Developing Agility and Quickness for Sport Performance
Learn physical and cognitive components of speed and agility training.
This continuing education home study course, Developing Agility and Quickness for Sport PerformanceTM , is perfect for health and fitness professionals (personal trainers, athletic trainers , group fitness instructors, and coaches) to help their athletes perform to new heights. You will learn top training advice, drills, and programs for optimizing athletes’ movements, linearly and laterally.
A must have resource for developing winning athlete specific and sport-specific training programs.
- learn physical and cognitive components of speed and agility training.
- relevant to most all sports
- addresses improving quickness of foot and change of direction speed, perceptual and decision making factors.
- developing rapid force high power output
- explosive movement
- athletes achieve advanced performance
- over 100 drills to help develop comprehensive, safe, and effective training programs
Course Materials:
Digital Format – Included with Course:
- 200 page eBook Developing Agility and Quickness by Jay Dawes and Mark Roozen, Editors
- 55-page workbook provided in PDF format.
- 50 question, multiple choice, online test
- Instructions for completing obtaining CECs are included in PDF format.
Note: After purchase, this course package is emailed to you for download. All materials are available electronically. Nothing is mailed
Course Objectives:
1. Examine how agility and quickness impact sport performance.
2. Recognize and investigate the factors that affect agility and how to advance these attributes.
3. Describe how perceptual and decision-making skills impacts agility performance.
4. Explain methods for evaluating, assessing, and monitoring agility and quickness.
5. Identify and describe a minimum of 5 drills for developing agility.
6. Identify and describe a minimum of 5 drills for developing quickness.
7. Discuss the key foundations of designing agility and quickness programs.
8. Utilize the key foundations of agility and quickness program to sport-specific training.
