Agility is the ability to change the direction of the body efficiently and effectively, and to achieve this, and you require a combination of:
How do we improve agility?We can improve our agility by enhancing the parts of agility (listed above) and practicing them in training. Agility LadderThe main objective of agility ladder programs is to promote a wide range of different foot and movement patterns. These movements will become second nature through practice, and the body will be able to respond quickly to various sport-specific movement patterns. Using an agility ladder, we can improve our agility by practising movement patterns in training. The standard ladder is 10 yards long with 18-inch squares, but you can construct your ladder using sticks, lino strips or tape.When beginning an agility ladder program, start with 2 to 4 drills and once you master these, introduce new drills. Ladder AssessmentSpeed through a ladder can indicate much about an athlete's quickness. Less than 2.8 seconds for males and 3.4 seconds for females for running the length of a 20-rung ladder, one foot in each rung at a time, is considered excellent for senior athletes. ExercisesDetailed below are some ladder drills you could use.
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Exercise 7As Exercise 6, moving laterally with the left foot. How do we measure agility?There are several tests to measure an athlete's agility. They include: Page ReferenceIf you quote information from this page in your work, then the reference for this page is:
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Agility or nimbleness is an ability to change the body's position quickly and requires the integration of isolated movement skills using a combination of balance, coordination, speed, reflexes, strength, and endurance. More specifically, it is dependent on:
In sports, agility is often defined in terms of an individual sport, due to it being an integration of many components each used differently (specific to all of sorts of different sports). Sheppard and Young (2006) defined agility as a "rapid whole body movement with change of direction or velocity in response to a stimulus".[1] Agility is also an important attribute in many role playing games, both video games such as Pokémon, and tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons. Agility may affect the character's ability to evade an enemy's attack or land their own, or pickpocket and pick locks. In modern-day psychology, author, psychologist, and executive coach Susan David introduces a concept that she terms “emotional agility,” defined as: “being flexible with your thoughts and feelings so that you can respond optimally to everyday situations.”[2][3] The concept has also been applied to higher education management and leadership, where it was used to accelerate slower traditional and deliberative processes and to replace them with corporate decision-making.[4]
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