An essential guide to agility training

A thread 🧵

Info c/o Warren Young

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Great work Brock Freeman on yet another study form your PhD up in lights!

Common High-Speed Running Thresholds Likely Do Not Correspond to High-Speed Running in Field Sports (Freeman et al., 2023) Brock Freeman

1️⃣Get athletes to run at different intensities
2️⃣Film and Record GPS velocities
3️⃣See if our normal GPS velocity thresholds are…

Last week, our Head of Rugby invested in some alternate rugby balls for training, so I wrote a bit about Differential Learning and how it could be useful.
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👉🏻 in-lab #ACL #injury risk screening may lack ecological validity

We have compared #agility in a lab and on the field.

#female #girls #soccer #football #health #youth #talent #coach

Thanks team Eline Nijmeijer Alli Gokeler Stefano Di Paolo 🙏🏻🤩 and thanks ZonMw for funding 🙏🏻

🚨Interested in sprint movement skills and patterns in EPL⚽️?

Great to support Paul Caldbeck in publishing his doctoral work related to contextual sprinting

✅45% & 66% Linear transition and start
✅86% Curved
✅62% Torso rotated

Free download ⬇️
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This is a great study and video resource. Can we modify max speed running posture ? Yes we can and we need more research like this m.youtube.com/watch?v=s1dnt7… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34794121/

Introducing our second Keynote speaker for the
@LaTrobe_SES S&C Symposium on 14th October!
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🎟️Only $50 ($30 students)

Game movement patterns aren't linear

They're not cone to cone

They're not waiting a turn

They're not predictable

They're chaotic

They're multi directional

They're impulsive

There's decisions to be made

There's problems to solve

And training should be no different

Only a week to go before we host Ian Jeffreys, Tom Dos'Santos and Shawn Myszka for our latest roundtable focusing on agility training.

We will discuss creating agility drills to maximise transfer to the field/court as well as many other things.

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🆕What are the significant turning demands of match play of an English Premier League soccer team?

⚽️18 matches tracked using LiDAR non-invasive tech
❗️~90% turns - entry spd <5.5 m/s
❗️~70% turns - 120-180°
🏃‍♂️CM>turns vs CB,FB,WM,CF

50 free copies⬇️
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This month once again we have 10 new research articles you should read this month which have been reviewed by our 10 experts.

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Which may be the best day to program near-to-max speed exposures in relation to ⚽️ match hamstring injuries? 🤔
✅D-3 or earlier?
✅D-2?
✅D-1?

Paper still under review, but SportRxiv link here
👇👇😃
bit.ly/3aaMcAV

Kitman Labs Derek McHugh Karim Hader

I’m going to go through my key skills model with a focus on analysis and training - I’ll go as far into reactive progressions as people would like!

Key skills is all about training for skills which transfer between COD types, rather than learning specific techniques 👊

The more I see, the less I trust CMJ scores off mats

Yes they can be done reliably, but that doesn’t mean they are BEING done reliably. It’s tuck city out there

One scroll through Instagram makes you realise just how easily people convince themselves of their own effectiveness

Yes, high-speed running is not sprinting ……

Are the movement strategies seen in the lab similar to strategies used by athletes on the field/court?
How can we add unpredictability & variability into training to prepare athletes for match play demands?
Warren Young reviews this paper from Stefano Di Paolo

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'The use of generic or non-sport specific stimuli such as a flashing light or arrow that indicate the new direction of travel do not discriminate higher standard athletes from lower performing ones'

Warren Young

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Some thoughts I've been having recently.

Athletic development requires ability to develop athletic qualities (capacities) and facilitate these qualities in sport (skills).

Only developing one or the other is limiting. Context drives content.
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