What is Agility?
‘Agility is a whole body movement with a change of velocity or direction in response to a stimulus’ (Sheppard & Young, 2006)
Deterministic Model
This deterministic model identifies the importance of factors that may help coaches develop and train agility. Below is a picture of the model.
I did not realise how many factors affected agility!
Testing Agility
Based on a study by Nimphius et al., (2016) this is a test to test a persons change of direction speed.
Work out a persons 10m sprint time.
Then work out their 5-0-5 sprint test (L+R)
Take the 5-0-5 sprint time from the 10m sprint time to really see how fast an athlete changes direction.
References:
Nimphius, S., Callaghan, S., Spiteri, T. & Lockie, R. (2016) Change of Direction Deficit: A More Isolated Measure of Change of Direction Performance Than Total 505 Time. Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research.
Young, W. & Farrow, D. (2006) A Review of Agility. Strength and Conditioning Journal. Vol. 28.
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