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Zig Zag Sprints
A useful agility drill to develop acceleration, deceleration and rapid changes in direction whilst sprinting.
Ladder Drill: One Foot in Each Rung
The most simple of ladder drills can be used for beginners and young athletes to teach them about moving quickly. The ladder drill can also be used to teach running mechanics.
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.
Half-time nutrition – what’s best for maximising fulltime performance?
Half-Time Training for Team Sports
Caring For Your Spine
Core strengthening to keep your spine in good shape
perceptual training
Perceptual training: how to sense what is happening a split second before others and steal a march on your opponents
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
upper body workout
Upper body workouts: Standing stiff arm pull-down
off-season training
Off-season training: Three off-season programmes to set you up for what lies ahead
sports vision training
Sports vision - How enhancing your vision can give you that extra edge in competition
British sports coaches | Australian sports coaches
Why blinkered British coaches have a lot to learn from Aussie champions
Running economy 2
Running Economy 2: How to make headway on improving running efficiency: can freeloading African women provide some important clues?
Resistance Training
Resistance Training: Resistance Training: The message has got through to adults: should they keep it to themselves or pass it down to the juniors?
Speed Training
Speed Training: Talking turkey: why hill work helps athletes in football, rugby, basketball, cricket - and even running
bilateral co-ordination | training
Bilateral Co-ordination: Why dexterity alone just will not do: some lessons from a young piano player
shoulder rotator-cuff muscles exercises
Shoulder Rotator-cuff Muscles Exercises: What is the best exercise to strengthen your shoulder rotator-cuff muscles?
Athletes who throw
Athletes who throw things should alternate between heavy and light.
track and field workouts
Track And Field Workouts: Phasing the year properly means allowing your athletes a chance to be serviced, oiled and refitted.
mental fitness
Mental Fitness: When you can manage your emotions, you can perform at your best
Shin splints 1
Shin splints: These exercises will help to strengthen your lower legs, and prevent or repair shin splint problems
Physiology & performance
What time is it inside your body? The answer may determine the effectiveness of your training - and your performance
Hitting the ball
Hitting The Ball: When batsmen don't need to keep their eye on the ball
Stress fracture
Stress Fracture: One in ten of all sports injuries is a stress fracture. Here's how to break the pattern..
Overspeed training
Overspeed Training: Does making your legs work faster than normal actually make you a quicker athlete?
Conditioning
Conditioning: Next to cross-country skiing, running is the best type of fitness training for all sports.
sports vision
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.
Sports vision training
Sports Vision Training: An expert guide to improving performance by training the eyes.
vision in sport
Vision In Sport: A guide to improving performance by training the eyes.
hamstring exercises | hamstring stretches
Hamstring exercises: How to keep your hamstrings in tune and singing sweetly
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.
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