How to Be More Athletic (The No. 1 Way)
Channel: Athletic Engineering
Date: 04/07/2020

Think speed, power, agility, explosiveness make you a great athlete? Yes, but they are not the primary quality. Watch to find out what will make you more athletic, and how to train for athleticism.

Getting bigger, stronger, faster empower athletic ability. But they do not make you more athletic. 

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There is a huge difference between speed and agility versus responsiveness. You can be fast and quick - but to be responsive, you have to also be accurate. Your timing has to be on point. 

Many athletes, especially up and coming competitive players are going full speed all of the time. You don’t want to go “all out” all of the time. The best athletes in the game know when to go all out, and when to hold back. 

If you’re always all out, that is very easy to guard as a defender. It’s like fighting an angry blind person - they have no control. 

In any sports that require agility, injuries are happening mainly because of a lack of responsiveness in the moment. 

Most (as in 99.9%) of athletic training focusses on developing an engine - through strength and speed. If you put a big engine in a car that has little responsiveness, where the steering and alignment are not precision-built to the size of the engine, it won’t be able to handle the power of the engine. 

This is what is happening to young athletes today. They are too strong and too fast for their bodies to structurally cope with. 

Especially when dealing with uncertainty and variability and unpredictability in sport, going full speed and making split-second decisions under those conditions is a fast-track to an injury. Why? Because under those conditions, your reflexes kick in.

You need to build strength and speed to support your natural reflexes and natural coordination.

Reflexes take over …. you won’t have time to think when big plays need to be made. You won’t have time to think, and your body is just going to react.

So when your natural reflex kicks in, your body has to be ready to deal with the reflex. This means that your body has to be able to do what the reflex demands that you do. 

Example: if you have a reflex to duck and roll to avoid a collision on the court - if your knee cannot compress fully, when you react according to that reflex, you’re going to get injured. 

Depending on what your body can handle, overtime it will learn what it can and cannot do based on it’s own structural integrity.

It is not smart to Google “how to train like a professional basketball player” when you are in senior year of high school. What business do you have following a basketball program for someone who is in the NBA? Completely different levels of preparation, of physical development, and of demands. 

You need to listen to your own body, work with your own body, and develop your athleticism as the primary way of training. Getting bigger, stronger, and faster is not making you more athletic. Instead, strength and speed empower athleticism. 

Athleticism means coordination, rhythm, timing, and structural integrity. How do you improve athleticism? How do you capitalize on your own natural athleticism to reach your athletic potential? You need athletic engineering; an athleticism training program. 

You need to engineer yourself to become an athlete. And that is far more than just putting on sizzle strength, and speed.

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0:00 Beginning
0:20 Speed vs. responsiveness
0:45 Go all out?
1:16 Why most injuries happen
2:19 Trusting your reflexes
3:06 A responsive structure
4:20 Listen to your body

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Athletic Engineering is owned and operated by Darren and Emily Veira. We help teach people how to be more athletic, and help athletes how to perform better. We run workshops, programs, and in-person training in Canada and the Caribbean.

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