“You’ve got a kid who is smaller than most, he’s got asthma, he’s not the quickest, but he’s the best player I’ve ever played with – work that out!” Gary Neville couldn’t explain Paul Scholes’ genius, but we think we can. Brace yourself: eight flashing lights.
Instead of loading up the squat
, pintplaymaker went head-to-head with the FitLight training device.
Eight discs, which can be mounted to any surface, flash at intervals, challenging the athlete to react at speed and deactivate them with a swipe of either their hands, feet, head or even a football.
Reaction times are captured by a tablet, ready for analysis. Using the data, coaches can measure speed, agility and co-ordination.
Scholes might have struggled to keep up with Cristiano Ronaldo’s walking pace, but his…
