Specificity of Sprint and Agility Training Methods

By W. Young, M. McDowell, Bentley J. Scarlett. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2001

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Subfields: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• Strong correlation of maximal squat strength with sprint performance and vertical jump height in elite soccer players (2004, result): “In line with previous work, 22 the results from the study indicated that there was no relation between the 10 m shuttle run and the 30 m sprint test.”
• SPECIFICITY OF ACCELERATION,MAXIMUM SPEED, AND AGILITY IN PROFESSIONAL SOCCER PLAYERS (2005, background): “However, field sport athletes are believed to have different running mechanics than sprint athletes (14), and significant correlations between acceleration and maximum speed in professional rugby league players have been reported ( 1 ).”
• Agility literature review: Classifications, training and testing (2006, background): “In this rare training study comparing sprint training with CODS performance (Young et al., 2001b), no significant improvements were reported in CODS performance after a chronic period of sprint training.”
• Agility and Change-of-Direction Speed are Independent Skills: Implications for Training for Agility in Invasion Sports (2015, background): “Indeed, in the most complex test involving five relatively sharp changes of direction, the straight speed gains had no transfer at all [47].”
• Straight sprinting is the most frequent action in goal situations in professional football (2012, background): “Furthermore, it has been shown that sprint times can be improved by specific training regimens (Stolen et al., 2005) with different effects of straight and changein-direction sprint training on the respective sprint ability (Young et al., 2001).”