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Agility Ladder
Creating Competition To Energize Sports Workouts
These days many athletes and coaches are participating in sports workouts to improve their athleticism. The various sports workouts available to today's athletes are, climbing agility ladders, performing Olympic weight lifting, attending a yoga class etc.
As a strength and conditioning coach for many years and a former professional level athlete, I have observed that competition brings out the best in athletes when in a training environment.
Most athletes run drills just because they are told that it is good for them. They just do it to improve their athleticism.
I have observed that if these drills are designed to be competitive, they raise the focus and intensity of an athlete dramatically. I make it a point to slip in some sort of a competitive factor into my drills. A competitive environment will improve the return on time invested in sports workouts.
At the beginning of a training workout, the athletes have to participate in speed, agility and quickness tests. These tests help me in determining the ability of an athlete. Then, I group similarly matched athletes for the various drills.
For example, if two athletes have similar times in a 40 yard dash, I can match them up for competing in speed. I make these two athletes run 5 20 yard sprints with 60 second rest intervals.
During the first test, both the athletes are similarly matched. This creates a sense of competition between the two athletes to win the second test too. The short rest intervals show how quickly an athlete can recover. The athlete with the shortest recovery time has a competitive edge over other athletes.
Sports workouts with competitive conditioning are more productive than the routine run drills. Competitive conditioning brings the best out of the athletes. With this kind of conditioning, the athletes become more competitive and always give their best.
This is the kind of conditioning required by an athlete to make it to the top level in the tough world of competitive sports.
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About the Author
Alex Semenik is a personal trainer and fitness author who created www.teamsportstraining.com He is a former professional athlete and has trained many high level athletes. His clients have included a range of people like He is a former professional athlete and has trained many high level athletes. His clients have included a range of people like Mike Tyson (Former Heavyweight Champion of the World) all the way down to State Player of the Year High School football athletes.
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Quickness and agility help for football?
so i played linebacker last season as a sophomore for most of the season and i got moved to defensive end because they said that i wasnt quick enough so during the off season that what i would like to improve. im going to jump rope and do agility ladders. do you guys know anything else i could do?
Jump rope is great. If you can do jump rope for 2 hours straight, then you will build the balance and agility. The other key thing you should do is stretch. I am talking about serious stretching and working out your fast twitch muscles. Please see the link that I have pasted below. They describe what the different muscle groups are and include further reading on experimental methods to grow more fast twitch muscles.
Since there is no scientific evidence, I can only give you anecdotal evidence that it helped a friend jump higher and be quicker. He is a basketball player and able to get college scholarship to play for a Div II.
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