Brain Training Drills to Advance Your Game
Nothing's more dangerous to the opposition than a smart athlete. When training for a particular sport, you think about what helps you be successful on the field. In most anaerobic sports, you need speed to get there first, power to produce force quickly, and agility to efficiently navigate your target. But what about the mental components that go into sports?
Mentally, athletes are constantly challenged by distractions, problems and decisions. Cognitive agility adds brain training to the standard reactive agility exercises.
Computerized brain-training programs provide math equations, task-switching problems, spatial perception exercises, and memory games for mental stimulation. In cognitive agility, we take brain training from the computer to the field by applying those elements to the last part of a change-of-direction training session. We continue it when both mind and body fatigue set in during the last 5 to 10 minutes of training, to keep the athlete engaged and...
