What is Speed and Agility Training?

Agility defines your ability to accelerate, decelerate and change direction quickly whilst maintaining speed, body control and poise. Often times you have to do this with possession of the ball, Along with trying to retain it.

100 Meter sprinters don’t necessarily have the attributes to be quick soccer players, and by the same token players who are not typically fast runners can excel in Soccer, if they quick feet and sharp speed of thought.

Remember the old phrase
"The First 10 yards are in your head"

With our Regular training methods and some sharp imagination in training style from our talented coach’s we aim to improve a players.

- Speed of the mark
- Quickness over the first 10-15 yards
- Speed endurance
- Speed with possession of the ball
- Ability to quickly change direction with maximum effect
- Speed of thought

Guidelines of the Training for Coach’s and Players Alike

The quality to speed and agility is key. Rest between each set will keep quality at the level needed.

· The number of participants taking place in a session must not exceed 4
· Warm up must be thorough up to 15 minutes to prepare muscle groups. Although training may not leave  you gasping for breath, muscles will be put under stress.
· Speed and agility training should be done before regular training or on a different day. Never after.
· Sessions will last 45 minutes with 15 minute warm up before and warm down will total 1hr.
· Sessions will comprise of 5 sets each set will have up to 10 reps of a particular exercise.

Examples of Exercises within the program

· Ladder work
· Hurdle work
· Power runs
· Sprinting star
· Sharp thinking clock
· Hollow runs

All the above can have a ball incorporated

The Speed and Agility training will begin the second week of March. Anyone interested please contact us March 1st onwards to make appointments.

All training will take place at Winslow Middle School fields (unless parent of the player and the coach have agreeable location.) Price for training is $75 for the hour.