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Sports Coaching: a critical assessment of how an athlete can improve performance
The ingredients for successful coaching
Sports Coaching: an interview with periodization coach Tudor Bompa
Periodization from a sport science point of view
Sports Coaching: coaches should rely more on sport science than sports trends
Coaching has always been something of an art
Overtraining – do it right or pay the price!
Pushing the boundaries in training is essential for any athlete seeking maximum performance. But as James Marshall explains, there’s a right way and a wrong way to do it
Football Training Drills for Improving Energy Systems During Pre-season
Football Tips and Exercises to Make You Ready for the New Season
Rugby Training: Secrets of the Rugby World Cup Players
Scotland's Rugby Fitness Coach shares his rugby training tips
Women's Rugby: Resistance training for rugby
A women's rugby trainer divulges her rugby conditioning secrets from the World Cup
Zig Zag Sprints
A useful agility drill to develop acceleration, deceleration and rapid changes in direction whilst sprinting.
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.
Ladder Drill: Two Forward One Back
One of the more complex ladder drills, it helps develop co-ordinated quickness in two directions: forwards and back.
Lateral Ladder Drill
Challenges co-ordination by teaching quick lateral movements. This drill can also be used as an aid for teaching correct lateral movement mechanics.
Lateral Zig Zags
One of the most common movements in sport is running side-ways on an angle. This drill helps develop lateral speed and changes in lateral direction.
Agility Drill 1
This agility drill is great for learning to decelerate and rapidly change direction following a period of acceleration.
Agility Drill 3
This drill is designed to focus upon quick feet movements followed by an initial acceleration. The quick foot movements will help “prime” your body for the sprint and rapid change of direction.
Agility Drill 4
Similar to agility drill 3, this drill offers a little more challenge to the co-ordination of the athlete by having them side-step in and out of cones before a sprint.
Agility Drill 9
This drill can be performed as part of a warm-up or as a separate agility drill.
Diabetes - how it affects sports and how to combat it
diabetes and sports performance
Training for Cyclists: Cycling Aerodynamics and Stamina
Don't Let Drag Interfere With Your Cycling Training
Acceleration Training for Peak Performance
learn how to increase speed to make a quick getaway
Football coaching - half time psychology
Make sure your football coaching mentally prepares you for the second half!
Exercise Special - wake up your body and brain
A hand to knee reaction drill to improve speed, power and strength
Building Speed and Endurance
Building Speed Before Endurance: time to turn convention on the head?
Sports News: Eating Disorders
Eating disorders: are coaches to blame?
Injury Recovery and Conditioning
Want to know the key to training success? Plenty of R&R
athletics history
Looking back at the past - how much has athletics really changed?
Sport Motivation
Sport Motivation : To create a positive motivational climate you need more carrot than stick
warm up activity
Warm Up Activity : The dynamic alternative to static stretching
child protection in sport
Child protection in sport
successful coaching
Successful coaching: The secrets of success with high-level athletes
weight training for women
Weight training for women: Why women avoid weight training - and how coaches can change their minds
training schedules
Training schedules: Three ways to quantify and evaluate your training - and make sure you are achieving what your coach has planned for you
sudden cardiac death
Sudden cardiac death: how can clubs pick out those at risk ?
football fitness
Football fitness - The role of personal fitness in team success
mental imagery | sport
Mental imagery for physical people: how recreating all-sensory experience can profoundly affect your performance
underperformance syndrome
Underperformance Syndrome - how youth rugby coaches are using psychology to raise their players' game
goal setting
Goal setting: One step at a time - how to raise your game through effective goal-setting
concurrent training
Concurrent training - Weight training and endurance training - the perfect sports conditioning partnership?
inspiratory stridor
Inspiratory stridor - How do you deal with 'asthma' when the drugs don't work?
deadlift | romanian deadlift exercise
Deadlift: The single-legged Romanian deadlift
Human Growth Hormone | hGH
Human growth hormone hGH - Don't waste money - and risk your reputation on human growth hormone; make your own instead!
training for football and rugby
Football and rugby teams pre-season training
Sport Psychology: self awareness in sport
How to get the best from yourself or an athlete you coach by effective questioning and attentive listening
RSI in children: how to avoid repetitive stress injuries effecting young athletes
If you coach children, you have to take particular care to avoid repetitive stress
Fitness programmes
How to design a sports-specific fitness programme
Footballers head injuries | Brain Damage
Young Footballers Show No Signs of Brain Damage
"Stages of change": how to motivate your athletes to help themselves
Improve your Motivational Skills to encourage Athlete Behavioural Change
British sports coaches | Australian sports coaches
Why blinkered British coaches have a lot to learn from Aussie champions
The Javelin
The Javelin: The throwing Finns: are they made or born?
Core stability training
Core Stability Training: This exercise programme will strengthen your trunk muscles and thus help avoid back problems
extension-related low-back pain
Case report: an adolescent goalkeeper with extension-related low-back pain
training: how sequencing determines overall fitness 2
Get your training in order: how sequencing determines your overall fitness
bilateral co-ordination | training
Bilateral Co-ordination: Why dexterity alone just will not do: some lessons from a young piano player
psychometric testing | sports training
Psychometric testing: How the Giants kicked tradition into touch with psychometric testing
Strength training | strength programs
Strength training programs
endurance athletes workouts
Endurance Athletes Workouts: You may (mistakenly) think this training method is old hat,
but it is brilliant for endurance athletes. Here are a couple of suggested workouts
Crocodile soup
The athletic world reacted with a mixture of derision and skepticism when it learned that famed Chinese running coach Ma Junren was giving his world-champion female athletes turtles' blood in hopes of enhancing their performances, but scientists in Cambridge, England have recently learned that a turtle-blood cocktail may be no laughing matter. That's because they've discovered that the blood of another reptile - the crocodile - may eventually improve athletic prowess.
Marathon winner
Marathon Winner: The remarkable schedule of the girl who won the New York Marathon.
Recording training | Bruce Tulloh
Recording Training by Bruce Tulloh: Motivator, guide and silent coach: the advantages of keeping a training diary.
Sports injuries prevention
Sports injuries prevention: A cynic would say that the way to prevent sports injuries was to not play sport, but for readers of PEAK PERFORMANCE that rather misses the point.
Swimmers - Is fatter faster?
Swimmers - Is Fatter Faster?
Coaching
Coaching: What is wrong with British sport?
swimming workouts | swimming strength training
Swimming workouts & swimming strength training
Chronic fatigue syndrome: ian wilson
Chronic fatigue syndrome - Swimmer lan Wilson is British Record Holder (Long Course) 1500m Freestyle, 15:03: 72 (1991), and was European Silver Medalist (91), World Student Games Champion (91) and World (91,94), Olympic (92) and Commonwealth (90, 94) Finalist.
Bone accretion
Bone Accretion: I was interested to read the article, "Rowing appears to be the perfect sport for bone accretion". Letter to editor from: Penny Chuter, OBE, Principal National Coach, Amateur Rowing Association, London W6
Injury management
Injury Management: So what exactly is the coach meant to do during the rehabilitation period? Here are a few pointers.
Sequencing in Training 2
Sequencing In Training 2: Get your training in order: how sequencing determines your overall fitness
Sub 4 minute mile
Sub 4 Minute Mile: Here's a training programme designed to crack the ultimate goal: the sub-four-minute mile.
Sub 4 minute mile
Sub 4 Minute Mile: Here's a training programme designed to crack the ultimate goal: the sub-four-minute mile.































