A Spartan Approach to Agility Training.

This article reports that agility training plays a major role in the development of all athletes. Golf, bowling, archery, most track and field events, competitive weightlifting, and tee-ball all have the requisites of closed skill sports. The coach may want the athletes to buzz or chop the feet in place while waiting for the next command. Everything described above is in effect, with the addition of cones that are placed midway between two yard lines, and five yards from the hash mark. The coach now has the option of pointing to a cone, and the players have to sprint up to the cone, touch it with one or two hands, and then open to their starting position and sprint back to it. Now the coach has four directional options, yard lines to the right and left, and cones to the front and back. INSET: TIP FROM THE TRENCHES.