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With regards to sporting performance there are several factors that are considered important. How important each factor is depends largely on the type of activity or the sport being performed. For example, agility might be crucial to a sprinter while muscular endurance is not. Similarly this might be true within a sport as well, for example coordination would be crucial to an NFL quarterback while power might be more important to a blocker, even though they both play the same sport. In addition to physical size and biologically inherent factors, the following are some of the most important factors that can determine performance in sport.
Power
Power, or the development of force in a short amount of time is considered to be one of the more important factors in sports performance. This is true mainly because so many sports are built that way, they require the application of large amounts of force over a short amount of time. Power (also known as speed strength), although similar to strength actually needs to be trained slightly differently. The focus when training for power is the rapid development of force, not just the development of force.
Speed
In many sports, speed is the defining characteristic of high performance levels. As the level of competition progresses, many of the same skills are used however it is the speed of execution that leaves many people behind. The ability to move forward, backward, laterally, stop or start allows an athlete to set-up in a good position to execute a skill (hitting a tennis ball for example) or provides a raw advantage, like the ability to run faster and therefore break away in basketball.
Strength
The ability to produce high levels of force, known as strength is one of the most fundamental performance skills common in athletes. While some athletes and sports may require this more for a variety of different reasons, it is generally accepted that high strength levels are needed to achieve high sporting performance. Not much more to say on this really, just that strength training in one form or another should be a foundation of your training program.
Coordination
Coordination is critical to success in many sports, specifically sports that require athletes to use an implement such as a bat, club, stick or ball to play. Coordination is quite a complex topic, and incorporates how well a person, or their joints handle the application or force and movement with respect to time. Sounds complex right? That's because it is. Coordination is difficult to measure but is crucial in sports the require hand-eye interactions like baseball or tennis. It is also specific and trainable though, and someone who is considered uncoordinated in soccer can be very coordinated in tennis.
Agility
Agility is kind of a hybrid of speed, coordination and power. Agility in general refers to the ability to quickly and accurately stop, start and change direction. There is also some evidence that agility using an implement can also be different to agility without it, so it might be worth training this factor with the implement your use in hand such as lacrosse stick or tennis racket.
So there you have it, five of the most important factors to reaching high sporting performance. The relative importance of each is dependent on the sport itself and there are several other factors that are arguably equally as important, although they will be discussed in a later article.
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