Get game-changing agility

Game-changers like Eden Hazard often look almost breezily light on their feet as they whizz past opponents, but agility in the modern sport is built on a muscular base: the days of the paperweight winger are a thing of the past.

Jamie Reynolds is an expert on coaching that crucial combo of fleet-footedness and power that makes great attacking players difficult to topple, and this exercise is an ideal place to start. Done by flipping a ViPR from side to side and then performing hops, its lateral shuffle helps you to develop up an inner strength that will serve you well when you try to change direction on the field.

Reynolds is the founder of Velocity Training Club. For more information visit velocitytrainingclub.co.uk and follow @jamie_velocity

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Nick Moore

Nick Moore is a freelance journalist based on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. He wrote his first FourFourTwo feature in 2001 about Gerard Houllier's cup-treble-winning Liverpool side, and has continued to ink his witty words for the mag ever since. Nick has produced FFT's 'Ask A Silly Question' interview for 16 years, once getting Peter Crouch to confess that he dreams about being a dwarf.