SPEED/AGILITY

There is a lot more that goes into speed and agility training than just doing sprints and ladder drills. First, the athlete needs to be assessed for how they sprint, as in are they over thinking it? Strength coaches call this central nervous system overload because they are trying to accomplish a complex movement before breaking it down to its most simple asset first. Central nervous system overload presents itself in many different ways but the most common is constant head shaking while running. The best way to approach fixing this is to breakdown the complex action of running. This is done through various A-Motion, A-Skip, B-Motion, and B-Skip progressions, starting from slow motion to more complicated skip variations. After working on the athlete’s sprint form then you can approach how to make the athlete faster. This is accomplished through application of drills that enhance stride length, decreasing ground contact time, and increasing stride frequency. Once addressing the principles above then you incorporate them into the athlete’s sprinting stride through actual sprinting drills. This is just a short synapsis to our philosophy for training for speed and agility at Efficiency Strength Training, LLC, but it is a great look into what the thought process is behind training the efficiency way!