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Football training: the demands of the game and the attributes required for specific football positions
Football players need specific physical and skill based attributes for each position
Football training: how to maintain fitness all year round
Football fitness- conditioning techniques to ensure you stay in shape the whole season
Football training: the importance of testing for players and coaches
Testing is an objective way of confirming a coach or manager's thoughts
Football matches: half time psychology
Effective communication between the coach and players is essential at half time
Plyometric training: can it improve football performance?
Plyometric type exercises for power and speed are used with great effect but how useful are they for footballers?
Football Training: combining agility training and fitness workouts to improve performance
Football conditioning to maintain and improve performance
Football training: improve your speed, power and strength
Football Conditioning
Sports Coaching: coaches should rely more on sport science than sports trends
Coaching has always been something of an art
Short and sweet – why all sportsmen and women should consider 40m sprinting!
Short and sweet – why all sportsmen and women should consider 40m sprinting!
Football Training Drills for Improving Energy Systems During Pre-season
Football Tips and Exercises to Make You Ready for the New Season
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
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. Have the athlete perform the drill correctly by asking them to start off slowly to get a feel of the movement.
What should athletes do when concussion strikes?
Knockout blow
Prevent Ankle Injuries
A simple way to predict ankle risk
Half-time nutrition – what’s best for maximising fulltime performance?
Half-Time Training for Team Sports
Half Time Strategy - Temperature
Coping With The Effects of Temperature on The Pitch
Powerful, Accurate and Injury Free Kicking - A Mental Guide
Kicking Training for Rugby and Football
Football coaching - half time psychology
Make sure your football coaching mentally prepares you for the second half!
Supplements: Glucosamine
Does glucosamine really work?
tournament football
Tournament Football : What Sven can learn from research in the lead-up to the 2006 World Cup
Mathematics of Sport
Mathematics Of Sport Book Review
dumbbell exercises
Dumbbell Exercises : Supine dumbbell straight arm pullover
deep water running
Deep Water Running : Getting into deep water - why it can be good for fitness
metabolic rate
Metabolic Rate : The metabolic impact of exercise - or how your body works out while you put your feet up
stretching football
Stretching football: Stretching no help to kicking in football
acetabular labrum tears
Acetabular labrum tears - a right pain in the groin
hamstring strains
Hamstring strains
football children
Why football is good for children
nutrition for football
Nutrition for football: 'Your role is to make sure there are no fat b******s in my team'
hydration in football
Hydration football - It used to be oranges in the centre circle... now it's a personal hydration strategy
football managers
Football managers - Who is there to support the managers? A psychologist reflects on survival techniques in a cut-throat world
football referees
Football referees - Dehydration problems for the men in black
football fitness
Football fitness - The role of personal fitness in team success
hamstring strains
Hamstring strains: the most common injuries in football
football injury prevention
Football injury prevention
hamstring exercise
Hamstring exercise for hamstrings of steel
sports vision training
Sports vision - How enhancing your vision can give you that extra edge in competition
training for football and rugby
Football and rugby teams pre-season training
Osteoarthritis: hip injuries in footballers
Hip inuries in footballers - osteoarthritis of the hip
Michael Owen: could his hamstring injuries be avoided by a change in running technique?
Michael Owen injury nightmare
Head injury: research suggests footballers are not at risk of brain damage
Footballers are not in danger of experiencing brain damage
Fitness for football
Fitness For Football: Endurance training boosts performance in the field
Football training: how to take a penalty kick
How to win the penalty shoot-out mind game
Sports injuries prevention
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.
The eyes: soccer
The Eyes: Soccer: What makes a topnotch football player different from a mediocre performer? One key difference is in the way their eyes move, according to researchers at the University of Liverpool and the University of Manchester.
Eating before competition
Eating Before Competition: Can you give your performance an edge by fuelling up before exercise? Well, sometimes yes, sometimes no, and sometimes it can even have a negative effect. Here are the guidelines.
Speed parachutes
Speed Parachutes: Displaying their bold maize and blue colors, the chutes billow out behind runners during workouts, attached by cords to the athletes' chests.
Hyperbaric therapy
Hyperbaric Therapy: If you're an injured runner, should you breathe in pure oxygen to hasten the healing process? That's what some sports scientists are recommending, as the inhalation of oxygen under high pressure (also called hyperbaric oxygen therapy) becomes an increasingly popular form of treatment for hurting athletes.
Injury management
Injury Management: So what exactly is the coach meant to do during the rehabilitation period? Here are a few pointers.
Muscle Imbalance
Muscle Imbalance: Why detecting muscle imbalance is an essential part of an injury-prevention strategy
mental fitness
Mental Fitness: When you can manage your emotions, you can perform at your best
Soccer Refs
Top flight soccer refs cover 11k-plus per match, says new study
Sports Injuries | headaches
The case of the ex-rugby player with a mysterious headache
Knee Braces
Do knee braces slow you down, or make you less agile?
Shoulder instability
Shoulder Instability: Should you consider shrinking your shoulder?
Longevity
Longevity: Exercise helps you to live longer, but how important is intensity?
Training dietary regimes
Training Dietary Regimes: You can lead a footballer to a proper diet, but can you make him eat it?
Creatine Effects
Creatine Effects: A man who is showing athletes how to use advances in sports nutrition to produce dramatic improvements in their performances.
Nose strips | Breathe Right External Nasal Dilator,
Here's the scientific verdict on those nose strips - the damned things don't work
Biological clocks
Biological clock-watching can give your performance an extra boost.
creatine facts
Creatine facts: The latest research results are all good - and don't believe the rumour that it causes cramp.
Endurox | sport nutrition supplement
Endurox: Don't be taken in too soon by the claims of this latest " magic potion"
Sports injury diagnosis
Sports Injury Diagnosis: To get the diagnosis right, you have to investigate all the contributing factors.
Achilles heel injury
Achilles Heel Injury Prevention: These exercises can turn your Achilles heel into a rock of Gibraltar
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.
anaerobic performance testing
Here's a new running-based test of anaerobic performance for which you need only a stopwatch and a calculator.
muscle building
Muscle building: Squats, leg press or knee extensions - which exercise is best for the quads?
muscle building
Muscle building: Squats, leg press or knee extensions - which exercise is best for the quads?
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