Speed and agility training is a dangerous business, unlike strength training workouts or other muscle building programs there is a high risk of injury.  This is because while strength deals mainly with high force and low speed, speed and agility training often involves high force AND high speed, resulting in very high power. Misapplied forces executed at high speeds can lead to serious injury. I should know, this is a picture of my ankle. It has 6 screws and a titanium plate in it. You gotta have real passion for what you do and there’s nothing that shows real passion more that the ability to suffer trauma and then get back up on the horse.

But I digress, the purpose of this article is to show you some ways that your speed and agility training can benefit from what other sport cultures have discovered and how you can apply this knowledge to your speed and agility training.

The short story is this:

-> a protein supplement can help out tremendously with your gains.

I have touched on the subject of speed and agility training and creatine before.  Today I will turn my attention towards speed and agility training and a protein supplement.This is a great aid in improving speed and agility.

A protein supplement is important for maximizing your results for the following reasons:

It allows you to recover from the micro injuries that any training session worth it’s salt will inflict upon your body.  Basically this means that each time your body is damaged, if you give it the right nutrients (and yes proteins are a macro-nutrient that is critical to your body) it will recover and build itself up stronger each time. If you fail to do so, you will reach plateaus or worse yet, regress. Regression happens when your body is in a negative repair mode, or a deficit repair mode. This basically means that your body can’t keep up with the damage you inflict upon it and each training session will leave you ever more weaker.

Another problem you might encounter is improper repair.  Basically your body will patch itself up with whatever it has on hand but it will not build itself back up as strongly as it could. This is influenced both by the quality of the food you intake and of the specific tolerance of that food with your body. Believe it or  not food allergy exists in every living individual, the problem is that when we are healthy we barely notice this and we keep right on trucking.  But this is not at all smart. Just think of the gains you could be making if you were to feed your body properly with foods that don’t harm it.  If you provide ample micro-nutrients and cofactors and supply high quality macromolecules.

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Don’t get me wrong you can still benefit from speed and agility training if you just eat from the 1 dollar menu.  But you will recover more slowly, you will repair yourself more badly and you will be affecting your ability to train correctly and increase your chance of suffering an injury. So this basically takes care of why you should use a protein supplement in your speed and agility training program.

This brings me to another topic which I have discussed somewhere else: the protein supplement issue. What, why and how to select the best protein supplement.

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All the best,
Damian

PS: Here is a great speed and agility exercise for you to use.

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