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Back Injury expert Mark Alexander shares his Back Pain secrets

Mark Alexander, the author of our new self-management book on back pain, reveals all

Short and sweet – why all sportsmen and women should consider 40m sprinting!

Strength Training for Basketball: How to improve your strength and power on the court

Improve Your Jumping Ability and Basketball Skills with the Right Weight Training Workout

Increase Vertical Leap and Improve Jumping Ability with Plyometrics

Plyometric Exercises to Make You Jump Higher and Further

The Drop Depth Jump: A plyometric exercise to increase vertical leap and improve jumping ability

Plyometrics Training: The drop depth jump

Ladder Drill: Two Feet in Each Rung

A progression from the One Foot in Each Rung drill, challenges the speed of co-ordination of the athlete. Have the athlete perform the drill correctly by asking them to start off slowly to get a feel of the movement.

Dynamic stretching exercises increase jumping ability

Basketball Warm-ups to Increase Vertical Leap

Basketball players: hydration is the key to improving sprinting and shooting

Maintaining hydration can help improve your basketball shooting and performance

Half-time nutrition – what’s best for maximising fulltime performance?

Half-Time Training for Team Sports

Skills Based Training: Female Games Players

Skills Based Training as an Alternative to Traditional Strength Training

periodisation

Periodisation: Advanced strategies for bringing your performance to a peak at just the right time

successful coaching

Successful coaching: The secrets of success with high-level athletes

How Athletes Perform Under Pressure

Choking under pressure

pre-conditioning

Pre-conditioning - or how to do the preparatory work needed to stay in tip-top training condition all year round

weight training for women

Weight training for women: Why women avoid weight training - and how coaches can change their minds

carbohydrate electrolyte drink

How carbohydrate and electrolyte drinks help team sports players

complex training

Complex training: The potentiation effect - can one training mode really enhance another?

drugs in sport

Drugs in sport: “Far from being unfair, drugs that enhance performance actually promote equality”

drugs sport

Drugs in sport: Let athletes take drugs, but I don't want them in my club - or at my Olympics'

off-season training

Off-season training: Three off-season programmes to set you up for what lies ahead

Sports psychology: can certain smells improve performance?

Researchers think they may have found a smell that could give you the advantage over your rivals

medicine ball training workouts

Medicine ball training workouts: Does medicine ball training really work?

Muscle Imbalance

Muscle Imbalance: Why detecting muscle imbalance is an essential part of an injury-prevention strategy

Shin splints 1

Shin splints: These exercises will help to strengthen your lower legs, and prevent or repair shin splint problems

Caffeine

Caffeine proves less of a help to team sports sprinters

Longevity

Longevity: Exercise helps you to live longer, but how important is intensity?

Sports Knee Braces

Sports Knee Braces: Does wearing a knee brace improve or hamper your ability to perform?

Conditioning

Conditioning: Next to cross-country skiing, running is the best type of fitness training for all sports.

Biological clocks

Biological clock-watching can give your performance an extra boost.

creatine facts

Creatine facts: The latest research results are all good - and don't believe the rumour that it causes cramp.

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee injury and prevention

The knees of female athletes are very vulnerable to injury, especially ACL tears. Here's what to do about it.

anaerobic performance testing

Here's a new running-based test of anaerobic performance for which you need only a stopwatch and a calculator.

Ginseng

Ginseng: Another scientific study gives the thumbs down.

Infection and sport

Infection And Sport: Which infections are spread during sports activities?

HIV risk and sport

Hiv Risk And Sport: What's the real risk of HIV transmission during sports activities?

Music and sport

Music and Sport: Music hath charms to soothe the savage workout - or perhaps it doesn't.

Cross Training Workouts

"run-play" training

"run-play" Training: These workouts can boost fitness, speed, endurance and correct weaknesses - and are fun to do.

Anterior cruciate ligament (acl) injuries, treatment, training and surgery

Complete tears of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) - the key ligament which bonds together the upper and lower parts of the leg at the knee - account for more than two-thirds of all knee injuries in skiers and are fairly common in other sports as well.

Does foot structure affect injury rate?

There's been considerable confusion concerning the effects of foot structure on injury rates. Some researchers - and large numbers of people in the population at large - believe that individuals with low-arched feet have weak foot structures and are more predisposed to injuries in the lower extremities.

overtraining effects on performance

Overtraining Effects On Performance: If you want to prevent staleness and overtraining, keep a record of your quality of sleep and levels of fatigue!

Reading the game

Reading The Game: While lesser mortals grind out victories with their patient shots, eliminating risks and playing the percentages, the truly gifted seem to conjure with time. They bring an unhurried genius to their game that allows them to play shots with an audacity that sometimes surprises even them.