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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 their ability to move quickly (perceptual-motor…

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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 the critical…

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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 sports…

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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 linear (Caldbeck,…

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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 injury risk (McGuigan, 2017). Fitness…

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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 cognitive, biomechanical, technical, and physical requirements of each…

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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 during competitive match play.

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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 where…

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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 and conditioning…

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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…

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Assessing True ‘Agility’ – The ‘Holy Grail’ of Performance Testing?

Assessing the Speed Qualities of the 360° Team Sport Athlete

Don’t Speed Up What You Can’t Slow Down: How Are We Assessing Our Athlete’s Horizontal Deceleration Performance Capabilities?

Curve Your Speed: Biomechanical Insights Into Developing Curvilinear Running Speed

Testing: What is it Good For?

From Straight Lines to Sharp Turns: Evaluating Physical Qualities Essential for Multi-Directional Speed

Deceleration: The Most Mechanically Demanding Task in Multi-Directional Sports?

Assessing Inter-limb Asymmetries: Should We Bother?

Assessing Change of Direction Qualities in the Field

Faster and Fitter: Developing a Soccer Player’s High-Intensity Movement Profile

Assessing True ‘Agility’ – The ‘Holy Grail’ of Performance Testing?

Assessing the Speed Qualities of the 360° Team Sport Athlete

Don’t Speed Up What You Can’t Slow Down: How Are We Assessing Our Athlete’s Horizontal Deceleration Performance Capabilities?

Curve Your Speed: Biomechanical Insights Into Developing Curvilinear Running Speed

Testing: What is it Good For?