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Sports equipment: wearing the right sporting clothing can boost recovery
Wearing the right clothing keeps us cool, warm, dry, aerodynamic and comfortable!
Metabolic rate: sports training has a significant effect on weight gain and weight loss
The effects sports and fitness training has on our metabolic rate and calorific needs
Endurance training: understanding your slow twitch muscle fibres will boost performance
Muscles and muscle fibre
Achilles tendon injuries: a full guide to causes, symptoms, prevention techniques and treatments
Achilles Tendonitis: treatment and prevention
Speed and power training: understanding your fast twitch muscles will boost performance
Muscles and muscle fibre
Core exercises: isometric and isotonic strength training
Core stability training
Core stability: strength training for the back and abdominal muscles
Core training to maximise your sports performance
Core training: strengthening the back and abdominal muscles
Your core (back and abdominal muscles) are key to optimum sports performance. This area acts as a transmission, allowing your limbs to exert maximum force and power. A weak core can lead to reduced sports performance, as it may not allow you to direct all the power you’re generating where you need – through the track, for example, if you are a sprinter.
Half time in sport: should you warm up or cool down?
Half-time therapies to combat second half fatigue and injury
Energy systems: aerobic and anaerobic training
Training the right energy system in relation to your sport will ensure optimum performance
Brain training: learning new pathways to enhance motor skills
Brain training exercises can result in succesful changes to your technique
Strength training: overloading to increase muscle mass
Maximising strength – time to tear up the old rulebook?
Heart Rate Variability Analysis- how to improve your training performance
Heart rate variability analysis – a training tool you can’t ignore
Central Nervous System- how CNS training can improve sports performance
Brain over brawn – CNS training for enhanced performance
Endurance training for mountaineering: king of the death zone
King of the eight-thousanders!
Mount Everest: training to climb the most dangerous mountain in the world!
Must climbers die on Everest?
Mountaineering: physiological and psychological training
Head in the clouds – altitude climbing psychology
David Walliam's Endurance Swim Coach Reveals All
Endurance Training and Mental Toughness for Long Distance Swimming
Aerobic and Anaerobic Energy Systems
Understanding your Energy Systems for Endurance and Speed Training
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?
Vibration Training to Enhance Speed, Power and Flexibility
Increasing Speed with Vibration Training
Understand the body's use of oxygen during exercise
Oxygen kinetics – start smart for a mean finish!
Squash, Badminton, and Tennis players: Improve your power!
Big hitting for racquet sports players – prepare yourself!
Does exercise affect brain function?
Effects of maximal exercise on the brain
Soccer players' balance is inferior
Comparison of standing balance in dancers and football players
Physiology in Rowing
New methods of monitoring elite rowers
Rowing Performance Dependent on Height
Recipe for the perfect rower
Face-cooling improves sports performance
The effects of face-cooling during hyperthermic exercise
Back pain caused by bad posture
Slouching isn’t just an attitude – it will damage your sport and your health
Physiology performance parameters
Athleticogenomics – the gene genie is out of his bottle
Elite Rowing: Maintaining Maximum Condition
Life at the top – how are elite rowers tested and monitored?
Can Athletes Dance Their Way to Agility?
Dance Training for Agility, Speed and Power
Sleep Loss - Making Sure it Doesn't Affect Your Training
waking up to the performance of sleep
Cycling Training
Physiological Assessment in Cycling
Glycobiology : Could sugars be the new route to sweet success for athletes?
Glycobiology : Could sugars be the new route to sweet success for athletes?
Sports Science Glossary Part 2
Sports Science Glossary Part 2
record-breaking
Record-breaking predictions : What are the absolute limits to human performance levels?
Sports Science Glossary Part 6
Sports Science Glossary Part 6
Sports Science Glossary Part 7
Sports Science Glossary Part 7
arm strength
Arm Strength: Transfer of arm strength works one way only
weight training systems
Weight Training Systems : Weight train your hormones
Body composition
Body composition and sport - why weight is a poor performance indicator
biopsychosocial pain
Biopsychosocial Pain : Pain and brain - the biopsychosocial method of chronic injury rehabilitation
Sports Science Glossary Part 8
Sports Science Glossary Part 8
female triad
Female Triad: Bone recovery after female athlete triad
Sports Science Glossary Part 9
Sports Science Glossary Part 9
estrogen replacement therapy
Estrogen Replacement Therapy: Another blow for estrogen therapy
blood doping
Blood Doping: New warning on blood doping
Sports Science Glossary Part 1
Sports Science Glossary Part 1
menstrual problems in athletes
Menstrual problems in athletes
Sports Science Glossary Part 10
Sports Science Glossary Part 10
mental effects exercise
Mental Effects Of Exercise: Prolonged exercise and mental function
fans pressure
Fans feel the pressure too
periodisation
Periodisation: Advanced strategies for bringing your performance to a peak at just the right time
supplements athletes
Supplements athletes: Antioxidant vitamins - can they do athletes more harm than good?
recovery
Recovery: what is the best strategy?
sports science
Sports science: What have the sport scientists done for us? Craig Sharp on the interface between knowledge and performance
travel
Travel: How time zone travel harms performance
endurance muscles
Endurance muscles: Why endurance athletes cannot afford to ignore the vital contribution of fast-twitch muscle fibres
thermogenesis
Thermogenesis: It's not just what you eat...
cyclists sperm
Cyclists sperm: Sperm changes in long-distance cyclists
exercise infection
Exercise infection: Gender divide after exercise stress
running stitches
Running stitches: New thoughts on stitch
orthotic therapy
Orthotic therapy: when self-help and sports therapies don't go nearly far enough
osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis: What happens when you hang up your sports kit - for good?
menstruation
Menstruation: Cycling proficiency - do the various menstrual phases affect athletic performance?
sport music
Sport music: Music as ergogenic aid
sleep deprivation
Sleep deprivation
vitamin e
Vitamin E: Vitamin E and immunity
lactic acid | lactate
Lactic acid: Lactate - 'bad guy' no longer, but rather one of the body's most vital fuels
muscle glycogen stores
Muscle glycogen stores: Supercompensation only works once
sudden cardiac death
Sudden cardiac death: how can clubs pick out those at risk ?
football referees
Football referees - Dehydration problems for the men in black
football referees
Football referees - Dehydration problems for the men in black
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