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Ladder Drill Hopping Two Forward One Back
This drill is great for developing uni-lateral (one foot) coordination as it challenges the movement skills of athletes. Hopping drills are also great for developing lower leg strength and power.
Football training: how to maintain fitness all year round
Football fitness- conditioning techniques to ensure you stay in shape the whole season
Core training using exercise ball workouts
Improve your core stability with a fitball!
Core training using a fitball
See main article for detailed description and explanation of exercises seen in this video.
Back pain: preventing and treating back injuries
Exercises to strengthen the back following injury
Hip, groin & pelvis injuries: prevention and treatment
Conditioning techniques to treat and prevent upper leg injuries
Rugby training- how professional rugby players improve their strength and fitness
Peak Performance talks to Sean Lamont, Josh Lewsey and Mark Bitcom
Marathon Training: distance running in the North Pole
North Pole Marathon: how to cope in cold weather
Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?
Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?
Weight Training Routines for Rugby Players
A rugby tackle requires explosive power – here are some strength training tips on how to get it
Fitness Training for Rugby Union
Rugby conditioning: the fitness standards rugby players and coaches should be aiming for
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
Women's Rugby: Resistance training for rugby
A women's rugby trainer divulges her rugby conditioning secrets from the World Cup
Constructing a Sports-specific Training Circuit - Part One
How to Construct a Training Circuit for your Sport - Rowing example
Sandbag Shoulder Press Throw
Sandbags are an effective low cost alternative to medicine ball.
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.
Lying straight arm external rotator cuff exercise
Maintain the strength and endurance of your rotator cuff muscles for added longevity in the weight room.
Curl ups
One of Dr. Stuart McGill's low back sparing exercises for your stomach. These will make your abs tremble if you do them the right way.
Hang Snatch
A variant of the snatch, the hang snatch focuses on the second pull and catch phases of the lift. Due to the difficulty of learning the snatch, the hang snatch is an excellent exercise to learn the basic technique required for the second pull and catch phases. Aside from learning the technique this exercises still involves all the major muscles of the body and is an excellent way to train whole body movements when under a load.
Tennis conditioning programmes should be adapted to surface
Tennis surfaces and energy demands
World-class tennis conditioning
A real case study
Training programmes: Benefit from Hip extension
Standing machine hip flexion
Simulated Altitude Training Report
Simulated Altitude Exposure Doesn't Work
Elite Rowing: Maintaining Maximum Condition
Life at the top – how are elite rowers tested and monitored?
Chronobiology and the Internal Clock
Chronobiology – how timing could give you the edge
Vibration Training and Performance
Can vibration training enhance Sports Performance?
Training for Cyclists: Cycling Aerodynamics and Stamina
Don't Let Drag Interfere With Your Cycling Training
Powerful, Accurate and Injury Free Kicking - A Mental Guide
Kicking Training for Rugby and Football
Heart Vitality Training and Heart Rate Monitors as Aids to Athletic Performance
Athletic Performance - keeping your cardiovascular system in shape
Sports Psychology: endurance training
using your mind to help with endurance training
Managing Pain in Athletes
What are the best ways to cope with sports pain? And how do different people react to the same injury?
Altitude Training: big help?
Can altitude training help endurance athletes reach new heights?
Skills Based Training: Female Games Players
Skills Based Training as an Alternative to Traditional Strength Training
Injury Recovery and Conditioning
Want to know the key to training success? Plenty of R&R
Can Athletes Dance Their Way to Agility?
Dance Training for Agility, Speed and Power
Dietary Performance Enhancement
Burning More Fat to Increase Periodization
how to train triathlon
How To Train For A Triathlon : Your complete strength and conditioning programme
periodisation
Periodisation: Advanced strategies for bringing your performance to a peak at just the right time
agility
Agility: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee: sport-specific drills for boosting agility
periodisation models
Periodisation models: sport-specific requirements for skill acquisition and competition readiness
fast-twitch muscles
Fast-twitch muscles: Twitch and you're gone - all you need to know about developing fast-twitch muscle fibre for speed, power and strength
rotator cuff rehabilitation
Rotator cuff rehabilitation: how to shake off shoulder injury
strength endurance
Strength endurance: Power without mass: how strength and plyometric training can boost endurance running performance
weight training flexibility
Weight training flexibility: Can weight training really enhance your flexibility?
pre-conditioning
Pre-conditioning - or how to do the preparatory work needed to stay in tip-top training condition all year round
leg press machine
Machine leg press
osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis: What happens when you hang up your sports kit - for good?
sports science articles
The Peak Performance index of back issues
strength training
Strength training: When it comes to strength training, athletes need to be treated as a 'special population'
weight training for women
Weight training for women: Why women avoid weight training - and how coaches can change their minds
single leg squat exercises
Single leg squat exercises
warm up golf
Warm-up golf
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
off-season training
Off-season training: Three off-season programmes to set you up for what lies ahead
training for football and rugby
Football and rugby teams pre-season training
Electrical Muscle Stimulation
Electrical Muscle Stimulation - Exploding the Myths
Hydration in Athletes
Hydration in Athletes
Plyometric Exercise | Power Training
Plyometric Exercise and Power Training
Sports Nutrition: increasing fat intake can improve endurance levels
High-fat Gains for Ultra-endurance Performance
Core stability exercises: abdominal bracing should be employed over abdominal hollowing
Core Stability: Abdominal Bracing vs. Abdominal Hollowing
Water running: how deep water training can improve performance
Deep water training option for runners
The type of running surface an athlete exercises on will effect the quality of their performance
Different running surfaces have different effects on performance and vary in the likelihood of causing an injury
Sports equipment: does the 'Kool-it' device benefit athletes competing in hot weather?
Research suggests 'Kool-it' will not improve the conditions of a cyclist in the heat
strength-training for mature athletes | prediction equations
Strength-training For Mature Athletes: Using prediction equations to determine 1RM for strength-training older adults
Pressure training sessions
Pressure Training Sessions: How to keep your skills even when all about you are losing theirs.
Athletes who throw
Athletes who throw things should alternate between heavy and light.
Swimmers - Is fatter faster?
Swimmers - Is Fatter Faster?
Arginine
Arginine: In the gym, bodybuilders push heavy pieces of iron around in order to bulk up their muscles, but at their dinner tables they do strange things.. In an attempt to become leaner, they reduce their caloric intakes as they train for important competitions, even though decreased eating can lead to losses of muscle mass.
Arginine
Arginine: In the gym, bodybuilders push heavy pieces of iron around in order to bulk up their muscles, but at their dinner tables they do strange things.. In an attempt to become leaner, they reduce their caloric intakes as they train for important competitions, even though decreased eating can lead to losses of muscle mass.

































