Agility training is a fantastic way to improve functional movement capacity and it is well known as an integral part of sports training methods. However, it does come with some risks so it is important to have a great understanding of the fundamental components you need to know in order to set a good a foundation for more complex drills and exercises to come.
Make sure you read our detailed articles about change of direction and sports training in the links below to see progressions and various other exercises that follow up from these basic tests.
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When people look to get in shape they believe that moving well will just happen. All they have to do is get out there and get it done and the body will fix itself. Unfortunately it won’t. And movement problems will only get worse when compounded by frequency and volume of training.
Three basic skills you need which I show you are.

1. Knowing how to set the Core – Core Activation is the key to creating leverage and stability, throughout the body. Ideally this will be a reflexive preparation before any movement will occur.
2. Athletic Position – Neutral Spine, knees flexed, weight on heels and muscles and joints ready to move quickly in any direction.
3. Postural Position and Stability - Postural control must be established and maintained from neck, shoulder and thoracic stability down through the lumbar spine and pelvis into the tracking of the knees and ankles. Dysfunction at any point in the chain can lead to potential injury.
Later on these skills progress to a more complex skill set where we look at foot plant position and shoulder position, but this is the very basic fundamentals to learn in the very beginning.

The real essence of agility work comes down to single leg stability and single leg strength and the ability to decelerate and brake. Very rarely do we jump or land on two feet so it makes perfect sense to address any weakness with single leg stability first. The most basic concept of agility is that to move to the left you must push off with the right foot. This means you need to have a degree of strength in single leg and split stance positions and the ability to transfer your weight very quickly. The goal with agility drills should be efficient, effortless, flowing movement that transfers directly to the functional task you are trying to improve. Training deceleration is essential to providing the person with the tools to execute stops, instantaneous changes of direction and explosive first step quickness.

It is also in deceleration we see many of the serious knee injuries like ACL tears occur and the value of agility exercises cannot be overstated for preventing these. Great articles to read about ACL injury are shown below and I highly encourage you to check these out as they show in great detail the mechanism of sporting injuries created from poor landing techniques and poor cutting technique with sporting activities.
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