Use Mental and Physical Sports Motivation

What are the best ways to cope with sports pain? And how do different people react to the same injury?

Dance Training for Agility, Speed and Power

Weight training flexibility: Can weight training really enhance your flexibility?

Football and rugby teams pre-season training

How to design a sports-specific fitness programme

Sport-specific Training: The ultimate training programme: an indispensable year plan for runners

A trigger point in a muscle is a warning sign of a possible serious injury. Here we explain what TPs are, how they happen and what to do about them

Stretching - (Almost) everything you need to know about stretching

How safe is squatting? Does it injure the knees or even the spine? Here's an exhaustive review of the research

Flexibility: A physiotherapist explains the science behind the importance of keeping flexible

Mobility Training: These pre-workout exercises can give a valuable boost to competitive performance

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.

Pre-workout Stretching: Does stretching before a workout increase the risk of injury?

Injury Management: So what exactly is the coach meant to do during the rehabilitation period? Here are a few pointers.

You may not appreciate it at the time, but an injury can teach you a lot about how your body works

What time is it inside your body? The answer may determine the effectiveness of your training - and your performance

Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation: Despite the claims for PNF, you still can't beat static stretching

These coordination drills ease lower back pain as effectively
as strengthening exercises

Conditioning: Next to cross-country skiing, running is the best type of fitness training for all sports.

Running form: How you can become a better runner without increased fitness - with the right form.

Personal Bests: These are the changes to concentrate on if you want to produce more PBs.

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?

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

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.

Stretching Flexibility Exercises 2: What science has to say about the performance benefits of flexibility training

Hamstring flexibility: How to keep your hamstrings in tune and singing sweetly

Case study: a swimmer with left-sided thoracic pain and shoulder 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.