Learn What The New Field Of Sport Vision Training Can Do For Your Speed And Agility

Speed and agility training has seen a paradigm shift in the past couple of years.   Hype is a constant problem in our society, not so the case here.   It is all because some people went against the grain and declared a previously untrainable skill set to be trainable. This training is now a staple for athletes wanting to enter the NFL Combine (a camp in which professional football teams assess NFL draft candidates).   The training is sports vision.  It deals with your speed of reaction, your ability to process information on the court, tempo or timing and even goes into things such as depth perception. The foundation of sport vision training is simple: if the player can see it faster, the player can react to it faster.   An athlete must be able to see, react and anticipate the next move of the opponent, the better and faster he or she can do that, the better the athlete will be.
Reacting inappropriatly is a lot of times due to a lack of this sort of training.    In this highly competitive era simple speed and agility training that lead to “just” very fast atletes is no longer sufficient. Exercises that involve the mind: such as span of recognition, game field view and reaction time training are no longer optional.  Times have changed and the atletes who don’t improve these previously untrainable characteristics will be left sitting on the bench.

One of the key points of the rapidly growing popularity of sports vision training is that it leads to an incresed performance in visual imagery processing capacity even when under high stress — such as during an important game.  This field is so new that not many standards have been completely designed, but here are some of them:

* peripheral awareness - the ability to recognize and react improperly focused objects

* dealing with the ability to process visual imagery we have visual reaction time - it’s upside is that it can help atletes get the picture (and what they need to do about it) faster

* how many moving objects the player can deal with and how well he can take them into account is called dynamic visual acuity    * called eye tracking, this previously untrainable characteristic improves the capacity of an athlete to “keep his eye on the ball”, at faster and faster speeds
* eye focusing - this training allows your eyes to get more information by being able to focus on things faster, more information, better game reactions

* depth perception - leads to the correct placement of objects within our 3D world

* eye endurance - the eyes get tired too, if they have more stamina, then they can behave better for a longer time (until the buzzard rings)
I hope this has sparked your interest as far as Sports Vision Training is concerned.  One funny thing to remember is that: “keep your eye on the ball” is something that you have the tools to improve now.

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