Squats and Vertical Jump

You have probably heard about rocket engines something like that "this rocket engine can produce 3 000 000kg of force/thrust" that much energy is needed to get a heavy rocket in air.
You dont need that much force to get your body off the ground though. But bodyweight and how much force you can make in as short time as possible is still important in jumping. If you would make that rocket lighter or would make the engine even more powerful, would it go faster and higher?
What about making your engine more powerful? Would you jump higher if you can produce more force in the same amount of time? Yes you would, if you weight 80kg and can squat 160kg in like 0.4 seconds then think how fast will you move when you just need to move your bodyweight only.

Some people in the gym squat slowly up and down. When you want to get more powerful then you should go up as fast as you can, like you do when jumping.
So if you want to improve your vertical jump go and squat, for power use the weight which is about 80-90% of your 1 rep max and do short sets, 5 reps is used by many athletes. Improve your squat to bodyweight ratio and you will see yourself going higher and higher. About 1.5x bodyweight squat is something you should aim as your first goal.

for motivation check this guy out, he can squat more than 3x his bodyweight and has probably the highest vertical jump in the world currently. 50"/125cm standing vertical....