How can I improve my reaction time?

To improve your reaction time there are many methods available such as light systems, catching rulers, responding to audio cues from your coach, catching balls, and using strobe glasses. These are all great methods to improve your reaction time if you have limited resources.

One of the most important aspects of improving reaction time is having enough load on the brain to make significant lasting changes. So doing 10-20 reps of a reaction-based task is NOT going to be sufficient to make changes within the brain. Most research studies will perform cognitive tasks for 20 minutes or longer to induce high enough levels of mental fatigue. This would add up to 800 + or more repetitions!

In the brain, skills are not refined unless we perform a huge amount of reps and usually to fatigue. If you think about your sport, that’s how you arrived where you are today, you practiced over and over for years, performing hundreds of thousands of reps over that time. Reaction time is a skill that can be trained too, however like every other skill in the brain, we need a lot of practice to improve it. There are many ways to improve like Cognitive Training, Brain Endurance Training, Vision Training, etc.

Soma NPT

For athletes who want to save physical energy for their training and competition and if you prefer to have measurable progress, we suggest using Soma NPT to improve your reaction times and increase your neural capacity.

Soma NPT is designed to increase neural capacity by inducing mental fatigue, this creates adaptations in the brain that reduce the perception of effort and allow athletes to have more mental and physical capacity. Soma NPT contains reaction training drills in various forms and has a myriad of other cognitive benefits that help athletic performance.