This week’s workout, posted
Monday, includes work with the speed ladder. Speed/agility/quickness (SAQ) work often gets neglected, but
has plenty of benefits for both athletes and non-athletes.
Bursts of speed raise our heart
rates and make excellent high intensity intervals, proven to improve our
cardiovascular fitness and pump up our metabolisms. Shockingly, training for speed also makes us… faster! Life is not a race, but really, who
doesn’t want to be fast?
Agility, in this context, means
that we can start, stop, and change direction quickly without compromising our
excellent posture. We need agility
to escape from linebackers and to dodge wayward shopping carts. It helps our brains, because agility,
by nature, breaks us out of our always-forward mindset and reminds us that we
sometimes have to go backward, sideways, or around.
Quickness is all about response
time. If we want to stop suddenly
because the car in front of us has inexplicably burst into flames, we need
quickness. Mentally, we need to be
alert and ready for action.
Quickness allows us to elude cheetahs and muggers, adapt to suddenly
encroaching curbs, and avoid stepping on the cat.
Also: fun.
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