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That time of year!

Upgrades to my software has opened up JUST 5 spaces for gym programming/remote PT

Programming is completely individual to what you're looking for:

✅️ Sports Performance
✅️ Injury Rehabilitation
✅️ Lifestyle

You can do this, from ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD - currently working with clients as far away as Canada!

Near or far, get in touch to take your performance to the next level, and make this year your best!

Rhythm & flow are really commonly forgotten about aspects of plyometric training.

When performing plyometric exercises, extensive or intensive, one really solid way to know if you have the capacity to perform a particular movement is to take a look at how you move through a few consecutive reps.

If your movements are all different from each other or appear jerky or uncoordinated, you probably overshot your mark a little bit.

If you're doing 20 Single Leg Pogo Hops for example, they should all look pretty similar, if not (different contact times, knees buckling, bouncing all over the place etc) you're probably after jumping the gun on the single leg pogos 🤷‍♂️
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Building up the capacity to consistently perform complex movement patterns, with a solid rhythm, will vastly improve your ability to perform these movements on the pitch through helping to providing a greater kinesthetic awareness and proprioceptive ability (essentially knowing where your body is in space without having to see it), which helps in learning running and jumping mechanics.

A smooth rhythm and nice flow will allow efficient, consistent energy transfer, think changing direction, jumping etc.

All about that rhythm & flow🔥

Do you want to

✅ Get Faster? 💨
✅ Get Strong & Powerful?💪
✅ Improve Body Composition?🔥
✅ Get back to normal life after an injury? 🤕

Lots of PT slots have opened up beginning today!

If you want to take your performance to the next level, return to normality after an injury, put on that bit of muscle or lose a bit of stubborn weight

You know where to find me 😉

You ask most people what the definition of agility is and you will hear something along the lines of "being quick on your feet" or "being able to change direction quickly"

It's a bit more complicated then that unfortunately

Your ability to change direction of course feeds into your agility, but the key difference between being agile, and being good at changing direction, is that agility is used is response to an external stimulus, whereas you can change direction whenever you want, not whenever is required

With that, you can break agility down into two sections, physical (i.e. how fast you can change direction) and cognitive (for example, how fast you can decide which direction to go, and how to get there)

Traditionally, athletes would be trained to become more agile using things like agility ladders, now I'm not saying agility ladders are useless, but they will aid in developing your plyometric/CoD ability, not in your ability to make decisions and generally, it tends to be the cognitive side that sets the greats apart from the good

It's easy to get good at changing direction, it's a hell of a lot more difficult to learn what direction to go

So how do we develop agility as a skill? 🤔

Research has shown that top players read an opponents body language in order go develop an appropriate response before the opponent ever moves

Therefore, one of the best ways to get more agile is through the recreation of game like scenarios such as through small sided games, these small, fast paced, games will challenge you to develop the skill of reading your opponent and making the correct decisions for the desired outcome

It's not that good to be able to quickly change direction, but to go the wrong direction. What's sets the elite apart is the ability to use their CoD ability effectively to produce the desired outcome 🔥

So to become more agile:

1. Get really good at changing directions ✅

And possibly even more important...

2. Get really good at deciding what direction to go ✅