he doesn't really think anybody has eclipsed the 50-inch mark in terms of a standing vertical jump.

There's not extensive evidence on vertical jump height by age.

And so that's a little bit more challenging to give you.

So what I would say is, again, focus on something more like that broad jump test.

Another option is to use machines like a Proteus.

Now, you may have this available depending on where you train, at your local gym or clinic somewhere.

And these are machines that allow you to test your power in a number of different planes.

And this is really interesting because companies like this are starting to collect normative data

on average people for power testing.

And I don't have anything like that to report to you right now.

And so what's going to be hopefully interesting in the coming years is as they start to release and publish these results, I will have normative values based on age and sex for things that are not just vertical jump base.

Not all of you can do that.