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Assessing True ‘Agility’ – The ‘Holy Grail’ of Performance Testing?
Assessments of agility, essentially requires tests of change of direction and/ or manoeuvrability in response to stimuli, whereby the athlete’s ‘perceptual-cognitive’ abilities along with…
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Assessing the Speed Qualities of the 360° Team Sport Athlete
Readers of our posts will be well-versed by now in the multi-directional requirements of team sport athletes. Between our contributors, we have extensively covered topics that have highlighted…
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Don’t Speed Up What You Can’t Slow Down: How Are We Assessing Our Athlete’s Horizontal Deceleration Performance Capabilities?
In my previous two blogs I discussed the intricacies of horizontal deceleration and why it is the most mechanically demanding task in multi-directional sports. Despite its clear importance to…
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Curve Your Speed: Biomechanical Insights Into Developing Curvilinear Running Speed
Introduction Linear sprinting is an important action in match deciding events of field-based sports such as soccer. However, time-motion studies in soccer reveal that not all sprints are…
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Testing: What is it Good For?
Overview Fitness testing (i.e., testing the components of fitness related to sports performance and injury) helps drive physical preparation strategies to improve performance and mitigate…
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From Straight Lines to Sharp Turns: Evaluating Physical Qualities Essential for Multi-Directional Speed
MDS encompasses various sub-components, including perceptual factors, decision-making, and change of direction speed. Breaking down these components helps in identifying the specific…
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Deceleration: The Most Mechanically Demanding Task in Multi-Directional Sports?
To ensure optimal preparation of athletes competing in multi-directional sports, an essential starting point is to gain a thorough understanding of the demands an athlete may be exposed to…
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Assessing Inter-limb Asymmetries: Should We Bother?
In this blog I wanted to discuss the topic of reporting inter-limb asymmetries for performance and rehabilitation. This post essentially builds on a previous article led by Thomas Dos’Santos…
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Assessing Change of Direction Qualities in the Field
Development of change of direction ability is important to provide the physical and technical foundation to develop agility (Nimphius et al., 2016a). Therefore, it is important for strength…
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Faster and Fitter: Developing a Soccer Player’s High-Intensity Movement Profile
Elite soccer players are fitter, faster, and stronger than ever before. This has facilitated the evolution of an exciting modern game that is being played at higher speeds with more dense…
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