A Step towards a Field Based Agility Test in Team Sports

Drake, David F.; Kennedy, Rodney; Davis, Jonny; Godfrey, Matthew; McLeod, S J A; Davis, Abigail

doi:10.23937/2469-5718/1510079

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“…Young and Murray 2 reported that drop jump reactive strength index (DJ-RSI) from a 30 cm drop height had a large association with one vs. one defensive agility (r = 0.63), but may potentially hold even greater importance for successful attacking agility (r = 0.73). These findings corroborate Drake et al 3 who used a similar one vs. one agility test, and also found a larger association with unilateral repeated hop height averaged from across successive 3 hops and successful attacking agility performance (r = 0.57). Collectively, these findings support the importance of reactive strength qualities, where high forces need to be generated across short ground contact times (i.e., a tall-thin impulse) to successfully evade opponents.…”

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“…agility training (and testing) is far more complex and more challenging to design and administer. Although agility tests using one vs. one duels have been developed 2,3 , methods for evaluating agility performance in a competition setting are lacking.…”

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“…Although attacking and defending agility have some common elements, research has shown that being good at attacking agility does not guarantee being good at defensive agility, and vice versa 2,3 . It was suggested that the statistical independence of attacking and defending agility in Australian football was likely related to differences in footwork and perceptual information 2,4 .…”

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Agility in Invasion Sports: Position Stand of the IUSCA

Young

Dos’Santos

Harper

et al. 2022

Int'l Journal of Strength & Conditioning

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Agility is a complex skill that is influenced by several physical, technical and cognitive factors. In this position stand, we discuss agility as it relates to invasion sports such as the many football codes. An important concept when conceptualising agility is understanding how it is applied on the field or court. Agility is particularly important in contests between attackers and defenders. For example, an attacker needs to create space or separation from defenders, in order to evade or to maintain possession of the ball. Conversely, defenders may require agility to reduce time and space in relation to the attacker, thereby applying pressure with the intention of achieving a turnover of possession. The movements performed in an agility scenario are diverse, and may involve an isolated deceleration, or a range of actions to produce a lateral displacement of the body at various angles and speeds. To create novel insights into agility, the interactions between predators and prey are explored in the animal world and reveal that successful pursuit (like a defender) or escape (like an attacker) is influenced by the ability to accelerate and attain high speeds, decelerate, and manoeuvre with control at optimum speeds, as well as expressing perceptual and cognitive skills. A plethora of sports literature claiming to discuss agility actually refers to pre-planned change-of-direction (COD) movements, known as COD ability. There are several differences between agility and COD ability, which should be considered when testing and prescribing agility activities. The characteristics of different agility techniques are presented and discussed with consideration to performance and the risk of injury such as anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture, with the aim of creating multiple movement solutions for the athlete. Due to the diversity of agility actions performed in invasion sports, physical development should include tissue strengthening as well as fast and slow stretch-shortening cycle exercises to cater for different speeds and angles of agility movements. The speed and accuracy of decision-making in agility contests (cognitive component) are determined by the athlete’s ability to anticipate opponent’s actions, visually scan the environment, recognise patterns of play, and predict movement strategies based on knowledge of situations. One versus one contests, small-sided games, and video perceptual training can enhance the cognitive component of agility. Finally, there is no single coaching strategy or method that should be used to develop agility. Instead, the appropriate methodology must fit the individual needs of athletes, and therefore a mixed multicomponent approach is needed as part of an agility framework. Training examples to develop agility are presented throughout this position statement.

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Agility in Invasion Sports: Position Stand of the IUSCA

Young

Dos’Santos

Harper

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Int'l Journal of Strength & Conditioning

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“…In contrast, an attacker requires agility to avoid a defender to enable a shot or pass. Although there are common features of attacking and defending agility, expertise in one does not necessarily transfer to expertise in another (17,73). Agility is a complex quality that involves the coupling of perceptual information to guide actions (and vice versa; (25,52)), and not simply the execution of a predetermined movement (73).…”

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Merging Athletic Development With Skill Acquisition: Developing Agility Using an Ecological Dynamics Approach

Cassidy

Young

Gorman

et al. 2023

Strength &Amp; Conditioning Journal

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Agility has commonly been regarded as a physical quality, and strength and conditioning practitioners have typically used a closed environment approach for developing agility. This closed environment approach involves the decoupling of perception and action, where actions are trained in isolation from perception. Previous studies have shown, however, that when perception or action is trained in isolation, behavior changes. Therefore, agility is complex and multifactorial in nature. Through ecological dynamics, specifically the principle of representative learning design, practitioners should design training tasks that align more closely with the demands of competition. Representative learning design ensures that perception and action remain coupled to promote greater transfer of performance from training to competition. Another key principle for agility task design is coadaptation, and this can be operationalized through manipulation of opposing players. With these 2 key principles, we offer examples of agility tasks in 3 team invasion sports including soccer, rugby union, and Australian rules football.

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“…Having a football player profile that can maintain the existing capacity ORIGINAL ARTICLE at the highest level during the match and has the best endurance characteristics has been the first priority of the coaches [1][2][3]. Athletes who use their physical strength best, who do not get tired easily, who can rest quickly and who can recover, are tried to be included in the transfer lists by paying astronomical prices, especially by European clubs with huge budgets [4][5][6]. In the analyzes made on the footballers playing in the national teams, it was found that they ran a distance of approximately 10-12 km during the match, this distance increased every year with the further development of their training models.…”

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The effect of plyometric training on competition period muscle damage in amateur footballers

Şirin

2022

PES

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Background and Study Aim. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of plyometric training on the damage muscle in amateur footballers. Material and Methods. The research group consists of 19 footballers with an average age of 23.41 ± 3.2. In addition to football training, the research group received a plyometric training program from the third week of the preparation period (two days a week) to the sixth week of the competition period (one day a week). Blood samples were taken in the sixth week of the competition period, before and after the training and on the day of the competition. CK activity was determined in sera obtained from centrifuged blood. It was analyzed with the Roche Diagnostic kit on an Integra (800-Roche) biochemistry device. Tests used: Vertical Jump Test; 30 m. Sprint Test; Illinois Agility Test; Flexibility Test. Statistical analysis were performed by t-test, according to normality test in SPSS 10.0 package program. Results. The blood samples taken before and after the training were compared with creatine kinasevalues. It was seen that there was an increase and this increase returned to normal on the match day. In 30 meters sprint tests and Iliniois tests, significant reductions were found (p<0.05). While a significant difference was detected in the pre- and post-tests, pre-training and match day, no significant difference was found in CK values (p>0.05). Conclusions. Based on the results of this study, it can be recommended to reduce the intensity of the training to be done after the plyometric training due to the high CK value in the blood. It can be said that plyometric studies can play an important role in improving the performance of footballers.

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A Step towards a Field Based Agility Test in Team Sports

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Agility in Invasion Sports: Position Stand of the IUSCA

Agility in Invasion Sports: Position Stand of the IUSCA

Merging Athletic Development With Skill Acquisition: Developing Agility Using an Ecological Dynamics Approach

The effect of plyometric training on competition period muscle damage in amateur footballers

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