Agility Training

Agility training is an important part of the ten components of fitness. The development of agility allows a person to develop the necessary skills to change direction quickly as demanded in many sports and other endeavours. Personal Evolution utilises several methods for agility development. The primary ones being…

1. Sport and Athletic Training: Most fitness programmes in generic fitness centres focus only on strength, body composition and cardiovascular endurance. This results in poor development and neglect of agility, coordination, balance and related disciplines. We counter this neglect with sport and athletic training drills for people not involved in sport. In addition to this we introduce cross-training for athletes. This means that an athlete of a specific sport will participate in a certain amount of cross-sports training. A javelin thrower might be introduced to soccer drills, a marathon runner may be introduced to hackeysack and a sprinter might participate in gymnastics training. This helps develop agility that is both specific and general in nature.
2. Specific Drills and Skills: We develop a number of drills and skills for the development of agility in an individual. Primarily this includes basic body awareness training borrowed from gymnastics and parkour.
3. Functional Training: In addition to the specific agility training, we also have an in-built agility development component to a large percentage of our training, this is indirect. Agility may be developed through functional strength training that also helps develop balance and coordination. Agility is also developed through martial arts training, plyometrics and a lot of other metabolic conditioning exercise.

Agility is not considered an important component of most fitness programming, however as one of the ten components of fitness, we believe that it is equally important to all others. Consider for example an elderly person. They lose their balance and their reaction time as they age further. This causes them to struggle with day to day activities. Agility training helps them to displace their body weight from one movement to another more rapidly. This results in less falls and injury and more independence. In an athlete the benefits are obvious.

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