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Considerations for Contact Sports
One of the main areas I feel should carry great importance in contact sports is the actual conditioning process for the impending takedowns and impact that will be received. Working in rugby league and mixed martial arts I see a lot of athletes week in week out who need to be trained to deal with high impact contacts.
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 | Posted On: | Friday, 22nd January '10, 6:59pm |
 | Tags: | Agility Training, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Biomechanics, Bodybuilding, Boxing, Circuit Training, Coaching, Conditioning, Cricket, Cycling, Diet, Distance Running, Drugs, Endurance, Exercise, Field Events, Fitness, Flexibility, Football, Genetics, Golf, Gymnastics, Injury, Interval Training, Marathon Training, Nutrition, Overtraining, Physiology, Plyometric, Power, Proprioceptive, Psychology, Rowing, Rugby, Running, Skiing, Soccer Training, Speed Training, Sprinting, Squash, Strength Training, Stretching, Supplements, Swimming, Team Sport, Technique, Tennis, Testing, Training, Training Programs, Triathlon, Veterans, Volleyball, Warm Up, Weight Training, Winning and Women |
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Top 5 Exercises for Speed Development
Top 5 Exercises for Speed Development
The following exercises are currently my main exercises of choice for athletes where I am working on developing straight line and multi-directional speed. The technical aspects of speed development are also important of course and should be trained concurrently with the exercises I am recommending.
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 19th January '10, 4:15pm |
| Tags: | Exercise, Fitness, Physiology, Plyometric, Power, Running, Sprinting, Strength Training, Technique and Training |
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Programming Considerations for Tennis Players
I have had a number of people asking me about the obstacles that are faced when working with tennis players. At the moment this is how I am approaching the programmes for the tennis players Im looking after. Let me know if you would like me to put up any specific info on anything.
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 19th January '10, 4:10pm |
| Tags: | Agility Training, Coaching, Exercise, Fitness, Injury, Overtraining, Physiology, Power, Speed Training, Strength Training, Tennis, Training, Training Programs, Weight Training and Winning |
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Its all in the head.....along with a couple of other factors!!!
I was speaking with Steve McGlouchlin, head coach for Leeds High Performance Tennis Centre, about identifying new players to join the programme, and we got on to the topic of what do we look for in new talented players. Steve has worked as a tennis coach for many years and has developed some strong players.
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 19th January '10, 4:03pm |
| Tags: | Coaching, Exercise, Fitness, Physiology and Psychology |
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Long Slow Distance for Fight Sports???
A lot of combat athletes still use road work and other long slow distance (LSD) methods to condition themselves for upcoming fights.
If you look at this logically what energy systems predominate these events?
MMA fights are 3, 5 minute rounds or 15 minutes of work, clearly the aerobic system is dominant therefore you can argue for the inclusion of this type of conditioning work.
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 19th January '10, 3:58pm |
| Tags: | Boxing, Exercise, Fitness, Injury, Interval Training, Physiology and Training |
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Training Skills Under Fatigue
One of the main areas in rugby league strength and conditioning training I utilize is the concept of ‘skills under fatigue’. This is very simple- the performance the key game related skills and tactics under fatigue. How do we train for this? Well one of the ways is the integration of skill training with conditioning.
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 19th January '10, 3:55pm |
| Tags: | Agility Training, Boxing, Circuit Training, Coaching, Conditioning, Fitness, Interval Training, Physiology, Power, Rugby, Strength Training, Team Sport, Technique, Tennis and Training |
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Athletes Unlimited on Twitter!!
I have been advised by more intelligent individuals than myself that I should smarten up and embrace the whole social networking revolution that seems to be going on around me! So with that being said I have set up a twitter account. You can access it here (http://twitter.com/AthletesUNLTD)
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 19th January '10, 3:44pm |
| Tags: | Badminton, Boxing, Coaching, Conditioning, Exercise, Fitness, Genetics, Injury, Interval Training, Overtraining, Plyometric, Power, Rugby, Speed Training, Sprinting, Strength Training, Supplements, Team Sport, Tennis, Training and Weight Training |
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