About SAQ®

Blinding Speed
Rapid Acceleration Changes
Explosive lateral movement
Lightning Fast Responses
Explosive Vertical Movement

These are the qualities that all athletes long to possess, the qualities that spectators yearn to see when they watch sporting events. It's what separates the best from the rest. Once thought to be genetic, we now know that the skills required to move laterally, linearly and vertically with speed and precision can be trained and nurtured.

Agility is the ability to change direction without the loss of balance, strength, speed or body control, it is fundamental for improved performance in athletes of all standards. Often neglected in traditional training sessions, SAQ Programmes emphasise the importance of agility training to equip athletes with the best methods and techniques for greater quickness, speed, control and movement. Agility training has many other benefits for the athlete including a reduced risk of injury and improved body awareness.

The key to creating an instinctively quicker athlete is to remove the unnecessary, inefficient and extra steps that athletes often take. This is achieved by removing restrictive mental blocks and developing/reprogramming the neuro-muscular links within the body. The vast majority of quickness work involves improving the athletes biomechanical efficiency. This can be achieved through innervation, that is, isolated fast contractions of an individual joint that result in increased firing rates in the muscles. Therefore the amount of force and rate of force development initiated by this process is crucial to developing explosive speed.

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