Figure 1: The 3-cone shuttle drill agility test. The athlete starts 1m behind cone 1 to ensure that the timing gates were not prematurely set off, and sprints and touches cone 2 directly in front, and then immediately returns to cone 1. Without stopping, the athlete changes direction, corners cone 2, and sprints directly to cone 3, on the athlete’s right-hand side. The athlete circles cone 3 to his left, then returns to the first cone (finish line) by cornering cone 2 and sprinting at full speed past cone 1. The test is repeated on both the right and left side.