how do I get better agility?
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You get BETTER AGILITY by working out with excercises which INCREASE quickness and balance! Once you do an excercise you keep working to get quicker and MORE EFFICIENT. Depends on the kind of agility you want: Football, Basketball, Baseball etc...
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Try track workouts or telephone poles.\n\nSplit the distance into chunks and alternate 60% max speed, 75%, 100%, 60%, 75%, 100%.\n\nTry ending the workout with a walk of the same distance.\nYou can also lift weights to increase your sprinting strength.
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Three things for you to work on.  Strength, Endurance, and Quickness.  Stength and Endurance are easy: lift weights and run distance.  However, do not confuse quickness with speed.  Quickness refers to footwork and acceleration.  Speed is just how fast you can run.  One word: "Plyometrics".  Stop reading this right now and do a search for the word "Plyometrics".  You will be able to find lots of exercises and tequniques you can use to work on quickness.  Plyometrics are awesome for any sport, and every athlete should do them.   This in my opinion is more important than any of the other aspects of the game.  Solid technique and footwork are what makes great players great.
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A great way to increase jumping ability is to lift. Squats and calf raises are the best for jumping. Start out slow and work for power. Once you get that down, work on speed. Do the same lifts, only faster. This helps your leg muscles to work more quickly. You don't want to work on jumping as much because it weakens your legs. Do more with weights to work out your legs and become more powerful. A great magazine to check out is called Stack. It can answer many of your athletic questions.
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Butt kicks.  Run knees up. Get thighs horizontal.  Sprint up hills really fast(steep hills) Do sprinting for a long period of time. Make your legs and heart and lunges stronger.  Lift weights with your legs. they have machine that does that.  If you don't do some strengthening of the legs you will injure you self and won't be able to practice. Trust me I know.  All of these techniques worked for me.
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Run, you can build your wind and Lung capacity before summer Practice and it will continue to grow during practice. Also doing agility drill like 3 cone drill and the L drill will increase your agility on defense and your route running capability at tight end. The most beneficial work out for a football player- Core Workouts and for goodness sake stay off the ground, you don't use your core in football like you do when you do sit-ups. Standing Medicine ball chest pass and medicine ball granny throw like shooting a basket ball granny style but straight up, both will strengthen your core and help you take on blockers and make the big hit.
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Train and be faster than the other players.  The more limber you are the better when you get hit that you won't get injured.  Also always go in at 100%, if you pull back from a tackle or something you are going to get hurt.
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Be consistant--train almost every day to gain your base. To get faster do hill repeats and speed training ie: intervals, tempo runs, fartleks, etc.
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Play hard, Play with heart, Play smart. Try your hardest and never quit. Focus on your basics. Good kicks, good traps, good runs. Believe in yourself and you will do well.
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The best thing to do to gain velocity is to work on your legs.  A lot of your velocity comes from the push off on the rubber which uses your legs.  This is simple and you'll see results.
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dont kick it, push it up. move your foot up quickly then pull it back down and around, you'll get the hang of it. my biggest problem while learning it was catching soft enough on the way down, make sure you go pretty straight upwards.
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Agility drills are great for speed and balance.  Basic exercise such as jumping rope, shuffling around in your stance to work on foot work, various box jumps, etc.  Your looking for movements that involve changing direction a lot.  One drill I've done is to mark five dots in a pattern on the floor, just like you would see on a pair of dice.   Space  them out to be about a foot and a half away from each other.  Then practice jumping from dot to dot using any pattern you can think of in your head.  Practice with one foot at a time and with both feet together.\n\nContrary to what a lot of old school martial artists believe lifting weights is actually great for speed.  The stronger you are the less effort you require to move your body weight, allowing you to be more explosive.  Don't worry about losing flexibility.  That's also a myth.  If you lift weights with a full range of motion you'll preserve and possibly even increase your flexibility.
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ideally, u shd get urself a sprint coach at ur local running club.\nI would start prob by doing some weights and getting your strenth up to increase the capability of the force your muscles can exert. \nThen I would start to do more powerful weights like cleans. This will increase your explosive power and make you quicker off the line. \nPlyometric exercises are also good in improving speed (bounding, jumping, skipping etc). \nAnd of course sprint work at ur local track will also be vital. If its pure speed ur after then sessions like 5x60m flat out with a couple of minutes recovery wd be gd.\nAlways ensure u are fully warmed up as these exercises will put pressure on your leg muscles and may cause them to pull or tear!
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As you can see, there are a lot of people who don't know squat about training. Practice, practice, practice is not an answer.\n\nI was a sprinter in college (back when they timed races with an sundial) . I'm going to give you links to web pages the look like they have sane workouts.\n\n    University California at Santa Clara\n    http://www2.ucsc.edu/slugtandfclub/sprin...\n\n    Central Park Track Club\n    http://www.centralparktc.org/trackies200...\n\nIn addition, you might want to do exercize that will increase you acceleration out of the blocks. Running hills or running against resistance like a bungy cord are exercizes that you might want to try. \n\nSomeone above said that you can't increase your stride length. Well, you can. Improving your knee lift and the amount of thrust you get when you push off are going to increase your stride length.
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DO NOT USE ANKLE WEIGHTS!! I stress this because it well cause your knee to seperate from itself when you kick. \nNot even when you get advanced... Who ever is doing that will regret it... \nIf you want faster foot speed, Stretch, do your horse stance, and practice moving kick drills.\nPractice running step techniques.. they will help you build speed and power... the enemy will crumble when you are able to stride at full force then jump the enemy wont expect you to cover distance with full extension ... most people dont practice at maximum extension.. Its surprising..\nNothing makes perfect like doing the Kick itself...\nIts just a matter of doing it 1000 times before your even ready to half way use it in combat.. Horse stance...\nThats what I recommend... It improves power like nothing else in this world.. not running.. not weights... \nJust do the kick.. standing and running, and horse stance...\nnow .. there are lots of variations in running and standing.. my advice... practice all angles till you cant stand it... \nHit me up if you want more..
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Endurance exercise can help improve both speed and strength. Do each of the follow for minute and march in place for a minute keeping the knees lifted inbetween each move.\n\nPretend Jump Shot - lead with the left foot first and then the next minute lead with the right\n\nShuffle back and forth three steps to each side and stay low like you are almost squatting\n\nQuick Feet - the legs wide run in place as fast as you can while staying lower in a squat-like position\n\nJump Rope\n\nLateral Leaps - pick up the right leg leap to the right and then back to the left\n\nTire Jumps - leading with the right foot step forward like you are stepping into a tire and then bring the left foot forward, right foot back and left foot back. be sure to really pick up the feet (remember up over the tire) and pick up the pace to a run and than switch the next minute so your left foot is leading
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just keep doing what your doing but use the band more often\n\nim on level 32