Agility among College-going Students: A Literature Review

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Introduction: Agility is the ability to rapidly alter direction or speed of whole-body in response to a stimulus. Agility is correlated with several trainable physical attributes, including technique, strength, endurance, power and cognitive components. Aim: To provide an insight on agility testing among college-going students. Materials and Methods: A literature search was performed using the PubMed, Scopus and Ovid Medline databases for relevant research published from 2012 to 2022. Articles including participant with age group 18-25 year are included. The search terms such as “Agility”, “Agility test”, “Youth”, “Students” using Boolean operators AND, OR were used. All the free full original English articles inexplicitly explaining the role of agility in the different sport were included, irrespective of the type of the study. Results: A total of 3045 articles were retrieved from different databases, out of which only nine articles fulfilled the inclusion criteria and were included for the present review. These studies revealed that several Agility Test (AT) were developed such as Y-shaped AT, 505 AT, Illinois AT, zigzag run AT, T drill AT, 5-20-30m sprint AT, pro AT, repetitive AT, Butterfly AT and Hexagonal AT, which were used among similar population. Conclusion: Although there are multiple valid agility tests which can be performed among college student. Illinois AT and T drill AT are considered to be most effective test and helps to improve the agility among college students. This review will aware about the implication of different agility test among college-going students.