Agility: Sprinting and LJ

Sport specific agility drills with two clear progressions. What is Agility? ‘Agility is the ability to move and change direction and position of the body quickly and effectively while under control. It requires quick reflexes, coordination, balance, speed, and correct response to the changing situation’. Quinn (2016). Within sport, in certain circumstances the ability to change […]

Putting Plyometrics to Practice

LJ & Sprinting: P L Y O M E T R I C S   Plyometrics have been used for many years in the Russian and eastern European training of track and field athletes (Chu & Panariello, 1989). Fred Wilt (1975) termed Plyometrics as a derivation from the Greek words plythein or plyo, meaning to increase and measure. Therefore, Plyometrics […]