Cricket training
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Articles
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Half-time nutrition – what’s best for maximising fulltime performance?
Half-Time Training for Team Sports
Core strengthening to keep your spine in good shape
Fast-twitch muscles: Twitch and you're gone - all you need to know about developing fast-twitch muscle fibre for speed, power and strength
Upper body workouts: Standing stiff arm pull-down
Periodisation models: sport-specific requirements for skill acquisition and competition readiness
Rotator cuff rehabilitation: how to shake off shoulder injury
Off-season training: Three off-season programmes to set you up for what lies ahead
Perceptual training: how to sense what is happening a split second before others and steal a march on your opponents
Sports vision - How enhancing your vision can give you that extra edge in competition
Hitting The Ball: When batsmen don't need to keep their eye on the ball
hamstring exercises | hamstring stretches
Hamstring exercises: How to keep your hamstrings in tune and singing sweetly
British sports coaches | Australian sports coaches
Why blinkered British coaches have a lot to learn from Aussie champions
Athletes who throw things should alternate between heavy and light.
Overspeed Training: Does making your legs work faster than normal actually make you a quicker athlete?
Fitness Testing
speed training program
Resistance Training: Resistance Training: The message has got through to adults: should they keep it to themselves or pass it down to the juniors?
Mental Fitness: When you can manage your emotions, you can perform at your best
Sports Vision: In most sports, you'll never achieve your true potential if your eyes aren't up to it. Here's a special report on how they can be trained.
Speed training - bounding, 'limp' your way to longer, quicker strides
Speed Training: Talking turkey: why hill work helps athletes in football, rugby, basketball, cricket - and even running
What time is it inside your body? The answer may determine the effectiveness of your training - and your performance
Vision In Sport: A guide to improving performance by training the eyes.
mental strength | mental fitness | mental toughness
Mental strength - When you can manage your emotions, you can perform at your best
shoulder rotator-cuff muscles exercises
Shoulder Rotator-cuff Muscles Exercises: What is the best exercise to strengthen your shoulder rotator-cuff muscles?
Stress Fracture: One in ten of all sports injuries is a stress fracture. Here's how to break the pattern..
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.
Running Economy 2: How to make headway on improving running efficiency: can freeloading African women provide some important clues?
Track And Field Workouts: Phasing the year properly means allowing your athletes a chance to be serviced, oiled and refitted.
Conditioning: Next to cross-country skiing, running is the best type of fitness training for all sports.
boys physical self-perception | body image
Boys physical self-perception - When Boys Care More than Girls About their Body Image
Squat exercise
Race And Sport 1: The race to the swift - if the swift have the right ancestry
Shin splints: These exercises will help to strengthen your lower legs, and prevent or repair shin splint problems
Sports Vision Training: An expert guide to improving performance by training the eyes.
Partial squats: an outstanding exercise for improving your strength, stability and efficiency
Partial squats: an outstanding exercise for improving your strength, stability and efficiency
bilateral co-ordination | training
Bilateral Co-ordination: Why dexterity alone just will not do: some lessons from a young piano player
tendons | tendon | strength training
Tendons strength training: Performance benefits of optimising both components of your muscle tendon units
adenosine triphosphate | phosphocreatine
Adenosine triphosphate is often called the universal energy donor, but a better label would be the body's 'primary energy currency'
Questions
What do you think of the Peak Performance Premium area? (!)
As the main provider of information in this area, I'd like to find out what you think about the videos and the articles in particular.
What does "Whey Protein" do for you?
I know people who out it in fruit smoothies or energy drinks, but wat is it and what does it do?
Effect of gender stereotypes on sporting goals/achievements?
any thoughts towards this topic? do you know of any articles i can read up on? thanks so much for your time
As a teenager would they affect your hormones?
How do I improve my fitness fast?
I need to improve my fitness asap......
I have dificulty shaping the lower part of my stomach. What exercise can I do to reach that area.
How do you tell if you have shin splints. I have a pain in my left leg above my ankle, but I don't know what it is.
Are the eas myplex drinks good?
is eas myoplex good for your body does it have any side effects any one tried it yet?
Has anyone implemented steps to address the Relative Age Effect?
The relative age effect is a bias in junior selection and talent ID processes that consistently favours children born in the earlier part of the year relative to the eligibility date for that age-base
How to increase performance in your sport?
Pre & post regimes.
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Blogs
Have shoulder pains? You came to the right place.
I have been doing exercises for my abs but they are just now showing what can I do? I even have little fat.
I started training two months ago and I have really noticed a boost in my fitness,all you need is time and dedication.
“The 7 Deadly Sins of Lifting” this is another installment from A. Jay of a series of motivational articles.
Mindtree NLP in Sports Seminar Mindtree would like to invite you to attend our NLP in Sports seminar to find out how we can assist your players to achieve their maximum potential.
Most people would agree the hardest muscle to get into shape is the one 'between the ears.'
next NLP Sports Practitioner Course that we run here at Mindtree Ltd.
Drug testing what's out there a physiotherapists view point
Testing Athletes for Drug Use Why do some “athletes” try to enhance their performances on the track and field by taking drugs?
Here is the first and not the last instalment of Nick Mitchell’s long awaited All Strength Q&A.
Are you making these mistakes as an Athlete?
Don’t get me wrong nobody’s perfect, especially me, many of these ideas came from my “Stupidity”, a rollercoaster of discovery, injuries and re-injury, does that sound about right?
Sports Medicine Foot and Ankle Rehabilitation
This article was a long time coming. After writing and then scraping and re-writing it is a good way to describe this.
The Insider’s Secrets to a Flat Stomach
Hey regular blog readers myself and Nick sat down and and had a conversation, long story short this article was born.
Rotational Carbohydrates "RO-CHO" ?
Rotational Carbohydrates "RO-CHO" Article by Steve Blades. It is all about carbohydrate rotation for ultimate performance.
Another great read by Steve Blades aka "Marmite". If you are not making gains in the gym or the track this will change everything completely.
You are a Beginner, READ THIS!
A great,long article about everything on general bodybuilding ,training, nutrition and supplementation as a beginner.
A great new update to hit Rawgrip.com, a great article for all of the new found health freaks this year.
Squat Rx Video Creator Interview
If you are a serious lifter you must have heard of the “Squat Rx” video series all over the net. The Videos are available on YouTube.
How Focused Are You at the Gym?
Sean discusses The Top 10 Reasons why you are slacking in the Gym and How to prevent this. He exposes some great Tips how to make your training sessions more productive for better end results.
Finally an article created for all you serious weight shifters. C Pikey discuses the truth about A massive Bench Press and gives some tips How To Improve your Weak Bench.
Glycemic Index in Athletes and Weight management
An article about the glycemic index of carbohydrates pertains directly to athletes and their performance.
A new article by Michael Nystrom discussing the protein intake amounts in athletes. Athlete Protein intake article
Introduction to Tai Chi Training
This article is merely a brief and light hearted introduction to Tai Chi. My next article will focus upon how the key principles of Tai Chi can be used to develop optimum sports performance.
America's growing health crisis.
A good article about fish oils and the recommended intake in an athlete, a great read. Fish oil article Or
I finally finished a nutrition article which will help any athlete to peak performance. It covers everything from protein intake for an athlete and how to loose some extra pounds.
Training Methods for the Development of Power
The other day I came across a presentation a friend and I did at university. Thought I'd share it with you all.
It's a very exciting day for us today, because we've had our first major relaunch in 7 years.
When we set up the new PP Online site, one of our biggest aims was to create a place where anyone with a passion for sport could share their opinions and experiences.
Who drinks red bull or other caffeine beverages before they compete?
Steroids are banned, dangerous drugs. DON’T TAKE THEM.
Rotator cuff rehabilitation: how to shake off shoulder injury
How important is the shoulder joint in your sport?
Hitting the Ball in Cricket - When batsmen don't need to keep their eye on the ball...
In most sports, which involve hitting a ball, the coach's advice is to 'keep your eye on the ball'. However, when a ball moves very fast, this strategy may not always be possible or even appropriate.
Videos
A useful agility drill to develop acceleration, deceleration and rapid changes in direction whilst sprinting.
