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Road cycling: Interval training for speed
Interval training to improve anaerobic power and sprinting ability in road cycling
Tabata Interval Training for Strength and Endurance
Time-efficient strength and endurance workout
Weight Training Routines for Rugby Players
A rugby tackle requires explosive power – here are some strength training tips on how to get it
Low-intensity workouts lead to weight loss
Exercise intensity and weight loss
Time Efficient Running - run less to run faster?
Running efficiency training ideas
iron deficiency
Iron deficiency: much more prevalent than you imagined and posing particular risks for athletes
sodium bicarbonate
Sodium bicarbonate and sprint performance
soccer fitness training
Soccer fitness training: Endurance training boosts performance in the field
Cycling - Interval Training
Cycling - Interval Training
Fitness for football
Fitness For Football: Endurance training boosts performance in the field
endurance training for children
Endurance Training For Children: This is what science says is the most effective endurance training for kids
genetics | sports performance
Genetics and Performance: Now science is getting to the long and the short of how genes influence performance
Super set training: improve your motivation and fitness levels at the same time
Super set sessions will help you run, cycle, or swim for longer and faster.
Aquarunning
Aquarunning: Why aquarunning didn't work for these inexperienced athletes.
weight loss | high intensity workouts | low intensity workouts
If you want to lose weight, should you sizzle or saunter during your workouts?
Recording training | Bruce Tulloh
Recording Training by Bruce Tulloh: Motivator, guide and silent coach: the advantages of keeping a training diary.
Interval training: including recovery periods in your workout means you can keep the intensity and volume of your training high
Planning your interval training programme is the key to achieving optimal results
swimming techniques | swimming training
Swimming Techniques - Training: Although super-high training volumes are the rule rather than the exception for swimmers, there' s solid evidence that these heavy loads may be counter-productive.
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.
Crash training: wang and qu
Crash Training: Wang And Qu: It's the question on the lips of many elite female (and male) runners these days: will I ever be able to run as fast as Wang and Qu?
Tapering research
Tapering Research: If you're a cyclist, swimmer, runner, or triathlete, do you taper prior to your competitions? If so, recent research indicates that you're probably tapering in a totally wrong way.
Training | recovery 2
How a spoonful of sugar helps keep your muscle protein from going down
Running research
Running Research: Don't tell Chancellor Brown, but the economy is improving
creatine studies and information
Creatine Studies And Information: This German study suggests that low doses of creatine can help endurance athletes when they need to surge or kick for the line
Genetics and Performance
Genetics And Performance: Now science is getting to the long and the short of how genes influence performance
Interval Training 1
Interval Training 1: How to strike and sustain VO2max gold, and other benefits of high-quality workouts
Interval Training 2
Interval Training 2: How to strike and sustain VO2max gold, and other benefits of high-quality workouts
Tapering for competition 1
Tapering For Competition 1: Why fast, exponential decay beats step reduction when preparing for a peak performance
10k training
10k training: What does science have to say about the right training programme for the 10K?
Return-to-form workouts
Return-to-form Workouts: The quickest way to get your fitness back after a lay-off is to find a three-minute hill.
endurance training | Noel frost | rowing
In late 1996, at the age of 57, Noel Frost set two rowing world records in his sector - 55-59 male (heavy) - for the 30- and 60-minute distances. Here he describes months 2 and 3 of the training programme that led to the achievement
Wheelchair athletes training
Wheelchair Athletes Training: A strength and sprint training programme for pre-elite wheelchair athletes
Weight Training Routines
Weight Training Routines: What science has to say about circuit weight training routines
rowing training
Rowing Training: Here's the start of a month-by-month rowing programme which led to two world records.
rowing machine training
Rowing Machine Training: Our veteran rower moves into the third stage of his record-breaking programme.
aerobic interval training
Aerobic Interval Training: You can vary the intensity, the work period and the rest period - but which combination is most effective?
interval program training
Interval Program Training: To make your workouts more realistic, you should aim to trim down the recoveries.
aerobic energy system | football
Football: What are the energy demands in this "maximal intermittent exercise"?
Quantifying intensity
Quantifying Intensity: How to use heart rate to quantify your fitness training intensity.
marathon training schedules and workouts
Marathon Training Schedules - If you're planning to run a marathon, here's what to do in the crucial four weeks before it
Interval training
Interval Training: Interval training can deplete athletes' iron stores
Cross Training Workouts
Cross Training Workouts
emergency training | cycling training
If you need to get into competitive shape fast, follow the example of these South African cyclists.
Age and exercise 1
Age And Exercise: Just a few years ago, exercise experts were certain about one thing: once endurance athletes reached the age of 35, there was no turning back. At 35, aerobic capacity began a steady decline, slow at first, but picking up momentum once athletes reached their mid-forties and then plunging out of control at about the age of 60. It was believed that very little could be done to alter this unremitting loss of fitness
Tapering 2
Tapering 2: What form of tapering works best in which sports? Here's a critical review of the research
Injury rehab programme
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.
soccer exercise | aerobic system
Soccer exercise energy demands
soccer exercise | aerobic system
Soccer exercise energy demands

































