I’ve heard more times than I can count that agility ladders are not all they are cracked up to be, that they don’t fit into an elite athlete’s program, that they don’t develop speed, and that they don’t develop change of direction skills.

Increase agility by using bands to reinforce proper positioning and improve motor patterns in an athletic setting.

Besides a warm-up variation or trying to impress parents, agility ladders probably don’t have much merit in developing speed or agility. Prescribed foot patterns won’t help, but maybe these 3 drill could.

Olympians, NFL players, MMA fighters—Landow has trained them all. Here’s how he does it.

Athletes sprint. They accelerate and change direction. Joe DeFranco can tell you how to be better at all of this.

Lateral starts are an outstanding drill as a pre-cursor to agility drills utilizing power cuts and accompany deceleration drills very well.

Too often, trainers get consumed with the idea that “sport-specific” training means mimicking the demands of the sport.