Change of Direction vs Agility & Perceptual Cognition with Q WILLEY | Ep. 127

Check out Q on socials! @coach_q_physioUse code "coachemup10" for 10% off EVERYTHING at https://eleiko.com/coachemupHead over to https://ovrperformance.com/coachemup and get $25 offGrab a Subscriber tee at https://www.dripthatdelivers.comTim Riley sits down with physical therapist and strength coach Q Willey to break down change of direction training, deceleration, and how to actually bridge the gap between the weight room and the field. Q brings his 4 level COD programming framework and zero patience for coaches running circus tricks with reaction lights.Q is a former UNC lacrosse national champion, exercise physiologist, and Doctor of Physical Therapy who now coaches out of Austin and collaborates with Dr. Katie Dabrowski on the Confusingly Jacked program and a comprehensive COD Program Guide. In this episode, Q draws a hard line between pre-planned change of direction training and true open field reactive agility, explains why deceleration ground reaction forces run 2 to 3 times higher than acceleration, and lays out exactly how to move athletes through Return to Participation, Return to Play, and Return to Performance phases without blowing them up.Q also torches the coaching mistake of substituting circus tricks like reaction light games for real cognitive perceptual training, walks through the model for deceleration kinematics, and breaks down how to calculate a COD deficit using the 5-10-5 drill. If you work with athletes and you are still debating whether COD work belongs in your programming, this one settles it.Topics include change of direction vs agility, reactive agility drills, biomechanics of deceleration, eccentric deceleration drills, return to performance continuum rehab, microdosing change of direction, the 4 level COD programming framework, and catastrophizers vs confronters in physical therapy.Produced byQ6 Mediahttps://q6.media00:00:00 - Introduction00:01:45 - Q's Background, Adult Lacrosse at 3500:10:31 - Change of Direction vs Agility00:13:56 - Bridge Between the Weight Room and the Field00:17:01 - Reactivity Spectrum and the Reverse Marilyn Monroe Principle00:25:43 - Circus Tricks vs Real Cognitive Perceptual Training00:32:01 - Deceleration Biomechanics00:46:25 - COD Testing and COD Deficit Calculations00:54:06 - Return to Participation, Play, and Performance01:00:15 - The 4-Level COD Programming Framework01:15:36 - Microdosing COD Work Into Your Weekly Routine01:21:15 - Confusingly Jacked Program with Katie Dabrowski01:29:21 - Non-PT Coaches, Confronters vs Catastrophizers, Pain Management01:38:11 - Why Novel Exercises Cause Soreness, PT School Reality02:03:17 - Clamshells and OVR Force Plates02:10:33 - Heat Shock Protein Sauna Myth Busted#CoachEmUpPodcast #ChangeOfDirectionTraining #DecelerationTraining #ReactiveAgilityDrills #SportsPhysicalTherapy #StrengthCoach #ReturnToPerformance #QuentinWilley #AgilityTraining #PhysicalTherapyPodcast