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Sports Performance Coaching: Agility & Change of Direction, are they the same thing? As S&C coaches we are often asked to make a player more agile, or improve their ability to avoid defenders. A lot of team sport coaches will have heard of the T-Test and the Illinois agility test and will use that to …

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Adapted from: Schoenfeld, B J; 2010 THE MECHANISMS OF MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY AND THEIR APPLICATION TO RESISTANCE TRAINING By Ed Miles MSc, BSc. The predominant goal for almost every gym-goer in the world is to ‘gain muscle’ or to ‘tone up’. Both of these require muscular hypertrophy – which is an increase in the cross-sectional area …

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