Kicking Training for Rugby and Football

Pre-exercise stretching - is it time to tear up the old rule book?

waking up to the performance of sleep

Hamstring strains

The effect of increasing the flexibility of joints on distance running

Flexibility and Stretching: Two sports physiotherapists show why flexibility is so important, and explain the science behind it

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.

These three strength-training exercises will improve your stride length and frequency

Here's an exclusive report on a world-record attempt made in (or about) the year 2025

Low-back Pain: Inactivity is the problem

Two workouts that will help you pack more punch with your race pace - even at age 56

Strength training routines: most runners think that strength training routines are something carried out in a weight room or gym utilising various pieces of equipment (barbells, dumbbells, weight machines, etc.).

Training Dietary Regimes: You can lead a footballer to a proper diet, but can you make him eat it?

Speed Training: If you want to improve your one-mile times, follow these speed-building workouts.

Veteran Runners: improve your foot speed

Sports Vision Training: An expert guide to improving performance by training the eyes.

Flexibility, stretching and injury risk: Women are more flexible than men - and get hurt less often.

Glucosamine Chondroitin Sulphate: This substance looks beneficial for osteoathritis, but will it do anything for an athlete's stiff joints?

Running Foot Injuries - Describing plantar fasciitis is easy: It's simply an inflammation of the fascia on the bottom of the foot. Getting rid of plantar fasciitis is hard

Summer Training: Training in warm weather is definitely not the same as training in cooler temperatures. There are many "tricks of the trade" - practices which can make your warm-weather workouts much more comfortable and much better for your overall fitness.

Groin Pain Causes and Treatments - Case study: a rugby-union player with groin pain

Cross Training Workouts

The truth about stretching and why the Kenyan athletes always do it after their workouts are over.

If you want to keep well as you get older, adopt the " use it or lose it" philosophy.

Do the young respond more effectively to aerobic training? Don't you believe it. We hear it all the time: old people can't respond to training as young people do.

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.

Muscle Soreness: Try this eccentric method of getting rid of muscle soreness.

In the weeks building to an important tournament, a squash player needs a workout that can deal with both fitness and skills in a time-efficient way. A "pressure session" can handle both these demands in just 40 minutes and is also extremely specific to the demands of squash.

Injury Rehab Programme: An injured sportsman is like a sick gorilla - no use and a lot of trouble. The coach has to deal with the mind as well as the body in maintaining the athlete's equilibrium.

Strength Shoes: Does the 'strength' shoe really do anything for your strength?

Running Foot Injuries - Describing plantar fasciitis is easy: It's simply an inflammation of the fascia on the bottom of the foot. Getting rid of plantar fasciitis is hard

Squat research review

Balance exercise: learn to keep your balance with some simple balance training drills