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What is Reactive Training and why should
ALL
Athletes use The Light Attack to achieve it?
Reactive training is defined as quick, powerful movements involving an eccentric contraction (force reduction) followed immediately by an explosive concentric contraction (force production). Reactive/ power training also teaches the nervous system to recruit muscles quickly, thus enhancing the rate at which muscles generate force.
The Light Attack's random light sequences allows athletes to harness these muscle contractions and neurological impulses to train athletes for real game situations in a practice environment!
Coach Gilly with a great explanation of how he is utilizing The Light Attack to train his Pro Athletes. The Light Attack allows Gilly and other coaches to coach the athletes and not being the one to create the visual stimulous for reaction.
If you think about athletes using cones or similar tools to train, that athlete is not reacting to a stimulous, but using repetitive movements by going from cone to cone. With cones, athletes know their next movement and start to shift their weight and movement prior to reaching a cone. This movement does not stress muscles and soft tissue as reaction movements do.
Game situations are ever changing and force an athlete to react to a stimulous. The Light Attack creates this stimulous much like athletes encounter. Working cones in practice does not prepare athletes for real game situations, but by training your athletes with The Light Attack, trains your athletes for game situations. Replace those cones of the past with the fastest growing speed and agility training aid on the market.
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Coaches, how many times throughout the year do you have your players use cones for change direction drills. Probably often. The problem with using cones with change of direction is that the athlete has already started to shift their weight before getting to a cone before changing directions. This does not simulate change of direction based on reaction.
To properly train athletes for real game situations, they must change directs based on reaction, not by repetition.
The Light Attack uses Perceptual-Cognitive Speed (ex. visual scanning, anticipation, pattern recognition, knowledge of the situation and reaction time) to train this often overlooked aspect of agility training. PCS is absolutely necessary when addressing agility training for athletes.
The video shows pro football players using The Light Attack is a change of direction drill. By athletes reacting to the lights and changing direction, athletes are able to strengthen and train soft tissue in knees, ankles and hips. By performing reaction drills, and strengthing soft tissues, this reduces the chance of severe injuries during practices and games.
Listen to Coach Gilly talk about what this drill works, and as a coach, what to look for.
Train like the pro's, train with The Light Attack.
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