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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
Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?
Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?
Increase Vertical Leap and Improve Jumping Ability with Plyometrics
Plyometric Exercises to Make You Jump Higher and Further
Zig Zag Sprints
A useful agility drill to develop acceleration, deceleration and rapid changes in direction whilst sprinting.
The Seated Good Morning
The seated good morning is another variation of the standing version of this low back exercise.
Ladder Drill: One Foot in Each Rung
The most simple of ladder drills can be used for beginners and young athletes to teach them about moving quickly. The ladder drill can also be used to teach running mechanics.
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.
Ladder Drill: Two Forward One Back
One of the more complex ladder drills, it helps develop co-ordinated quickness in two directions: forwards and back.
Lateral Ladder Drill
Challenges co-ordination by teaching quick lateral movements. This drill can also be used as an aid for teaching correct lateral movement mechanics.
Lateral Zig Zags
One of the most common movements in sport is running side-ways on an angle. This drill helps develop lateral speed and changes in lateral direction.
Agility Drill 1
This agility drill is great for learning to decelerate and rapidly change direction following a period of acceleration.
Agility Drill 3
This drill is designed to focus upon quick feet movements followed by an initial acceleration. The quick foot movements will help “prime” your body for the sprint and rapid change of direction.
Agility Drill 4
Similar to agility drill 3, this drill offers a little more challenge to the co-ordination of the athlete by having them side-step in and out of cones before a sprint.
Agility Drill 9
This drill can be performed as part of a warm-up or as a separate agility drill.
Ankle injuries are more common than hamstring tears in footballers
Ankle injuries can be tackled by proprioception training
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!
Caring For Your Spine
Core strengthening to keep your spine in good shape
Skills Based Training: Female Games Players
Skills Based Training as an Alternative to Traditional Strength Training
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
recovery
Recovery: what is the best strategy?
strength football
Strength training for footballers
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
Fitness programmes
How to design a sports-specific fitness programme
Speed Training
Speed Training: How the Frappier super treadmill helps athletes run faster
Michael Owen: could his hamstring injuries be avoided by a change in running technique?
Michael Owen injury nightmare
Footballers head injuries | Brain Damage
Young Footballers Show No Signs of Brain Damage
Creatine
Creatine: Now school kids are creatine users
Winter training 1
Winter Training 1: Rebuild your body this winter - without expensive exercise equipment
Fitness for football
Fitness For Football: Endurance training boosts performance in the field
Speed Training
Speed Training: Talking turkey: why hill work helps athletes in football, rugby, basketball, cricket - and even running
extension-related low-back pain
Case report: an adolescent goalkeeper with extension-related low-back pain
Trigger points - a warning sign of serious injury
Tigger Points: what they are, how they happen and what to do about them
bilateral co-ordination | training
Bilateral Co-ordination: Why dexterity alone just will not do: some lessons from a young piano player
football | penalty taking | soccer
Football - penalty taking: How to win the
shoot-out mind game
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
dehydration and performance
Dehydration And Performance: We've said it before and we'll say it again: even on cool days, dehydration can seriously damage your performance. Here's a guide to avoiding it
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
strength training for children
Strength Training For Children: This is what science says is the most effective strength training for kids
strength training for children
Strength Training For Children: This is what science says is the most effective strength training for kids
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