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Chinese Sport : The Rise and Rise of Chinese Athletes
Chinese Sport : The future's not orange - it's Chinese
Strength Training Program Part 1: Competition Preparation
The best Weight Training Exercises to prepare for competition
Increase Vertical Leap and Improve Jumping Ability with Plyometrics
Plyometric Exercises to Make You Jump Higher and Further
The Pendulum Shoulder Exercise
The pendulums are some of the best pre-hab shoulder exercises for a number of reasons. They are effective, easy to do and feel great.
The Seated Good Morning
The seated good morning is another variation of the standing version of this low back exercise.
The Standing Good Morning
The standing good morning is an excellent lower back exercise and one that I use with the majority of my trainees.
Dynamic stretching exercises increase jumping ability
Basketball Warm-ups to Increase Vertical Leap
Caring For Your Spine
Core strengthening to keep your spine in good shape
periodisation models
Periodisation models: sport-specific requirements for skill acquisition and competition readiness
upper body workout
Upper body workouts: Standing stiff arm pull-down
osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis: What happens when you hang up your sports kit - for good?
sport specific weight training
Sport specific weight training
400m workouts | marathon workouts
These are the 'golden' workouts for the key distances from 400m to the marathon
Fitness programmes
How to design a sports-specific fitness programme
fitness program
Fitness program - How to design a sports-specific fitness program
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?
Endurance performance
Endurance Performance: Conventional training for distance events is dead: now you need to work on your anaerobic power
lateral preferences
How to overcome lateral preferences and end up with two dominant legs:
Owen Anderson offers practical guidance on how to identify your own dominant side - and bring the other side up to par
shoulder rotator-cuff muscles exercises
Shoulder Rotator-cuff Muscles Exercises: What is the best exercise to strengthen your shoulder rotator-cuff muscles?
Strength training | strength programs
Strength training programs
running surfaces
Running Surfaces: Why Haile boycotted the Atlanta oval - and can tuned tracks improve your own performances?
squatting exercises | knee injuries | spine injuries
How safe is squatting? Does it injure the knees or even the spine? Here's an exhaustive review of the research
Flexibility | Stretching
Flexibility and Stretching: Two sports physiotherapists show why flexibility is so important, and explain the science behind it
Athletes who throw
Athletes who throw things should alternate between heavy and light.
sports injuries benefits
You may not appreciate it at the time, but an injury can teach you a lot about how your body works
weight training vests | ankle weights
Weight training vests and ankle weights: wearing ankle weights and a weight training vests can help you run faster - but do it slowly
Longevity
Longevity: Exercise helps you to live longer, but how important is intensity?
Olympics Sex test
Olympics Sex Test: Why the Olympic sex test is outmoded, unnecessary and even harmful.
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.
periodization training techniques
Periodization Training Techniques: If you want to improve your performances, you can't train the same way all the time
periodisation training techniques
Periodisation Training Techniques 2: If you want to improve your performances, you can't train the same way all the time
knee injuries symptoms 2
Knee Injuries Symptoms 2: Do your knees sometimes give you the blues? If so, you're in good company: knee injuries are the curse of many athletes, especially runners
Report on blood lactate 2
Report On Blood Lactate 2: Things your mother forgot to tell you about blood lactate
Running economy 2
Running Economy 2: A brief history of the strengthening of the economy, and why it matters
Running economy 2
Running Economy 2: Here are some of the things your mum forgot to tell you about putting one foot in front of the other
overtraining | illness
Overtraining: Can adaptogens help athletes reduce their risk of infections and overtraining?
medicine ball workouts | medicine ball traning | medicine ball exercises
These medicine ball workouts can do wonders for running velocity and power.
Running economy
It's now official: strength training can improve your running economy.
running shoes
Running shoes research - Do men and women run with completely different gait styles? If so, are those differences so great that female runners need their own distinctive running shoes?
strength training advice
Strength Training Advice: Is strength training really beneficial for endurance athletes? Here's a sport-by-sport review
squat
Squat research review
Track and field training: Coaching techniques
Track and field training: Technical proficiency is one thing, but coaches and teachers ignore the basics at their peril
Update your warm up exercises
Warm up exercises: your old-style warm-up exercises may need updating
Update your warm up exercises
Warm up exercises: your old-style warm-up exercises may need updating
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