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Is Your Agility Training A Waste of Time? Have you spent money on agility ladders, poles, watching Tik Tok's and online resources only to end up with little if any results or direct on field agility improvements? At almost every single training session, you see coaches running athletes through agility ladders, agility poles and cones in order to develop and enhance their athletes’ agility. Do you know what true agility is? Jeremy Shepherd a renowned agility expert and researcher puts it perfectly - "Agility can be defined as the rapid whole body change of direction or speed in response to a sport specific stimulus." That then begs the question, "How does running around a cone or through a ladder develop agility or the ability to rapidly change direction in response to a sport specific stimulus such as evading an opponent?" It doesn’t! As an athlete when do you run through a ladder on the athletic arena or attempt to evade or side step a stationary pole or opponent? NEVER! Imagine if you could develop agility skills in a specific game like manner that would actually transfer onto the sporting arena and best of all didn’t require any expensive equipment at all! Would you be interested? We'd hope so... I’m going to outline some of the key drills and concepts I use when developing specific agility drills. 1. Specificity Is the drill specific to the needs and requirements of the athlete? 2. Transference Does the drill transfer onto the sporting arena? 3. Skill Development Does the drill develop a sporting skill? To get a first hand peek into the techniques used to develop unmatched agility for sport, check out the Speed For Sport Program which will showcase some of these performance enhancing training methods used by the country's best athletes.