Agility

Horizontal Deceleration Ability: A Critical, but often Overlooked Quality for Speed Performance and Injury-Risk Reduction in Multi-Directional Sports

In this blog I wanted to bring special attention to the importance of horizontal deceleration ability to speed performance and injury-risk reduction in multi-directional speed (MDS) sports. This post essentially…

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8 min

Optimising Cutting Attacking Agility Actions: Technique Guidelines

Attacking agility actions, such as side-steps, shuffle steps, crossover cutting, split-steps, spins, sharp turns, and decelerations are important manoeuvres in invasion team-sports, often linked with decisive, match winning moments. Generally,…

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17 min

Creating Technical Frameworks to Aid the Coaching of Agility Actions

An important part of multidirectional speed development is the enhancement of technique of speed and agility related actions involved in match play (e.g., sprinting, curvilinear sprinting, side-step cutting, pivoting, etc.).…

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Horizontal Deceleration Ability: A Critical, but often Overlooked Quality for Speed Performance and Injury-Risk Reduction in Multi-Directional Sports

Optimising Cutting Attacking Agility Actions: Technique Guidelines

Creating Technical Frameworks to Aid the Coaching of Agility Actions

Horizontal Deceleration Ability: A Critical, but often Overlooked Quality for Speed Performance and Injury-Risk Reduction in Multi-Directional Sports

Developing Neuromuscular Power for Athletic Performance: Part 2 – Training Strategies andProgramming Solutions

Developing Neuromuscular Power for Athletic Performance: Part 1 – Physiological and Biomechanical Theories

Programming Resistance Training to Improve Sports Performance and Injury Resilience

The Importance and Principles of Resistance Training