Specificity of speed, acceleration, and agility in soccer

publication date: Mar 28, 2010
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From the abstract of Little and Williams. Specificity of acceleration, maximum speed and agility in professional soccer players. Journal of strength and conditioning research (2005) vol. 19 (1) pp. 76-78 comes the conclusion that these are separate aspects of athletic performance. When you add the cognitive aspects, another skill for elite level performance, it is becoming clearer that there is little transfer from one aspect to another.

Let me add, in view of my upcoming Podcast on CafeHayek on home runs, how this undermines the issue of steroids, even if they have an effect on strength, to skilled power hitting.



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