Agility is the quickness paired with speed to allow for greater overall body control. It’s how you stop, start, and turn on the field. For soccer players, it’s essential for ball control. It’s a key quality in refining foot speed and technique.

As with all our courses and one-on-sessions, how we improve your agility depends on a lot of factors. As well as your age, ability, and current bodily state, whether or not you’re in season will dictate which exercises we use. When you’re in season, after all, you might be getting most of the agility training on the track or field you need, and relying on high-impact exercises might just mean a higher risk of injuring yourself.

When improving agility, we rely on a lot of exercises that can be hard on the body. Plyometric jumps rely on unleashing bursts of explosive power repeatedly for coordinated and balanced landings. Dot agility drills have you increase knee and ankle strength, improving your ability to shift your momentum much quicker.

To ensure that you’re getting the right results from these high-impact exercises, we spend a lot of time focusing on warming up and warming down with stretches and low-impact activities. If you’re off season, you will often be told to take a whole 48 hours without exercise to let not only your body recover but the central nervous system that’s crucial to agility, too.

If you’re off-season, we may focus more on low-impact exercises. You might be doing a lot of starting, stopping, and turning on the field so, instead, we focus on things like medicine ball throws and static stretches.

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Improving your speed and agility can make a massive difference in any sport. Not only can it make you react faster and push harder. It builds further reserves of stamina, keeps your mind sharp and focused, and allows for much more advanced technique in many sports. If you want to take your game to the next level, get in touch with us today or see which group classes best fit your needs.