All Shook Up

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

Achilles Tendonitis: This affliction is the curse of the running classes. Here's how to prevent it, and how to recover if you've been unlucky

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?

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.

How to monitor your maximal running speed, your power and your endurance - in training.

Conference Report: How football and rugby teams should train before the season begins.

" I am now running, at 59, the sort of times I was running as a 19-year-old National Serviceman" .

Upper Extremity Power: Tennis: For years, exercise scientists with an interest in tennis have tried to determine the physical factors which allow certain tennis players to have unusually powerful serves.

Complete tears of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) - the key ligament which bonds together the upper and lower parts of the leg at the knee - account for more than two-thirds of all knee injuries in skiers and are fairly common in other sports as well.

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?

It can stop you getting injured and, who knows, might even help you to win

Swimming related sports injuries: You may think that swimmers never get hurt. If so, read on

Breathing Techniques In Running: If you let your mind control your heart, you can improve your performances

Tennis Elbow Treatment: Between 10 and 50 per cent of players suffer from this nagging complaint. Here's what science says about treating and preventing it.