The Agility Ladder — Useful Tool or Waste of Time?
The Agility Ladder — Useful Tool or Waste of Time?

I’ve heard more times than I can count that agility ladders are not all they are cracked up to be, that they don’t fit into an elite athlete’s program, that they don’t develop speed, and that they don’t develop change of direction skills.

WATCH: Two Lateral Speed Drills with Bands to Improve Change of Direction
WATCH: Two Lateral Speed Drills with Bands to Improve Change of Direction

Increase agility by using bands to reinforce proper positioning and improve motor patterns in an athletic setting.

WATCH: 3 Agility Ladder Drills that Don't Suck
WATCH: 3 Agility Ladder Drills that Don't Suck

Besides a warm-up variation or trying to impress parents, agility ladders probably don’t have much merit in developing speed or agility. Prescribed foot patterns won’t help, but maybe these 3 drill could.

LISTEN: Loren Landow Exposes Methods for Developing Speed, Power, and Endurance
LISTEN: Loren Landow Exposes Methods for Developing Speed, Power, and En...

Olympians, NFL players, MMA fighters—Landow has trained them all. Here’s how he does it.

SPTS Weekend: Principles of Increasing Sprint Speed
SPTS Weekend: Principles of Increasing Sprint Speed
Athletes sprint. They accelerate and change direction. Joe DeFranco can tell you how to be better at all of this.
WATCH: Lateral Start Tutorial
WATCH: Lateral Start Tutorial

Lateral starts are an outstanding drill as a pre-cursor to agility drills utilizing power cuts and accompany deceleration drills very well.

The Truth Behind In-Season Baseball and Softball Training
The Truth Behind In-Season Baseball and Softball Training

Too often, trainers get consumed with the idea that “sport-specific” training means mimicking the demands of the sport.

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