Power, Speed, Agility, Balance and Skill: How the Performance Qualities Fit Together

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Sports conditioning is organised around a short list of qualities: power, speed and quickness, agility, balance and motor skill, with strength as the floor they stand on. Coaches argue about the list and about which quality drives which. The research has answers for some of those arguments and a clear warning about one of them.

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