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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Be More Agile, Be Safer
Central Oklahoma, OK
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Many trainers are missing the point when it comes to training athletes who are looking for speed, power and strength. When training the participant, we need to condition the body for functional performance. Agility training is not just leg or lower body conditioning, but whole body conditioning.
Every day we move in different directions, perform different tasks and transverse different elevations. For functional performance training we need to look at each sport and the athlete, we then need to condition the athlete to those sport specific movements.
Look at basketball: The basketball athlete performs movements in quick bursts, moving forward, backward and at different angles, all executed as a response to the opposing athlete.
The football athlete also needs the ability to move in different directions. The football athlete needs to have power, speed and strength. Power will be achieved through explosive movements in an agility course using and developing dynamic strength. The benefits the athletes are going to see are fewer knee and shoulder injuries.
Agility training, using leg and lower body movements, helps strengthen the ankles, knees and hips in addition to all lower body muscles, thus giving the athlete more speed and power. However, hand agilities added to the other movements will strengthen the shoulders, back and upper body joints and muscles, thus allowing the athlete to respond faster in the upper body.
Applying both, traditional agilities and hand agilities, has great benefits to the conditioning of the participant, and lowers the potential for injuries.
Injuries occur. However, some can be prevented through proper training and conditioning. We can prevent knee injuries by training the athlete and strengthening them through functional performance. Other injuries, such as impact injuries, are non-preventable injuries.
After implementing a five-month agility program into the Oklahoma City Police Department’s last recruit training class, the recruits were more agile, powerful and increased their response time during their physical activities and reported no injuries.
Keith Simonds runs a boot camp that includes special workouts designed to create more speed, power and strength. For more information on the camp, call 204-8635.
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