Cognitive

COGNITIVE SPEED is how quickly players read and appropriately react to the game around them (teammates, opponents, the ball, etc.).

Technical

TECHNICAL SPEED relates to the execution of sport-specific skills.  It is all those things —like dribbling, serving, or blocking— that make each sport unique.

Athletic

ATHLETIC SPEED involves movement of the body from one place to another, whether by running, jumping, crawling, or some combination thereof.

Speed Training Insights

Redirection vs. Change of Direction

The athletic component of agility is, both figuratively and literally, multi-dimensional.  The uneducated coach spreads out a bunch of cones, hurdles or ladders and gets their players to move around/through/between/over…