The Athlete Movement System: Speed, Power, and Agility
Presented by Jared Vagy

 Non-Financial: Jared Vagy is a TheraBand Academy Speaker.
Speed, power, and agility are essential components of sports performance and are often overlooked in the rehabilitation setting. This course will introduce practical research-based methods that can be performed in the clinic to assess deficits in speed, power, and agility with athletes. Based on identified performance and movement deficits, exercises emphasizing foundational movement patterns will be recommended and their clinical utility discussed, with the goal of improving sport-specific performance training.
Additional Content
Additional athlete movement system courses presented by Dr. Jared Vagy include:
The Movement System
- The Movement System: Assessment and Treatment of Low Back Pain
- The Movement System: Humeral Syndromes of the Shoulder
- The Movement System: Scapular Syndromes of the Shoulder
- The Movement System: Assessment and Treatment of Knee Pain
- The Movement System: Syndromes of the Femur
- The Movement System: Syndromes of the Foot and Ankle
- The Movement System: Syndromes of the Hip
- The Movement System: Syndromes of the Neck
- The Movement System: Advanced Running Assessment and Treatment
- The Athlete Movement System: Speed, Power, and Agility
- The Movement System: Throwing Biomechanics and Treatment
- The Athlete Movement System: Tennis Biomechanics and Treatment
- The Movement System: Practical Swimming Biomechanics and Treatment
- The Athlete Movement System: Rock Climbing
- The Athlete Movement System: Upper Quarter (Recorded Webinar)
- The Athlete Movement System: Lower Quarter (Recorded Webinar)
- The Athlete Movement System: Spine (Recorded Webinar)
Meet your instructor
Jared Vagy
Jared Vagy received his doctorate in physical therapy (DPT) from the University of Southern California (USC) and completed a one-year residency in orthopedics and a one-year fellowship in movement science. Dr. Vagy is a clinical associate professor of physical therapy in the DPT program at USC and is a mentor in both the…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Speed: Movement and Performance
In this chapter, Dr. Vagy will discuss a framework to assess and treat athletes to improve their speed, power, and agility. He will introduce advanced techniques to properly assess these three key components of sport and present strategies to make them easy to assess within the clinic setting. He will teach you the four main components of speed: reaction time, acceleration, maximum velocity, and speed maintenance. He will go on to show you how to quantify speed with both movement and performance testing in a clinical setting and how to use the results from your testing to improve speed performance.
2. Power: Movement and Performance
In this chapter, Dr. Vagy will teach you research-validated tests to assesses athlete lower extremity power. This includes vertical hop, triple hop, and drop vertical jumps. You will learn how to use a landing error scoring system to assess movement and plyometric tests to quantify power output. Finally, you will learn how to use the results of these tests in a clinical setting to improve athlete power through plyometric exercise progressions.
3. Agility: Movement and Performance
In this chapter, Dr. Vagy will teach you how to assess and treat athlete agility. This includes research-supported return-to-sport protocols that analyze deceleration, lateral shuffle, and plant and cut movements. You will be introduced to performance tests for change of direction speed and reactive agility and will learn how to quantify agility with both movement and performance testing in a clinical setting to improve overall athlete agility performance through fundamental agility exercises.
More courses in this series
The Movement System: Advanced Running Assessment and Treatment
Jared Vagy
The Movement System: Practical Swimming Biomechanics and Treatment
Jared Vagy
The Movement System: Throwing Biomechanics and Treatment
Jared Vagy
The Athlete Movement System: Lower Quarter (Recorded Webinar)
Jared Vagy
The Athlete Movement System: Tennis Biomechanics and Treatment
Jared Vagy
The Athlete Movement System: Speed, Power, and Agility
Jared Vagy
The Athlete Movement System: Upper Quarter (Recorded Webinar)
Jared Vagy
The Athlete Movement System: Spine (Recorded Webinar)
Jared Vagy
The Athlete Movement System: Rock Climbing
Jared Vagy
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