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Agility Training Ideas
 Agility is important in sport and daily life to enhance body control,
increase foot speed and
prevent injury. Agility forces the
trainers to quickly move their body. He/She can move forward, sideways and
backwards directions. An agility training program focuses on the use of
balance,
strength, and power in
multi-directional planes. Agility courses are created with obstacles which one
should overcome or perform correctly.
Successful
aging is more
than the absence of disease and more than the maintenance of functional
capabilities. Here are some ideas to help your maintain agility and mobility as
you age. Try to perform one agility drill once or twice each week.
Lateral Agility Drill
Position two cones or props as chairs or books a few feet apart. Quickly
step laterally to the outside of one cone and back to the outside of the other,
touching down toward the floor, at each end. Try to go as fast you can. Continue
for 30 seconds.
Sprint Drill
Place three cones in a straight lines about 50 feet apart. You can also use,
telephone poles on a road, or driveways on your streets. Start the exercise by
sprinting or walking fast to the first cone, then shuffle backwards to the
starting point. Sprint all the way to third cone, then shuffle backwards to the
starting point. Take a short break and then repeat this 5 or 10 times.
Rectangle Drill
  Place four cones in the shape of a rectangle or square, with each cone about
30 feet from the next. Start at one corner and sprint, to the top of the square.
Shuffle across the top of the square. Back- shuffle. Laterally shuffle back to
the start. Do this 5 times in one directions. Take a break and go in the reverse
direction. You can also use the lines on a tennis court to perform this drill.
An easy way to incorporate agility training into your exercise program is by
participating in activities such as squash, tennis, racquetball, basketball, and
in dance program such as salsa, or ballroom dancing, or in choreography based
fitness classes such as, funk and hip hop. These types of activities will keep
you agile and mobile in your later years and above all, they're fun.
It 's important that your realize you do not need to implements all the
suggestions today. You might choose to start by just committing to exercising
three times per week. Once you have made this a habit, you can mix up the
intensity zones by
incorporating, one easy, one moderate and one hard workout into each week A few
months later you can incorporate a different type of activity. Few months after
that you can invest in a
heart
rate monitor and start seriously monitoring your zones.
The best part of this program is that you can design it, depending on your
level of fitness. You are your own personal trainer and at any time you can
modify, restructure or adjust, depending on your rate of success enjoyment and
adherence.
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