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Coaching young athletes to produce future stars
Doing the ‘right’ training at the ‘right’ time with a young child can maximise their future potential as an adult
Sports coaching: how to coach athletes with learning difficulties
Learning difficulties aren’t just confined to the classroom; there are many talented young athletes who also suffer too.
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
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.
Diabetes - how it affects sports and how to combat it
diabetes and sports performance
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
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?
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
"Stages of change": how to motivate your athletes to help themselves
Improve your Motivational Skills to encourage Athlete Behavioural Change
Coaching techniques: British and Australian views on crosstraining
Coaches from different nations approach crosstraining with varying opinion
Core stability training programme
Core Stability Training: This exercise programme will strengthen your trunk muscles and thus help avoid back problems
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.
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?
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.
Wheelchair athletes training
Wheelchair Athletes Training: A strength and sprint training programme for pre-elite wheelchair athletes
Tapering programme | cycling training
Tapering Programme: Using science to help design a tapering programme for cyclists.
interval program training
Interval Program Training: To make your workouts more realistic, you should aim to trim down the recoveries.
Sport injury rehabilitation
Sport Injury Rehabilitation: So what exactly is the coach meant to do during the rehabilitation period? Here are a few pointers.
Sports psychology: Tennis
Sports Psychology: Tennis. How a promising young tennis player was rescued from the clutches of overtraining.
Upper body
Upper Body: How to develop the perfect sprinter's upper body, thanks to Linford Christie.
Tapering and performance
Tapering And Performance: In order to be the best in whatever swimming discipline, competitive athletes and their coaches are constantly seeking new and effective methods to improve performance.
400 metres training schedule
400 Metres Training Schedule: Mark Richardson recently beat the renowned Michael Johnson over 400 metres. Here is part of his training schedule.
buttock pain treatment
Buttock Pain Treatment Case study: a female athletics coach with buttock pain
Heredity, genes and sports performance
Heredity, Genes And Sports Performance: Dad, mum and you - how much do your genes really influence your performances?
Speed training for endurance athletes
Speed training is important for distance runners
running training program
Running Training Program: If you want to improve your race times, imitate the action of the gazelle.
Pre season training for soccer and rugby
Conference Report: How football and rugby teams should train before the season begins.
Tapering 1
Tapering 1: What form of tapering works best in which sports? Here's a critical review of the research
Tapering 2
Tapering 2: What form of tapering works best in which sports? Here's a critical review of the research
Adaptogens
Adaptogens: What exactly are " adaptogens" and can they really help your performances.
Peak performance
Peak Performance: Knowing at what age an athlete is likely to achieve peak performance is a big help in planning a training programme.
Top coach on ciruit training
Some 31 years as a coach to 38 junior and senior GB internationals (including five sub-four-minute milers) has led me to some conclusions:
athletes drug testing in sport
Athletes Drug Testing In Sport: What do you do when running breathes meaning into every moment of your life - and you're suddenly told that you can't run anymore?
Physiotherapy and sports injuries
Physiotherapy and sports injuries: Physiotherapy plays an integral part in the multi-disciplinary approach to the management of sports injuries. The aim of physiotherapy is to treat and fully rehabilitate the athlete post-injury, post-operatively, to prevent further injury and to return the athlete to sport in the shortest possible time.
800 metres
800 Metres: Coaches and runners are confused about how to train optimally for 800-metre racing, and with good reason. After all, there's a wealth of scientific information about training for 400 metres, 5000 metres, 10,000 metres, and the marathon, but almost no research has been done concerning 800-metre training. As a result, thoughts about 800 preparations tend to be long on philosophy and anecdote -and short on fact
Winning: 1
If you want to reach your peak level of performance and be a winner, especially in an endurance sport, you must accomplish five critical tasks:
Training to Win
To win, you must prepare yourself to be the winner - not simply to "do my best"
Training to Win
To win, you must prepare yourself to be the winner - not simply to "do my best"
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